Best Hendrix Album?

"Cry of Love" has a special meaning to me. It was the first Hendrix release after his death and I bought it as soon as it was released. It just didn't seem like he was dead. It was so hard to believe.
That vinyl album is pretty worn, but thank the Gods DVD's were invented to hear Jimi without hiss, pops and scratches.

I know I mentioned it already above but I felt to say it again.

 

electric ladyland

 

why is Hendrix in progressive rock?

 

PPX sessions, cry of love and band of gypsies has got to be my top three picks, but yeah, i dig em all!

 

He's not prog rock imo.
I call him classic rock ish stuff but again imo.
i can't believe no one said that
Axis: As Bold As Love is his best/favorite album.

It's my #1 favorite hendrix album.
It's AWESOME~!!!!

 

take this thread to other head. hendrix's music is hardly to explain. Psycodelic rock, classic rock, maybye psychodelic-blues-rock.

I think the best album of hendrix is woodstock performance. Study album-just all are great!

 

'Are You Experienced' - best (just)
'Axis: Bold As Love' - sublime, cruising album
'Electric Ladyland' -best guitar playing ever (haven't heard all of it. yet. Getting it soon)
'Band Of Gypsys' - best live playing ever

Best song > 'Machine Gun'

 

yeah man, hi5! check my sig....

i have to say that i find band of gypsies to be boring compared to his earlier stuff... to me its too clean and kinda lacks that raw, fuzzy, psychedleic warmth of his 'experience' years. its not bad but it doesnt do half as much for me as say, if 6 was 9, voodoo chile or all along the watch tower...

i like mitch mitchell and noel redding as the rhythm section, when they play they sound like theyre having so much fun! oh man if there was one guy i could bring back from the dead!

and jimi is not prog!! he embodies ROCK & ROLLLLLLLLL!!! (with a small dab of the psychedelic ;p)

 

I go for Axis Bold as love.

 

It seems me thinks most people weren't even alive when Jimi was here.
Hey hey ..... hahheheh glad I was

 

Maybe Are You Experienced, but I loved him at Woodstock. My favorite compilation album would DEFINITELY be South Saturn Delta.

 

yep,are you experienced is the best,the album totally blew everyone's minds in 1967.No one had played a guitar like this before.

 

I decided First Rays of the New Rising Sun is my favorite album.

 

Picking only from the three studio albums released during his lifetime, all I can do is say it's not Axis: Bold as Love. hehe. I love that album, but I think Are You Experienced? with its sick line-up of smash hit after smash hit, and Electric Ladyland with all of its beautiful sonic and formal experimentation, are solidly better. Only a couple of tracks really grab me from Axis. However, Bold As Love is my favorite Hendrix song, which significantly raises my opinion of the album.

 

'Axis: Bold As Love' neither has the songs of 'Are You Experienced' or the insane guitar playing of 'Electric Ladyland', but it is still a brilliant album. 'Up From The Skies', 'Spanish Castle Magic', 'Little Wing', 'If 6 Was 9', 'Castles Made Of Sand', 'One Rainy Wish', 'Bold As Love' - it has plenty of amazing songs. 'Ain't No Tellin'' shouldn't be there, really (it's only 1:46) and 'EXP' is a novelty song, but it is still a ten-star album all the way.

1. Electric Ladyland
2. Are You Experienced
3. Axis: Bold As Love
4. Band Of Gypsys

 

i think i lyk electric ladyland the best, with 1983 n so forth, but mitchs drumming on are you experienced takes some beating

 

I Like it all of course, but "Axis Bold as Love" stands out for me.

 

All of them are amazing, but if I had to choose one probably Are You Experienced.

 

Band of Gypsys