Trivia / Electric Ladyland

• Bad Export for You: The initial UK CD release by Polydor Records mistakenly swaps sides two and four, the end result of the engineers neglecting the fact that the original UK LP was sequenced for automatic record changers.
• Creator Backlash: Hendrix loathed the UK cover art depicting a crowd of naked women, feeling that it played into the stereotype of Black men being animalistically hypersexual.
• Creator-Preferred Adaptation: Bob Dylan enjoyed Hendrix's version of "All Along The Watchtower" so much he started incoporating elements of it into his own performances of the song and now considers playing it a tribute to Hendrix.
• Multi-Disc Work: The album was initially released across two vinyl records, and early cassette and CD releases followed suit. Cassette reissues since the '70s would package the full album on one tape, with each side containing one full record, and CD reissues since 1990 likewise managed to fit everything onto one disc thanks to manufacturing improvements accommodating the album's 73:56 runtime^note many pressing plants couldn't go above 65 minutes for much of the '80s, as the 74-minute Redbook standard was a last-minute extension. 8-track releases fit the whole album onto one tape from the outset.
• Referenced by...: Kirsty Mac Coll's Electric Landlady is named after a notorious Tyop on the Cover on the first pressing of the initial UK release of Electric Ladyland.
• What Could Have Been: The album was initially presented with a substantially different track order, which was changed at the last minute. The lateness of this change meant that it was done midway through the manufacturing of the album's packaging in the UK. As a result, some copies in the region feature both tracklists on the back cover: the finalized one in bright blue text and the original one in black text, which is only visible after holding the sleeve up to the light (thanks to the background also being black). The initially proposed tracklist is as follows:
  1. "Still Raining, Still Dreaming"
  2. "House Burning Down"
  3. "All Along the Watchtower"
  4. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
  5. "Rainy Day, Dream Away"
  6. "1983... (A Mermaid, I Should Turn to Be)"
  7. "Moon Turns the Tides... Gently Gently Away"
  8. "...And the Gods Made Love"
  9. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"
  10. "Crosstown Traffic"
  11. "Voodoo Chile"
  12. "Little Miss Strange"
  13. "Long Hot Summer Night"
  14. "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)"
  15. "Gypsy Eyes"
  16. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

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