Talk:Electric Ladyland

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• All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen ^Talk 18:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Mike Mandel

I would like to know on which track Mike Mandel plays piano. Hendrix plays piano himself on "Crosstown Traffic" (according to liner notes of Alan Douglas CD edition from early 1990s), and Al Kooper plays piano on "Long Hot Summer Night" (same source). So are there any more piano on this album? I don't know. Also all organ credits are given. So what's Mike Mandel's role? Is he there at all???

Long Hot Summer Nights

How can this song be described as a 'political commentary'?

Release Date

Seen it as September 1968 (no exact day) in many places, and October 1968 in others. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=130) says October 25th 1968, as does Hendrix's official site. I don't know if it was a UK/US separate release or not, but I would go w/ an official site (even if he was long dead by the time he came around).

Track times

While trying to verify a recent track time change by an anon, I find I cannot verify many of the track times. My old album has no track times, neither on the sleeve or on the label. And many track times do not match up with my CD copy (the Polydor release with the "unapproved" cover), although they're only off by a few seconds. Can someone cite what release these track times are from and if the recent change is consistent? If not, I'll change them to those on my CD copy and provide citation.--J Clear 23:35, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I have just edited in a consistent and cited set of track times. If the track times are to be changed again, a similarly self-consistent and cited set needs to be used. Uncited and anonymous changes should be eyed critically (as always). Note that these times were as printed on the CD and jewel box. They disagree slightly with the times displayed for the CD by iTunes. There is also a big discrepancy on how much of the continuous track is "1983..." and how much is "Moon, Turn..." between this CD and the iTMS listing (which has some god awful track ordering). To try to sanity check that, I took a peek at my old vinyl copy to look for the inter-track blanks, but there aren't any on side C! Also I would not consider any MP3 or AAC track time to be gospel due to the compression, although they should be within a second or two. --J Clear 17:41, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Electric Larryland

The butthole surfers CD/album Electric Larryland seems like its a pun or whatever from this albumThe Clydelishes Clyde 23:01, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

  I think it's like a whatever. 71.41.176.98 (talk) 22:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

laDYLANd!

I just noticed that "Dylan" is embedded in "Ladyland". Coincidence? (He covers a Dylan song on this album.) Bubba73 (talk), 01:51, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering where he got the name from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.82.163 (talk) 14:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

POV?

I don't think this article is totally neutral. Say, this sentence:

"Released as a double album, Electric Ladyland is a cross-section of Hendrix's wide range of musical talent."

But anyway, do we need a flagging? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.88.192.179 (talk) 16:14, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam?

Please, could somebody review the Release and reception section? Some parts of it are written like advertisement, and there are bad links everywhere. Carmaster 03:18, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Clumsy Writing

This sentence annoys me: Sometimes Hendrix recorded bass tracks just in order to make things go on faster. Wouldn't it be preferable to say "Occasionally Hendrix would record bass tracks in order to speed up the session."?Gspong (talk) 03:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

How about "a BREADTH of new songs" ? Just clumsy -- needs polish :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.176.100.190 (talk) 14:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I can't help but agree. Especially this part: "With a hectic tour schedule and also trying to record a masterpiece, Hendrix still wanted to have a life"Samelk42 (talk) 01:05, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Cover

So first off why is it 'very offending' to have naked women on the cover? And secondly, where is the original artwork? Most albums with changed artwork have the new artwork on top and the original on the bottom (see: Appetite for Destruction, Complete Discography). I come here from List of controversial album art and I don't get to even get to see the controversy! 70.110.176.176 (talk) 01:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

The cover is offensive becuase there are naked women on it and wikipedia should be able to be read by kids. Kids should not see this kind of images. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.154.46.145 (talk) 00:13, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Done.--Harbinger1991 (talk) 05:40, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Bad English

Parts of this are worded in such a way as to suggest they were written by a drunk 6-year-old --- from England.

Where is Al Kooper?

Al Kooper should be listed for his contribution on organ (Voodo Chile) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 56.0.143.25 (talk) 18:51, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Al Kooper plays on "Long Hot Summer Night", while Steve Winwood plays on "Voodoo Chile" --128.214.20.122 (talk) 11:47, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards, bitch.