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The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Electric ladyland -- POLYDOR-SPDLP3-3500112.  Cover and records are in near Mint Never cracked open but to take pictures. Released in England in 1968 this 2 Lp set features 16 tunes. May be Jimi's best Lp depending on what day it is for me. Includes; All along the watch tower, Crosstown traffic, 1983, Still raining still dreaming, Voodoo chile.....

On That Killer Cover Hendrix had written to Reprise describing what he wanted for the cover art, but was mostly ignored. He expressly asked for a color photo by Linda Eastman of the group sitting with children on a sculpture from Alice in Wonderland in Central Park, and drew a picture of it for reference. The company instead used a blurred red and yellow photo of his head, taken by Karl Ferris.[citation needed] Track Records used its art department, which produced a cover image by photographer David Montgomery, who also shot the inside cover portrait of Hendrix, depicting nineteen nude women lounging in front of a black background.Hendrix expressed displeasure and embarrassment with this "naked lady" cover, much as he was displeased with the Axis: Bold As Love cover which he found disrespectful. The cover was banned by several record dealers as "pornographic", while others sold it with the gatefold cover turned inside out.

Electric Ladyland was released in the US on October 16, 1968.   By mid-November, it had reached number one in the US, spending two weeks at the top spot.   The double LP was the Experience's most commercially successful release and his only number one album.  It peaked at number six in the UK, spending 12 weeks on the chart.   Electric Ladyland confounded contemporary music critics, who praised some of its songs, but felt that the album lacked structure and sounded too dense.   Melody Maker found the album "mixed-up and muddled", with the exception of "All Along the Watchtower", which the magazine called a masterpiece.  In a negative review for Rolling Stone, Tony Glover preferred the less difficult "Little Miss Strange" to songs such as "Voodoo Chile" and "1983", which he felt were marred by reactively harsh playing.  Music journalist Robert Christgau, on the other hand, ranked it as the fifth best album of the year in his ballot for Jazz & Pop magazine's annual critics poll.

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