First release · United KingdomCover source ↗The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Track Records1967
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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psychedelic rockacid rockheavy psychblues rock
Hostile review
The review that called it uneven and boring
Released in the United Kingdom on 1 December 1967 and in the United States in January 1968. A hostile contemporary review, alongside chart results with their dates.
The verdict at the time
Miller attacked the record as 'junk heap' noise, accused Hendrix's songs of being 'basically a bore', and called the album 'uneven in quality', while grudgingly conceding the band's instrumental excellence.
USA#3Billboard 2001968-02-24 · Original release periodChart source ↗
UK#5Official Albums Chart1968-01-13 · Original release periodChart source ↗
Europe · Germany#21Offizielle Top 1001968-03-15 · Original release periodChart source ↗
European positions are listed by country. Later chart entries are labelled separately.
Sources & context
One critic's opinion, summarised from Jim Miller's April 1968 Rolling Stone review. The album is now ranked 92nd on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006.
