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Where to start with Jimi Hendrix
Start with ...And the Gods Made Love — Electric Ladyland, 1968. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 44 Jimi Hendrix tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 44 Jimi Hendrix tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 44 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The dates here run from 1967 to 2013. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 46 years is still more than one version of the artist.
The tracks are filed across 4 genres, most often psych rock, acid rock and psychedelic rock, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.
The density knob swings 76 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
...And the Gods Made Love — Electric Ladyland, 1968. Of the 43 Jimi Hendrix tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
If you want the sparse end
Suddenly November Morning - Anthology Version — West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, 2010. The lowest density reading of any Jimi Hendrix track in the room (12 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
Somewhere — People, Hell & Angels, 2013. The highest density reading here, at 88 out of 100 — a 76-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Where Jimi Hendrix sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Jimi Hendrix's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 56 | 32–65 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 70 | 18–75 | ambient → driving |
| density | 68 | 12–88 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 66 | 30–82 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Electric Ladyland | 1968 | 15 |
| Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 | 13 |
| Are You Experienced | 1967 | 11 |
| Band of Gypsys | 1975 | 2 |
| People, Hell & Angels | 2013 | 1 |
| West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology | 2010 | 1 |
| Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix | 1997 | 1 |
Every Jimi Hendrix track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Are You Experienced? | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Fire | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Foxey Lady | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Hey Joe | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| I Don't Live Today | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Love Or Confusion | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Manic Depression | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| May This Be Love | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Purple Haze | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| The Wind Cries Mary | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Third Stone From The Sun | Are You Experienced | 1967 |
| Ain't No Telling | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Bold as Love | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Castles Made of Sand | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Exp | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| If 6 Was 9 | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Little Miss Lover | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Little Wing | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| One Rainy Wish | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| She's So Fine | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Spanish Castle Magic | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Up From The Skies | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| Wait Until Tomorrow | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| You Got Me Floatin' | Axis: Bold as Love | 1967 |
| ...And the Gods Made Love | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| All Along the Watchtower | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Burning of the Midnight Lamp | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Crosstown Traffic | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| House Burning Down | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Little Miss Strange | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Long Hot Summer Night | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Rainy Day, Dream Away | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Still Raining, Still Dreaming | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Voodoo Child (Slight Return) | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Voodoo Chile | Electric Ladyland | 1968 |
| Message To Love | Band of Gypsys | 1975 |
| Star Spangled Banner - Live at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 18, 1969 | Experience Hendrix: The Best Of Jimi Hendrix | 1997 |
| Suddenly November Morning - Anthology Version | West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology | 2010 |
| Somewhere | People, Hell & Angels | 2013 |
| Power Of Soul | Band of Gypsys | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Jimi Hendrix's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Les Claypool — rock, 12 tracks
- Where to start with The Pogues — folk punk, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Viktor Vaughn — experimental hip hop, 15 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Jimi Hendrix as a solo artist, from Seattle, the United States and born in 1942. Its contributors tag the artist blues rock, psychedelic rock, rock, hard rock and acid rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Jimi Hendrix tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 44, across 7 albums. 43 of them carry a date, running from 1967 to 2013. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. 43 of these 44 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 44 of these 44 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.