A-Z CDs - Day 27

221. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (last listen: 2-5 years) - This is a live album (Fillmore East, 1970), after the Experience broke up and Jimi had teamed up with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. "Machine Gun" is a great song.
222. Jimi Hendrix - The Last Experience: His Final Live Performance (last listen: 5+ years) - Decent live album.
223. Jimi Hendrix - Live at The Scene Club, NY, NY (last listen: 5+ years) - A live performance, featuring Jim Morrison (he likes to swear), Johnny Winter, and Buddy Miles. Even though Morrison was a mild wreck, it's pretty cool to hear him singing with Jimi playing guitar. What I don't like about this CD is that it is one giant track.
224. Jimi Hendrix - The Very Best Of (last listen: 5+ years) - This is an Italian import live CD, featuring a couple rare tracks that you don't usually see on Hendrix greatest hits albums, such as "Sunshine of Your Love," "Catfish Blues," "Killing Floor," "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window," "Tax Free," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Drivin' South," and "Little Miss Lover."
225. Jimi Hendrix - Masterpieces (last listen: 5+ years) - This has random rare Hendrix songs, some of which are instrumental and some of which are live. It sounds like Jim Morrison is singing on one of the songs, which may be from The Scene (see #223).
226. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday (last listen: 0-3 months) - This is their second album (I still need to get their debut album, Almost Killed Me), and it features what you'd expect: vivid, imaginative, quirky stories, played by the world's best bar band. My favorites are "Your Little Hoodrat Friend," "Banging Camp," "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night," and "How a Resurrection Really Feels."
227. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (last listen: 0-3 months) - Where's Jackee when you need her? Oh, Lester. Random (yet relevant) references aside, I love this album. It's more polished, but also more rocking, than Separation Sunday. "Massive Nights" is my favorite song on the album. It's an infectious, rocking anthem about getting hammered and going to a high school dance. "Stuck Between Stations" is great too (I aspire to be "drunk and exhausted but . . . critically acclaimed and respected"). "You Can Make Him Love You" is about how a girl can get a new boyfriend if she gets tired of her current one. I especially enjoy the beginning stanza: "You don't have to deal with the dealers / Let your boyfriend deal with the dealers. It only gets inconvenient / When you want to get high alone."
228. The Hollies - The Midas Touch (last listen: 2-5 years) - Apparently this is a short, 6-song version of a real album. I just thought it was a really short greatest hits compilation, since it features "Carrie-Anne," "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)," "Bus Stop," and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother." I may or may not have purchased this at a truck stop (but definitely not at a bus stop).
229. Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits (last listen: 0-3 months)