Played on a turntable at 78 rpm, not 33 rpm, the Hendrix track, Third Stone From The Sun from his 1968 lp Are You Experienced, begins not with incomprehensible noise, but a conversation between the guitarist and Chas Chandler as if they were a pair of aliens discussing the planet Earth. It begins "Star fleet to star ship please give your position ..."
( Courtesy of John Naughton, The Word. )