The album was produced by the band's manager, Chas Chandler, and was recorded between October 23rd 1966 and April 3rd 1967 at De Lane Lea, CBS and Olympic Sound Studios. etc.Are You Experienced (also known as Are You Experienced? sometimes shortened to RUX or AYE) is the debut studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released on May 12th 1967 in the United Kingdom and August 23rd 1967 in the United States. Which version do you like better? Which has the better track-listing, better cover art, back cover?. Sound quality of all of this has already been discussed time and time again about this album on this forum, so leave that as your last priority. If anyone could post a High-Def pic of it here (and the back cover art which I have never seen either) I would greatly appreciate it.Īnyway, discuss your thoughts here. But, I will concede that I haven't yet seen a High Def picture of the UK original art (only the small crappy pic on Wikipedia) and I haven't seen a Vinyl copy of it, so I haven't seen it as it was originally released. It's iconic over here, I have a PILLOW of it for crying out loud!, and.it just looks brighter and more vivid (it was '67 after all!). You get his brilliant "Red House", and the spectacularly rousing "Can You See Me" (which truly is one of his best songs, imo), and "Remember" (more important than the song itself, is how much more of an impact the title track has after "Remember" rather than the US "Foxy Lady" 's sequence as the penultimate track!) But you miss out on the well-placed "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Haze" and "Joe" (which I'm sure people of the UK who didn't buy the singles missed out on.or not if they listened to the radio!).Īs for the cover art, I definitely prefer the US right now. It was the original, and was most likely what The Experience intended (definitely what Chandler and the Management intended initially). In my opinion, The UK version of the album is definitely more, or less, the definitive version. Jimi really needed to make it there and solidify his re-entry into his native country, and 3 hits on the album obviously would help to achieve that goal, (never mind the slight re-sequencing of the mutually shared tracks and loss of 3 UK version tracks) The UK version is cool with the "B-sides"/album tracks specific to it rather than the "hits", but who doesn't love "The Wind Cries Mary" on the album ?!?Īnyway, it's perfectly understandable (and great), IMO, that the album was altered for America. "Hey Joe", to me, definitely feels out of place on the (US) album, and I've always felt that way (even before I knew of the UK version to begin with!). Red House both feels better sequenced after "Manic Depression" and out of place, since it's a very bluesy song and all. Both open with somewhat "similar" sounding songs with a similar effect. Both track-listings seem to have their benefits. * In short, the UK version has "Red House", "Can You See Me", and "Remember" unique to the album, whereas the US version has three UK singles specific to the US version: "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe" (their big UK hit), and "The Wind Cries Mary".Īs is made obvious, the singles (A-sides) were left off of the UK version, yet replaced certain original UK version album tracks or interrupted their sequence for the US version (as anyone who knows understands was the common procedure at the time). It's even weirder to think that the track-listings differ so much! Which is detailed in the following for those who may not know (although here I'm sure there are plenty who do, perhaps even by heart!):Ĥ.) Can You See Me (UK) / Love or Confusion (US)ĥ.) Love or Confusion (UK) / May This Be Love (US)ġ.) May This Be Love (UK) / The Wind Cries Mary (US) I love the US cover art so much and associate it with Jimi so much, for instance, it's hard to think that wasn't the "true" original/intended cover (which is the black one of the UK). Oddly enough, sometimes I forget that there were two pretty different versions of the great debut album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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