Manic Depression (song)
Manic Depression is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967.
| "Manic Depression" | |
|---|---|
| Song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| from the album Are You Experienced | |
| Released |
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| Recorded | March 29, 1967 |
| Studio | De Lane Lea, London |
| Length | 3:30[1] |
| Label | |
| Songwriter(s) | Jimi Hendrix |
| Producer(s) | Chas Chandler |
Song information
Music critic William Ruhlmann describes the lyrics as "more an expression of romantic frustration than the clinical definition of manic depression."[2]
The song is performed in an uptempo triple metre.[3] It also features Mitch Mitchell's jazz-influenced drumming.[2][4] and a parallel guitar and bass line.[3]
Release and covers
Manic Depression is included on the Experience's debut album, Are You Experienced (1967). Recordings of live performances have been released on BBC Sessions (1998) and Winterland (2011).[2] Ruhlmann notes renditions by Seal with Jeff Beck on Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (1993) and King's X on Dogman (1994).[2]
The Canadian band Nomeansno included a cover of the song in their EP You Kill Me. A live version is also featured in the bootleg Live in Warsaw.
Ace Frehley covered the song on his album Origins Vol. 2.
References
- From Are You Experienced liner notes (original international Polydor edition)
- Ruhlmann, William. "Jimi Hendrix/ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Manic Depression – Song Review". AllMusic. Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
- Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix Transcribed Scorres. Hal Leonard. 1998. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-7935-9144-2.
- Mitchell based the drum part on Ronnie Stephenson's drumming on John Dankworth's recording of Galt MacDermot's "African Waltz". Doerschuk, Andy (11 October 2012). "Mitch Mitchell: The Hendrix Years". Drum!. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
