Cry of Love

Jimi Hendrix | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000008GHW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,313 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1990 Reprise release. Catalog #2034-2. There is a saw cut on the edge of the case. Still sealed.Track Listing:1. Freedom2. Drifting3. Ezy Ryder4. Night Bird Flying5. My Friend6. Straight Ahead7. Astro Man8. Angel9. In From The Storm10. Belly Button Window

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock Solid, June 13, 2007

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Becker "Music Addict" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cry of Love (Audio CD)

Though all of these songs appear (remastered at that) on First Rays of the New Rising Sun, I prefer this album and wish it was still in print. Rays (like the older out of print Voodoo Soup) is filled with great songs, but the sound is all over the place with different line-ups and studio work.

This album was almost completely made of up songs perfored by the Hendrix-Mitchell-Cox trio (with guest Steve Winwood on I believe, Ezy Rider) and as such this feels like a complete album. It sounds like the songs were meant to be a single album. Those compilations feel like compilations.

Though I've rarely heard any of these songs on the radio, nearly every one of them is great. In From the Storm, Freedom and Ezy Rider are three of his strongest most straight forward rockers. His best collection of straight ahead rocks songs since Experienced. Plus the great ballad Drifting and the amazing Angel. (Fiona Apple closed her shows in 97 with a gorgeous version of Angel. Very awesome)

You might not be familiar with the songs when you buy this, but you will wonder why you weren't more familiar with this. Though I'm sure this was compiled from various studio sessions, the end result sounds more like a signle tight band than even Band of Gypsys did.

A final note, I'm basing this review off of my old Reprise label CD of this album which has the song listing above and not the song listing mentioned by Kurt Leith in his review (Beginning, Izabella and Highway Chile are not on this). Also, other than the front and rear cover, I've never seen the artwork shown above. Did MCA rerelease this before Experience Hendrix deleted the title? Or is that the Track gatefold import?

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, A Must Have For Jimi Fans!!!!!!!, June 29, 2006

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Kurt Leith "baldwood" (Vernon, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cry of Love (Audio CD)

"The Cry Of Love" was the first of the posthumous releases in the Jimi Hendrix catalog and probably the best as it collected most of the studio tracks that were either completed or very near completion before Hendrix died. Some of these tunes, like "Angel" and "Ezy Rider," have become well-known pieces in the Hendrix canon, but they sit alongside lesser-known gems like "Night Bird Flying" and the Dylanesque "My Friend." As we all know by now, Jimi Hendrix left behind more unreleased material than just about any other rock artist. Some tracks have rated as all-time classics ("Angel," "Drifting," etc.), while other highlights that appear on "The Cry Of Love" CD include "Beginning" (which contains a riff almost identical to the Stones' "Bitch"), "Highway Chile," and "Izabella," a track premiered on a Dick Cavett TV show a year before Jimi's untimely death. If you're a newcomer to Hendrix, don't start here, but if you're a serious Jimi fan searching for some interesting obscurities, "The Cry Of Love" CD is definitely worth the price if you can find it. Jimi Hendrix was unable to read or write music, so he recorded extensively in the studio-this explains why there are so many different versions of his songs that have been released at one time or another-and many of these different versions are so strikingly different that they are practically unrecognizable aside from sharing the same title. And though the Hendrix family has released "First Rays Of The New Rising Sun" & "South Saturn Delta", albums meant to be the definitive last word, they don't adequately replace the "Cry Of Love", "War Heroes", "Midnight Lightning" or "Crash Landing" CDs. As a matter of fact, many songs included on these out of print discs are otherwise unavailable on CD and that's a shame. So, again, I recommend grabbing this disc as well as the others I've mentioned here if you are lucky enough to find them available as they have been permanently deleted. Good luck!! (Excerpts coutesy of AMG)

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe this CD is out of print !!!, August 29, 2004

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C. A. Collins "Dr C. A. Collins" (North Royalton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cry of Love (Audio CD)

This is an endeavor where Jimi used the electronics of his Electric Ladyland studio to his best advantage. It is his rock work with some humour and upbeat offerings. Instead of being his normal otherworldly self, cuts like "My Friend" and "Belly Button Window" show Hendrix as he really was. A class A musician (perhaps the best rock guitar player of all time) and a person who could see both the seriousness of the failings of our time and the humour in that seriousness. "In From The Storm" has to be listened to several times to hear the elegance of the studio effect. Plus Emaretta Marks (of the original Hair musical cast) adds soaring vocals. I recommend it to any TRUE Hendrix fan.