Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
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Artist: Jimi HendrixBrand: Hendrix,Jimi
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Experience Hendrix
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Purple Haze
- Hey Joe
- The Wind Cries Mary
- Fire
- Highway Chile
- Are You Experienced?
- Burning of the Midnight Lamp
- Little Wing
- All Along the Watchtower
- Crosstown Traffic
- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
- Spanish Castle Magic
- Stone Free
- Izabella
- Stepping Stone
- Angel
- Dolly Dagger
- Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
- Fire (live)
- Hey Joe (live)
- I Don't Live Today (live)
- Hear My Train a Coming (live)
- Foxey Lady (live)
- Machine Gun (live)
- Johnny B. Goode (live)
- Red House (live)
- Freedom (live)
- Purple Haze (live)
- Star Spangled Banner (live)
- Wild Thing (live)
Music reviews of Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
Music Review: Mediocre Best of Release
Rating: 3 Stars
Now, if you are a huge Jimi fan - and I am - please read the review before clicking the "not helpful" button.
First of all, the digipak packaging for this release is by far the worst I have seen. The manufacturer's plastic pegs wear down (they don't break) and eventually the discs won't stay on the spindles. The plastic just "feels" really really cheap - like it was vacu-formed. The booklet is glued into the packaging so even if you want to change the CD box, you can't. Experience Hendrix should have looked at the digipaks that Impulse used for their John Coltrane remasters or those used by ABKO for the Rolling Stones remastes. I cannot stress enough just how lousy this packaging is, perhaps the worst I've seen in all my years collecting CDs. Even the paper in the booklet feels flimsy. It's clear that they put this package together on the cheap like a KTEL or Ronco release.
Disc one has a good selection though if this is truly a best of collection aimed at a new generation of buyers, I don't know why the track selection includes alternate takes rather than the masters of some of Hendrix's better works like All Along the Watchtower and Spanish Castle Magic. Now, that said, I find them interesting but there is a reason they are alternate takes. Jimi was a perfectionist in the studio and these alternate takes don't represent his best work. So again, for that new generation of buyers that this package claims to be aimed at, this seems wrong headed to me.
Disc two has a great selection of Jimi live; however, I can't for the life of me understand why they are not presented in chronological sequence the way the studio stuff is. My only guess is that when you hear the stuff from late spring and summer of 1970 it is very clear that Jimi was tired of the rock star thing. His singing is really pretty terrible in these later tunes. His playing, though pretty wild is also very noisy and sloppy. Maybe it's out of sequence in order to diminish the impact of these sub-par (with respect to Jimi's other live work) performances? I used to have an Lp when I was a young man called 'In the West" that seemed a far better representation of Jimi's live work. Actually, the photo on the cover for this set looks very similar and might even be the same photo from "In the West" To be quite honest, I have not found another Hendrix live release that is anywhere close to as satisfying as "Band of Gypsys", one of the great live recordings of that era.
If you are interested in Jimi, what you really want to do is buy the remastered CDs in this order:
1. Are You Experienced
2. Axis Bold as Love
3. Electric Ladyland
4. Band of Gypsys (always bugs me that the plural of Gypsy is spelled incorrectly on this release!)
5. First Rays of the New Rising Sun
6. Live at Fillmore East with the Band of Gypsys (outtakes from BOG)
7. South Saturn Delta.
8. Live at the BBC
Then move on to some of the other stuff like Jimi Plays Berkley and Live at the Fillmore.
Personally, I believe this 2 disc set is a dis-service to this remarkably gifted artist's legacy but I've been listening to Jimi since 1969 so maybe I'm just not getting the marketing angle.
Description of Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix Collection
2 CD's in a trifold digipak featuring his greatest studio recordings and 12 live tracks. Full color 20 page booklet. Includes the bonus track 'Third Stone From the Sun' along with previously unreleased live versions of 'Fire', 'Hey Joe', 'Red House', 'Freedom' & 'Wild Thing'. 2002.Classic Rock CDs
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