Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (track) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Voodoo Child (Slight Return) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Year: 1968
From the album Electric Ladyland (track #16)
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From 01/02/2024 21:42
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...
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From 03/23/2023 12:47
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.
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From 12/22/2020 00:49
Essa rasga a alma, Jesus!
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From 11/06/2020 14:57
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"
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From 06/01/2018 22:35
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.
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From 11/29/2017 00:53
ravioli ravioli give me the formioli
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From 11/24/2016 17:35
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.
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From 04/16/2016 08:34
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.
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From 06/03/2015 16:31
To be honest, I prefer this to Along the Watchtower.
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From 03/27/2015 01:07
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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