Are You Experienced

Classic

need to be on psychedelics to enjoy I think

Jimi Hendrix's impact on the genre cannot be overstated. With his virtuosic playing, his onstage persona, and his experimentalism, he is the archetype for the rockstar. His debut opens with the career defining Purple Haze with its punchy opening riff and eastern influenced solo. Hendrix was not educated in music and this gave him the freedom to try things that others would not. Not every experiment was successful, and his lyrics often leave a lot to be desired, but his successes and innovation put him in the top tier of musicians and songwriters.

I feel like I need to be stoned to listen to this. It's not easy to have on as background music while I do other work.

are you experienced es un álbum increíble que toda persona debería escuchar al menos una vez aunque no sea fanática de la música psicodélica. cada canción es mejor que la anterior y la mezcla de instrumentos muy bien tocados acompañados por la voz increíble de hendrix hacen de cada canción algo maravilloso. se merece las 5 estrellas sin dudarlo.

Fantastic use as an expose of Hendrix’s guitar style. Good for laying back and listening.

It's okay. I like Jimi's confidence, and some moments here are great. Some songs remind me of great bar crawls we had. But as an album this thing is rather repetative.

Gran, gran disco. Una mezcla muy bien lograda de rock, blues, y qué bueno todo. Aquí hay una de las mil versiones de "Hey Joe". Entre mis favs: "Love or Confusion", "May This Be Love", "Are You Experienced?" y "Red House". 9/10

n/a

Crazy talented dude, a must listen for music enthusiasts

Perfect.

Undeniably revolutionary. Such blistering talent. Sometimes a bit noisy for my taste but who am I to argue.

The sound is that of an amphetamine blues-rock with high explosive potential, grouped into short, rough and deadly loads of TNT which erupt in one breath the volcanic energy of the guitar. (8/10) Favourite Tracks: Red House, Purple Haze, May This Be Love

Amazing debut album! Can’t just credit the amazing guitar work, it’s also the memorable musical themes, lyrics, rhythms and multi layers that make this so outstanding. Also got to credit Mitch Mitchell’s phenomenal drumming! I can just set this album on repeat and listen again and again and again.

Hendrix. The master. I have so many of his albums so trying to do this with any criticism is not easy. So, I tried something different and listened to the tracks in the order of the UK release. One complaint I can have with these songs that way is the lack of “Purple Haze,” which is rectified in the US release. The only other one is that the tracks don’t… flow into each other as much as they do on the US release. But that just may be because of how I am used to hearing it. So many of these songs were never done live. By the time he became big, he was not interested in these tracks anymore but that’s what the audience wanted to hear. I wonder how he would have felt about bands playing entire albums live. He probably would have been bored with it.

Would I dare rate this less than a 5? Nah, but I can understand if others think a 4 is enough. His guitar work is pretty amazing sometimes, and other times it gets lost in the equally as impressive percussion and bass work (e.g., Fire). Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding are damn good too. I think you need to listen to the lesser known tracks (e.g., Third Stone from the Sun) to truly appreciate the greatness of his guitar playing ability. If you paid more attention to the popular tracks, you might be fooled into thinking "yeah, he's pretty good" and not more than that. Then again, that's probably if you came in knowing how good he was and said "prove it". With a more clean slate, you should be blown away by the whole "experience" - lyrics, singing, guitar, bass, drums.

There's not much to say about this album that hasn't already been said. I've loved it from the moment I heard it decades ago. Every track is great whether or not your listening to the US or UK version of the album. It's another masterpiece!

A stone-cold classic. Those first notes of purple haze. The main riff - I still remember how awesome it felt to play that main riff on guitar the first time. So many great tracks. Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell are great, but Jimi soars above it all. He's one of the greatest guitarists of all time and he made it look effortless. I need extra stars for this one because 5 stars doesn't cut it.

Funky

If you don't like this album, you are in fact not experienced

Turns out every music critic and 50+ years of pop culture were right. 5 stars.

Favs: May This Be Love and Manic Depression are personal favorites. The Wind Cries Mary. Fire. Hey Joe. Foxey Lady. Purple Haze. Mehs: No mehs on Jimi albums. I guess Third Stone From the Sun is my least favorite, but it's still good Hendrix's guitar work is still a mind blowing display of blues guitar. You get that with Mitchell's great drums, and you still get the clever lyrics: "You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red." Great stuff.

Very solid album.

Annoying and dumb

Fantastic specimen of that good old fuzzy blues-rock. Great performances from all involved, and Jimi's vocal delivery imbues even the more melancholy lyrics with an air of confident, unshakeable self-love. Not really a cohesive album statement (it couldn't be with the old practice of changing track listings by region,) but a great collection of songs. Highlights: "Purple Haze," "Hey Joe," "Love or Confusion," "I Don't Live Today," "The Wind Cries Mary," "Red House."

Solid. Not as good as Electric Ladyland, but still very good.

Hard to say no to Jimi

Easiest rating ever.

Great music but not an amazing album. There are plenty of superb hits, but the album as a whole is quite long and a little inconsistent. Cutting the run time by 2 songs would have made it great, but as is it's good.

Scuse me while I kiss this guy. Awesome.

Lyssnade på den amerikanska utgåvan. Coolt och banbrytande! Självklart är Hendrix gitarrspelande och sång utomordentligt, med förvånades även över hur mycket jag uppskattade Noel Reddings bas och Mitch Mitchells trummor. Tillsammans en väldigt bra coherent experience. Första och sista låtarna (US), Purple Haze och Are You Experienced?, känns som de mest klassiska, och det var även de som jag hade hört innan. Fenomenala båda två. Hey Joe har härligast melodi. Gillar även The Wind Cries Mary. Third Stone from the Sun är spacead och spännande. Tyvärr lite för många låtar på främst A-sidan som inte blir bättre än okej. 3.5/5 Bästa låt: Hey Joe.

“Are You Experienced?” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) In 1967 there were older people, authority figures even, who were contemptuously dismissive of music like this, regarding it as cacophonous nonsense. They refused to listen, refused to engage. They were wrong. The worst (and best) thing about the Silent Majority was their silence. They merely produced within the psyches of young music lovers a visceral commitment to never close their ears to the next generation of musical creativity. Please pass the baton, kids. Listening back, “Are You Experienced?” is clearly one of the best albums in the history of recorded music, almost entirely due to the artistic genius and virtuosity of Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix is, as demonstrated on this album, one of the top four or five electric guitarists of all time. He did many things with the instrument that had never been done before and he did one or two things that will likely never be done again. Hendrix had a sublime sense of what it takes to fill a measure with guitar sounds, utilizing only two other musicians on this record, and with only slight dependence on them to boot. His flawless and deft leaps from the lower strings to ballistic highs, and skillful weaving of effects (listen especially to the interludes in “Third Rock from the Sun”). His guitar arrangements were capable of generating multiple layers through harmonics, feedback, fuzz, phase, wah, echo, backmasking (“Are You Experienced?”!), and the sustain of previously played notes. None of it is random or accidental. My mom was wrong. This is not “noise”. It is symphonic. His fret work was nearly unsurpassed in his day, leaving the gluttonous listener yearning for just one more lead passage in each song. But the mature listener will recognize the mastery of restraint. A snippet of his own lyric expresses it well: “Feeling, sweet feeling drops from my Fender's fingers”. And feeling plays off of dynamic variation. Feeling is not bombast. It knows when to back off. Hendrix’s voice is not stellar, requiring reverb and sometimes other effects, but he uses vibrato sparingly and effectively, always suitably passionate. He carries the lyric with impact, but never gets in the way of the music. Now the recording is flawed by some of the unnecessary weaknesses peculiar to the late 1960s: excessive separation and isolation in the mix, gimmicky left/right alterations & reversals (“May This Be Love” is silly in this regard), and a “hollow” studio sound. Also, Mitch Mitchell’s drum performance frequently drops tempo on fills. But these are quibbles. Jimi Hendrix more than compensates with his potency and adroitness. No dull moments here. “Are You Experienced?” Is rock and roll history. It still moves today. 5/5

First time listening to it and I really liked it. My favorites were: Hey Joe, Are You Experienced?, May This Be Love.

fantastic show of technical ability and groovy songwriting. iconic for a reason.

A classic. Amazing guitar

I've never really listened to Hendrix beyond what you hear in movies/pop culture/the few songs that get radio airtime. Almost every track feels like it's about 4 hours long, some interesting musical progression, but largely it feels like a product of its time, maybe it's the Seinfeld effect in that I've heard so much of what Hendrix influenced, that this now doesn't fit where it should in the history of rock/music. I can understand the love people have for this, but maybe it's beyond my smooth monkey brain.

what a banger god i love blues guitar also blues vocals, i think i just love the blues

What. An. Album. Amazing guitar work, awesome bluesy rhythms and vocals, but also sounding ahead of its time. It's a real shame that Hendrix died as young as he did. (I kinda cheated with listening to this one, using tracks form both the UK and US releases. It would've been wrong to miss out on Red House, Hey Joe or The Wind Cries Mary.)

Best rock album ever

Come on man.... One of the greatest debuts of all time. How can this be anything but 5 🌟

old but gold

This album is like Tea; it's not my cup of it, but I understand why people like it. I'm not a personal fan of the nitty gritty guitar noises, but I know some do. Favorite track: Stone Free

V. good

purple haze is a classic and manic depression takes like 2 minutes to get good. hey joe solo is fantastic.

Very good album. Go listen to it right now.

I really enjoyed this album. Third stone from the sun was weird, but the rest was punchy and cool. I liked the use of the stereo field, it was used like another instrument. It was refreshing to not have the vocals in the middle all the time. I think it really broke the normative positions of instruments and clearly centered the guitar as the most important instrument. Overall I really enjoyed it and will listen to it again.

Pretty good although I don't care too much for guitar noodling like I used to. Track 11 has some interesting ideas I wish was seen more of. Highlights: 1, 7, 10, 11, 12, 17.

One of the greats at his best. A relaxing, rocking joy to listen to.

FIRE

A masterpiece. Love every note.

Amazing guitar from Jimi here

Some of the best guitar work you will ever hear. It's really as simple as that. Hendrix's best album was this debut and it's about as perfect as a 60's rock album gets. It's thrilling, memorable and to this day still through and through so much fun to listen to.

fav track: the wind cries mary

Classic

Nice, soft classic rock. Excellencio

Hendrix is such a staple of classic rock that I take it for granted. But what an envelope pushing musician he really is with such a distinct sound. His guitar play is almost lyrical. The album didn’t yield too many surprises, but that’s because of how well-known a lot of the songs are. The usual suspects were Purple Haze, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Foxey Lady, Highway Chile. The song Are You Experienced was an interesting one because while I wouldn’t listen to it standalone, it seems to be the defacto thesis statement of the album and important to anchoring its thematically. Of ones I was less familiar, I enjoyed Third Stone from the Sun, Stone Free, and 51st Anniversary. Also worth noting, some of the songs listed here were not on the original release as I’m using Spotify’s version of the album which is incorporating bonus tracks released later. Overall, album isn’t 5 starts because I thought there are a handful of forgettable songs, but the highs are very high. Hendrix’s songs are always open to being in my music rotation.

First time listening: 9/11 songs liked Ageless hard rock album. The unorthodox playing of Jimi and Mitch sound refreshing for being in the late 60's. Already heard many of the classics, but not all at once in one album. Solid listen. Songs saved: 6

Definitely one I have listened to all the way through before - did I have a cassette version of this one? Can't remember. . The floaty backup vocals on Hey Joe are nice, noticing those in a new way. I Don't Live Today is a great example of an \"album\" track, not something I'd love on it's own but a nice edgy transition between May This Be Love and Wind Cries Mary. Note that the Spotify version includes a bunch of bonus tracks, I feel like stopping at the end of the original album (after the title track) is more true to the spirit of the project.

Classic Jimmy revolutionary sound. Doesn't make my playlist though

Where modern electric guitar began.

I imagine Hendrix sounded amazing when he arrived on the scene, unlike anything else. Now though, so many people have done so much better. He's obviously a legend and all, can't dispute that, but I struggle to listen to him for too long without finding it annoying. A couple of tracks here are fine, a whole album is too much for me.

It's probably been 20 years since I listened to a Hendrix album all the way through. Some real gems there like 'Love or Confusion'. I'll make a point to come back to this.

Rijetko kad sam si znao pustiti njega, općenito me je zanimalo, al nisam si baš puštao cijeli album. Sada se eto pružila prilika, imam vremena, zadan je za ovaj zadatak i viola. Iako je album podijeljen na Internacionalno/Američko izdanje, ali dosta dobar kada se sve skupi u jedan album jer ne gubi na kvaliteti. Dobar uvod u njegov rad, i preporuka svakom da ga se bar posluša.

❤️

Vibes vibes vibes - but a little repetitive if listened to in one sitting. Tempo and the overall musical structure is quite similar for a lot of songs. Doesn't keep my attention for the duration. But there were moments of brilliance that made me sit up in my seat, and it is clear he was ahead of his time - since I don't think you will find something similar in 1967.

Really good album, will want to pick it up at some point. I was a little distracted while listening and will have to give it another go.

Not my cup of tea

Great album by one of the greats of all time!

Whole lotta bangers on here

The really 'raw' sound is really something I'm not used to, but this is quite nice.

4/5

Monumentales Gitarren-Album. Auch zwischen den „Hits“

Große Gitarre endlich habe ich den Zugang dazu gefunden

Okay so, the thing is, I find it hard to understand the appeal of guitar solos, I would like to be able to enjoy them but I just feel nothing when I hear one. Do other people feel something or is it more about abstractly appreciating the skill of the guitar player? I know intellectually that Hendrix was one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived, and listening to it I can hear it's really fast and complex and would take a very very long time to get the hang of -but it doesn't communicate anything to me when i'm listening to it. Maybe the reason I don't respond in the way that other people do is because I don't play guitar and I'm not really musical. Would like to know other people's thoughts on this.

The Mighty Jimmy!

A lot better than the first time for sure.

Can an album be too well loved? No doubt that the songs are fantastic but when I listen to them I can just hear echoes of guitar enthusiasts singing along with every riff and that spoils it for me.

Jimi on top form.

I had forgotten that I quite like this album. Lots of twiddly guitars and smooth voices.

Top tier Hendrix. Some of the songwriting is still mindblowing.

Good stuff. Foundational album for any guitar player. There's always something new to notice. Decades later, it still sounds original

Not my genre i'm afraid.

Probably Hendrix’ best. Many very good songs, surrounded by too much fluff.

A real early classic rock album that inspired many artists and bands over the years. Very repetitive however, and didn’t have the same effect on me as it had on so many other listeners clearly.

Hell yes. It's a perfect album. Beautiful soft balllads, explosive songs, trippy arrangements, huge hooks too. Even just they way this album sounds is perfect. The warm tape. It must've been recorded together live rather than track by track. A goddamn masterpiece. At one point I thought, maybe it's too long, but then realized Spotify added 6 songs to the end and doubled the album lenght! Favorite tracks are the trippiest - Third Stone and Are You Experienced. I had a quintessential stoner moment with that song, just the right slight high and pulled into my driveway and it came on. Sounded so good I put it on repeat, louder and louder, until Rico came outside a bit worried. We all know Jimi's considered the greatest guitar player, largely on the back of his soloing. I think more music critic ink needs to be spilled on his rhythm guitar chops. He would curl his thumb over the top of the neck to fret the low E and do these percussive melodies with the other four fingers below the neck. MASSIVE HANDS. A+

Uhh, best guitar player ever (arguably) and Matt’s favorite drummer playing psychedelic rock, yeah, you’re asking for Matt to hand out his first 5. The album is filled with banger after banger, no bad songs. I’ve always thought of this as a Jimi Hendrix Psychedelic album, now I realize it’s an album where Jimi spans like 5 genres and adds his magicians Psychedelic touch to each of them. I’m hearing R&B, folk, blues, rock, rockabilly, bebop and proto-funk—which is essentially what Jimi Hendrix is, a holy amalgam of skills, experiences and his time and setting spanning these genres to create psych rock. This album sets the stage for so many albums which follow it. This band might just be the perfect 3 piece, an insane guitar player with a really tight rhythm section. Every song has a great lick and impressive groove. Enough has been said about Purple Haze, it’s the single off an album that is made up of singles. The groove on manic depression is incredible. Hey Joe is perfect—misogynist lyrics notwithstanding. Wind cries Mary is perfect. Let me stand next to your Fire bangs. Third Stone is a solid jam session. Are you experienced is Jimi doing a Beatles’esque hippie anthem. Stone free is a great mix of R&B-psych. The only strike on this album, as with many Hendrix songs, there are some egregious fade outs, you want the song to keep going, he’s set the table for a breakdown and it just fades out. Stone Free and 51st Anniversary are the two worst offenders in this, though nothing will be as bad as bad, give you bigger rock blue balls than Little Wing (different album). Love that Hendrix ties it all together at the end with a solid blues cover, paying homage to the forebearers—note the Easter egg fart (distortion blip) at 3:14 on this song. Amazing album, long, love it even though I’ve heard it about 1 million times and it was my first real classic rock exposure at 12, doesn’t matter still tapping my feet to it at 36.

Sometimes you just gotta toss your 5 stars to the wind and let Jimi take over. Genre-bending, passionate, energized, psychedelic. Incredible album from a powerful trio. Fantastic drumming, impeccable guitar work. If I wasn't wading through clouds of drywall dust while feeding a baby and keeping a barking dog at bay I'm sure I could opine for hours on how much I enjoy listening to this album. It never gets old.

AMAZING

Of course. Paul Mike at the creek

Getting back to the ones I missed, Jimi rules! This album is special since, of the 493 albums in his discography, this is actually one of the two or three original albums!  It goes without saying that his guitar playing was pure magic. What really validates this is the accolades he got from really good guitar players of the day - like Clapton. They all wanted to see what Jimi was up to. The Who covered Hey Joe on their 1989 tour. Ok Pete had lost 80% of his hearing by then but still: Townsend playing a Hendrix song on a Clapton designed guitar - Fucking orgasmic!   While everyone knows Jimi, the drumming is quite good also. eg on Manic Depression.  Since I'm late getting to this one I'm not sure which version of the album you were given. I spun my vinyl which is the American version with Purple Haze. I think the European version did not have this. Hey Joe, Purple Haze, Foxy Lady. How is that not a 5? Might be a 4 if Purp Haze was not on the LP.  OK, Are You Experienced sounds dated+. I remember thinking that tune was dated in the 70s. But the LP's still a 5.

Never listened to it the full way through before; it has a incredibly contemporary sound, and still feels very fresh and prescient. Hendrix's guitar work is still clearly the standout here, but it's a surprise and a delight to hear the complexity in even the more simple songs. A+ and more than deserving of it's place along the historical continuum.

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5 stars for wind cries mary

Not the most focused album, but song to song it's damn good. Has a little of everything. And he's not even at full powers yet!

Duh

When I was young i got a free copy of a live version of this album on CD from the newspaper. A brilliant album that put music into a different trajectory. 5 stars.

Pretty cool

Ah Jimi

i quite enjoyed the album

Hendrix was really a shooting star. Just so much gold here with that special aspect of a consistent sound while also having variety in the songs

A bit of a cacophonous noise album, but his abilities with a guitar an basically magic, and Purple Haze and Wind Cries Mary are gold.

Excellent start - a bit long and runs out of steam a little.

Una obra maestra. Hendrix estaba en la cima

I enjoyed it.

Grandes temas con algunos mas suaves. Curioso escuhar algunos originales que ya habían versionado.

Jesus is that all the Hendrix albums now

If you look at what else was released around that time, this album and Disreali Gears really ushered in Hard Rock. This has so many hits for a debut album, even more impressive when you consider they were almost all penned by Jimi! Of the others I prefer the bluesier, R&B-ish tarcks and not so much the more psychedelic ones. I know Jimi didn't like his voice but I think he's underrated as a singer and a lyricist.

Che goduria, sono tornato indietro a quando avevo 15 anni.

Sublime.

Riffs gloriosos, buena voz, experimental. Guitarra total

I mean basically every song is a single, its all stoner rock, so i cant really say its for me a 5 star album. it gets a little languid in the middle, but hey its great

Really great album. Really like "May this be love (waterfall)"... However, it's not very likely that I will listen to this album more than once every couple of months.

funky funky album. Hadn't really heard any of these except Purple Haze and Fire. Just an incredible talent.

Killer debut album by Jimi, with very little filler. Innovative mix of blues and psychedelic rock, believe the hype!

el mejor guitarrista de la historia

Bloody marvellous

I really enjoyed this album, despite the really crappy sound quality of the songs I was listening to.

Not a huge fan of hendrix, think it sounds very dented

Great Hendrix album, easily an 8. Electric Ladyland beats this one by a close margin.

Classic rimed hi-jinx, I would almost rate the drum track 5 stars alone

Songs are ok, guitar is great as you would expect from Hendrix

Increíble cómo suena un disco de 1967 tan bien. Tiene éxitos atemporales como Purple haze, Hey Joe o Foxey Lady. Pero hay otras dos igual de buenas y el resto no son relleno.

I don’t think there is a guitar sound he did not explore here. Extraordinary. It touches on blues but creates a path for the rock, metal, garage and indie that would follow in the decades to come. While not my preferred style of rock, a guitar lover will always rate this highly.

Great album. Probably one of the best ever. Tough to beat Jimi's guitar and overall sound. Will never get old.

Of the albums on this list so far, I liked this the most. But I've always liked Hendricks, I had "Smash Hits" when I was in eight grade. I've heard some of these songs (probably) hundreds of times.

A true classic

A true classic.

Mordsmäßiger nicer dicer

Figata

Well, its simply the best isn't it. Wonderful guitar playing, riffs and solos. Smooth and sexy and feel-good and fucking cool. Right amidst a golden age of music writing

Classic tunes.

Himi Jendrix

This is his debut album!! Insane

Excellent guitar play. Songs do sound the same and voices could have been more clear.

4.4 it’s THE experience honestly sick amazing guitar work

I'm not the biggest Jimi Hendrix fan, but there is no denying the power, originality and influence of this album. Amazing energy and holds up well.

Jimi!

yeah, that's a great album. i remember sitting in my friend dan's living room in like 7th grade with a tape recorder, repeatedly recording and speeding up the slowed-down bit at the beginning of Third Stone until we could understand it. i was surprised at how much i liked both Love Or Confusion and May This Be Love

All the big ones in here, super good.

CLASSIC

Own it. Got in college. Still have on phone. Funny to listen to as elementary school teacher with door propped open. Also...used to listen to entire CD for years and forgot songs...getting old.

Stone cold classic

You know what, I really tried to like Jimi when I was a nipper but I was turned off by what I thought was boring virtuoso guitar music. I was a very silly child.

The man knows how to guitar

Very good.

yes yes yes. frigging icon. this album is legendary and revolutionary in every way.

love this one

Couple bangers, a lot of stuff that I found bland

Yes i am

Listened to 01/12/21 Purple Haze was obviously a top hit... recognized it off the bat without actually knowing the name of it or that it was a Jimi song. Wind Cries Mary is probably my 2nd favorite after that one, and it was also a top hit from the album. I like the sound of Are you Experienced? as well. Seems like a song that could be sampled and probably has been. Remember is a song covered by Jack Johnson, and I didn't know the original was Jimi. Great song. Highway Chile had some great melody as well. Red House is an amazing song and great example of Blues/Rock & Roll that makes me realize why Jimi was regarded as the genius he was. Also, Third Stone from the Sun made me feel like I was on something...

The songs are still brilliant. It is easy to get caught up in Jimi's excellent guitar work but the other pieces of the band are just as great. There is a rawness to the guitar though that is so difficult to replicate that I once described as a imprecise precision. Jimi never misses a note and you get the feeling that he hits everything just as he wanted and yet there is a feeling of searching in the melody, like an artist sketching out a drawing. I once listened to someone play a Hendrix song and commented while they played well, that they played too well. Their cover was too clean and it lost the energy of the original. That is on no better display than on this album. The album contains some of my favourite Hendrix songs including The Wind Cries Mary and Are You Experienced. However, the songs do form a random collection of tracks and lack a sense of cohesion to tie them together which I think is a missed opportunity.

Outstanding album, especially for a debut such as it is. I think by modern standards, it is maybe a little long in the tooth, but pretty much every song is a classic.

A true classic with virtually every song well known, but for good reason.

I was expected something better. 3.5

yee boi. hendrix was something else

One of a kind. Crazy talent.

Just awesome, great songs

smoky riffy take on the blues. sounds great. fav track: the wind cries mary

Fucking amazing.

To experienced to my taste, I need an acid!

This had more hits than I remember. I've never listened to it all the way through before. What am I a fucking hippy?

Never really listened to Jimi but i know he is very highly regarded.. Sounds very trippy. I know Hendrix did psychedelics so it's expected. After: not really my cup of tea. Nice songs but nothing memorable. 5/10 respectfully

Purple hazeeee heeeeyyy joeeds

It's a goooooood one. Not sure what else to say, just excellent guitar playing, singer, what a sound, boy oh boy.

One of my favourites and first got me into psychedelic music. The bass line and guitar coming in and out on Third Stone is what sold it for me. Foxey Lady is just such a great song

Some classic tunes on this album. Good listen

I like it 3/5

I like Jimmy

1/12/2020

Not a fan of Jimi Hendrix, but this album surprised me. Pretty solid.

Not an album I come back to all that often, but I enjoy it so much whenever I do.

Fantastic album. You have to like the sound, but it turns out that, this morning at least, I do. I didn't realize this was their DEBUT album, which makes it that much more amazing. Pretty easy 5 stars.

Blues Classic

It was good

Groundbreaking yet in total a bit underwhelming, not my favourite style of rock so the spark didn't fly

Great album.

Been a while since I’ve Jimi’d

You know, Hendrix.

nice

this was sick. obviously like one of the most talented guitarists of all time. it's a little much when it's a full album of it but i think it'd be a great kinda badass driving album

7/10. Can see myself listening to this more

Heftig elguitar, blues rock, spektakulært

It's been a few months since I last listened to Jimi Hendrix. Thus, I'm not sure if my enjoyment of the debut is different because of context or just because it's a better record. This is immediately obvious, virtuosic guitar music of the highest caliber. The vocals are tucked back in the mix, because they aren't the focus of the music. But they also can be there because the meaning is crystal clear with the instruments in front of it. The hour flies by with the album in the background, but each song stands up to closer listening as well. There's simultaneous appreciation of rock history and creative innovation.

2/26 Gotta relish these funky psychedelic relics. Standout Tracks: Manic Depression, Hey Joe, I Don’t Live Today, Fire, Third Stone From The Sun, Are You Experienced?

Excellent Album -- Masterclass in electric guitar and blues rock.

aw hell yea, love the Hendrix. This is how u make a strat sound fkn huge. 4/5.

The great tracks we all know and the other great tracks. Nearly loses a point for some of the lyrics.