Reception
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Are You Experienced has been cited as one of the greatest debut albums of the rock era. The TV channel VH1 named it the fifth greatest album of all time in 2001. In 2003, the US version of the album was ranked #15 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, having been ranked as #5 in their twentieth anniversary listing The Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years published in 1987. Kerrang! magazine listed the album at #41 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". Guitarist magazine named the album #1 on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time" in 1994 and Mojo magazine similarly listed it as the greatest guitar album of all time in 2003. Creem magazine named the album number six on the Top Ten Metal Albums Of The 60s. Vibe (12/99, p. 156) included it in its list of 100 Essential Albums of the 20th century. NME (10/2/93, p. 29) ranked it #29 in its list of the "Greatest Albums of All Time". In March 2000 a poll from Guitar World Magazine named Are You Experienced the greatest album of the Millennium. Later, in 2006, a reader's poll from that magazine placed the album at #3 on a list of the Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time. "The Jimi Hendrix Experience are a musical labyrinth—you either find your way into the solid wall of incredible sound, or you sit back and gasp at Hendrix’ guitar antics and showmanship, wondering what it’s all about," a review from the article “Walker Surprises” by Keith Altham from the New Music Express Magazine on April 8, 1967.
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