Smash Hits is a compilation album by the Jimi Hendrix Expertise. Observe Data first issued it on April 12, 1968, within the UK and included all 4 of the group’s singles (each A and B sides) launched as much as that point, plus 4 further songs from the UK version of Are You Skilled.
Reprise Data didn’t challenge the album within the US till July 30, 1969, with some completely different tracks. It included two songs from Electrical Ladyland and three tracks from the UK version of Are You Skilled, which have been beforehand unreleased within the US (together with a stereo model of “Purple Home” from a distinct take than the unique mono album model).
Smash Hits has been reissued a number of occasions on CD, nevertheless, it has been largely outdated by more moderen and complete compilations, akin to Expertise Hendrix: The Better of Jimi Hendrix (2001).
Vital reception
| Evaluation scores | |
|---|---|
| Supply | Score |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone |  [2] |
In a overview for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album 4 and a half out of 5 stars. He notes “the principle power of Smash Hits is that it incorporates the best-known big-name songs in a single place. Possibly not sufficient to make the gathering important, however nonetheless sufficient to make it a consultant, correct sampler”.[1]
Robert Christgau included the album in his “Primary Report Library” of Fifties and Nineteen Sixties recordings, revealed in Christgau’s Report Information: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).[3]
