Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (track)
by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Year: 1968
From the album Electric Ladyland (track #16)
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Voodoo Child (Slight Return) appears on the following album(s) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
- Electric Ladyland (track #16) (this album) (1968)
- Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix (track #15) (compilation) (1997)
- Winterland (Highlights) (track #10) (2011)
- BBC Sessions (track #34) (compilation) (1998)
- Live At Berkeley (track #12) (2003)
- Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival (track #13) (2015)
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience (track #39) (compilation) (2000)
- Live At Woburn (track #7) (2009)
- Live In Maui (track #6) (2020)
- Live At The Oakland Coliseum (track #11) (1998)
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| ! | 07/03/2026 09:06 | Siromynian | 17,869 | 71/100 |
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| ! | 06/30/2026 16:50 | jtc91 | 13,934 | 82/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2026 15:31 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
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Everyone always talks about the intro, but for me the best thing about the song is the main riff that begins once the band comes in, and is repeated throughout the song. If you try to learn to play it on guitar, it seems like it's such a basic thing (just some E power chords, slightly bent G notes, and a bent and released A note on the G string), but there are so many subtle variations in timing and phrasing that it's a great challenge to learn them all.
And that's just the main riff. After that, we have the solos...
DeusExMackia 03/23/2023 12:47 | #295344
Really does just sit in a league of its own. 'Voodoo Child' is fucking enormous. Sod breaking down mountains, this thing feels like it might split the sky open.
The anger, ferocity and full-blooded emotions of late-60s America explode on this. It's painful, it's a Judgement Day soundtrack, it's a primal scowl. Simultaneously so incredibly raw - I don't want to hear a remaster of this ever, frankly - and so toweringly perfect. Hendrix is flawless here, if there is even a word to truly comprehend how good he is on this thing. His whole life feels like it's built up to this one moment.
He didn't deserve to die so young. It is and remains a tragedy. But to have this effectively as your swan song is quite the move. Proof that God does walk among us, perhaps.
On another note, of all the Jimi songs he was no doubt inspired by, this is is the one that sounds most akin to what Prince would be doing with the guitar a decade later. He chose the right person to be inspired by.
VictorVale 12/22/2020 00:49 | #263041
Essa rasga a alma, Jesus!
In my opinion this is the best Hendrix song. I don't think you could describe this song any more accurately than with the word "blistering"
I love this song, and it consistently alternates as one of my favorites by Jimi, but I don't think it deserves to be rated as high as a 90 when songs like If 6 was 9 and Castles Made of Sand clearly deserve higher ratings in my opinion.
ravioli ravioli give me the formioli
DeusExMackia 11/24/2016 17:35 | #179074
Still can't decide which guitar solo is better, the first or the second one. It's something that'll bug me til I die.
When I listen to this song, I need to stop whatever I'm doing so I can play air guitar. Of course, I only do this in private, not in public.
LAF2 06/03/2015 16:31 | #142928
To be honest, I prefer this to Along the Watchtower.
tgarritsen 03/27/2015 01:07 | #137917
I think this is my favorite song by Jimi Hendrix. The astonishing effects, the killer riff, the solo work and the out of this world vocals and lyrics aswell.
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