In-a-Gadda-da-Vida by Iron Butterfly

Pros: Fairly entertaining at times, historically important
Cons: Terrible sound quality, very dated, pretentious, extremely simplistic

Close your eyes for a moment if you will and imagine the following scenario:

A struggling blues-influenced hard rock bar band is about to play a show in front of seventeen drunks incapable of registering any human thought. All of a sudden,...

Pros: The shorter version of the title track is about it. They're better than Blue Cheer.
Cons: Trying to be poppy and jammy, they ultimately fail at both.

Good grief, this stuff is wretched. Another fine example of why you shouldn’t expect an album to be great just because it has one overplayed classic rock song on it. Some have called In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida the first heavy metal tune, or the ...

Pros: Great musicians, classical influences
Cons: None to speak of

Iron Butterfly was an innovative group from the 1960's whose music almost defies description. They are best known for Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, but the album of the same name proves that this group had more in their arsenal than this one anthem.

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Pros: The title track and "Are You Happy" make a great team, classic Butterfly.
Cons: The sound isn't as "solid" as it is on "Ball..."

When you mention Iron Butterfly to most people with a basic knowledge of classic rock, I'll bet that 10 out of 10 would automatically think of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." And why not? This is the album that contained their most well-known song, which most ...

Pros: Incredible musicianship and singable, inoffensive music
Cons: Title track could be cut down a bit.

'Iron Butterfly' is a contradiction in terms. Iron, on the one hand, indicates that an item is heavy. A butterfly is probably one of the lightest creatures in the world. Iron Butterfly is also the name of a 60'rock band that follows these descriptions to ...

Pros: Ingle and Bushy on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Cons: Not really

I hesitated a long time before beginning this review, and for a reason. I really wanted to review the music of Iron Butterfly because they actually did make more than one album, and were around for longer than most people realize. The more I...

Pros: Immortal title track, and the others aren't too bad
Cons: But then they're not too good either...

I'm sure there are those who think that Iron Butterfly consistently put out good albums, each with their own individual and unique qualities, but I'm not among them. Frankly, I can't really find anything at all worthwhile after this album (or at least ...

Pros: "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". 'Nuff said.
Cons: Nothing really.

When you think of psychadelic acid rock, Iron Butterfly has to be the band that comes to mind. In the late sixties, Iron Butterfly used fuzzy guitars, electronic keyboards and drums to exemplify what "mind music" was supposed to be. Best...