Electric Ladyland

It's a good CD no issues with CD nor packaging

There is a lot of good music out there depending on your music genre. When it comes to rock or metal Jimi Hendrix is at the top. You can't go wrong with this cd. There are so many good songs that it is just worth putting this cd on, and just sit back. He was way ahead of his time.

Ok, it's not true that the original album cover was just a snapshot taken in Jimi's hotel room.How to review this... It's Jimi Hendrix, for gosh sakes!!!Imagine being a kid and listening to Jimi Hendrix on those big old headphones and having your friend John McCue teach you how to play the electric bass using Jimi (and Sir Paul) - it all comes back again across the mists of time when you pop this original British Edition of Electric Ladyland on your turntable.What's different from the US version? 1983 is not truncated in the version heard here - it continues on into Moon, Turn The Tides as the gods of rock intended it to sound. The Brits focused on sound quality more than overproducing and cleaning the studio album for domestic ears - lots of background chatter, crisp clear recording of Mitch Mitchell's drums, Noel Redding and, of course the real show, Jimi with those "What ARE you saying?!?!" lyrics in those "What ARE you wearing!?!?" outfits just loving life. Ask Lemmy!This is a beautiful recording meant to be played, not left in cellophane like a museum piece.The album cover was rapidly replaced, not by the Central Park Linda Eastman shot Jimi had chosen, but with the red and yellow blurry Jimihead you see on you iTunes screens, more suitable for the sensibilities of the times than a group of naked women who would not be perfect nor anorexic nor photoshopped enough to make it on an album in todays esthetically anemic music world. Inside cover green smoke shot of Jimi with little snaps of Mitch and Noel.WOW!Autotuners heads will explode when they hear raw talent - play this LOUDLY for them all.

The preeminent instrumentalist of the rock era. There would be faster players, more precise players, But none have eclipsed the super nova that was Jimi Hendrix in innovation in rock music in general and the expansion of the electric guitar vocabulary in particular. He is second only to the Beatles in spurring the evolution of rock music. And although I'm old, as a disclaimer that I'm not stuck in 1975, I have purchased the last Ty Segall, the last Tribe Called Quest, and the last Taylor Swift, just to name a few. And I think they are all great records. But Hendrix was truly a once in a century (or more) phenomenon. The guy who made Jeff Beck think about giving up guitar to be a bus driver. The guy who made $18000 headlining the first Woodstock when the Who made $6250. The guy whose touch, phrasing, and tonality on electric guitar has never been duplicated, but whose compositional acumen gave rise to numerous covers and ,arguably, entire careers. If you're interested at all buy A.Y.E., Axis , Electric Ladyland, and Band of Gypsies. These reissues sound just fine on CD.

Playing tomorrow!

Cant go wrong with Hendrix.. Works good

I'm a huge Jimi Hendrix fan and I can't believe it took me this long to buy this one. Sounds amazing on Amazon Cloud Player with my 6S plus. West Coast Seattle Boy and First Rays of the New Rising Sun are awesome too but this is a complete album. He does some jamming in the studio but it was Jimi. He was ready to be recorded any time. All the time. I read that he usually had 50 to 100 people there to watch him record. And these songs. Omg. I recently discovered this is the only album of his that he produced. If All Along the Watchtower isn't the best song production ever I don't know what is. If you listen to some jam sessions from West Coast Seattle Boy you'll hear that he was just getting started. With two drummers and a different beat. Billy Cox on bass. Jimi was about to change music forever.

Electric Lady Land is Hendrix's magnum opus. This is such a magnificently produced album. It's only that much more amazing when you realize that he recorded this album on a 4 track tape machine, especially when you consider how many tracks are used in music today. His spontaneous back and forth with Steve Windwood playing keyboards on Voodoo Chile is simply amazing. 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) is one of my favorites as it is probably one of the most surreal, psychedelic songs of the 60's. Hendrix was a genius and this album stands as the bar to which other bands had to measure.