1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) (track)
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Year: 1968
From the album Electric Ladyland (track #11)
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1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) appears on the following album(s) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
- Electric Ladyland (track #11) (this album) (1968)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 6 hours ago | kinginsomniac12 | 4,786 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 04:04 | AbsurdCheesecake | 1,614 | 90/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 19:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 75,424 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2025 21:04 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,206 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/26/2025 15:52 | Rayzer6 | 18,852 | 89/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.2/100, a mean average of 87.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.4.
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Psychedelic masterpiece. It's so trippy even without drugs. You could drink coffee and take a trip down to this 13-minute magnum opus.
Beautiful song, very underappreciated. Guitar riff is awesome.
Medelsvensson 11/13/2019 09:36 | #244765
Masterpiece. Drums are whoppin
ExTeaSea 09/13/2018 23:36 | #221020
Such a fantastic song! Favorite Hendrix song and one of my very favorite songs ever. He created such a trippy beautiful masterpiece.
tgarritsen 03/27/2015 00:39 | #137909
This is where the album really starts getting weird. Like you're floating between dimensions.
Mother Nature's Son 05/19/2013 12:19 | #76585
Coolest drum fill after 3 and a half minutes or so.
..and again after 11 and half minutes or so!
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