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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Axis: Bold As Love''.]]
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4	''Axis: Bold As Love'' is the second studio album by Anglo-American PsychedelicRock band the Music/JimiHendrix Experience, released in December 1967 through Track Record in the UK; it was later released in the US through Creator/RepriseRecords the following month, January 1968. Surprisingly, this is a ContractualObligationProject, as the Experience had to release two albums in 1967.
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6	Although a highly popular album and undoubtedly a classic, it is generally held in lesser regard to ''Music/AreYouExperienced'' and ''Music/ElectricLadyland'', for better or worse. As for the cover art, [[CreatorBacklash the band members did not approve]].
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9	!! Tracklist:
10	[[AC: Side One]]
11	# "EXP" (1:55)
12	# "Up from the Skies" (2:55)
13	# "Spanish Castle Magic" (3:00)
14	# "Wait Until Tomorrow" (3:00)
15	# "Ain't No Telling" (1:46)
16	# "Little Wing" (2:24)
17	# "If 6 Was 9" (5:32)
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19	[[AC: Side Two]]
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21	# "You Got Me Floatin'" (2:45)
22	# "Castles Made of Sand" (2:46)
23	# "She's So Fine" (2:37)
24	# "One Rainy Wish" (3:40)
25	# "Little Miss Lover" (2:20)
26	# "Bold as Love" (4:11)
27	[/numlist]
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29	!!Principal Members:
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31	* Music/JimiHendrix - lead vocals, guitar, piano, recorder
32	* Mitch Mitchell - drums, vocals, glockenspiel
33	* Noel Redding - bass, backing and lead vocals
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36	!! ''Spanish Castle Tropes'':
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38	* AllForNothing: Implied by each verse of “Castles Made Of Sand”.
39	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''L'''ittle Miss '''L'''over".
40	* AncientAstronauts: "Up From The Skies", sung from the perspective of an alien visitor to Earth ("this here people farm") who had been here before thousands of years ago during an ice age, and has come back to observe how things have changed.
41	** Given an opening, with "EXP," the first track on the album.
42	--> '''Mitch Mitchell:''' Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to radio station EXP. We are interviewing a peculiar looking gentleman who goes by the name of Mr. Paul Caruso on the dodgy subject of "Are there or are there not Flying Saucers (or [[FlyingSaucer UFOs]])." Please, Mr. Caruso, can you give us your regarded opinion on this nonsense about space ships, and even SPACE PEOPLE?!
43	--> '''Jimi Hendrix:''' Thank you. As you all know, you just can't believe [[MindScrew Everything you see and HEAR, CAN YOU? NOOOW, IF YOUUU'LL EXCUUUSE MEEE, I MUUUST BE OOON MY WAAAAAY]]
44	-->'''Mitch Mitchell:''' I--I don't believe it!
45	-->'''(Hendrix makes spaceship noises for 1:30)'''
46	* CallBack: The album begins with a radio skit ("EXP") that starts with the opening six notes of "Stone Free", a single that was recorded and released during the ''Music/AreYouExperienced'' sessions.
47	* CowardlyYellow: Hendrix alludes to this trope in "Bold as Love":
48	-->''My yellow, in this case, is not so mellow''
49	-->''In fact, I'm trying to say, it's frightened like me''
50	* FaceOnTheCover: Redding, Hendrix and Mitchell, shown in psychedelic hinduistic imagery.
51	* UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}}: The album cover is inspired by this imagery.
52	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Hendrix's arms on the album cover hold several weapons.
53	* OneWomanSong: "Little Miss Lover"
54	* OneWordTitle: "EXP"
55	* {{Precursor}}: "Up From The Skies", [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation perhaps]].
56	* PsychedelicRock: The album cover gives you a pretty good indication of the musical content.
57	* SelfDeprecation: Hendrix's liner notes on the back cover of this album said "Jimi Hendrix writes his own songs and almost sings them".
58	* ShoutOut: Hendrix references "Mellow Yellow" by Music/{{Donovan}} in "Bold as Love" when he says "My yellow, in this case, is not so mellow".
59	* SixIsNine: "If Six Was 9".
60	* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Noel Redding sings lead vocals on his song "She's So Fine", and Mitch Mitchell gets spoken-word vocals on "EXP".
61	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Castles Made Of Sand", "Little Wing", "Bold As Love".

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