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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Experience Hendrix
Salesrank: 1252
Released: April 22, 1997 |
| Our Price: $8.28 |
| Used Price: $6.53 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Axis: Bold as Love Track Listing:
1. EXP
2. Up From The Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain't No Telling
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
8. You Got Me Floatin'
9. Castles Made Of Sand
10. She's So Fine
11. One Rainy Wish
12. Little Miss Lover
13. Bold As Love
Editorial Review:
Jimi Hendrix's second album doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor, Are You Experienced?, does. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's a vital album, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made of Sand," the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover," and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing." Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9," where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes, and he ends with "Bold As Love," based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar. --David Stubbs
Axis: Bold as Love Reviews:
Good Stuff 
2008-07-03 - Alright, so I may be in the camp of not being a total Hendrix fanatic, but Hendrix deserves respect, praise, and must be listened to, and you must at least respect the man for being so inspirational to many guitarists (I don't think those guitarists would have picked up a guitar if it weren't for him). So maybe his music isn't as good as his accomplishments (if that makes a lick of sense). But Axis: Bold as Love is still a great album.
Hendrix serves up a platter of tasteful, soulful guitar rock with the distinct of Hendrix, as there isn't a band that sounds like this one. The band plays insanely tight and responsive, and pratically gave birth to the power trio. Hendrix is known as one of the best guitar players ever, and while the album may not do enough for me so I don't feel like giving it a five star rating, Hendrix did things that no other people have done on the guitar before, and even though people have trailed in his footsteps, everything about this band goes together that makes the band sound like no other. And Hendrix's playing style will never sound old, as no other guitarists have made a sound like him (granted, I hope most guitarists don't try to copy him and make a style of their own).
All the songs are worth listening to expect She's So Fine (I don't like the singing). There are plenty of favorites to choose from. Up From The Skies, inspired by science fiction, is a soulful, jazzy song with funky guitar playing and effects. Spanish Castle Magic is driven by the power of the drums, then the guitar roars. Wait Until Tommorow is a funny story, and I like the message of the song. Ain't No Telling is the most complete short song that's not done by the Minutemen. And being a fan of funky hard rock, Little Miss Lover rules. My other favorites would have to be Castles Made of Sand and the swirling You Got Me Floatin.
Yeah, that's all I have to say. Give it a listen for sure. And sorry, but I can't think of a title that doesn't sound like hyperbole (like some of my other ones, that probably do).
8.0/10
Further
2008-05-05 - Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely choosing manager Chas Chandler to record the album, since he was in the midst of a creative hot streak, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter. He was still quite capable of coming up with spacy rockers like "You Got Me Floating," "Up from the Skies," and "Little Miss Lover," radio-ready to follow on the commercial heels of "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze." But the beautiful, wistful ballads "Little Wing," "Castles Made of Sand," "One Rainy Wish," and the title track set closer show remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision. These are tempered with Jimi's most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP" and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6 Was 9."
One of my favorites 
2008-02-25 - It's Jimi Freakin Hendrix! What more do you need to know. In case you did not know....he recorded several other albums besides "Are You Experienced." Listen, buy this album and Electric Ladyland along with a big bag of jalapeno cheetos and take a couple of hours for yourself.
You deserve it!
Bold!
2008-02-02 - Every time I think that Electric Ladyland is the true masterpiece by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, I remember that "Little Wing," one of the most commonly covered songs in rock n' roll (my estimation...not a statistical fact), is here on Axis: Bold as Love. What can I say? They're all masterpieces by most bands' standards!
But this one definitely has its own vibe, and is a different beat from Ladyland and Are You Experienced?. In some ways, it's his most experimental work and, though it doesn't top the more experimental numbers on Ladyland, it is, song to song, more varied and unique. The first half of this album is really just amazing, and as strong as anything this band ever did.
Jimi's masterwork
2008-01-09 - There are only three true Jimi Hendrix studio albums, Are You Experienced? Axis and Electric Ladyland. All the other rubbish released and promoted by the Hendrix estate is subpar by comparison.
Of the 3, Axis is my favorite and arguably Jimi's best, composition-wise. The remastering job is quite decent. Now why doesn't someone go out and re-master Are You Experienced?
