Hendrix’s final and most ambitious studio album, it secures his position as the towering guitar giant of the era. The original album itself offers few faults and a surplus of highlights. The Electric Ladyland deluxe edition reissue, it turns out, falls somewhere in the middle.
On the other hand, putting his most ambitious album together with a disc of demos and a live show might offer something exceptional. New material from Jimi Hendrix might not have that draw probably no artist has as high a ratio as vault releases to official-while-alive releases as he does. To stand out right now, a reissue package needs something exceptional, or something unusual. It’s also that time of year when the box sets for old people come out just in time for Christmas. Reflections on family and obligations made ‘Big Pink’ an instant homespun classic.It’s been 50 years since the standard narrative’s best year in rock. Rolling Stone: “The rustic beauty of The Band’s music and the drama of their own Seductive melodies and horn lines tickle your mind.”ĩ/ ‘ELECTRIC LADYLAND’ by JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCEĪll Music: “Jimi Hendrix takes his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit.” Rolling Stone: “Overall the album is uneven, but its highs are intense, New Orleans R&B, voodoo chants and chemical inspiration.”Ħ/ ‘THE BEATLES / THE WHITE ALBUM’ by THE BEATLESĪll Music wrote: “ None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together,īut somehow The Beatles create its own style and sound through its mess.”ħ/ ‘OGDENS’ NUT GONE FLAKE’ by THE SMALL FACESĪll Music wrote: “The ballsiest-sounding piece ofįull-length psychedelia to come out of England in 1968”Ĩ/ ‘DANCE TO THE MUSIC’ by SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Wanting to hear their guitar-mauling tribal frenzy straight with no chaser will love it.” Rolling Stone: “Each new hearing is a combined joy of renewal and discovery”Ĥ/ ‘WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT’ by THE VELVET UNDERGOUNDĪll Music wrote: “It’s easily the least accessible of VU’s studio albums, but anyone Roisterers since Fagin’s gang in Oliver Twist”ģ/ ‘THE KINKS ARE THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY’ by THE KINKS Time Magazine: “ England’s most subversive More sensual and vulnerable, than on his enigmatically beautiful solo debut”Ģ/ ‘BEGGARS BANQUET’ by THE ROLLING STONES Rolling Stone wrote: “Van Morrison never sounded more warm and ecstatic, Was really surprised that some of them actually turn fiftyĪs you hear their influences daily in 21st century music. Longplayers still sound spectacular today after 50 years I When I went back in time to find out which outstanding The cover Jimi Hendrix had chosen, but was ignored by the record companies.Ī photo taken by Linda Eastman, Paul McCartney‘s first, late woman. Several record dealers refused to sell the double LP while others sold it with the gatefold cover turned inside out, or in a brown wrapper.
The controversial UK cover with nineteen nude women as released by Track Records. Photo of Hendrix while performing at Saville Theatre in London. The US front cover as released by Reprise Records. Here’s the story of the artwork controversy of the album’s cover(s)…
The Watchtowerwhich became Hendrix‘s highest-selling single and the astonishing 15 minutes long Voodoo Chile. The record contained a cover of Bob Dylan‘s All Along On 16 November 1968, 51 years ago it topped the Albums Chart in the US It was released by Reprise Records in North America and Track Records in ELECTRIC LADYLAND was the third and also final studio album by the JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE.