Electric Ladyland
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Electric Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is the third and final studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released by Reprise Records in North America and Track Records in the UK in October 1968, the double album was the only record from the band produced by Jimi Hendrix. By mid-November, it had charted at number one in the United States, where it spent two weeks at the top spot. Electric Ladyland was the Experience's most commercially successful release and their only number one album. It peaked at number six in the UK, where it spent 12 weeks on the chart.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
In other words, an extended look into Hendrix’s head, and mostly it seems to have some pretty good things in it. -1968
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Classic Rock Review
[Electric Ladyland] is an eclectic album that pivots on Hendrix’s vast talents and unique interpretations ranging from folk to pop to psychedelic blues. -2013
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BBC
Electric Ladyland remains his crowning achievement. -2007
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PopMAtters
It represents hope and purpose and inspiration, and is a bittersweet reminder of that brilliant flashing comet known as James Marshall Hendrix. -2004
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Sputnik Music
Henrdix's third and final album with the band known as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and arguably his finest. -2005
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Ultimate Classic Rock
An album both of its time and well ahead of its time. -2014
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Classic Rock History
The mechanics on “Electric Ladyland” are just as extraterrestrial as they are on “Axis: Bold As Love,” but you can still hear the trademark prevalence of the Blues all throughout the record. -2016
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Uncut
Split between brain-frying psychedelic epics and off the floor live jams like “Voodoo Child”, the album is the bridging point between the flowery-shirted psychedelic pop records of Hendrix’s London days, and the self-determining war funk of Band Of Gypsies. -2009
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Pitchfork
Electric Ladyland was very deserving of its No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart. -2018
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Puluche
The release of Electric Ladyland further separated him from the mediocre to outstanding groups of his day, and pushed him towards becoming the star performer at Woodstock and a worldwide musical icon. -2013
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Escapist Magazine
an amazing encyclopedia, depicting most aspects of the Jimi Hendrix Experience that their first two records haven't shown. -2010
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Blabbermouth
"'Electric Ladyland' is the guitarist at a visceral, pictorial peak in his playing and his exploration of the recording studio as an instrument of composition and narrative. -2018
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Glacially Musical
The songs really skirt many shades of reality. From epics to psychedelic instrumentals, and some sappy pop, this album really swims in all of the oceans of music. -2012
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Radio Live
Thought to be one of the finest pieces of work by Hendrix, the album is well-known for the cover of Bob Dylan's iconic track 'All Along The Watchtower'. -2018
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Backseat Mafia
Electric Ladyland is an album that has a reputation as a timeless classic, but unlike other albums which labour under this tag, it isn’t an album which is obsolete through over-familiarity. -2018
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Sound on Sound
Electric Ladyland is amazing, and I hope he gets to the moon first. If he keeps up the way he's going here, he will. -2005
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Audioxide
It plays like a vivid dream: beautiful, chaotic, and vigorous. This is prime Hendrix.
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Rawckus
Electric Ladyland is spiritual, ethereal and hard-hitting. -2016
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The Student Playlist
Electric Ladyland marked the beginning of Jimi Hendrix’s transition from psychedelic psilliness to genuinely experimental artist. -2018
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The Obelisk
Electric Ladyland is equally admirable in mission and execution.
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Sea of Tranquility
Electric Ladyland was another triumph for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and unfortunately their last official studio album before his untimely death. -2010
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Jazz Music Archives
The album isn't perfect - again, Little Miss Strange just doesn't seem to belong - but as far as a swansong for the Experience goes, it's a truly fine one. -2012
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St. Norbert Times
[Electric Ladyland] is an odyssey of guitar-packed psychedelia.
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Albumsim
Hendrix created a groundbreaking LP that allows the listener to expand their musical palate, and there’s no doubt in my mind that Electric Ladyland is his finest achievement. -2018
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Popdose
To say that Electric Ladyland inspired hundred if not thousands of guitar players to this day is an understatement. -2012
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Sketchy Record Reviews
Amongst all this innovation Hendrix calls back to his blues roots. -2014
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Metal.de
"Electric Ladyland" keeps the balance between Chas Chandler's easy-to-understand and understandable pop-albums. -2010
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iBeChris
Packed with experimental songs and longer tracks as a result of the departure of producer Chas Chandler from the previous two albums, this album shows Jimi at his most creative.
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1968 In Memory
The album is of the psychedelic rock genre, as it is intended to enhance the effects of psychedelic drugs when played during usage. -2018
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Buffalo News Review
The entire paradigm of blues-based rock soloing as we now understand it would not exist if it were not for Electric Ladyland.
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Herald Review
The result was not only one of the best rock albums of the era, but also Hendrix's original musical vision at its absolute apex. -2017
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