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Are You Experienced is the debut studio album by the rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, the LP was an instantaneous essential and business success, and it’s extensively considered one of many biggest debuts within the historical past of rock music. The album options Jimi Hendrix’s progressive strategy to songwriting and electrical guitar enjoying which quickly established a brand new course in psychedelic and exhausting rock music. Coming after three profitable European singles, it helped introduce him as a brand new worldwide star. Are You Experienced and its previous singles have been recorded over a 5-month interval from late October 1966 via early April 1967. The album was accomplished in sixteen recording periods at three London places, together with de Lane Lea Studios, CBS, and Olympic. Released within the UK on May 12, 1967, Are You Experienced spent 33 weeks on the charts, peaking at quantity two. The album was issued within the US on August 23 by Reprise Records, the place it reached quantity 5 on the Billboard 200, remaining on the chart for 106 weeks, 27 of these within the Top forty. The US model contained a few of Hendrix’s greatest recognized songs, together with the Experience’s first three singles, which, although omitted from the British version of the LP, have been prime ten hits within the UK: “Purple Haze”, “Hey Joe”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”. In 2005, Rolling Stone ranked Are You Experienced fifteenth on its record of the five hundred Greatest Albums of All Time. They positioned 4 songs from the album on their record of the five hundred Greatest Songs of All Time: “Purple Haze” (17), “Foxy Lady” (153), “Hey Joe” (201), and “The Wind Cries Mary” (379). That similar yr, the document was considered one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress in recognition of its cultural significance to be added to the National Recording Registry. Writer and archivist Rueben Jackson of the Smithsonian Institution wrote: “it’s nonetheless a landmark recording as a result of it’s of the rock, S&S, blues… musical custom. It altered the syntax of the music… in a means I examine to James Joyce’s Ulysses.”Disc B
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