Vinyl Album - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits - Polydor

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Title:	Smash Hits
Label:	Polydor
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	ACB 00219
Date:	1976
Format:	LP
Genre:	Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	7 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze	Hendrix	Rate
A2	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Fire	Hendrix	Rate
A3	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	The Wind Cries Mary	Hendrix	Rate
A4	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Can You See Me	Hendrix	Rate
A5	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	51st Anniversary	Hendrix	Rate
A6	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Hey Joe	Roberts	Rate
B1	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Stone Free	Hendrix	Rate
B2	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice	Hendrix	Rate
B3	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Manic Depression	Hendrix	Rate
B4	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Highway Chile	Hendrix	Rate
B5	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	The Burning Of The Midnight Lamp	Hendrix	Rate
B6	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Foxy Lady	Hendrix	Rate

Notes

Sleeve credits "Jimi Hendrix Experience", label credits "The Jimi Hendrix Experience"

Released through Polydor's mail-order "Audio Club Of Great Britain" (Hence the cat# acronym "ACB").
Sleeve states "Enhanced for stereo from original mono recordings" although on the label it says that there is a mixture of "mono, stereo and mono enhanced for stereo" tracks.
(info with thanks to Discogs)

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Quad5point1 31st Aug 2022		Added image from the Sunday Mirror - Sunday 25 January 1976 Advert which gives this a date of release in or around 1976. Correction submitted



Oakley Boys 18th Jan 2015		I'm not convinced that this was released in 1968, much later would make sense.



Magic Marmalade 🍰 15th Aug 2014		Well I like to paint a picture!



YankeeDisc SUBS ● 14th Aug 2014		"Jimi now doesn't sound like he's singing and playing into two cans and a bit of string, next to an elephant farting in a warehouse" .....hey, nice descriptives, you've won todays' entrant in my "Art House award for services to the English Language" - Library of Congress Edition.



Magic Marmalade 🍰 11th Aug 2014		The Joy of Compression! All is not lost... I've just discovered something wonderful: When I put it on to record to CD, the CD recording took the whole nasty mess, warts and all, recorded at CD quality which exposed all it's faults... but when I ripped it to my PC, it Compressed the recording to a 256kbs MP3 file, and it sounded at least three times better in the computer. So I burned this compressed copy to CD, and played it on the same unit that originally recorded it, and it sounded just as good (still not top hole though)... ... So, Intrigued at this, I burned another one at an even more compressed 128kbs, and it sounded ten times better! So I tried the same process with other very scratchy vinyl I have, who's surfaces really detracted from the listening experience, and it improved every one. Of course, for most recordings, more detail equals better quality, but it seems in the case of bad vinyl, or bad recordings, less is certainly more! So, tip of the day for bad vinyl or recordings: record them with very high level of detail, then squash it down, and you iron out a great deal of the horror... Kills brightness, and squeal, and pulls the recording together,. Jimi now doesn't sound like he's singing and playing into two cans and a bit of string, next to an elephant farting in a warehouse



Bill Fick 8th Aug 2014		I'd have to agree with you. Jimi Hendrix is an artist whose music has benefited greatly from the age of digital re-mastering.



Magic Marmalade 🍰 8th Aug 2014		This is a simply awful album! Just had probably the worst musical experience of my life listening to this... dug it out of my record collection with much anticipation in the hope of recording it on CD (to be ripped later), and it was an incredible disappointment. Of course, I'm not referring to the tracks, or the calibre of the artist, but the recording, production, mixing, editing... the whole shebang. It's just, I got into Jimi Hendrix as a teenager in the nineties, after being introduced to his music on a couple of live sets on cassette (Montreaux was one, I think), and eagerly purchased the studio albums... While most of the stuff I'm listening to now that I have a record deck again has greatly benefitted from being heard on vinyl, for a much more organic, and solid sound, it pains me to say that Jimi Hendrix is probably unique in that you are genuinely better off getting his music on CD, and the more remastered and remixed the better! It's not my copy that was at fault, it's clean as a whistle... and I have many of these on the Track Label... only marginally better... It's just that the guys in the studio at the time, let's face it, did an incredibly bad job of recording one of the finest musicians of his, or any other time... Almost all his studio work is choppy, indistinct, with stodgy bass, and confused sounding at times. So my advice is buy the very latest versions of his studio albums on CD, Don't pay a ton of cash for him on original vinyl... and if possible, avoid them altogether, and get all his live sets, where he was properly recorded, and Jimi Hendrix is in his natural element. Now if I can just get those two live albums again... I'd be a very haooy man!



hiwatt1973 18th Jan 2014		I have just put up Polydor 2310 268. I will add the cover and label scans tomorrow.



sladesounds ● 25th Sep 2013		OK I have had a look at the images on that other site (Discogs) and the sleeve does state "Jimi Hendrix Experience" but the labels credit The Jimi Hendrix Experience hence the band name used. I have changed the other album listed and updated the notes on both on both entries and one of the other Mods has linked the two names so all albums for both show up together.



carryonsidney 24th Sep 2013		Right we need a moderator! [ :-) ] I just tuned in was completely confused, mainly because I listed the original UK stereo Smash Hits the other day but it didn't show up when I clicked the artist link up top o' page. The reason being, its not THE jimi hendrix exp.... but just Jimi Hendrix....etc ?? [also re notes mono/stereo that is on the original more or less]



sladesounds ● 24th Sep 2013		You're right. Just did a quick search and came up with the info I have added in the notes. Hopefully that explains all. Should be clearer once some label scans are put up.



Deltics 24th Sep 2013		Yes it is but the one here also claims to be the 1973 reissue. The catalogue number doesn't look like any UK Polydor one I've ever come across. Edit: It would appear that "ACB" stands for Audio Club of Britain. Discogs



sladesounds ● 24th Sep 2013		@Deltics - yours will be the 1973 re-issue copy. You can add it up as a seperate listing as there is a different cat#.



Deltics 24th Sep 2013		I don't recognise this catalogue number. Mine is 2310 268