Likewise, the album would reach first place with global sales that far exceeded one million copies sold.
With a cover that caused quite a stir for how suggestive it seemed, (a harem of naked women), the album's design generated, for obvious reasons, forceful criticism, to the point that many stores refused to sell it in their day. Finally, it was changed for a new cover, destined for the American market, the most reticent to what they call "sexually explicit", where instead of featuring the kind and suggestive girls, there was a drawing with a psychedelic air.
Musically this album contains an unexpected but essential twist in Jimi Hendrix's style, with an evolution of his sound, less commercial, due to the complexity of the arrangements, but very rich in nuances, his most experimental and innovative work, with atmospheres and chords more sophisticated, creating almost impossible guitar lines, with jazz chord progressions, fused with funk and the deepest blues.
Here Hendrix shows the maturity necessary to become a great guitarist and also a great composer and musician.
In addition to the aforementioned "All Along The Watchtower", the album contains a cast of great songs that have passed to posterity as perfect guitar exercises, such as the experimental "And The Gods Made Love", the sinister and experimental "Voodoo Chile", or the aggressive "Burning Of the Midnight Lamp".
"Electric Ladyland" became a complete guitar manual for any guitar hero in the later decades.
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