Are You Experienced Songs Ranked

Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was an immediate critical and commercial success, and it is widely regarded as one of the greatest debuts in the history of rock music. The album features Jimi Hendrix’s innovative approach to songwriting and electric guitar playing which soon established a new direction in psychedelic and hard rock music. By mid-1966, Hendrix was struggling to earn a living playing the R&B circuit as a backing guitarist. After being referred to Chas Chandler, who was leaving the Animals and interested in managing and producing artists, Hendrix was signed to a management and production contract with Chandler and ex-Animals manager Michael Jeffery. Chandler brought Hendrix to London and began recruiting members for a band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, designed to showcase the guitarist’s talents. Here are all of Are You Experienced songs ranked.

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11. Remember

“Remember is sort of a funky Motown kind of song, including the lyrics. The guitar tone on the left hand side has a rich, velvety quality to it.”

10. Love or Confusion

“Love Or Confusion” is kind of seen as the black sheep on this lp. I think a lot of the hate has to do with the fact that many believe Hendrix’s tone on the guitar was too clean and simplistic for his standards. While I can see this and understand to a degree, I actually really like this song. To me it shows a bit of a different side to Jimi’s songwriting abilities. Yeah the tone is clean, but there are still some shredding parts here and there. Also, I really like how his voice sounds on this track.”

9. May This Be Love

“May This Be Love” is a beautiful rock ballad. In fact, it is probably up there as one of my most favorite rock ballads. I can kinda see where Prince’s “Purple Rain” could’ve possibly been inspired from stuff like this.”

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8. I Don’t Live Today

“I Don’t Live Today” has some good introspective lyrics, and some more feedback laden shredding going on. I love it. It has an awesome ending, when the song totally loses direction.”

7. Third Stone From the Sun

“The b side of the US release is more psychedelic and experimental with cuts like “Third Stone from the Sun”. This song is actually a good example Jimi’s pioneering guitar effects.”

6. Red House

“a traditional style slow blues song, which is bassy (there is a shuffling melody to the bass guitar). Track is staticky at times and you hear pops occasionally too, especially on the left hand side. Jimi’s lead guitar playing is expressive.”

5. Are You Experienced?

“This song may have been influenced by The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields forever”. It has the backward playing effects of The Beatles’ song. This song is growing in my estimation…I’m starting to put it on a par with The Beatles’ best work. Jimi produces a nice vocal melody for this song whilst rubbing his guitar strings or some such. Has 1 or 2 piano notes repeatedly plays, which sounds cool. Psychedelic classic in my view.

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4. Manic Depression

“The drums part of Manic Depression is still one of the best in rock to hit. My opinion. Noel’s hilarious and sometimes discordant lines are the rock that holds back the madness when the album is at its most tumultuous.”

3. Fire

“Fire is notable for the bass guitar playing. Seems a great go-go kind of song to me. Backing vocals are on the left hand side. Has a good range of guitar parts to this song…lead guitar and power chords (I think…not a guitarist). More busy/frantic drumming from Mitch. Has heavy rock elements to it…rock lead guitar style with its solo etc.”

2. Foxy Lady

“Foxy lady has a kind of tape type hiss at the start. Musically, the buzzing guitar intro and riff at the start is memorable. Vocals are on the left hand side whilst other vocal effects are on the right hand side. . You can actually hear Jimi clear his throat and lose his voice a bit towards the end of the song. He also makes some noises with his mouth at the end…they don’t actually seem to be intended as part of the performance. It’s things like this that make me think that maybe this is a different version of the song I have compared to what I have on the US reissue with bonus tracks I discussed earlier. Both albums though do have Jimi making extraneous noises, which is kind of cool.”