Best Song on Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced Poll

In the poll the US tracklist (including singles) beats the original. Just Red House sneaks back on the album. One could easily see this coming. Funny thing is Red House seems to get back at the expense of Fire. It seems right, althoug my choice for the weakest link making room for Red House would be perhaps Love or Confusion.

 

I do have a copy of the set, but I haven't heard it since it came out. Don't remember that version. I'll have to circle back to it.

 

The Wind Cries Mary

So laid back. Great fluid solo. Looking forward to the mono!

 

"Third Stone from the Sun" for me.

 

The title track. Pick one single track released up till then that sounds even remotely like this... Just pure genius.

 

They have. I picked one up around 2010. There are two versions. US and UK. Both have all songs in difference sequence. Not sure if still in print.

 

What an album.

 

My error, I've never had the UK version, and the OP said it was both versions combined... (?)
Strange that it was listed. I love the song regardless, but...

 

As I said in an earlier post, "That track listing isn't just US + UK, by the way, it's the North American CD track listing with single B-side bonus tracks, too."

 

While, I think a couple of the songs, like "Third Stone" are technically superior to others on the album; I have to go with "Foxey Lady." That was one of those songs that was a life changer for me when I was young. Overall, this album is brilliant. I mean what a debut in 1967. Who else sounded even remotely like that? No one.

 

A particularly difficult album to choose the best song from but today it is...

Manic Depression, no it's Third Stone, no Purple Haze, no Are You Experienced, no Love Or Confusion....

 

Wind Cries >
Third Stone >
Experienced

 

I love all of this album so much it's impossible to pick one song as the best or as my favorite. So today's random pick... Manic Depression.

 

Possibly the best debut album ever.

 

Decided to put this Fantastic Album on right now as a result of this thread!

 

The meteoric rise of Jimi the solo artist must be unparalleled. From a position of poverty and hustling he conquered the world and released two ground-breaking albums within little more than one year.

 

I'm SO glad this poll asked for my 'favorite' song from this album -- and not which one I thought was the 'best'.

Because as hard as 'favorite' was to pick -- it's an order of magnitude harder to argue for which one is the best of them all.

I went with "Manic Depression" -- but there are at least half-a-dozen other songs that I think are damn near as good.

Probably the VERY first album I ever probably listened to 100 times (back in high school my sophomore year, around 1984-85).

 

The Wind Cries Mary is indeed majestic, but Jimi took the riff from Elvis Presley's Jailhouse Rock, so I'm not sure I'd say it was written in under an hour.

 

Looking back on this thread, I have such fond memories of zoning out to this album in my youth (late 80s, early 90s) on headphones.

As a side note, on a couple tracks, I find the BBC session cuts to be just as strong as the studio versions. "Love or Confusion" is one.

 

Top 3 in order of preference...

1.The Third Stone From The Stone...roots of side 3 from EL, (my favorite Hendrix studio performance) was created here

2.The Wind Cries Mary...with its colorful lyric imagery the 60s premier psychedelic avatar crafted a bonafide masterpiece of mind expanding rhythm & blues balladry

3.Foxey Lady...a great single & it made everything else on A.M. Top 40 radio sound tame in comparison

 

Today, it's Stone Free

 

#1,2, 4-12, and #14...

 

I'm baffled that May This Be Love got so few votes. Shocked, even. I don't know that it's my "favorite", but I'd say that it may be the most musically "sophisticated" track on the album -- a worthy precursor to Axis: Bold as Love.

 

But, then again, Remember may be in my top fifteen Hendrix tracks -- on certain days, anyway.

Perhaps there's something wrong with me...

 

Third Stone From The Sun,if that was the only song that Hendrix had ever recorded,he would still be regarded as one of the greatest guitar players off all time.