daveinspain Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-10-best-jimi-hendrix-songs-20130320/1-voodoo-child-slight-return-0256194 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Good thing I never paid attention to Rolling Stone Magazine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'd put Up From the Skies, Catfish Blues, and Angel on my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Rolling Stone - Rock and Roll's "The National Enquirer". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Based on youtube views? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 No Foxey Lady? Fire? Are You Experienced? Third Stone From the Sun? 51st Anniversary? Dolly Dagger? Crosstown Traffic? Angel (although I was never a big fan of the song)? Geez... Lists are stupid. Especially lists where you have to pick a certain number of songs by a great musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Really? 2013, and RS is calculating the top ten hendrix dirges? Is it any wonder youth doesn't participate in music anymore? Really? rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I loved about every one of them in the list I must say. As been said, too many great ones to have just 10. What talent lost and what would he be playing today if he'd lived & continued to play? Aster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzoboy Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 30 years ago or even 20 years ago the reader base of Rolling Stone magazine would've been able to make informed opinions and polls that they answered would've been a pretty good representation of what most people think.In the past few years Rolling Stone mag has turned into a 21 century equivilent of what Hit Parader and 16 magazine were in the 60s and consequently appears to be aimed more at the Justa Beaver/Miley Cyrus fan base and the fashion concious clothes horse types than fans of serious music,at least that's what I've seen of it when I picked it up the rare time that there was an article that picqued my interest. I doubt if many of the current reader base know enough about Jimi's music or music in general to be able to accurately pick what the better songs of his catalogue were.For some reason I couldn't get into the page that carried the results of the poll so I don't know at all what the outcome was except that Voodoo Child(slight return) got top billing,which I really can't disagree with since I have often sat back with headphones on and listened to it for 2 hrs and more with the player on repeat,then again I've done the same with Angel,Little Wing,Spanish Castle Magic,Foxy Lady,Are You Experienced,Machine Gun and several more. I can say with confidence that Machine Gun represents not only Jimi's best executed live performance but I'd go so far to say that it is quite possibly the most incredible example of incendary guitar virtuosity that was ever recorded live-at least to my ears and from what live recordings I've heard so far. Just as picking a top 10 Beatle favourites would be pretty well impossible for me,the same would happen with Jimi's recordings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 30 years ago or even 20 years ago the reader base of Rolling Stone magazine would've been able to make informed opinions and polls that they answered would've been a pretty good representation of what most people think.In the past few years Rolling Stone mag has turned into a 21 century equivilent of what Hit Parader and 16 magazine were in the 60s and consequently appears to be aimed more at the Justa Beaver/Miley Cyrus fan base and the fashion concious clothes horse types than fans of serious music,at least that's what I've seen of it when I picked it up the rare time that there was an article that picqued my interest. I doubt if many of the current reader base know enough about Jimi's music or music in general to be able to accurately pick what the better songs of his catalogue were.For some reason I couldn't get into the page that carried the results of the poll so I don't know at all what the outcome was except that Voodoo Child(slight return) got top billing,which I really can't disagree with since I have often sat back with headphones on and listened to it for 2 hrs and more with the player on repeat,then again I've done the same with Angel,Little Wing,Spanish Castle Magic,Foxy Lady,Are You Experienced,Machine Gun and several more. I can say with confidence that Machine Gun represents not only Jimi's best executed live performance but I'd go so far to say that it is quite possibly the most incredible example of incendary guitar virtuosity that was ever recorded live-at least to my ears and from what live recordings I've heard so far. Just as picking a top 10 Beatle favourites would be pretty well impossible for me,the same would happen with Jimi's recordings. A bunch of hipsters that are still fixed on Springsteen and U2 (well, any band that makes that kind of political statement). They don't understand that rock n' roll is about passion and fun. They look down on metal. Completely ignored bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Scorpions, Motorhead, most NWOBHM bands (to me that's a good thing, as a fan of these bands). Trashed KISS, Grand Funk Railroad, Rush, Ted Nugent, etc. Used to hate on Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Aerosmith but now adore them. Bunch of hypocrites. ...no offence to Bruce Springsteen and U2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 It is what it is. Get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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