Valleys Of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix
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  • Summary: The 12 unreleased recordings by rock legend Jimi Hendrix include new versions of songs that were under consideration to be included on a follow-up to 1968's "Electric Ladyland."

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
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  1. Filter
    93
    With the promise of 12 fully-completed, untainted studio recordings that have otherwise gone unheard by the public (and even the most inventive of bootleggers), I arrives with considerable significance to all things guitar-worthy.
  2. Boston Globe
    80
    Some tunes were “inexplicably excised from the original multitrack master,’’ the liner notes say, but the bottom line is that this is a potent release full of Jimi’s improvisatory guitar mania.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    75
    With three exceptions, the tracks are blissfully free of the overdubs and other studio manipulations that mar many of his posthumous recordings. Instead, we get a you-are-there document of Hendrix in the last volatile days of his great power trio with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the Experience.
  4. Mojo
    60
    Taken as a whole, these poignant moments never threaten to cohere into a greater whole. [Apr 2010, p.111]
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  1. Paxster
    6
    Probably the worst Hendrix album I own, Valleys of Neptune is still a decent album with a couple of highlights. The title track is a nice, psychedelic affair and 'Bleeding Heart' keeps Jimi bluesy, these along with Hear My Train A' Comin' are the best tracks on the album. But, the album is made worse by instrumentals that are nothing special. The album seems to forgot, Jimi's most underrated aspect, his superb voice and it serves to its detriment.… Expand

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