IRON BUTTERFLY — In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (review)

IRON BUTTERFLY — In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album cover Album · 1968 · Proto-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
Call me a philistine, but I actually think the first side of Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida is better than the side-long title track. The brace of heavy psych numbers (reminiscent of Love and, occasionally, the wilder moments of the Doors) the album opens with benefit from tight songwriting and an absence of filler (and tedious drum solos) that the second side can't boast. Although side-long songs would end up becoming a tradition for prog and the proggier end of heavy psych, this early example of the form fails to satisfy because the fact is that it's a three-minute psych number padded out with 14 minutes of filler and redundant repetition. Still, at least side A cooks.
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