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Iron Butterfly - Heavy Audio CD

A fair review of the Iron Butterfly "Heavy" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Iron Butterfly reviews here, or go back to the Iron Butterfly tabs.

Iron Butterfly Band: Iron Butterfly
Title: Heavy
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-12-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Possession 2: Unconscious Power 3: Get out of My Life, Woman 4: Gentle as It May Seem 5: You Can't Win 6: So-Lo 7: Look for the Sun 8: Fields of Sun 9: Stamped Ideas 10: Iron Butterfly Theme

Heavy!
That tune happened to be the opening theme for the movie, which also featured "Iron Butterfly Theme. I first heard "Unconscious Power", which has been one of my favorite driving tunes ever since, when I saw a biker movie called "The Savage Seven". " The bass line on "Unconscious Power" grabbed my attention, so I bought "Heavy" a couple weeks later. Wasn't impressed with the lyrics to any of the songs except "You Can't Win" but the music was VERY cool on all cuts. "You Can't Win" painted an accurate picture of the Army during the Vietnam era, which I related to very well.


A foretaste of later Butterfly
We liked it and played it so much that lately I wondered why I hadn't gotten either a new LP or a cassette in all this time. I remember the year my younger brother bought this. The tracks are fairly simple offerings as far as '60's compositions go, but once I started playing the CD I remembered all the words to all the songs. Some of the tunes are pretty catchy instrumentally; they're not great lyrically but still pretty decent. The "Iron Butterfly Theme" kind of gives a hint of what emerged from their later offerings--interesting organ riffs with high-gain screaming guitar. Not for everyone, but if you can preview the tracks, check it out. For those not in their teens in the '60's it may not be as great as some of the later rock, but if you like this one you will probably also get hooked on "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" and "Ball". .


Their Best
I particularly like Possession, the Iron Butterfly Theme, Unconscious Power and Get Out Of My Life Woman. This album holds a special place for me as it helped start my fledgling rock band experiences. These songs were psychedelic, heavy, and really cool. Quite a contrast to The Monkees who were big around the same time. I can still see us kids trying to play those songs out in Sun Village near Palmdale. It reminds me of some great guys I used to play with.

Most people will probably quote In a Gadda Da Vida as their best but I disagree. This one did it for me and though I liked Da Vida, it could not hold a candle to Heavy.

If you want to hear what heavy music sounded like in its infancy, you can't go wrong with this album. Highly recommended.

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Very good album
But, this there debut album is very good. Iron Butterfly is known as a one hit wonder. Maybe better than the Inna=gadda-davita album. What people don't know is that 3 members of the butterfly were fired after this album and were not on the inna-gadda -davita album. Doug Ingle and Ron Bushy were the only ones remaining. Ingle has a good voice although I think he sounds like Tom jones sometimes.


Heavy Is Goooooood, A great Prelude to Metamorphisis
Heavy get's you interested, makes you listen to the sometimes suttle differences in the music, tune, and you have to say, How did they think of doing this at that time? BUT !!! If you really wanna hear some work, you absolutely HAVE to check out Metamorphisis. . . . Put it on, close your eye's and just experience.


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