EXP - 3
Up From The Skies - 3
Spanish Castle Magic - 4
Wait Until Tomorrow - 3
Ain't No Telling - 3
Little Wing - 4
If 6 Was 9 - 4
You Got Me Floatin' - 4
Castles Made Of Sand - 4
She's So Fine - 3
One Rainy Wish - 4
Little Miss Lover - 3
Bold As Love - 4
Total - 46 stars / 13 tracks = 3.54 stars, normalized to 3.9 stars
Axis: Bold As Love doesn't start off how I'd normally like my albums to. Sure, "EXP" has this whole psychedelic extra-terrestrial thing going on, but it's brutally dissonant, chaotic, and, unless you're in the right frame of mind (ie. stoned out of your tree) it'll make you kind of irritable.
A little further in, you start to get to the real gems, like "Spanish Castle Magic" and "If 6 Was 9." These tracks, and most of the other 4-stars, combine bizarre verbage with slick riffs, without causing the kind of anxiety that "EXP" does.
While the great song:okay song ratio isn't as high as it is with the earlier Are You Experienced?, this album demonstrates that Hendrix, even when not on his A+ game, was still better than nearly anyone.
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