Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits LP 1968 Australian red label stereo EX+
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Jimi Hendrix Experience Smash Hits LP 1968 Australian red label stereo EX+
Original Australian pressing (reissue?) on Polydor International red label.
Smash Hits is a compilation album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Track Records first issued it on April 12, 1968, in the UK and included all four of the group's singles (eight "sides") released up to that time, plus four additional songs from the UK edition of Are You Experienced.
Reprise Records did not issue the album in the US until July 30, 1969, and it included some different tracks. It included two songs from Electric Ladyland and a stereo version of "Red House" from a different session than the original mono take found on the UK version of Are You Experienced.
The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
One of the first hits compilations assembled of Jimi Hendrix's catalog, Smash Hits remains one of the best, since it keeps its focus narrow and never tries to extend its reach. Basically, this album contains the songs everybody knows from Hendrix, drawing heavily from Are You Experienced?, plus adding the non-LP "Red House," "51st Anniversary," and "Highway Chile." Those non-LP selections may still make this worth seeking out, even if they've appeared on subsequent hits collections, but the main strength of Smash Hits is that it contains the best-known big-name songs in one place. Maybe not enough to make the collection essential, but still enough to make it a representative, accurate sampler.
A1 Purple Haze
A2 Fire
A3 The Wind Cries Mary
A4 Can You See Me
A5 51st Anniversary
A6 Hey Joe
B1 Stone Free
B2 Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice
B3 Manic Depression
B4 Highway Chile
B5 Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
B6 Foxy Lady
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: EX sleeve has slight ring wear both sides
RECORD: EX Faint spindle marks on labels, a few hairlines visible under pin light
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