The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
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Based on 4 reviews
1968 Ratings: #1 / 114
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1968 Rank: #1All Time: #26
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic
Jimi Hendrix's third and final album with the original Experience found him taking his funk and psychedelic sounds to the absolute limit. 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.
100
Consequence of Sound
The masterpiece that saw a guitar deity push himself and his band to their breaking point.
100
Rolling Stone

Electric Ladyland showed Hendrix serving notice of his unstoppable ambition.

100
Q Magazine
A headspinning double-album trip in which Hendrix created a new kind of space-minded rock, one that sounded like a strange transmission from another galaxy.
CallingIconicAl
100

i dont asthma but i cant breathing as good as jimi hendrix can guitar

Doublez
97

The History of The Albums – n°400 !!!

[I suggest you read my previous reviews of Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced / Axis: Bold as Love, to get a better understanding of the subject]. If in the space of a few months, Jimi Hendrix went from being a strug-gling and totally misunderstood artist to a high profile icon, the 1967 Monterey festival made him a legend, and Electric Ladyland did much more. In my opinion, it is from this last studio album that Jimi Hendrix became one of the ... read more

UltimateLifeFrm
95

WOOOOAAAAHHHH!!!!

Electric Ladyland is the 3rd & final studio album from The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in October 1968. It was recorded between July-Dec. 1967 and then through January & April-August of 1968 at 3 different studios: Olympic & Mayfair (London) and Record Plant (New York City).

It was a commercial success upon release, peaking at No. 1 for 2 weeks in the US & No. 6 in the UK, where it remained in the charts for 12 weeks there. Critics at the time, however, ... read more

CheerCthere
93

...And the Gods Made Love- N/A
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)- 9
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1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)- 10
Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently Gently Away- N/A
Still Raining, Still Dreaming- 9
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All Along the Watchtower- 10
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)- 9

Tom2323
100

Listenting to every year of music since 1960
Decade: 1960s
Year: 1968
Review #91 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland:
In this album, Jimi Hendrix not only transcends but also establishes himself as a god.
Is this the greatest album of all time up to this point? Yes, without a doubt. Is this album still one of the best of all time today? Well, yes.
"Are You Experienced" was primarily a blues rock album with strong psychedelic elements, while "Axis: Bold as Love" ... read more

Snai
90

who could of guessed the best guitar player of all time made good music.

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