What's your favorite Jimi Hendrix song?

genius.

 

i really like "belly button window" its a kind of strange creative song...

 

quite, ever heard 'in from the storm'? i like that one too

 

1983 (A Merman I should Turn To Be) or maybe Little Wing or Are You Experienced. But 1983's easily pure stoned out 15 minutes of total grooviness.

 

Hey Joe for sure.

 

live or the album version? the live one on the 'voodoo child collection' CD is quite incredible

 

i haven't heard that live version, unfortunately. so i'll go with album version.

 

umm I would say if 6 was 9

 

Angel and Little Wing

 

MAN, wow. After many years of asking myself this very question, I would definitely say 1983 ( A Merman I Should Turn To Be ) only, and i stress only, because of the music in itself even though the lyrics are deep. To me, that song is the most beautifully orchestrated music peice ever, as well as the most psychedelic friendly.

Hurrah, I awake from yesterday
Alive, but the war is here to stay
So my love, Catherina and me,
decide to take our last walk through the noise to the sea
Not to die but to reborn,
away from lands so battered and torn
Forever, forever

Oh say, can you see it's really such a mess
Every inch of Earth is a fighting nest
Giant pencil and lipstick tube shaped things,
Continue to rain and cause screaming pain
And the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red
as our feet find the sand,
and the sea is straight ahead, straight up ahead

(my favorite verse)
Well it's too bad that our friends, can't be with us today
Well it's too bad
The machine, that we built,
would never save us', that's what they say
(That's why they ain't coming with us today)
And they also said it's impossible for a man to live and breathe under
water, forever,
was their main complaint
And they also threw this in my face, they said:
Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God,
and the grace of the King (grace of the King)
(Yeah, yeah)

So my darling and I make love in the sand,
to salute the last moment ever on dry land
Our machine, it has done its work, played its part well
Without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell
Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile
Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise
Of the out of style, the out of style, out of style
(OHHH!)

 

the wind cries mary

 

Probably "I Don't Live Today":

Will I live tomorrow? Well I just can't say,
but I know for sure I don't live today.

No sun coming through my windows,
Feel like I'm living at the bottom of the grave.
I wish you'd hurry up and resque me.
So I can be on my miserable way.

I don't live today.Will I live tomorrow?
It's such a shame to waste (spend)
your time away like this.
Oh there ain't no light nowhere.

 

<<<THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS BRILLIANT...but Voodoo Chile Blues is one of the better ones, not to be mistaken with Voodoo Chile or Voodoo Chile (slight return)...although this blues song is completley obviously where he got the idea

 

The Wind Cries Mary, with Hey Joe a close second.

I haven't heard the original version of Little Wing but the ones I have heard are gorgeous.

 

Highway Chile

 

bold as love!

 

all along the watchtower

 

voodoo chile

 

this one

 

Hey Joe & Third stone from the sun.