In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (track)
by Iron Butterfly
Year: 1968
From the album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (track #6)
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida appears on the following album(s) by Iron Butterfly:
- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (track #6) (this album) (1968)
- Live (track #6) (1970)
- Fillmore East 1968 (track #8) (2011)
- Fillmore East 1968 (track #20) (2011)
- Live In Sweden 1971 (track #2) (2014)
- Live In Copenhagen 1971 (track #6) (2016)
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Impossible to ignore title track. Without this track, the album would have been a footnote in history however, this track is just amazing.
It has its flaws of course. I’m not a fan of drum solo’s, maybe a 20 second one is OK but here we have 2 and a half minutes. Yawn! So, any track that’s over 17 minutes long will have but overall, it’s a phenomenal track.
Is it heavy metal? Not quite but there are elements of metal in here. Is it Psych? Most definitely. There’s also a big chunk of the blues in here.
A great jam of a track. To me it feels like the band are improvising the track as they go along each taking turns to impress. I’m sure that it’s not that way at all and that it was totally planned out but you get that feeling and that’s a good thing.
VictorVale 04/14/2019 18:48 | #234991
A definição de viagem!
Just because it's "SEVENTEEN MINUTES LONG" doesn't mean the song automatically sucks! This song happens to be quite good out of the "side-long" classics of classic rock, which are all very high quality songs because it takes a lot of time and effort to make a song that long, so naturally the artist makes sure it is good. Maybe IAGDV isn't the most interesting song per-minute, but it doesn't deserve a 10/100! Hate on long songs somewhere else, perhaps a website that devotes itself to frivolous, musically-elementary 3-minute pop songs?
hereforashortime 02/28/2018 04:05 | #209773
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One of the most drugged up songs of the late 60's.
alelsupreme 11/04/2012 15:55 | #54214
only losers dislike this song.
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