Axis: Bold as Love
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Axis: Bold as Love
Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by English-American rock band the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was recorded to fulfill the Experience's contract, which stated that they had to produce two records in 1967. Axis: Bold as Love was first released in the United Kingdom by Track Records in December 1967, as the follow-up to the band's successful debut Are You Experienced, which had been released in May. Reprise Records chose not to release it in the United States until 1968, because of fears that it might interfere with the sales of the first album. Axis: Bold as Love charted at number five in the UK and number three in the US. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Uneven in quality as it is, Axis nevertheless is the finest Voodoo album that any rock group has produced to date. -1968
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BBC
Axis Bold As Love stands as Jimi's peak in crafting pop rock perfection. -2007
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Classic Rock Review
Axis: Bold As Love has nonetheless received much critical acclaim as well as commercial success in its day, as it peaked in the Top Ten.
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Pop Matters
Axis has some great material, but the overall package is lackluster and held together by studio trickery.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
[Axis] is a masterful work that comes together as a singular piece, built on theme and tone. It’s difficult at times, but rewarding. It’s bold. And it’s beautiful.
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Alt Rock Chick
the album shines when Jimi plays to his strengths (groove, rhythm, guitar and his budding talent as a lyricist) and falls flat when he adopts some of the unconventional conventions of the period. -2014
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Billboard
Axis: Bold As Love finds both Hendrix’s powers and explorative mind at their height, working in unison, creating something truly original and transcendent, in a language all his own. -2017
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Blogcritics
Axis: Bold As Love stands as a unique and creative release, as it finds Hendrix experimenting in the studio in ways that were new to the rock idiom. -2008
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American Songwriter
The guitar might have been [Jimi]'s weapon of choice, but “Bold As Love” is further proof that the songwriting ammunition provided by Jimi Hendrix helped make that weapon so potent. -2012
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Sea of Tranquility
This recording has stood the test of time very well and I have no doubt that it will continue to do so. -2010 (Remaster)
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All New Cheap Music
Axis: Bold As Love may not be the most popular Jimi Hendrix album, but I feel it may be his best album. -2012
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Vinyl Reviews
Because Jimi Hendrix was so unlike other musicians, he stands alone on Axis.
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Rock Town Hall
It’s an album that’s a perfect hyphenate: pop-rock-jazz-funk-blues. Deep & frothy. Heavy & light. -2016
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Audiophile Review
If you weren't experienced before this, you will be by the time you finish listening. -2013
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Jazz Music Archives
What's amazing about Hendrix's music is how complex it manages to be whilst, at the same time, so incredibly loud and energetic - it's proof that you can play cutting-edge psychedelia without toning down the rock. -2014
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Vintage King
Axis: Bold as Love heralded a new subtlety in Hendrix's work. It explored new themes lyrically, and reflected Hendrix’s "growing interest in science fiction and outer space. -2017
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Huber
Axis is yet another classic from the master. -2012
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Adrian Denning
Everything here contributes towards an extremely listenable album that displays a variety of moods and emotions and is surpremely rounded as a result.
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Get Ready To Rock
In order to have a correct understanding of what happens at present, you need to look deep into the past, and there's none more "Experienced" than Jimi Hendrix. -2003
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Chicago Reader
Axis stands as the most complete package from Jimi's 3 releases. -1997
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Punchykick Productions
The journey of making the album is almost as chaotic as the record itself. -2017
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The Cannifornian
Jimi is young and hungry on this batch of magic, and you will be hungry, too after you pair this one with a lid of Colombian Gold old school style. -2017
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