Purple Haze

Recorded in 1966, Purple Haze was the second single by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in both the UK and the US. It also appeared on the US release of their 1967 album Are You Experienced. 'Purple Haze' is often cited as one of Jimi Hendrix's greatest songs; for many, it is his signature song. Purple Haze became the follow-up release to "Hey Joe" after his manager Chas Chandler heard him playing the riff backstage and suggested that he write lyrics to go with it. Hendrix claimed this was inspired by a dream where he was walking under the sea. In the dream, he said a purple haze surrounded him, engulfed him and got him lost. It was a traumatic experience, but in his dream his faith in Jesus saved him. Hendrix claimed this had nothing to do with drugs; instead it could refer to some themes in Sci-Fi comics he was fond of about purple rays. However the lyrics seem to vividly portray an acid trip, and Hendrix was doing plenty of drugs at the time. The single peaked at number three in the UK but only number 65 in the US, where it was released on June 19, a month after the UK LP “Are You Experienced” and three months after the UK single. In March 2005, Q magazine ranked “Purple Haze” at number one in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at No. 17 in their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” This song was featured on Guitar Hero World Tour along with another Jimi Hendrix song, Wind Cries Mary. In Guitar Hero World Tour this song is in a lower tone than it really is because in Guitar Hero World Tour it was a live recording.

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Dina Rae E "Endless Summer" -- G-Eazy "Everything In Its Right Place" -- Radiohead F "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" -- Queens Of The Stone Age "For Reverend Green" -- Animal Collective G "Garden Grove" -- Sublime "Gas and Mud" -- Lil Durk "Gas and Mud" -- Gucci Mane "Geek Stink Breath" -- Green Day "Get Down" -- Cam'Ron "Get Lifted" -- Keith Murray "Get Stoned" -- Hinder "Gimme the Light" -- Sean Paul "Gin and Juice" -- Snoop Dogg "The Girl You Lost To Cocaine" -- Sia "Good Doctor" -- Robbie Williams "Good Times" -- Styles P "Got to Get You into My Life" -- The Beatles "Green Aisles" -- Real Estate H "Habits" -- Tove Lo "Hands on the Wheel" -- Schoolboy Q "Happy" -- Pharrell Williams "Hash Pipe" -- Weezer "Hate Bein' Sober" -- Chief Keef "Heaven Knows" -- Pretty Reckless "High" -- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib "High All the Time" -- 50 Cent "Hits from the Bong" -- Cypress Hill "Hold It Now Hit It" -- Beastie Boys "Hold My Liquor" -- Kanye West "Hotel California" -- The Eagles "How High" -- Redman and Method Man "How To Roll A Blunt" -- Redman I "I Drink I Smoke" -- Belly "I Don't Sell Molly No More" -- ILoveMakonnen "I Got 5 on It" -- Luniz "I Feel Like Dying" - Lil Wayne "I'll Pass -- Tech N9ne "I'm Gettin' Stoned" -- Eric Church "I'm On It (Kryptonite)" -- Purple Ribbon All-Stars "I Think I'm Paranoid" -- Garbage "Illegal Smile" -- John Prine "It's All Going to Pot" -- Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard "The Irony of It All" -- The Streets J "Jack Skellington" -- G-Eazy "James Joint" -- Rihanna "The Joker" -- Steve Miller Band "Judas Kiss" -- Del-Lords "Junkie Doll" -- Mark Knopfler "Just Like Old Times" -- Todd Snider "Just What I Am" -- Kid Cudi K "Keep Off the Grass" -- Todd Snider "KK" -- Wiz Khalifa The Kids -- Eminem "Kings" -- G-Eazy "Kush" -- Dr. Dre "Kush Cloud" -- Freddi Gibbs "Kush Coma" -- Danny Brown L "La La La" - Chris Webby "La La La (the floating song)" -- Machine Gun Kelly "La, La, La" - XV "Last Night" -- G-Eazy "Legalize It" -- Peter Tosh "Legend of a Mind" -- Moody Blues "Legend of the USS Titanic" -- Jamie Brockett "Let's Get Stoned" -- Ray Charles "Light My Fire" -- Doors "Longview" -- Green Day "Loser Dust" -- Hole "Lost" -- Chance The Rapper "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" -- Beatles M "m.A.A.d city" -- Kendrick Lamar "Maan" - Wiz Khalifa "MakeDamnSure" -- Taking Back Sunday "Marijuana" -- Richie Spice "Marijuana" -- Yelawolf "Married to Marijuana" -- N.O.R.E "Mary Jane" -- Janis Joplin "Mary Jane" -- Rick James "Mary Jane" -- Scarface "Mary Jane Holland" -- Lady Gaga "Mary Jane's Last Dance" -- Tom Petty "Medicated Goo" -- Traffic "Mexico" -- Jefferson Airplane "Misty Mountain Hop" -- Led Zeppelin "Moist Vagina" -- Nirvana "Muggles" -- Louis Armstrong "My Heroine" -- Silverstein "My Medicine" -- Snoop Dog, featuring Willie Nelson N "The National Anthem" -- Radiohead "Needle and the Damage Done" -- Neil Young "New Morning" -- Bob Dylan "The Next Episode" -- Dr. Dre "Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth" -- The Dandy Warhols "Novacane" -- Lil Wayne O "One Toke Over the Line" -- Brewer And Shipley "Out Among the Stars" -- Johnny Cash P "Pass Me Da Green" -- Master P "Pass That Dutch" -- Missy Elliot "Pass The Dutchie" -- Musical Youth "A Passage to Bangkok" -- Rush "Pick It Up" -- Redman "The Pot" -- Tool "The Pot Smoking Song" -- Neil Diamond "Prescription/Oxymoron" -- Schoolboy Q "Purpell Treez" -- G-Eazy "Purple Haze" -- Jimi Hendrix "Purple Pills" -- D12 "Purple Swag" -- ASAP Rocky "Pursuit of Happiness" -- Kid Cudi "The Pusher" -- Steppenwolf Q "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" -- Bob Dylan "Quintessential" -- Rick Ross R "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" -- Bob Dylan "The Recipe" -- Kendrick Lamar "Reefer Madness" -- G-Eazy "The Reefer Man" -- Cab Calloway "Ride Wit Me" -- Nelly "The Roach" -- Dr. Dre "Roll It Up, Light It Up, Smoke It Up" -- Cypress Hill "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" -- Willie Nelson S "Same in the End" -- Sublime "Sam Stone" -- John Prine "Same Drugs" -- Chance the Rapper "Saturday Sunday" -- Kat Dahlia "Sex Weed" -- R. Kelly "She Talks to Angels" -- Black Crowes "Shots" -- LMFAO ft. Lil Jon "Shotgun" -- Limp Bizkit "Sleeping Powder" -- Gorillaz "Sleepless" -- G-Eazy "Smoke a Little Smoke" -- Eric Church "Smoke Two Joints" -- Sublime/Bob Marley "Smoke, Drink, Break-Up" -- Mila J “Smokin’ Smokin' Weed” -- Snoop Dogg "So Blowed" -- B.o.B "Speaking Tongues" -- Robbie Williams "Stache (High Princess)" -- Zedd/Lady Gaga "Start It Up" -- Lloyd Banks "Stay Fly" -- Three Six Mafia "Stay High" -- G-Eazy "Stoner" -- Young Thug "Strange Clouds" -- B.O.B "Strong" -- Robbie Williams "Such A Bad Comedown" -- A Camp "Sunday" -- Earl Sweatshirt "Sun Daze" -- Florida Georgia Line "Super Tony" -- Robbie Williams "Sweet Leaf" -- Black Sabbath T "T9X" -- Tech N9ne "Taxi" -- Harry Chapin "That Tree" -- Snoop Dogg "The 80s" -- Robbie Williams "The 90s" -- Robbie Williams "Third Floor" -- Fredo Santana "This is How We Roll" -- Florida Georgia Line "Thizzles" -- Tech N9ne "Tical" -- Method Man "Trap House" -- French Montana "Trophies" -- Drake "Turn On the Lights" -- Future U "Up Up & Away" -- Rich Gang Under The Bridge - - Red Hot Chilli Peppers V "Vibe" -- Mick Jenkins W "Wasted" -- Lil Wayne "Waspy" -- G-Eazy "We Are All on Drugs" -- Weezer "We Be Burning" -- Sean Paul "We Can't Stop" -- Miley Cyrus "The Weed Man" -- E40 "Weed N Wax -- Snoop Dogg "Weed Party" - Band of Horses "Weed With Willie" -- Toby Keith "What I Got" -- Sublime "White Rabbit" -- Jefferson Airplane "Wildwood Weed" -- Jim Stafford "Wrong Way" -- Sublime X Y "You Don't Know How It Feels" -- Tom Petty "Young, Dumb, Full of Fun" -- Tech N9ne Z "A Zip And A Double Cup" -- Juicy J Other "# 41" -- Dave Matthews Band "20 Dollar Nose Bleed" -- Fall Out Boy