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Axis: Bold As Love [Original recording remastered]

~ Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jimi Hendrix
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  • Audio CD (26 Jul 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B000002P5W
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,313 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. EXP 1:55£0.69
Listen  2. Up From The Skies 2:56£0.69
Listen  3. Spanish Castle Magic 3:02£0.69
Listen  4. Wait Until Tomorrow 3:01£0.69
Listen  5. Ain't No Telling 1:48£0.59
Listen  6. Little Wing 2:25£0.79
Listen  7. If 6 Was 9 5:33£0.79
Listen  8. You Got Me Floatin' 2:47£0.59
Listen  9. Castles Made Of Sand 2:47£0.79
Listen10. She's So Fine 2:38£0.69
Listen11. One Rainy Wish 3:40£0.69
Listen12. Little Miss Lover 2:21£0.69
Listen13. Bold As Love 4:11£0.79

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Axis: Bold As Love, Hendrix's second album, doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced? did. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's nonetheless a vital album, containing some of rock's most molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles in The Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover" and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing." Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9", where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes--and "Bold As Love", based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar. --David Stubbs


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AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE was the follow-up to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities. Where his live shows continued to showcase the raw rocking power of the Experience, the recording studio gave Hendrix the composer/arranger a broader palette.
There are still plenty of powerful blues/rock-inflected songs, such as the menacing "If 6 Was 9", the rolling "Spanish Castle Magic" and the spatial title tune. But "Up From The Skies" is a jazzy trio romp, featuring Hendrix's bluesy, vocalised wah-wah pedal. And on the ballads "Little Wing"and "Castles Made Of Sand", Hendrix shifts the focus from the band to the silvery chord/melody accompaniments he often employed to complement his vocals. They are an orchestral effect unto themselves.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hang on, if you wanna go!, 2 April 2002
By "thomasbirch2" - See all my reviews
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Unfairly consigned to the history books as the follow-up to "Are You Experienced?" and little else, "Axis: Bold as Love" is actually an eclectic and electrifying album. It shows Jimi and his Experience consolidating upon the sonic battery of their first outing, and delving back to Jimi's days on the chitlin' circuit in the USA, playing tough soul to tough crowds.

Jimi's endearingly silly sci-fi preoccupations are to the fore on the ridiculous "EXP" and jazzy "Up From the Skies", and the aforementioned soul excursions are best represented on the funky "Little Miss Lover". Bassist Noel Redding gets his own number on the dated-but-enjoyable "She's So Fine", but there's no stealing Jimi's thunder on material which ranges from the beautiful "Little Wing" and "Castles Made of Sand" to the hard, hard rock of "Spanish Castle Magic".

Placed within the Hendrix canon, this album is as unique and vital as all the rest, paving the way for the Experience's finest hour, "Electric Ladyland". This, then, remains our only snapshot of the Experience together as a cohesive whole, enthused by their first taste of real success, and working as a tight and efficient studio-based unit. More importantly, though, this is a superb record, and one every rock fan should have in their collection.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Songs - Definitly Hendrix, 5 Aug 2001
By ben.godwin@talk21.com (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
At first I always thought this album inferior to Are you Experienced. But after owning each album for quite a while now I find myself always reaching for this album rather than any of the others.

The songs cannot be faulted and many people will find them more enjoyable if they find endless experimentation less important than a great song.

This album mixes the two aspects perfectly to make a very listenable record. I especially enjoy Bold as Love (Which finishes the album on an incredible high), Wait until tommorow and of course little Wing.

The Band are Great as Always and really work as a unit.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Riffs that blow your freaky mind, 11 Jan 2004
I bought this album in the christmas. And i immediately fell in love with it. I am a dedicated Hendrix fan, even at the ripe old age of 16 and if you are a boy of my age do not write off this music as 'stuff my dad listens to' because in fact you will find that this is some of the best music of the last century. If you are a guitarist like me, you will admire this playing. This album has some of the best riffs of the time, even though they are not too well known, Spanish Castle Magic, one of the best on the album, could be passed as a modern retro-rocker tune. It has enormous power. 'you got me floatin' ' is another of those brilliant riffs that you, guitarist or not will long to play. this album is a striking and frightening cosmic display of awesome composition that cannot afford to be missed by any age or era of people.
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3.0 out of 5 stars over rated!!!
axis is a massively dissapointing album overall compared to are you experienced. starts brilliantly with EXP and never recovers, spanish castle magic is decent, the rest are only... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Geoffrey Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Hendrix
This classic 2nd studio album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience has stood the test of time -it still sounds as good today as it did when it was released. Excellent.
Published 8 months ago by Alistair. S. Praties

5.0 out of 5 stars An under-rated classic
It could be that this was my first introduction to Hendrix, but I maintain to this day it is the best of the 'Jimi Hendrix Experience' studio albums. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Shaolin_monkey

5.0 out of 5 stars Jimi's Thee Greatest!
What can anyone really say about Jimi Hendrix that hasnt already been said?
So i'm not gonna bore you with a cornucopia of superlatives or eulogies that would be ssssssso so... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Rush K. Shukla

5.0 out of 5 stars not the first but the best
one day i woke and discovered that axis was the best hendrix album.I got fed up with the riff based songs on 'are you experienced'. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2007 by Msp Khan

5.0 out of 5 stars Let me live my life the way I want to
Intriguingly poised between the raw power of "Experienced" and the first two singles, and the sprawling, flawed masterpiece of "Ladyland", this album shows the Experience flexing... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2007 by Bob Sherunkle

5.0 out of 5 stars Moo
The middle of the three Experience albums, 'Axis: Bold As Love' shows Hendrix at his most laid back. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2007 by Brian O'Hanrahanrahan

5.0 out of 5 stars Fly On Little Wing
Although not as aclaimed as either of the other Experience albums ("Are You Experienced?" and "Electric Landlady") this middle installment is as good as their... Read more
Published on 8 April 2006

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated classic from the greatest
There has always been a debate about which of the main three studio albums he released with Experience were his best, and one school of thought which states that the further he... Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2005 by Mr. D. A. Cure

5.0 out of 5 stars just ask the axis
'axis:bold as love' is far too often overlooked as a major triumph by the experience in favour of 'are you experienced' and 'electric ladyland'. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2004 by Mr. J. R. P. Bibby

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