Jimi Hendrix "The Cry of Love" - What do you think?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

[On the Road]

1. I Think It's His Strongest Album

Even though there are no major hits, there are no weak tracks, unlike his other releases. Every song is different and the playing is filled with energy and creativity. Fewer of the songs are hard acid numbers, and there are some nice quirky pieces like "Belly Button Window."

I love "Back from the Storm" and can't understand why it's not well known. The extremely strange "My Friend" is one of my favorite Hendrix songs of all. Anyone who likes Hendrix but doesn't own The Cry of Love should get it immediately.

[swag]

4. My favorite Jimi legend was that he predicted his death

to the day in the lyrics "Belly Button Window".

That "you only got 200 days" line was recorded in the studio 200 days before Hendrix died.

I haven't checked out the rumor since I heard it in somebody else's high school report in 1977, but it's fun to think about.

I doubt it's true.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Wow...is that still in print?

I know a few years back, MCA chopped it up (yet again), and issued the songs from that disc on about 3 others.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. "Cry of Love" is now incorporated into "First Rays of the New Rising Sun"

THEN:

THE CRY OF LOVE - album
Reprise MS 2034
Release: Wednesday, March 5, 1971
Chart Peaks: 3
Tracks:
1. Freedom
2. Drifting
3. Ezy Rider
4. Night Bird Flying
5. My Friend
6. Straight Ahead
7. Astro Man
8. Angel
9. In From The Storm
10. Belly Button Window

NOW:



1. Freedom
2. Izabella
3. Night Bird Flying
4. Angel
5. Room Full Of Mirrors
6. Dolly Dagger
7. Ezy Ryder
8. Drifting
9. Beginnings
10. Stepping Stone
11. My Friend
12. Straight Ahead
13. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
14. Earth Blues
15. Astro Man
16. In From The Storm
17. Belly Button Window

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. I had "Voodoo Soup"

Which, for a time, was the only way to get those tracks on CD.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Yes, a relic from the Alan Douglas years...

The first thing the Hendrix family did when they regained control of the estate and catalog was to obliterate everything Douglas laid his hands on and start all over again...first, with the "three official releases" (Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland), then adding live sets and compilations.

Douglas was responsible for the catalog after Hendrix's death and made a few very questionable decisions (like the two albums in which he stripped off the backing tracks and had studio musicians "jamming" with Jimi..."Crash Landing" and "Midnight Lightning").

:toast:

[JVS]

3. Good music

[livetohike]

7. I remember the day I bought this album

and took it back to my dorm room and cried :cry:

While almost all of Hendrix' songs are my favorite songs, I love Angel and Belly Button Window from this album.