Iron Butterfly-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Fun fact: this band has had a huge, huge amount of turnover. At one point every single citizen in California was in this band. Literally. Every single one.
High turnover or not, this album is famous for one song. The stupidly long In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The backstory to this song is that the writer was so drunk he tried to say "In the Garden of Eden" but it came out like the title. Regardless of the how, and even though it's way too long this song was one of the first heavy metal songs. Listen to it again in it's entirety and tell me you couldn't see it done by early Black Sabbath.
No one has ever heard the other songs on the album. Obviously you'll download just this one song and forget about Iron Butterfly-but their place in heavy metal history should be recognized by more people.
I'll give you the "meh" at the titular track, but the other 5(?) Songs on there were killer. I do recall wearing that tape out when my old man passed in down. As a servant at the altar of Sabbath, I'd totally agree on the doomy riffs and psych-laden guitar work. But in the end, they couldn't even drink Iommi's bong water! ��
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