Are You ExPOLLienced

I don't either, I like the record. I don't think it comes close to Sgt. Pepper but it's obviously cream. And again I'm only mild on it knowing what he was capable of in another realm. I hear Cox/Miles complaints all the time I get it, certainly for the scatting, but I think their playing really serves Jimi through most of the record, especially all the way through Machine Gun. but I never minded the scatting that much. I get it though lol

Idk unlike sgt pepper, I don’t have to skip any bullshit on this album, even with all the bonus tracks.

This poll is cruelty of the highest order but I chose Highway Chile because that riff is so goddamn hot

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

woah that is unexpected.

possibly a crime, even

I didn't vote before the deadline! Add another vote for "Third Stone".

Good thing after much internal debate I voted for "Hey Joe."

glad you did

Hey Joe is fantastic

Highway Chili

(Slight Return)

In revisiting this album, I think I was most struck by the impression of someone not only pioneering a genre, but expanding on it in all the different ways that these individual songs do. I think this album does posit Hendrix as a great songwriter, whether or not he was able to keep proving that time and again over the few years he had left in this world.