Dude I've watched his videos a bunch and seeing this comment made me rewind to see & hear it again - you're right, it's awesome! Thanks for pointing it out
The ending to this song is so funny A seventeen minute song built around one riff, and it just ends rather suddenly; no drawn out chords or organ notes like the beginning, no wild guitar/drum fills, just the music coming to a complete stop
The end of the song literally repeats the intro and opening of the song before a half measure of the guitar riff. That’s the ending. So how is it not like the beginning when it’s a complete rehash of the beginning of the song?
@@AxelSpott The organ is the first thing you hear at the beginning of the song. Yes you do hear it again towards the end, but it's not the last thing you hear in the song. That would be just the first bar of the main riff one more time. I would've considered it the same if the organ-not the riff-was the last thing to play before the song officially stops
Kinda reminds me of the ending of Pull Me Under by Dream Theater, where they kept building it up toward the end, but then had no idea where to go from there, so they just kill it out of nowhere. I thought my MP3 was corrupted the first time.
I can only think of two songs even longer, I still have yet to marathon In the Garden of Eden, Thick as a Brick, and Empire of the Clouds. Also I beat you Sam, those two didn't try to be pop hits!
I wish the Simpsons crew did a full cover of this on one of the multiple soundtracks they put out. I'd love to hear what the entire thing would sound like with an organist and choir.
For clarification, the RIAA introduced the platinum album in 1976, and In a gadda da vida, along with Johnny Taylor's Disco Lady, were both the first to be certified platinum. (Also, the first gold album was Oklahoma!, certified in 1958)
Disco Lady is the only one that RIAA mentions in their history of the awards. The album not the single In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida went platinum, now four times but even it wasn't the first as that was Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975
That doesn’t really make or break a band. The Beatles had Roy Orbison, who was more popular during the concerts that they had to take him off-stage by force for the Beatles to play.
Zeppelin is the sloppiest crappiest major rock band ever. Plant can't sing at all live. Doug plays amazing organ AND sings. Iron Butterfly nailed it every time.
My dad through and through a 60s guy. When we were kids, he used to play this song for my little sister and I during long car rides in our old Town and Country. We used to slap our laps to the drum solo and all the other parts. It's so nostalgic, even if it's definitely about a drug trip.
Dunno if you could consider Strawberry Alarm Clock a one hit wonder, because they also have Curse of The Witches, which basically is the only reason why people know "Wake up it's Tomorrow"
"Metamorphosis" is truly a hidden gem. It's worth a listen on it's own merits. I've met the guys from IB, Ingle, Bushy, and Rhino. Decent, regular and super humble musicians. They only wanted to play music, not make "hits". I'd jam with those dudes any time.
Metamorphosis is a Fantastic Album. (Rhino and Lee Dorman later formed Captain Beyond with Rod Evans the original singer of Deep Purple ( Ian Gillan replaced him) and Johnny winters’ Drummer Bobby Caldwell ( there first album is worth a listen some killer drum work from Bobby Caldwell and guitar and bass work from Rhino and Lee Dorman, respectively.
Ball, Metamorphosis & Heavy were all fine albums. By the way Todd if you're referring to Janis when she was in Big Brother, they were from San Francisco.
From what I've been told by guys who worked as radio DJs way back in the day, this got a lot of play because you could throw on the extended version and duck out for a smoke break.
Damn I love this song. I use it to time my commutes all the time. The long version is exactly how long it takes me to get to school. Door to door. Also it rocks so damn hard.
@@markwoollon i think that, at one point, the comment section was full of people dick-measuring about how they've listened to songs longer than In A Gadda Da Vida and that makes them very cool
I never knew about the long version, I think that adds a layer to the Simpson's bit, because I never understood why they were all so tired... seems now they had been playing for almost 20 minutes, that's why.
Yes! Thank you Todd, more people need to listen to Steppenwollf. They're not a one hit wonder because they do have a cult following to this day, but they still don't get a fair rep in that most radio stations will only play Born to be Wild or Magic Carpet Ride and because of that, most casual listeners never hear their more controversial, way better songs. If you like the 17 minute In a Gadda da Vida, you'll probably like Monster. And as far as recommendations of their BEST song, I'd probably say "Draft Resister", which is about popcorn.
Except for two things: (1) "Alice's Restaurant" didn't get anywhere near the Top 40 (2) Arlo has another well-known song "City Of New Orleans", which went all the way to #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
@@tomflorio3639 "Alice's Restaurant" peaked at #29 per wikipedia. The latter point is irrelevant if we're talking super long songs that might take less time for the Professor to cover than to play.
@@serendipityshopnyc the ALBUM peaked at #29, not the song. The reason I included the latter point (about "City of New Orleans") is that, even if you somehow wanted to say that Alice's Restaurant (the song) qualifies as a "hit", as you do in your original comment, the fact that Arlo had "another" hit song means he wouldn't be a one-hit wonder. So, either way you play it, Alice doesn't make the cut.
@@tomflorio3639 Fair enough: he wasn't a one-hit wonder. Of course, on the rare occasions when a song takes up an entire side of an album, it's well-nigh impossible to hit the top 40 with the song alone (Inna-Gada-Da-Vida only hit #30 in the US): the album position should be considered. I'd still argue it was a well-loved, famous, and memorable hit.
First time I ever heard this song, I was playing video games with my headphones at full blast. I blacked out for the whole 17 minutes and 5 seconds. I didn’t realize it was one song until it ended. I swear, you can get a contact high from this song. I mean drooling, melting stroke-face, head rush, breaking down crying episode. When the song stopped, I dropped my controller on my foot and passed out in my papasan. The biggest thing I was worried about afterwards was that my nachos were cold. edit: I think I was on cough syrup or something at the time. It was also the middle of the day.
High school swimming team practice. 90 minutes. The pool had underwater speakers. The coach Mr Voss had In-a-Gadda-da-Vida on constant replay for our lap work day after day. At dances, the challenge was to see if you could stay on the floor for the entire 20 minutes.
Anyone who's listened to psychedelic music on hallucinogens can appreciate the structuring of this song, coming back to the central rif after the solo section is an almost mind shattering realization that you're still listening to the same song, because the mid section felt like an eon where you lived an entirely different life.
Honestly, bits of the drum solo remind me of Boney M's "Rasputin". Also, hey Todd! I dont know if Boney M is a one-hit wonder, or even if there one hit is Rasputin, but if it is, i know what a great One Hit Wonderland would be!
"Ra-ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine!" I love that song. I think they have at least one other hit song. But if Todd reviews Boney M., he should at least mention the metal cover by Tursas.
Doug Ingle has been the last living member of the Inna Gadda Da Vida lineup since Ron Bushy passed away a few years ago. Now he has passed, too. R. I. P. to all four classic members.
Imagine one of them becoming a trans woman who IS able to reproduce. Or someone from this band gets some sort of an operation and shits out babies like a seahorse does.
I have the vinyl. It is awesome. No, it wasn't a huge chart hit, but it has been a MONSTER song ever since, capturing the zeitgeist of the era and bringing it forward ever since.
Okay...we're in serious "smoking pot in the basement with my friends" territory here. I had no idea what this song was about, and after a few bowls it didn't really matter that it's like 15 minutes long or whatever.
Damn, Todd, that lack of transition at the beginning almost shook me out of my chair. Neither Big Brother nor Crosby Stills and Nash were LA bands, Todd. Todd, Todd, Todd. Are you forgetting the riff of "Smoke on the Water"?
This was my brother's jam. I remember him downloading it off of Napster and going on about what made it great. Now that I think of it, the reason we were talking about it at all was because my music teacher in elementary school played it for the class along with Green Day and Pink Floyd. I had a really cool music teacher.
Harry Belafonte had the first million selling album. i have always read that led zep actually opened for iron buttery at one point. i always though the song was about the snake tempting eve in the garden of eden.
OMG, I saw Iron Butterfly in the early 90's and yes you need to be "High as BALLS". It was the weirdest concert I have ever been to. It was in the old Post Office Pavilion in DC (I think Trump owns that now). I met a large group of gay bikers, some men who were on leave from the Navy and I met another guy who had to be the most crazy person I have ever seen, him and I became friends as well as some of the Navy dudes and some of the bikers. I held a shindig and invited them all the night after the concert and to say that it was a freak show would be a complete understatement. It was the weirdest party that I ever had at my house and I've had some weird parties. I'm sure that Iron Butterfly is too old to be touring anymore but I am so glad I got to see them. I actually didn't hear much of the band but I can say that they played forever. I mainly just made friends but I made some weird good friends.
The one time I went to go see them, they played the song well over 25 minutes. But by a certain point you kind of realize that a lot of it was just freestyle improvisation
My dad had this vinyl so i grew up listening to this whenever I could get away with using his record player. I put this on a tape when I was in high school in the the mid 80's. I was kind of into 60's and 70's music back then. I found a cassette of this for sale at a pawn shop in Silver City New Mexico about a decade ago. I still have it and love it.
@@liamannegarner8083 Thanks for letting me know! I forgot about this channel, so I probably wouldn’t have found it on my own, and I’m in need of something to watch.
@@autumnphillips151 He says he's not a prog fan, which is so sad because Prog probably has more Trainwreckords than it has Bands. Tales From Topographic Oceans, Tormado, Union, A, Under Wraps, J. Tull Dot Com, Love Beach, and In The Hot Seat? That's eight trainwreckords between three bands. Only band I can think of that went through a long career and never had one was the Mighty Crim. Maybe he'll do Calling All Stations, but I wouldn't hold my breath. I mean, come on - ELP's managers inserted a catalog for ELP branded jogging shorts. How does any band crash harder than that?
This song was featured in the movie "Manhunter", back in 1986. The film was the first version of Thomas Harris' book Red Dragon; the prequel to Silence Of The Lambs.
Been groovin' to this song pretty much since the first time I got high AF. This far out jam has made its way into many movie soundtracks over the years but the best by far was at the end of the movie manhunter while Will Graham was hunting the "Tooth Fairy" it jammed all the way through the organ solo to climax! Epic
By the criterion used to classify performers as "one-hit wonders", yes, Iron Butterfly was one, and it had just its 17 minutes of fame (or 2 minutes 52 seconds if one goes by the length of the single). But this is really to slight a group that was far more significant than a mere throwaway hit, because the group really wasn't about singles as much as it was albums, which was its real niche, and one where it prevailed. In 1968 the album titled _In-a-Gadda-da-Vida_ was an impressive 4X Platinum, and climbed to #4 on the chart, while _Ball,_ released the following year, reached #3 and was awarded a Gold Record. 1970's ._Metamorphosis_ was the band's third straight album to reach the Top 20, peaking at #16. So, to be sure, Iron Butterfly clearly was not the flash in the pan phenomenon that defines most one hit wonders. As Todd mentions in the video, the menacing vibe of the single has made it a favorite of horror films and television shows, many of which are mentioned on the linked page (one notable omission is _Texas Chainsaw Massacre II,_ where the deranged Chop Top asks a radio DJ if he could make a request, then, butchering the song's name, goes, "Well, what about Iron Butterfly? You know, like 'In-A-Vida-Da-Gadda, Baby'? Oh, it's heavy!") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida#In_popular_culture Given that the song's original title was to be "In the Garden of Eden", it's sinister feel and horror connections makes it seem like it's meant to be the serpent singing. Iron Butterfly probably has the unofficial record for most personnel changes by any rock group in history; the changes from its inception to today is truly staggering (the following gives over 50 iterations of the band!): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly#Personnel
To be honest I never knew this song, I heard it as a Sample used in "Hip hop is dead" by NAS, but I didn't even know it was a sample so thanks for this episode!
@thenoosehangsfromheaven S U P P O S E D L Y TBH a lot of people don't realize that Will.I.Am flipped thief's theme because even though it was a single, it was on God's Son which people have to kinda "discover". Hip Hop is Dead gave Nas some of his last popular hits of his career
I believe that people are coaxed into saying the 60's were the best for rock/hard rock. I gotta say the 70's and early 80's. With Alice Cooper,KISS, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, BTO, Aerosmith, Bad Company, Van Halen and the early 80's we had most of the bands still rocking along with newer ones at the time like Motley Crue, RATT, REO speedwagon, Billy Idol and Scorpions. I love all era's of rock even early 50's with Chuck Berry, Elvis, and Buddy Holly. One thing is for sure, no other genre of music will ever have the greats like rock has had and thank you, todd for showing all forms instead of hip hop. You do know you stuff, man!
Back in the 90s, I went to one of those Oldie Revival concerts. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, John Kay of Steppenwolf, and Iron Butterfly. Inna Gadda Da Vida went almost 30 minutes, and it was AMAZING! They only did 2, maybe 3 songs before it, but that one song made up for any shortness of their playlist.
I saw John Kay play The Ostrich Festival in Chandler in the mid ‘90s. Went on a lark mostly for the festival with low expectations for the show. I was pleasantly surprised; him and faux Steppenwolf rocked.
I don't think you can appreciate In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, unless you were actually there. This was one of the benchmarks of the late 60's if you were into that kind of music. I know I was.
Pink Floyd has some songs longer than In-a-Gadda-da-Vida and their masterpieces! I think it's because their songs are more structured like a symphony than Iron Butterfly's songs are, though I do like In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, it feels more like random jamming after a while. The problem isn't that the song is long, it's that the song does not seem intended to be long. Pink Floyd's Echoes, however, that's over twenty minutes features lots of different important parts to it and buildup throughout the song to other sections and one of my favorite song Dogs (which is about the same length as In-a-Gadda-da-Vida) features a bunch of different awesome hooks building up to one kick ass ending. I think Todd needs to hear more Progressive rock and appreciate long songs more.
Listening to this video it’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the attention span for it. He straight admitted he’s a “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” guy.
When I was a kid, my family and the family of my parents' best friends used to go houseboating in Kentucky together for a week every summer. In-a-gadda-da-vida was the absolute favorite song of their dad, so I actually have fond memories of hanging out in the summer, pleasantly exhausted from a day of boating/skiing/jet-skiing/tubing, listening to this song. Which is... probably not the intended vibe.
Brian Eno did a song that was nigh on 61 minutes long. "Thursday Afternoon" was the title, and according to a news article, someone in a New York bar requested it on one of those internet-powered jukeboxes. 61 minutes of yoga music had the patrons feeling like they were in a hostage situation!
We were latchkey kids and we would go home for lunch and 6th grade and play my friends' brothers albums on his nice stereo in 1970. So I was 11 years old. We played this album all the time. Nope, correction. We played this song all the time. I couldn't tell you what else is on the cell phone. Same with mountain. We only played Mississippi Queen over and over.
I was there, just a kid in Texas, moved there from Florida in 67. I can tell you in those days for a period the long version was all over AM radio at night. Back then you could receive stations from all over the country.after dark. And they all played the long version. I really disagree with you about their talent level. That second version was the first record I asked for when my parents gave me a portable stereo for Christmas in 67 and as far as I am concerned it has held up well. The first album, Heavy, I remember seeing on record racks back then but I never heard until recently thanks to youtube in the past decade and I think it is a fine classic album. Ball and Metamorphasis I also hold in high regard. To me those were peak years of music. There was negative energy in metal and punk that I never really loved. For me the 70s after the Beatles, Creedence, and the Airplane were gone (and Hendrix Morrison, and Joplin died) were all about singer songwriters mostly but not exclusively from LA (The Grateful Dead released their 2 beloved acoustic albums early on back then). I was there. a consumer of record albums, and that is how I remember it.
I was just thinking of guitar heavy one hit wonders who followed up their driving future rocking hit with album after album of songs that sounded 10 years behind the times. The band Autograph comes to mind. (met their guitar player in the late 90’s)
This is probably what inspired "Hour of the Wolf," which was the title track for an album recorded by Billy Joel's Sixties band the Hassles. It's one of my favorite disasterpieces!
The de facto requirement for establishing oneself as a young drummer in the early 70s was to learn the solo from this beast. You could randomly grab any 10 junior high (ie middle school now) drummers and 8 of them could bang out some variant of that solo. We drove many adults to the edge of the abyss from constantly tapping it out on school desks, walls, other kids, the back of dad's car seat, pretty much any surface that made noise. If you could play this and keep the tempo on House of the Rising Sun you were instantly in demand by garage bands all over suburbia.
Their discography was quite good, iv been playing organ for 45 years and i must say doug has some crazy key's, very good band in my eyes, aside from the whole 30 different line up bullshit
I used to listen to a rock station in Tuscaloosa Alabama that had a 5 hour program of deep cuts every Saturday night and it started at 7 p.m. with 17 minutes if In- A- Gadda- Da -Vida.
welp, i was curious enough to want to find out what album recieved the first platinum album award from the RIAA. I was incredibly disappointed to find out that that award went to a compilation album of all things, "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" by The Eagles
I think the something close to 153 weeks it spent on the hottest selling album charts should answer all your questions about how fun it was to listen to the long version when it was issued. Iron Butterfly Theme on the same album was shorter but just as good. Feel a little sorry for those listeners who get the music but miss the point.
In my opinion, Iron Butterfly is a fairly underrated band. The album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has more than just the title track, and though I can see why they’re written off as mere filler, they may grow on you eventually. “My Mirage”, “Termination” and “Are You Happy” in particular are solid tracks. In fact, quite a bit of the stuff they did while at ATCO Records was pretty decent. The stuff they did for MCA (in other words, without Doug Ingle) on the other hand is probably better off being forgotten.
Lee Dorman is in my Top 10 bassists of all time. He was pretty in-demand in the 70’s with a ton of bands, and his basslines are incredible. And even though he’s not on it, “Heavy” is a fucking killer record.
Todd: This is the only episode I ever do that's actually SHORTER than the song it's reviewing
Mike Oldfield: Hold my Tubular Bells
Peter Frampton would like a word
Maybe Dream Theater too
I. Ron Butterfly sounds like rock and or roll
Andy Kilbride [beach ball thump]
Hymns here, I got hymns here, get 'em while they're holy! Fresh from God's brain to your mouth!
Insert Name Here Bart you forgot to finish your spaghetti and moe balls
@@Jygerthe2nd And now, please rise for our opening hymn... uhh, "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly.
in the garden of eden, baby!
This, supposedly, is a signal on classic rock stations that either the DJ had to run to the bathroom or (more likely) he's got a lover in the studio.
P sure the toilet is when they start singing about Scaramouche.
Doobie break
@@JasperJanssen underrated comment, dude
I've met DJs, I know which one I think is more likely
Or eat a meal
"Do Hippies Ever Wear Deodorant?" is the counterculture answer to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
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How do you hide money from a hippie? Put it under the soap!
Small problem, we know the correct yes or no response to the first question
Im a hippie, and I use Dove solid deodorant. Sometimes I wear perfume if I'm feeling fancy.😊 The only thing I don't do is shave during the winter.
Patchouli
The transition from Todd playing his keyboard into the intro of the song is one of my favorite things he has ever done.
Dude I've watched his videos a bunch and seeing this comment made me rewind to see & hear it again - you're right, it's awesome! Thanks for pointing it out
The ending to this song is so funny
A seventeen minute song built around one riff, and it just ends rather suddenly; no drawn out chords or organ notes like the beginning, no wild guitar/drum fills, just the music coming to a complete stop
The end of the song literally repeats the intro and opening of the song before a half measure of the guitar riff. That’s the ending. So how is it not like the beginning when it’s a complete rehash of the beginning of the song?
@@AxelSpott The organ is the first thing you hear at the beginning of the song. Yes you do hear it again towards the end, but it's not the last thing you hear in the song. That would be just the first bar of the main riff one more time. I would've considered it the same if the organ-not the riff-was the last thing to play before the song officially stops
The drugs wore off and they said "fuck it... We're done here".
Kinda reminds me of the ending of Pull Me Under by Dream Theater, where they kept building it up toward the end, but then had no idea where to go from there, so they just kill it out of nowhere. I thought my MP3 was corrupted the first time.
Oddly similar to Bolero by Ravel.
“Sometimes, the riff is so fucking good you want to hear it over and over again for fifty-two minutes.”
Dopesmoker?
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For all of the people pointing out that "Ha, ______ is even longer!,"
*Those songs were not pop hits.*
+Sam Huddy What are you talking about? Sunn O))) are my nan's favourite band ;-) xxx
Mine
Sounds about right.
Mountain Jam…
Sam Huddy true
I can only think of two songs even longer, I still have yet to marathon In the Garden of Eden, Thick as a Brick, and Empire of the Clouds. Also I beat you Sam, those two didn't try to be pop hits!
I wish the Simpsons crew did a full cover of this on one of the multiple soundtracks they put out. I'd love to hear what the entire thing would sound like with an organist and choir.
Simpsons version > original
Wait a moment this sounds like rock and/or roll
"hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?"
"Heh Heh Heh SHHHhHh"
"Fortunately, nowadays record companies treat their artists with nothing but fairness and respect."
(Bitter tears and laughter)
For clarification, the RIAA introduced the platinum album in 1976, and In a gadda da vida, along with Johnny Taylor's Disco Lady, were both the first to be certified platinum. (Also, the first gold album was Oklahoma!, certified in 1958)
Disco Lady is the only one that RIAA mentions in their history of the awards. The album not the single In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida went platinum, now four times but even it wasn't the first as that was Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975
Iron Butterfly also made the mistake of doing some shows with a young Led Zeppelin who were killing it every night .
They were label mates, so they may have had no say in that matter.
That doesn’t really make or break a band. The Beatles had Roy Orbison, who was more popular during the concerts that they had to take him off-stage by force for the Beatles to play.
Zeppelin is the sloppiest crappiest major rock band ever. Plant can't sing at all live. Doug plays amazing organ AND sings. Iron Butterfly nailed it every time.
@@grimlyfiendish5579 Most hilarious comment of the year.
My dad through and through a 60s guy. When we were kids, he used to play this song for my little sister and I during long car rides in our old Town and Country. We used to slap our laps to the drum solo and all the other parts. It's so nostalgic, even if it's definitely about a drug trip.
Its NOT a drugs trip the guy who wrote this was drunk as a skunk not high
Completely different state of mind @Keith Sizemore
@@hellspite completely different state of mind, completely same consequences, addiction scenario, attempt to dodge the reality of life, etc.
Strawberry alarm clock’s “Incense and peppermints” is also a great one hit wonder from a psychedelic band
so THAT’s where John Mulaney got the name of his fake drag queen
@@MetalMarauder literally my first thought.
Dunno if you could consider Strawberry Alarm Clock a one hit wonder, because they also have Curse of The Witches, which basically is the only reason why people know "Wake up it's Tomorrow"
No, I don't think so. They had a follow up "Barefoot in Baltimore."
MANIC SEXUALIZED DANCING
Ha. My ex had an ancient vinyl of this, that was all warped, which made it even more trippy and warbly. We listened to that bad boy over and over
I still have my original vinyl. It's not warbly but it still trips out. MANHUNTER, man. That film sealed the deal for me.
i found a copy in a thrift store for $4.20 it’s warped and scratched, but it’s still my favorite listen while on mine alternating substances
@@emmettyoung7603 what a wonderful and fitting price
Whenever this played on the radio I knew the disc jockey was taking a dump.
"Metamorphosis" is truly a hidden gem. It's worth a listen on it's own merits.
I've met the guys from IB, Ingle, Bushy, and Rhino. Decent, regular and super humble musicians. They only wanted to play music, not make "hits". I'd jam with those dudes any time.
Metamorphosis is a Fantastic Album. (Rhino and Lee Dorman later formed Captain Beyond with Rod Evans the original singer of Deep Purple ( Ian Gillan replaced him) and Johnny winters’ Drummer Bobby Caldwell ( there first album is worth a listen some killer drum work from Bobby Caldwell and guitar and bass work from Rhino and Lee Dorman, respectively.
Agreed. I found that album years ago and was shocked how great of a listen it is!
Ball, Metamorphosis & Heavy were all fine albums. By the way Todd if you're referring to Janis when she was in Big Brother, they were from San Francisco.
In-a-gadda-da-vida is actually one of the few songs over 10 minutes that make sense from beginning to end for me and don't bore me at any point.
My favorite song is almost 12 minutes long: “Come Crimson Death” by Jess and the Ancient Ones.
Sister Ray
@@simplypodly that's another one
A lot of electronic music that lasts over 10min is also pretty great
Too Long by Daft Punk?
Every radio DJ had a copy of the album handy in case they need a bathroom break. Put on In-a-Gadda-da-Vida and you are good to go.
From what I've been told by guys who worked as radio DJs way back in the day, this got a lot of play because you could throw on the extended version and duck out for a smoke break.
Seems funny since part of the drum solo is so quiet, someone who just so happens to tune in will mistake it for dead air.
TooCooFoYou radio stations have processing that fix that.
Whipping Post by The Allman Brothers, same thing. Live version, of course.
My coach had the 17 minute version on his weightlifting playlist.
It ... it wasn't easy to lift the days he got to the cassette player first.
Damn I love this song. I use it to time my commutes all the time. The long version is exactly how long it takes me to get to school. Door to door. Also it rocks so damn hard.
13:59 is Slayer's version of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” that was recorded for the
Less Than Zero soundtrack back in 1987.
AdamKNAC I still have that CD LOL
I did not remember there being a Slayer song in Less than Zero
@@superneko99 yep it's on there
Great sound track. Slayers cover is both too slow AND too fast
And gets embaressed by the Bangels cover
The only thing I remember about the Less Than Zero soundtrack was Public Enemy's Bring The Noise, might need to revisit..
OKAY PEOPLE WE GET IT PROG-ROCK EXISTS AND YOU'RE ALL FAN OF IT.
@@markwoollon i think that, at one point, the comment section was full of people dick-measuring about how they've listened to songs longer than In A Gadda Da Vida and that makes them very cool
@@Flowtail yes that's my reason for ranting.
@@oxymoronic-ephiphanies good to know that i wasn't wrong :)
Mark Woollon
Don’t take it personally, it’s someone’s opinion. There’s nothing wrong with that. No need to be a Prog elitist about it
I never knew about the long version, I think that adds a layer to the Simpson's bit, because I never understood why they were all so tired... seems now they had been playing for almost 20 minutes, that's why.
Looked it up, holy shit they were the first album to be platinum certified.
Aaaaand... that Futurama episode title finally makes sense to me!
Which one?
Ciara.Chaya In da gadda de Leela
Fun Fact: One of the drummers for Iron Butterfly, Bobby Caldwell, was also the drummer on "Rock 'n' Roll Hoochie Koo."
Yes! Thank you Todd, more people need to listen to Steppenwollf. They're not a one hit wonder because they do have a cult following to this day, but they still don't get a fair rep in that most radio stations will only play Born to be Wild or Magic Carpet Ride and because of that, most casual listeners never hear their more controversial, way better songs. If you like the 17 minute In a Gadda da Vida, you'll probably like Monster. And as far as recommendations of their BEST song, I'd probably say "Draft Resister", which is about popcorn.
+Annie Trinity I have to be honest, I've never really looked them u, but I know my dad really loves them xD
+Annie Trinity Have you heard about Steppeulvene? They are the Danish Psychadelia band and I feel like you may love them.
Aron puma I'll have to check them out. Thank you.
+Annie Trinity I do hope you enjoy~
Aron puma I'm Danish, and my dad loves that band xD
Ah, In A Gadda Da Vida, the song that reminds me of Francis Dolarhyde every time I hear it...
Gregory House 🤣
And Freddys Dead: The Final Nightmare
Fi Handley where is it in House?
Dream much, Will?
They changed the spelling of his name to Dollarhyde in that film, though, for some reason.
Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" is arguably another one-hit wonder you could cover in less time than the song takes to play.
Except for two things: (1) "Alice's Restaurant" didn't get anywhere near the Top 40 (2) Arlo has another well-known song "City Of New Orleans", which went all the way to #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Hate that song so much
@@tomflorio3639 "Alice's Restaurant" peaked at #29 per wikipedia. The latter point is irrelevant if we're talking super long songs that might take less time for the Professor to cover than to play.
@@serendipityshopnyc the ALBUM peaked at #29, not the song. The reason I included the latter point (about "City of New Orleans") is that, even if you somehow wanted to say that Alice's Restaurant (the song) qualifies as a "hit", as you do in your original comment, the fact that Arlo had "another" hit song means he wouldn't be a one-hit wonder. So, either way you play it, Alice doesn't make the cut.
@@tomflorio3639 Fair enough: he wasn't a one-hit wonder. Of course, on the rare occasions when a song takes up an entire side of an album, it's well-nigh impossible to hit the top 40 with the song alone (Inna-Gada-Da-Vida only hit #30 in the US): the album position should be considered. I'd still argue it was a well-loved, famous, and memorable hit.
My favorite line in that simpsons episode is, "alf! He's back, ya know? In pog form!" Is there anything more early 90s than that joke lol?!
Lol, this video isn't even as long as the song.
*forgets that that's a joke that's already made in the review*
Hah! Bet you feel silly, huh? >:]
Shaaaaaame
Hah! Bet you feel silly, huh? >:]
First time I ever heard this song, I was playing video games with my headphones at full blast. I blacked out for the whole 17 minutes and 5 seconds. I didn’t realize it was one song until it ended. I swear, you can get a contact high from this song. I mean drooling, melting stroke-face, head rush, breaking down crying episode. When the song stopped, I dropped my controller on my foot and passed out in my papasan. The biggest thing I was worried about afterwards was that my nachos were cold.
edit: I think I was on cough syrup or something at the time. It was also the middle of the day.
High school swimming team practice. 90 minutes. The pool had underwater speakers. The coach Mr Voss had In-a-Gadda-da-Vida on constant replay for our lap work day after day. At dances, the challenge was to see if you could stay on the floor for the entire 20 minutes.
Anyone who's listened to psychedelic music on hallucinogens can appreciate the structuring of this song, coming back to the central rif after the solo section is an almost mind shattering realization that you're still listening to the same song, because the mid section felt like an eon where you lived an entirely different life.
Jazz guys have been doing that for a while.
@Fivegrain 518 edm is noises to enhance the effect of the drugs.
Rock in Peace drummer Ron Bushy. He provided one heck of a legacy.
Honestly, bits of the drum solo remind me of Boney M's "Rasputin". Also, hey Todd! I dont know if Boney M is a one-hit wonder, or even if there one hit is Rasputin, but if it is, i know what a great One Hit Wonderland would be!
"Ra-ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine!" I love that song. I think they have at least one other hit song. But if Todd reviews Boney M., he should at least mention the metal cover by Tursas.
Boney M also covered In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
They made another hit, daddy cool
They have like five huge hits in europe and they are all equally annoying
Boney M have sold over 100 million records worldwide and are one of the best selling bands of all time, so no.
Doug Ingle has been the last living member of the Inna Gadda Da Vida lineup since Ron Bushy passed away a few years ago. Now he has passed, too. R. I. P. to all four classic members.
That drum solo apparently influenced Ringo Starr on "The End". If so, he kept it short.
"Enough people to repopulate the planet" I think there were literally no women on that list so...
Nunya Bidnis your comment made the joke even better.
Imagine one of them becoming a trans woman who IS able to reproduce.
Or someone from this band gets some sort of an operation and shits out babies like a seahorse does.
Well numerically that number would be good if some of them were capable of giving birth, so it's not a totally inaccurate statement
@@IABITVpresents Stop. For the love of God, stop and never restart.
@@averagebritishguy7082 I wish I could darling
Also, 15 minutes of fame... shorter than the song
B Galloway because most people turn it off
Brendan McCabe most people hear the 7” edit on the radio, ‘60s playlist or compilation
I have the vinyl. It is awesome.
No, it wasn't a huge chart hit, but it has been a MONSTER song ever since, capturing the zeitgeist of the era and bringing it forward ever since.
Okay...we're in serious "smoking pot in the basement with my friends" territory here. I had no idea what this song was about, and after a few bowls it didn't really matter that it's like 15 minutes long or whatever.
Damn, Todd, that lack of transition at the beginning almost shook me out of my chair.
Neither Big Brother nor Crosby Stills and Nash were LA bands, Todd.
Todd, Todd, Todd. Are you forgetting the riff of "Smoke on the Water"?
Todd isn’t old enough to forget that riff, although it’s marginally possible he hasn’t discovered it yet.
Smoke on tge water is from 71
CSN was an L.A band though, what do you mean they weren't? They formed there and recorded many albums there.
@@jeevithrai7994 They were a Bay Area band. Prove me otherwise.
This was my brother's jam. I remember him downloading it off of Napster and going on about what made it great. Now that I think of it, the reason we were talking about it at all was because my music teacher in elementary school played it for the class along with Green Day and Pink Floyd. I had a really cool music teacher.
Two ex-members of this band went on to be in Captain Beyond, a great early 70's hard-rock/psychedelic band.
Harry Belafonte had the first million selling album. i have always read that led zep actually opened for iron buttery at one point. i always though the song was about the snake tempting eve in the garden of eden.
OMG, I saw Iron Butterfly in the early 90's and yes you need to be "High as BALLS". It was the weirdest concert I have ever been to. It was in the old Post Office Pavilion in DC (I think Trump owns that now).
I met a large group of gay bikers, some men who were on leave from the Navy and I met another guy who had to be the most crazy person I have ever seen, him and I became friends as well as some of the Navy dudes and some of the bikers. I held a shindig and invited them all the night after the concert and to say that it was a freak show would be a complete understatement. It was the weirdest party that I ever had at my house and I've had some weird parties.
I'm sure that Iron Butterfly is too old to be touring anymore but I am so glad I got to see them. I actually didn't hear much of the band but I can say that they played forever. I mainly just made friends but I made some weird good friends.
The one time I went to go see them, they played the song well over 25 minutes. But by a certain point you kind of realize that a lot of it was just freestyle improvisation
So they were like a more metal Grateful Dead, without really being metal?
My dad had this vinyl so i grew up listening to this whenever I could get away with using his record player. I put this on a tape when I was in high school in the the mid 80's. I was kind of into 60's and 70's music back then. I found a cassette of this for sale at a pawn shop in Silver City New Mexico about a decade ago. I still have it and love it.
"The only one hit wonder with a video longer than the song."
So it's gonna be an hour long video when he does Tubular Bells, right?
You mean song longer than the video?
I just searched for it and it looks like he still hasn’t done Tubular Bells. I’m disappointed.
@@autumnphillips151He has now done Tubular Bells! I made the same comment under that video, so. *shrug*
@@liamannegarner8083 Thanks for letting me know! I forgot about this channel, so I probably wouldn’t have found it on my own, and I’m in need of something to watch.
@@autumnphillips151 He says he's not a prog fan, which is so sad because Prog probably has more Trainwreckords than it has Bands. Tales From Topographic Oceans, Tormado, Union, A, Under Wraps, J. Tull Dot Com, Love Beach, and In The Hot Seat? That's eight trainwreckords between three bands. Only band I can think of that went through a long career and never had one was the Mighty Crim. Maybe he'll do Calling All Stations, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I mean, come on - ELP's managers inserted a catalog for ELP branded jogging shorts. How does any band crash harder than that?
This song was featured in the movie "Manhunter", back in 1986. The film was the first version of Thomas Harris' book Red Dragon; the prequel to Silence Of The Lambs.
every single garage sale in the country is required to have an In a Gadda da Vida record. Most have at least two.
Been groovin' to this song pretty much since the first time I got high AF. This far out jam has made its way into many movie soundtracks over the years but the best by far was at the end of the movie manhunter while Will Graham was hunting the "Tooth Fairy" it jammed all the way through the organ solo to climax!
Epic
By the criterion used to classify performers as "one-hit wonders", yes, Iron Butterfly was one, and it had just its 17 minutes of fame (or 2 minutes 52 seconds if one goes by the length of the single). But this is really to slight a group that was far more significant than a mere throwaway hit, because the group really wasn't about singles as much as it was albums, which was its real niche, and one where it prevailed.
In 1968 the album titled _In-a-Gadda-da-Vida_ was an impressive 4X Platinum, and climbed to #4 on the chart, while _Ball,_ released the following year, reached #3 and was awarded a Gold Record. 1970's ._Metamorphosis_ was the band's third straight album to reach the Top 20, peaking at #16. So, to be sure, Iron Butterfly clearly was not the flash in the pan phenomenon that defines most one hit wonders.
As Todd mentions in the video, the menacing vibe of the single has made it a favorite of horror films and television shows, many of which are mentioned on the linked page (one notable omission is _Texas Chainsaw Massacre II,_ where the deranged Chop Top asks a radio DJ if he could make a request, then, butchering the song's name, goes, "Well, what about Iron Butterfly? You know, like 'In-A-Vida-Da-Gadda, Baby'? Oh, it's heavy!")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida#In_popular_culture
Given that the song's original title was to be "In the Garden of Eden", it's sinister feel and horror connections makes it seem like it's meant to be the serpent singing.
Iron Butterfly probably has the unofficial record for most personnel changes by any rock group in history; the changes from its inception to today is truly staggering (the following gives over 50 iterations of the band!): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Butterfly#Personnel
To be honest I never knew this song, I heard it as a Sample used in "Hip hop is dead" by NAS, but I didn't even know it was a sample so thanks for this episode!
@thenoosehangsfromheaven S U P P O S E D L Y TBH a lot of people don't realize that Will.I.Am flipped thief's theme because even though it was a single, it was on God's Son which people have to kinda "discover". Hip Hop is Dead gave Nas some of his last popular hits of his career
I believe that people are coaxed into saying the 60's were the best for rock/hard rock. I gotta say the 70's and early 80's. With Alice Cooper,KISS, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, BTO, Aerosmith, Bad Company, Van Halen and the early 80's we had most of the bands still rocking along with newer ones at the time like Motley Crue, RATT, REO speedwagon, Billy Idol and Scorpions. I love all era's of rock even early 50's with Chuck Berry, Elvis, and Buddy Holly. One thing is for sure, no other genre of music will ever have the greats like rock has had and thank you, todd for showing all forms instead of hip hop. You do know you stuff, man!
I like symphonic personally, which wasn't until late 90's early 2000's
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60's was the most experimental all culminating into Black Sabbath I believe.
No QUEEN?
I'm more a 70's rock fan as well.
Back in the 90s, I went to one of those Oldie Revival concerts. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, John Kay of Steppenwolf, and Iron Butterfly.
Inna Gadda Da Vida went almost 30 minutes, and it was AMAZING! They only did 2, maybe 3 songs before it, but that one song made up for any shortness of their playlist.
I saw John Kay play The Ostrich Festival in Chandler in the mid ‘90s. Went on a lark mostly for the festival with low expectations for the show. I was pleasantly surprised; him and faux Steppenwolf rocked.
Lee Dorman also was in Captain Beyond, really good OHW band
My mom loved this song! I still have her vinyl album with this song.
I don't think you can appreciate In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, unless you were actually there. This was one of the benchmarks of the late 60's if you were into that kind of music. I know I was.
Used to hear the long version in Philly when the DJ needed a break. Great stuff
Yep the classic smoke break jam.
Pink Floyd has some songs longer than In-a-Gadda-da-Vida and their masterpieces! I think it's because their songs are more structured like a symphony than Iron Butterfly's songs are, though I do like In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, it feels more like random jamming after a while. The problem isn't that the song is long, it's that the song does not seem intended to be long. Pink Floyd's Echoes, however, that's over twenty minutes features lots of different important parts to it and buildup throughout the song to other sections and one of my favorite song Dogs (which is about the same length as In-a-Gadda-da-Vida) features a bunch of different awesome hooks building up to one kick ass ending. I think Todd needs to hear more Progressive rock and appreciate long songs more.
Listening to this video it’s pretty clear he doesn’t have the attention span for it. He straight admitted he’s a “Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” guy.
When I was a kid, my family and the family of my parents' best friends used to go houseboating in Kentucky together for a week every summer. In-a-gadda-da-vida was the absolute favorite song of their dad, so I actually have fond memories of hanging out in the summer, pleasantly exhausted from a day of boating/skiing/jet-skiing/tubing, listening to this song. Which is... probably not the intended vibe.
I have this album and the follow up album (the yellow one) on vinyl. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda" takes up one side by itself.
wait, that end cover was Slayer. Fucking Slayer made of a cover of this?
Woah
hell yeah Fucking Slayer
@@MortanAMrk fuck yeah!
Yeah and also acid bath
YES they did, on the LESS THAN ZERO soundtrack.
"Get Ready" by Rare Earth was a hit and the full version was 21 or 23 minutes. Can't remember. It's one whole side of the album.
Meh - that’s a cover from the Temptations, and Also, Rare Earth had other hits...
Brian Eno did a song that was nigh on 61 minutes long. "Thursday Afternoon" was the title, and according to a news article, someone in a New York bar requested it on one of those internet-powered jukeboxes. 61 minutes of yoga music had the patrons feeling like they were in a hostage situation!
A really underrated band. If you're a rock nerd like me, that is.
I saw these guys live in the late 90's and it was awesome!!!
todd: I recommend you get high as *balls* for this
me: two steps ahead of you bud
We were latchkey kids and we would go home for lunch and 6th grade and play my friends' brothers albums on his nice stereo in 1970. So I was 11 years old. We played this album all the time. Nope, correction. We played this song all the time. I couldn't tell you what else is on the cell phone. Same with mountain. We only played Mississippi Queen over and over.
I was there, just a kid in Texas, moved there from Florida in 67. I can tell you in those days for a period the long version was all over AM radio at night. Back then you could receive stations from all over the country.after dark. And they all played the long version.
I really disagree with you about their talent level. That second version was the first record I asked for when my parents gave me a portable stereo for Christmas in 67 and as far as I am concerned it has held up well.
The first album, Heavy, I remember seeing on record racks back then but I never heard until recently thanks to youtube in the past decade and I think it is a fine classic album.
Ball and Metamorphasis I also hold in high regard.
To me those were peak years of music. There was negative energy in metal and punk that I never really loved.
For me the 70s after the Beatles, Creedence, and the Airplane were gone (and Hendrix Morrison, and Joplin died) were all about singer songwriters mostly but not exclusively from LA (The Grateful Dead released their 2 beloved acoustic albums early on back then).
I was there. a consumer of record albums, and that is how I remember it.
I was just thinking of guitar heavy one hit wonders who followed up their driving future rocking hit with album after album of songs that sounded 10 years behind the times. The band Autograph comes to mind. (met their guitar player in the late 90’s)
The members eventually joined scientology and reinvented themselves as L. Ron Butterfly
This is probably what inspired "Hour of the Wolf," which was the title track for an album recorded by Billy Joel's Sixties band the Hassles. It's one of my favorite disasterpieces!
When I was a kid learning the drums, you HAD to know In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (and/or Wipeout). Accept no substitutes.
It's to drums what 25 or 6 to 4 is to guitar
The de facto requirement for establishing oneself as a young drummer in the early 70s was to learn the solo from this beast. You could randomly grab any 10 junior high (ie middle school now) drummers and 8 of them could bang out some variant of that solo. We drove many adults to the edge of the abyss from constantly tapping it out on school desks, walls, other kids, the back of dad's car seat, pretty much any surface that made noise. If you could play this and keep the tempo on House of the Rising Sun you were instantly in demand by garage bands all over suburbia.
That whole album was pretty good.
I’d say their first 3 albums are all pretty good, occasionally there’s some filler but there’s lot of good songs.
'Yeah....what are you on? Looks like a frying pan and some eggs to me!"
Todd mentioned how he's heard this song in several horror movies, and yet Freddy's Dead is the only one I know of
@@otaking3582 It was in the first adaptation of the first of Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter novels.
@@autumnphillips151 I know of that movie's existence, I've just never actually watched it
Iron Butterfly's legacy is HUGE in heavy metal...
"I recommend you get high as balls..." At this point on the weekend, I'm already on my way. Catching up on your back catalogue 👍
They remind me a lot of Electric Wizard for some reason.
Probably the massive length of the songs and the dark, droning and repetitive riff that gets stuck in your head after minute 2 and never leaves
The best Iron Butterfly video on TH-cam - learned a lot from this one! Thanks :)
Sober or not , I love all 17 minutes of this song.
I'm from San Diego and my mom was neighbors with the singer. She said he was a nice dude.
Who cares how long a song is? Enjoy them for what they are, and also for what they are not. Also, Heavy and Ball, the follow up records are amazing.
Their discography was quite good, iv been playing organ for 45 years and i must say doug has some crazy key's, very good band in my eyes, aside from the whole 30 different line up bullshit
In the garden of eden by I.ron Butterfly
Most people don't have the patience for 13 minutes of solos. But I do, and I love every second of this song.
Up side in-side out!/
She's inna gadda da vida
I used to listen to a rock station in Tuscaloosa Alabama that had a 5 hour program of deep cuts every Saturday night and it started at 7 p.m. with 17 minutes if In- A- Gadda- Da -Vida.
welp, i was curious enough to want to find out what album recieved the first platinum album award from the RIAA.
I was incredibly disappointed to find out that that award went to a compilation album of all things, "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" by The Eagles
I think the something close to 153 weeks it spent on the hottest selling album charts should answer all your questions about how fun it was to listen to the long version when it was issued. Iron Butterfly Theme on the same album was shorter but just as good. Feel a little sorry for those listeners who get the music but miss the point.
In my opinion, Iron Butterfly is a fairly underrated band. The album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has more than just the title track, and though I can see why they’re written off as mere filler, they may grow on you eventually. “My Mirage”, “Termination” and “Are You Happy” in particular are solid tracks. In fact, quite a bit of the stuff they did while at ATCO Records was pretty decent. The stuff they did for MCA (in other words, without Doug Ingle) on the other hand is probably better off being forgotten.
Lee Dorman is in my Top 10 bassists of all time. He was pretty in-demand in the 70’s with a ton of bands, and his basslines are incredible. And even though he’s not on it, “Heavy” is a fucking killer record.
RIP Doug Ingle
Iron Butterfly: Live album is all you need from this band.