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Rating: I continue my work as a reviewer (clever play on words, huh)... and this time I delve a bit into Hendrix.
The Seattle guitarist entered and left music like a cyclone, leaving behind a hotel room in turmoil and a pool of vomited wine. Listening to this manifesto of his, the first thing that comes to mind is: GIVE ME BACK CHUCK BERRY AND CHARLIE CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!
Giving a guitar to a child and inviting them to dance on the distortion pedal would yield a result very similar to what the long-haired Jimi achieves. Even a fool who burns a guitar deserves to be burned in return!!! I get that they give them to you... but seeing such a violation cannot excite a true musician, can it!
I don’t even know where to start.. maybe with: "Hey Joe", that is, how to violate something that already exists... as if it were a retard at karaoke!
"Purple Haze", which starts with a phrase articulated on an augmented fourth interval and explodes with a decent drum (let's admit it.. the only thing blacks are capable of playing are drums!!) a song in which Hendrix's fetish, namely the minor seventh chord with the diminished third, is indulged to near obsession. And after so much wildness like a madman given a dose of valium, comes finally "The wind cries Mary". If you manage to stay awake after this piece, you’re hit violently like a punch to the nose, with all the psychedelic Hendrixian orgasm in "Manic depression", the opening on a chromatic scale interspersed with a pause (the stumble of a drunkard tripping on stairs) and a 9/8 time, sounds like a sort of waltz from a criminal asylum, followed by a solo that’s angry and repressed,
The famous "Foxy Lady", a nice copy of "Purple Haze", I think is one of Hendrix's most overrated tracks, the only note to save is that initial feedback (logically if you are a fan of this technique.. which I personally do not appreciate).
"Are you experienced?" features another musical atrocity: the reverse guitar, on which I will not comment to avoid swearing in Sanskrit.
Almost listenable on the other hand is "Remember", but probably not for the beauty of the piece itself, rather for the listener's desperate search for something decent amidst that steaming pile of noisy crap.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Foxy Lady (03:13)
Foxy
Foxy
You know youre a cute little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know youre a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy
I wanna take you home
I wont do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
I see you, heh, on down on the scene
Foxy
You make me wanna get up and scream
Foxy
Ah, baby listen now
I've made up my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
Here I come
I'm gonna take you home
I wont do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Here I come
I'm comin to get ya
Foxy lady
You look so good
Yeah, foxy
Yeah, give us some
Foxy
Yeah, get it, babe
You make me feel like
Feel like sayin foxy
Foxy
Foxy lady
Foxy lady
02 Manic Depression (03:33)
Manic Depression is touching my soul,
I know what I want,
but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Feeling, sweet feeling
drops from my finger, fingers
Manic Depression's captured my soul.
Woman so willing the sweet cause in vain, vain
you make love,
you break love,
it all seems the same when it's...
when it's over.
Music sweet music,
I wish I could caress, all my tenderness, now
Manic Depression's a frustrating mess.
Well, I think I'll go turn myself off and maybe I'll go down.
Really ain't no use me hanging around.
Music, sweet music,
I wish I could caress and all my tenderness.
Manic Depression is a frustratin' mess.
Sweet music, sweet music, sweet music, sweet music
Well my woman, she's so willing
She's the cause of my pain, my pain
We make love,
we break love
But somehow it all seems to be the same
Well I've been down that slick road before
Yeah, you know, I never wanna do it again
So now, I really got to tell you how I feel
Oh oh, I feel oh
I feel oh
I feel
06 I Don't Live Today (03:53)
Will I live tomorrow?
Well, I just can't say
Will I live tomorrow?
Well, I just can't say
But I don't know for sure
I don't live today
No sun comin' through my window
Feel like I'm livin' at the bottom of a grave
No-ho sun comin' through my window
Feel like I'm livin' at the bottom of a grave
I wish you'd hurry up and rescue me
So I can be on my miserable way
Well, I don't
Live today
Maybe tomorrow, I just can't say
I don't
Live today
It's such a shame to waste your time away like this
Existing
Well, I don't
Live today
Maybe tomorrow, I just can't tell you baby
I don't
Live today
It's such a shame to spend the time
Away like this
10 Remember (02:48)
Oh remember the mocking bird my baby bard
he used to sing bout supperhe used to sing for dinner
babe
he used to sing so sweetly
but since my baby left me
he aint sang a tune all day
Oh remember the bluebirds and the honey bees
they used to sing for the sunshine
they used to sing for the honey baby
they used to sing so sweet
but since my baby left me
they aint sung a tune all dya
Hey pretty baby,
come on back to me
make everybody
happy as can be
So Baby
if you would please come on home to me
i would kiss you for your supper
You know Id kiss you for your dinner babe
if you dont come on back
you know I'll have to starve to death
cuz I aint had a kiss all day
Please remember
would you remember
the blue birds and the honey bees
singin sweetly for you and me
Oh the mockin bird my favorite bard
oh wont you come home with me
remember
11 Are You Experienced? (04:12)
If you can just get your,... mind together
then come on across to me
We'll hold hands an' then we'll watch the sun rise
.....from the bottom of the sea
But first
Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
I know, I know
you'll probably scream n' cry
That your little world won't let go!
But who in your measly little world are trying to prove that
You're made out of gold and -a can't be sold
So-uh, Are You Experienced?
Ah! Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have
Ah, let me prove it to you,..........
Trumpets and violins like up here in the distance
I think they're calling our names
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will ha
if you just, take hold of my hand
oh! But Are You Experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful
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