Are You Experienced?
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced?
Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was an immediate critical and commercial success, and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music. The album features Jimi Hendrix's innovative approach to songwriting and electric guitar playing which soon established a new direction in psychedelic and hard rock music. -Wikipedia
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BBC
This is the sound of the future arriving; tacky, awkward, inspirational, exciting. -2007
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Classic Rock Review
This power trio released the most stunning debut in rock history and one of the greatest albums of all time. -2012
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Observer
How is it possible for music that still sounds so futuristic to be a half-century old? -2012
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Rolling Stone
In a genre where computerized pyrotechnics seem the rule, Hendrix played with a rawness transcending idiomatic formalities. -1974
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Only Solitaire
Are You Experienced? is the album where the man most loudly proclaimed, "Here I am, kids, to make the difference" -2016
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Pop Matters
Are You Experienced? blew the lid off the unmelted face market and rock was never the same. -2010
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Billboard
It’s one of the classics of classic rock. Your usual opinions or personal musical tastes need not apply -- it’s above that. It’s sacred. It's divine. It just is. -2017
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Contact Music
Are You Experienced? is a largely captivating brew shot throughout with magical fire that is counterbalanced and complimented by a sometimes-poignant beauty. -2017
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Lounder Sound
This debut represents a year-zero for rock guitar; a line in the sand that only Van Halen’s debut comes close to matching. It, and Jimi, changed everything. -2018
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Global Texan Chronicles
‘Are You Experienced?’, blatantly destroyed what folks thought they knew about rock’ n’ roll in 1967, subsequently changing the sonic landscape forever. -2017
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Stereogum
Are You Experienced? Is the Star spangled Banner of rock and roll.
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The Student Playlist
Are You Experienced? marked the beginning of that expansive repertoire that would eventually be admired by all who came into contact with it. -2017
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Sea of Tranquility
Are You Experienced? is one of the greatest rock and psychedelic masterpieces ever conceived. -2010
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Classic Rock History
It’s no wonder Jimi Hendrix is constantly marveled as being the greatest guitar player of all time; this album is self-explanatory proof. -2016
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Albumism
While Are You Experienced is one of the definitive albums of the psychedelic era, it also introduced the heavy use of feedback, distortion and improvisational jazz into one rock LP. -2017
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Retrospect
This is the album that broke rock music and birthed the concept of the sonic whirlwind guitar player. -2017
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The Top 100
;Are You Experienced?' is a unique style continuing the transition that started with the forefathers of rock n’ roll in the 50s. -2018
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Rolling Stone
Above all this record is unrelentingly violent, and lyrically, inartistically violent at that. -1967
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