"Not Necessarily POLLED, But Beautiful..."– ILM Artist Poll #101 – Jimi Hendrix – Results Thread

xp then let me appeal to this idea: a vote for buddy is a 'fuck you' to michael jeffery

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37. “Freedom”
The Cry of Love, 1971/First Rays of The New Rising Sun, 1997
98 Points (5 Votes)

Live Version: https://youtu.be/wDvlErh5zcc
"Behind The Scenes": https://youtu.be/VjOViXpa7Ns

this song feels like a republican anthem, and i hate it

xp then let me appeal to this idea: a vote for buddy is a 'fuck you' to michael jeffery

― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton)

would rather just vote for the jimi hendrix songs i like; don't get why so many people like to make voting into a 4d chess game

i am only justifying my deeply emotional and true to myself vote with 4d chess

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36. “Come On Pt. 1”
Electric Ladyland, 1968
99 Points (5 Votes)

Live 1969 (Audio-Only): https://youtu.be/ZMDCBgWb_C4
Earl King's Original: https://youtu.be/Q3-uOu8tB0U
Stevie Ray Vaughan Live Version: https://youtu.be/ZpBcjGsdvUI

xp Kate, love your write-up on Hey Baby.

Freedom was on my ballot early and maybe should have stayed. One of his most overtly political songs. Chorus seems to demand freedom from the racism/drug use etc. of the verses. Don't see a Republican connection.

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35. “Ezy Ryder”
The Cry of Love, 1971/First Rays of The New Rising Sun, 1997
107 Points (5 Votes)

Live W/Band of Gypsys: https://youtu.be/We-9ES-NY70

xp yeah, i don't think jimi's intention is republican at all, though i'm sure it's been distorted and used that way. i regret posting the thought here now. but i do think about it every time i hear the song, and it contributes to why i don't enjoy it very much.

come on pt. 1 snuck into the 20th space on my ballot. it was duking it out with red house for the honor of being my favorite straightahead blues solo that jimi put to tape. it's all about that moment halfway through the solo where it shifts up in key and kicks into hyperdrive.

i am only justifying my deeply emotional and true to myself vote with 4d chess

― Nudeln und Klopapier Gore (Sufjan Grafton)

hey, if you're cool with buddy that's ok! if you're being true to yourself you don't need to justify yourself to me or anyone else, either with 4d chess or bagging on "crosstown traffic" or anything else!

the academic paper on the star spangled banner/"this is america" (quick shout-out to donald glover, who probably wasn't making a deliberate reference) was really interesting and helped me understand more about just how many changes jimi went through in his career. in '66 he was a hawk on vietnam! hendrix by '70, when he was doing "freedom", was about as far from a republican as, say, "born in the usa" is, which is to say very far indeed.

understood, kate. sorry to throw a tantrum and challop on "crosstown traffic" in response.

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34. “Drifting”
The Cry of Love, 1971/First Rays of The New Rising Sun, 1997
108 Points (5 Votes)

Alt. Version: https://youtu.be/gpw4T4ZnTlg

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33. “Up From The Skies”
Axis: Bold As Love, 1967
113 Points (5 Votes)

"EXP'/"Up From The Skies" Live 1968 (Audio-Only): https://youtu.be/uZMqy_LLsgI
Rickie Lee Jones Cover: https://youtu.be/kRNcdgszivI

I'm glad "Drifting" made it -- I was worried I was the only voter for that one.

"Drifting" is heartbreakingly beautiful

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32. “Hear My Train A Comin’”
Woodstock Two, 1971 (as “Get My Heart Back Together”)/Rainbow Bridge, 1971/Blues, 1994
114 Points (6 Votes, 2 Votes For Berkeley Version from Blues)

Acoustic Version: https://youtu.be/CzL7G0jItzU
Live At LA Forum, 1970 (Audio-Only): https://youtu.be/h6MM0MA94TE
Eddie Kramer Talks: https://youtu.be/skPerY8aGBU
Eddie Kramer Talks Some More: https://youtu.be/R5hSihj0lsk

I didn't vote for it, but Drifting is lovely in the vein of May This Be Love.

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31. “Night Bird Flying”
The Cry of Love, 1971/First Rays of The New Rising Sun, 1997
118 Points (7 Votes, 1 Vote for Alt. Version from The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set)

"Behind The Scenes": https://youtu.be/4-x1ocJPwag

i LOVE "up from the skies"

was introduced as a young teen via mix CD from cooler older cousin. later on in high school i wrote an arrangement for small jazz combo + female vocalist and we ended up winning some kind of award at state or something ? i'm sure it wasn't actually very good, but hearing the song always makes me nostalgic for jazz band-related extracurriculars of yesteryear, weak coffee in styrofoam cups in makeshift dressing rooms in nursing homes etc

Was just listening to The Cry of Love and noticed that almost all of the first side charted today.

i've been delving deep into the weird bootlegs lately - recent listen is this comp put together by a head who goes by funkydrummer of acoustic and demo fragments from the first rays era. really enjoying this stuff, not at all "professional" or releasable but super fucking listenable

i LOVE "up from the skies"

TOO LOW

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30. “One Rainy Wish”
Axis: Bold As Love, 1967
124 Points (6 Votes)

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29. “Like A Rolling Stone”
Historic Performances Recorded At The Monterey International Pop Festival, 1970/Live At Monterey, 2007
125 Points (4 Votes)

Live At Monterey Pop: https://youtu.be/iNSmL9nwQ60

"Yes, I know I missed a verse, don't worry" - that was such an amazing moment to me when I was a kid. I had this cassette when I was 14, probably the first Hendrix thing I bought with my own money (as opposed to hearing my aunt's old LP of AYE).

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didn't realize people messed with "One Rainy Wish" like that. good song, but kinda redolent of little wing and may this be love.

and the best part of one rainy wish comes back with a vengeance during 1983

There have been times when "Drifting" was my favourite Hendrix song. Definitely voted for that as well as "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" (I assume this is the same as "Come On pt 1?"), "Who Knows". "Freedom" and "Ezy Ryder" missed my ballot somehow but probably shouldn't have.

Same song. It's sometimes just referred to as "Pt. 1" because the original version by Earl King was an early "PT. 1/Pt. 2" single. Adding to the intrigue, sometimes the SRV cover was called "Come On Pt. 3".

“Like A Rolling Stone” is so awesome
And all his little asides & comments are great “There’s his grandma over there”

The first Classic Rock station I ever listened to (which later became the first Modern Rock station I listened to in the mid-'90s) used to bump the Jimi cover on the reg.

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28. “Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)”
Electric Ladyland, 1968
127 Points (7 Votes)

not only have I been, I live there

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27. “Power To Love/Power Of Soul”
Band of Gypsys, 1970/Both Sides Of The Sky, 2018
152 Points (7 Votes, 1 Vote For Both Sides Of The Sky Studio Version)

The Track: https://youtu.be/-k-9Hb7RdgY

I'd really dig it if somebody did a companion Spotify playlist.

Electric Ladyland is the best of his Curtis Mayfield/Impressions pastiches.

power of soul (the real title, come on) is so freakin' good, and one of the songs that makes me angry that we couldn't see hendrix compete with the funkadelics of the world in the ensuing decade.

Oh F I forgot to vote in this one.

“Like A Rolling Stone” is so awesome
And all his little asides & comments are great “There’s his grandma over there”

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, April 24, 2020 1:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

This an element of what I meant above about laid back Jimi being one of my favorite Jimi modes. Just that confidence in his timing to ad lib like this and have it not kill the flow of the song but actually toy with the flow of the song. *Swoon*

Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) is a good time to point out something that I noticed in listening to all this Hendrix for the poll: he has some of the best sequencing of his studio albums ever, especially EL. The way that HYEB(TEL) is such a soft, warm, welcome landing pad after the chaos of . . . And The Gods Made Love, then the blast of Crosstown Traffic. The whole album has amazing transitions.

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26. “Wild Thing”
Historic Performances Recorded At The Monterey International Pop Festival, 1970/Live At Monterey, 2007
170 Points (8 Votes, 1 Vote For Live At Winterland Version)

Live At Monterey Pop: https://youtu.be/D4LnpDj24hI
Live In Paris, 1967: https://youtu.be/FehfuJIabqM

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25. “Red House”
Are You Experienced?, 1967
171 Points (9 Votes. 2 Votes For Hendrix In The West Version; 1 Vote For Fillmore East 5-10-68 Version)

Live On TV: https://youtu.be/JzUiGuQKrRE
Buddy Guy Cover: https://youtu.be/grXPx2Z4ANc
Prince, "Purple House" Live: https://youtu.be/jgWPDbVyzUg

Didn’t vote in this but if I had managed to put together a tracks ballot, one of the live versions of Red House would probably have been my #1. It made me completely re-think my perspective of the 12 bar blues.

I voted for the Winterland “Wild Thing” because a buddy and I in hs made an air guitar video to it where I played Jimi and picked me up like Ozzy did Randy Rhoads and it ruled. We turned it in as a school assignment and the teacher thought it was gross. RIP

red house is mind-blowing and the one i regret most snubbing :(

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24. “I Don’t Live Today”
Are You Experienced?, 1967
183 Points (8 Votes

Live In Stockholm, 1967 (Audio-Only): https://youtu.be/kgalbnl5D4U

Probably my number 2? Earth shattering.

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23. “Foxy Lady”
Are You Experienced?, 1967
184 Points (8 Votes)

Live At Miami Pop, 1968: https://youtu.be/_PVjcIO4MT4
Wayne's World Dance Scene: https://youtu.be/Ue0UpQBmA5s

My oldest sister bought The Ultimate Experience because of Wayne's World. Foxy Lady and Garth are inseparable in my mind, so I couldn't vote for it. But it's responsible for my first exposure to a small bit of the hendrix catalog.