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Electric Ladyland [VINYL] [Box set]

~ Jimi Hendrix
4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Vinyl (20 Oct 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B000002P5T
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 115,165 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. And The Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown Traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little Miss Strange
6. Long Hot Summer Night
7. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
8. Gypsy Eyes
9. The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sweet Inspirations
Disc: 2
1. Rainy Day, Dream Away
2. 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
3. Moon, Turn The Tides...Gently Gently Away
4. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
5. House Burning Down
6. All Along The Watchtower
7. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
If it's true that songwriters have a vision in their head of what their dream album would be, Electric Ladyland was the project Jimi Hendrix hoped would be as close to perfection as possible. No longer content with the rush-recorded psychedelic pop-rock of Experienced and Axis, Ladyland was an exploration of what could be achieved with time, money and experience. Jimi's soul roots from his session days shine through for the first time with the laid-back groove of the title track and the doo-woppy "Long Hot Summer Night" showing a vocal style reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield. It's hard to pick a standout piece as the quality of the album is so high, but the four-part dream segue of "Rainy Day", "1983", "Moon Turn the Tides" and "Still Raining" is a monumental piece of early prog rock continuing the acid-soaked ideal of extraterrestrials, love, peace and war that he started earlier on with "Third Stone from the Sun". However, it's not all spectacular drawn-out blues jams and sublime soundscapes, Electric Ladyland managed to produce Jimi's only UK No. 1 single, "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" plus the timeless classics "Crosstown Traffic" and "All Along the Watchtower" making it arguably the best studio album the Experience produced in their brief career together.--David Trueman

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jimi's Masterpiece - Ten Stars, 27 Feb 2007
By Geoffrey Millar (Brunswick Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Ladyland (Audio CD)
What else is there to say about this album, easily one of the top ten all time great rock records. Are You Experienced is another top ten effort, too, and you should listen to and absorb the earlier album before you try this set.

Electric Ladyland is a sprawling, brilliant display of song-writing, guitar and studio wizardry and features five of Jimi's all time greatest numbers: Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Gypsy Eyes, Voodoo Chile, Crosstown Traffic and All Along the Watchtower, easily the best ever Dylan cover.

It also includes a bit of filler - Little Miss Strange and Come On, for example - but that somehow makes the rest of the album even better.

Rainy Day Dream Away, 1983 and Moon Turn the Tides, which made up the original Side Three of the LPs, are quite unlike anything else Jimi did and are part of what makes this album so special. They're jazzy, experimental, spooky, beautiful and timeless.

This was the only album over which Jim had total artistic control, with the curious exception of the cover: both his US and British record companies ignored his wishes, and he hated the `naked cover' in particular.

Unless you're really in need of looking at slightly distorted women, avoid the double disc set, which was the first issued CD version of this album and featured the 'naked' cover.

Not only was the sound pretty average and full of hiss and noise, but the way the CDs were laid out, sides one and four of the original LPs were put on one CD, and sides two and three on the other! This brilliant strategy mucked up Jimi's careful running order and resulted in `Still Raining, Still Dreaming' appearing before the track which preceded it.

This issue of the album is the one to get.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The bluesiest record Hendrix released ... in his lifetime, 2 Jan 2004
By Gareth Smyth "Enjilos" (Beirut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Ladyland (Audio CD)
This is almost certainly Jimi Hendrix's best record. It is also - apart from the excellent posthumous 'The Blues' - his bluesiest record.

Hendrix was in essense a blues guitarist. Hence this and 'The Blues' are the two Hendrix records to buy if you only buy two. For the rest, we can quibble.

Had he lived ... where would he have gone? Who knows?

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Have you ever been?, 2 April 2002
By "thomasbirch2" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Ladyland (Audio CD)
While credited to the Jimi Hendrix Experience, this is as much Jimi with the "friends and passengers" he credits on the inner sleeve as anything.

The other thing this album is, undeniably and ecstatically, is a masterpiece. From the Stratocaster-as-flushing-toilet opener "...and the Gods Made Love", to the closing firepower of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", arguably the most incendiary rock performance ever committed to tape, this album uses its seventy minutes frighteningly well.

It would be untrue to say that this album was a tightly-structured programme of impeccably-planned music, but that really wasn't the point, as Hendrix had proved himself a master of that artform with producer Chas Chandler on the first two Experience records. Chandler having left, Hendrix was free to fill his record with deeply soulful recastings of blues-standards (the fifteen-minute "Voodoo Chile"), psychedelic symphonies ("1983 (a Merman I Should Turn to Be)"), and laid-back jazz musings (the two-sided blow that is "Rainy Day Dream Away" and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming").

Taken as a whole, this album covers as much ground as any record you care to name. As well as demonstrating once again that Hendrix was a master songwriter and performer, it features his finest cover version, in the form of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". Not to mince words, this is as good as rock music gets. Your collection has a gaping hole in it if you do not own "Electric Ladyland".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Genius
So far ahead of its time, even now it seems quite amazing. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is the greatest guitar intro I have ever heard and has so much power in those first few... Read more
Published 3 months ago by BrianC

5.0 out of 5 stars Electric Ladyland
Well worth the money.75 mins of quality its got classics with tunes that should be on a greatest hits album.
Published 3 months ago by B. Flint

5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have Hendrix Album
If you had to have only one Jimi Hendrix Album this would have to be it!
Published 4 months ago by R. Cartwright

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece in guitar playing.
The definitive Hendirx cd, brilliantly produced it ranges from low beat blues records such as 'voodoo chile' to upbeat rock records in 'crosstown traffic' to great covers in the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by T. Glover

5.0 out of 5 stars what a legend the best guitarist ever!!
he is amazing this album is one of the best ever!! its fantastic in my opinion he is the best ever guitarist ever!! Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. S. L. Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars If he's looking down on us....
... I reckon Jimi would be saying "no no guys - the stuff I was working on before I left was even better than this stuff!!!". Read more
Published 13 months ago by fatsovonchubby

5.0 out of 5 stars This album changes lives . . .
Well, it did mine. Totally blew my mind when I first heard it over thirty years ago, and it still makes it for me now. Definitely one for Desert Island Discs. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Mr. C. Jones

4.0 out of 5 stars his master piece
what makes this album really different from the first two is that jimi had more time to spend on recordings. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Msp Khan

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best ever
For the year it was recorded and the fact it has stood the test of time this is simply the best record that could be made. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2007 by Great expectations

5.0 out of 5 stars GROOVE WITH JIMMY!
This really is a landmark album!
The main tracks people know are just a taster as the rest of the album just keeps on growing on you. Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2006 by C. Bridgen

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