About Jimi Hendrix
100 Best Albums Around the time he started working on Are You Experienced, Jimi Hendrix met the songwriter-producer Kim Fowley. This was London, 1966. Fowley thought Hendrix was weird and unfashionable, but people had been talking, so Fowley asked: What’s your thing? “Science-fiction rock ’n’ roll,” Hendrix said.
It’s not a bad self-assessment. Like science fiction, Hendrix’s futuristic qualities—his use of feedback and noise, the extraterrestrial imagery of “Purple Haze” and “Third Stone From the Sun”—are offset by a groundedness that makes them feel tied to older forms of human expression; a blues for the computer age. He wasn’t experimenting with modern classical music (like The Beatles) or high-minded pop orchestration (like The Beach Boys); he wasn’t even tapping into the more explicitly far-reaching journeys of psychedelia, like Pink Floyd. Instead, he took the simple, gut-level sounds of the Muddy Waters and Little Richard he grew up on and transfigured them into something new, an innovation that made him a precursor both to Black psychedelia like Prince and Outkast, and the radical ordinariness of punk, not to mention almost everything blues-related that came in his wake.
In the consolidation of the cultural narratives of classic rock, it’s easy to let his innovations wash over you: Hear how great and revolutionary something is often enough, and you stop hearing it at all. But of all the endlessly sanctified albums that came out of the late 1960s, Are You Experienced is one of the few that still feels like a dynamic, living thing—at the very least, the concept of hummable, three-and-a-half-minute songs tricked out with sound effects is as good a definition of 21st-century pop as it was of Hendrix’s music 50 years earlier. And that’s the real magic of good science fiction: No matter how foreign it seems, it’s always talking about now.
Albums list:
Jimi Hendrix - Blue Wild Angel Live At the Isle of Wight
Jimi Hendrix - Blues
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Studios A Jimi Hendrix Vision
Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix - Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix In the West (Live)
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix - Live At the Fillmore East
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun Live at the Fillmore East 12 31 1969 (First Show)
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun Live at the Fillmore East 12 31 1969 (First Show) (Mastered)
Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell and Angels
Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)
Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune (iTunes + LP)
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child The Jimi Hendrix Collection
Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy The Jimi Hendrix Anthology
Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (Deluxe)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience & Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (Deluxe Version)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Freedom Atlanta Pop Festival (Live)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Berkeley (2nd Show)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live In Maui
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 (Live)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Miami Pop Festival (Live)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Winterland (Live)
EPs & Singles list:
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Singles list:
Jimi Hendrix & ZAYN - Angel - Single (Mastered)
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