Spin Magazine's "10 Most Underated Albums of All Time"
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Created by Greg on Apr 21, 2006.
Electric Ladyland IS Underappreciated — 5 years ago
It always surprises me how much Electric Ladyland is underrated.
It’s the masterpiece of Hendrix yet many listeners consider it to be too “aged” or too reminiscent of the ’60s in its studio techniques.
What they fail to realize is the amount of ground Hendrix covered on this double album epic. He perfected and expanded his guitar roots in the blues on tracks like “Voodoo Chile”, as well as morphing it into what can be considered the first displays of proto-metal on “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”. Plus, he used the studio in ways that had never been done—anticipating ambient electronic music that wasn’t fully used until farther into the 1970s on “Moon, Turn the Tides…gently gently away” as well as laying the blueprint for jazz fusion on “Rainy Day, Dream Away”, which Miles Davis innovated on In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew, the latter of which was modeled off of Electric Ladyland.
Plus, “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” displayed Jimi conjuring up visions of Atlantis and a Neptunian voyage of the cosmos, including seagulls and the underwater depths, simply through effects on his guitar! It was bold and could be considered one of the first glimpses of space rock which Pink Floyd would go on to innovate.
I’m glad to see it on this list but I would truly place it at the #1 spot.
Untitled — 5 years ago
what the fuck?
rock and roll swindle wasnt even all the sex pistols!
johnny was gone!
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