Manic Depression is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967.
"Manic Depression" | |
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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 |
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]
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.
Brooklyn-based crossover thrash band Carnivore (band) covered the song on their 1987 album Retaliation (Carnivore album).