Your favorite Jimi Hendrix songs or albums?

[marsattacks666]

I'll start....one of my all-time favorite Jimi Hendrix songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJw_XqvsSIs

[Mord]

"Are You Experienced?" Was always my favorite with Manic Depression being my fave track.

[Hepcat]

One of my very favourites:

Hey Joe

[Paul L]

First Rays of the New Rising Sun is one of my all-time favorite albums, an expansion of Cry Of Love.

[Wolfman]

The Wind Cries Mary.

JP

[marsattacks666]

"Are You Experienced?" Was always my favorite with Manic Depression being my fave track.

Great song.

[Dr.Cyclops]

I've always loved this song.

1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)

[Wicked Lester]

My fave Hendrix song is not a Hendrix song but he should owns this one. For some reason it almost always gives me the chills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

[ChristineBCW]

Crosstown Traffic... I like doing the tissue-paper-comb bits, but it's probably the piano-guitar combo work that caught my ear.  I couldn't play his more famous songs' guitar licks (and still can't with any consistency - I abhor sloppy covers) but this one's rhythm guitar and piano sections were learned decently, early on. 

[Hepcat]

Indeed! That's a good one.

[skully]

His rendition of "All along the Watchtower".

[Hepcat]

The Experience's breakthrough single is tough to top:

Purple Haze

[Memphremagog]

Room Full Of Mirrors

[ChristineBCW]

I'm listening to a series of arguments that propose Hendrix's death removed the greatest potential out of rock music.  Others ponder Buddy Holly's potential. 

I was watching a pretty wonderful JANIS LITTLE GIRL BLUE (2015 documentary about Joplin) and I think she'd lost some direction and was being morph'd into, well, something else.  "She seems to have peaked" is one of my ideas.   

I'm not sure about Buddy Holly.  He may have been chewed up and spit out into some bubble-gummy Phil Specter type of over-orchestrated muzak.  But his death (1959) was about 10 years before strong technological improvements were placed into recording and performance abilities - that is, amps and PA systems were pretty awful entering the 1970s.

Hendrix, I just don't know too much about.  Some folks here are telling me he was moving back into a roots-level blues possibililty, something that brought many powerful blues musicians into the '70s - Freddie King, John Lee Hooker, eventually Stevie Ray Vaughn, etc. 

The rather wildness of FOXY LADY and PURPLE HAZE don't seem to have predecessors in rock.  "Where did those come from?"  Simple - experiments with an electric guitar and a variety of amps.  For his first few albums, I get the sense that only the outright blues numbers were obvious progressions from historical music.  Other tracks seem unprecedented - without some obvious DNA links into electric guitar pasts, that is. 

Thus...

Was the death of Hendrix the biggest loss of potential for the eras of music that followed?

[geezer butler]

Big Jimi Fan. "Hey Joe" is prob my second fav Jimi song. But "Little Wing" is just one of my favorite songs period.