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Iron Butterfly - Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly Audio CD

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Iron Butterfly Band: Iron Butterfly
Title: Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly
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Release Date: 1993-01-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Iron Butterfly Theme 2: Possession 3: Unconscious Power 4: You Can't Win [*] 5: So-Lo [*] 6: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Single Version] 7: Most Anything You Want 8: Flowers and Beads 9: My Mirage [*] 10: Termination 11: In the Time of Our Lives 12: Soul Experience 13: Real Fright [*] 14: In the Crowds 15: It Must Be Love 16: Belda-Beast [*] 17: I Can't Help But Deceive You, Little Girl 18: New Day [*] 19: Stone Believer 20: Soldier in Our Town [*] 21: Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)

Heavy and in a class by themselves...
Doug Ingle and his organ with Leslie speakers was the driving force behind one of the greatest psychedelic bands of the '60's. OK, so I'm showing my age, but these guys were innovative and cutting edge for their time. Very good overview of their several albums. They were heavy, new, and in a class by themselves. .


Cool Psychedelic Journey
" Most people consider that the 2nd best song they ever did. I give this album 5 stars, but I absolutely cannot believe the Iron Butterfly put out a best of collection and left out the song "Are You Happy. However you still get a great array of songs to take a nice musical trip on. I especially liked "In the Time of Our Lives" and hearing some of their later material for the first time. Check this album out if you remember them & want to relive it or if your a newcomer and want to get a taste of psychedelica. Then Look for the 18+ minute live version of In a Gadda da Vida. That is truley a masterpiece. .


Essential Iron Butterfly
This is what you'll find in this collection of songs, gleaned mostly from the band's albums "Metamorphosis," "Heavy," and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. The name "Iron Butterfly" immediately invokes thoughts of strength and agility. "

Iron Butterfly's music was written mostly during the "flower power" era of the late 1960's (when America was deep into the space race and our boys were fighting in Vietnam) which is reflected in many of the songs here. A few may have been "suggested" by an LSD- and/or alcohol-induced session as well, which was the case with several bands during this time. Whether or not this is true, the fact remains that the music presented here is a good representation of the times, a theme which Iron Butterfly exploited. Sadly, the band would be quickly forgotten soon after its breakup in 1971, yet rediscovered in the late 1970's when they once again began to tour, much to the delight of "Butterfly" fans everywhere.

The CD opens with the "Iron Butterfly Theme," an instrumental that sets the stage for what is to come. Hint: if you listen closely at the end of the track, you will hear the phrase "I Love You" played by Doug Ingle on the organ in Morse Code.

It is true that only the three-minute radio-edit version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is included in this CD. If the producers had decided to add the long version, either the set would have been made into a double-CD (which was not the trend at the time) or many of the songs now on the CD would have been sacrificed. Instead, a "mini" retrospective of Iron Butterfly's other works are to be found here, including the non-album single, "I Can't Help But Deceive You, Little Girl. "

For the new fan just discovering and exploring Iron Butterfly, "Light and Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly" provides a good cross-section of the band's work and is a good first CD, especially for listeners who enjoy psychadelic heavy-metal, and is a fair retrospective for those who have been fans of the "Butterfly" for years.


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IB
The fact that they could go from that sound to bubble gum & soul all on one side of a vinyl disk was a testiment to their versitility. This CD would be worth it if only for In the Time Of Our Lives & Iron Butterfly Theme, two of the most evil sounding songs I've ever heard (next to Dutch Nepal by Amon Duul 2). This album avoids most of their weaker material and is a fine overview. Can't wait to see them in a couple of weeks (Oct 30 2005) at the Chet Helms Tribute in SF.


Impressive account of one original band !
. The peak of the crown is In a gadda da vida, but there is still more : Easy rider is a hard to kill rock work and for many of my fellow friends the masterpiece of Iron .
Real fright is a punch theme and in this order My mirage , it must be love , Belda-beast and Stone Believer .
The presence of Rhino was the supreme difference . And beware he was the artificer of Captain Beyond four years later .
Iron was a terrific band with one of the darkest voices in the rock ever : Doug Ingle . There were six successful works made for this band in their brief career , but this anthology is fundamental apart of course of Iron Butterfly live from San Diego 1972 , one of the most interesting live experiences in the rock music ever performed.
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