Iron Butterfly “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”

This is one of those records, the title song anyway, that is always just going to be way too familiar to ever appreciate the way one might have when it came out– though, when you actually listen to it, and it’s not just in your mind, it  does sound a little fresh. I can never really enjoy it, though, because the lyrics drift between “can’t understand them” and lame, and it really kind of gets worse as it goes along. It’s sounding pretty good when he says something that sounds like, “Don’t you know I harvest the truth.” What?! But then, gets really lame when he says, “Oh, won’t you come with me, and walk this land– pleeeeeeese take my hand.” Yikes!

I have a pretty clean copy of this record, but whenever you see it in thrift stores and at garage sales, it’s ALWAYS water damaged for some reason.  Moldy. Cat piss. Bong water. Side Two pretty much sucks dead wanna be hippie beads, throughout.