Top 5 Hendrix numbers

Cafe Society
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Well, this will be my only top 5 thread - usually I like to go for something a bit more creative, other than just some list thread.:slight_smile:

If 6 was 9
Spanish Castle Magic
I Don’t Live Today
Ezy Rider (fave my a mile)
Manic Depression

honorable mention - Room Full of Mirrors (which I thought the Pretenders did a surprisingly good cover of)

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  1. Bold As Love

  2. Manic Depression

  3. Crosstown Traffic

  4. Castles Made Of Sand

  5. Voodoo Child

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1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Third Stone from the Sun
Hey Joe
All Along the Watchtower

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Voodoo Chile

All Along the Watchtower

Little Wing

Manic Depression

Star Spangled Banner

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Voodoo Chile

Hey Joe

Red House

Foxey Lady

Fire

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Third stone from the sun

Purple Haze

Little Wing

Angel

Come On Part 1

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Purple Haze
Foxy Lady
Red House
All Along the Watchtower.
Crosstown Traffic

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1983

Drifting

Angel

The Wind Cries Mary

Bold as Love

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Manic Depression
The Wind Cries Mary
All Along the Watchtower.
Crosstown Traffic
Voodoo Chile

Used to like both Purple Haze and Foxy Lady, but they just got way too much radio play and I burned out on them.

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  1. Little Wing

  2. Little Wing

  3. Little Wing

  4. Little Wing

  5. Little Wing

  6. Red House

  7. Manic Depression

  8. Angel

  9. All Along the Watchtower

  10. Axis: Bold as Love

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Loach is absolutely correct.

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All Along the Watchtower
Voodoo Child
Fire
Machine Gun
Hear My Train a-Comin

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My feeling about Hendrix is that his first LP was incredible, one of the most ground-breaking albums in history, and his LPs after that never quite hit the same level… primarily because of very uneven songwriting. So, any list of my favorite Hendrix numbers pretty much starts with almost everything on that first LP.

Of his other stuff, the songs that reach the same level for me are “Angel”, “Little Wing” and “Voodoo Chile”. So let’s say I take those three and then add two from the first LP. Well, “The Wind Cries Mary” has to be on the list. But what takes the last spot? I think I’m going to have to go with “Third Stone from the Sun”, although on another day I might pick “May This Be Love”.

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Little Wing
All Along the Watchtower
Voodoo Child
Hey Joe
Foxy Lady

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The Wind Cries Mary
Hey Joe
All Along the Watchtower
Purple Haze
If 6 was 9

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All Along the Watchtower: Hendryx turned Dylan’s song into an anti-war anthem; the opening riffs and solo work are stunning.
Manic Depression
Little Wing
Wind Cries Mary: just because I like to play it
Purple Haze

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Nailed it! End of thread. He also did a smokin’ version of Johhny B Goode (from Hendrix in the West, I believe).

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You guys aren’t reaching deep enough.

  1. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) -Maui 1970
  2. In from the Storm -Maui 1970
  3. Hear My Train Comin’ -Atlanta 1970
  4. Message of Love -Band of Gypsys Fillmore East 1970
  5. Straight Ahead -Atlanta 1970