Heavy (album)

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Heavy
Heavy cover
Studio album by Iron Butterfly
Released 1968
Recorded October 1967
Genre Rock, Psychedelic
Length 30:45
Label Atco Records
Producer Charles Greene; Brian Stone
Professional reviews
Iron Butterfly chronology
Heavy
(1968)		 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
(1968)

Heavy was Iron Butterfly's debut album, released in early 1968. Most of the songs are fairly simple and based largely on the opening riffs, interspersed with some pop songs and blues covers.

The first two tracks, "Possession" and "Unconscious Power", were both written by keyboardist Doug Ingle and released as the respective sides of a single.

"Iron Butterfly Theme" is a riff-driven instrumental, and one of the longest tracks on the album (it is over four minutes long). It contains some musical themes also present in the band's mega-hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

The album's artwork depicts the band members playing their respective instruments beside a larger-than-life monument of a human ear, with then-singer Darryl DeLoach sitting atop the monument playing a tambourine.

Three of the group's members (Jerry Penrod, Darryl DeLoach and Danny Weis) left the band shortly after the album was recorded, leaving Ingle and drummer Ron Bushy to find replacements. Heavy eventually went Gold in the US.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Possession" (Ingle) – 2:45
  2. "Unconscious Power" (Bushy, Ingle, Weis) – 2:32
  3. "Get Out of My Life, Woman" (Toussaint) – 3:58
  4. "Gentle as It May Seem" (DeLoach, Weis) – 2:28
  5. "You Can't Win" (DeLoach, Weis) – 2:41
  6. "So-Lo " (DeLoach, Ingle) – 4:05
  7. "Look for the Sun" (DeLoach, Ingle, Weis) – 2:14
  8. "Fields of Sun" (DeLoach, Ingle) – 3:12
  9. "Stamped Ideas" (DeLoach, Ingle) – 2:08
  10. "Iron Butterfly Theme" (Ingle) – 4:34


[edit] Singles Released From the Album

US Singles

  • Unconscious Power/Possession
  • Radio EP: Iron Butterfly Theme & Possession/Get Out Of My Life, Woman & Unconscious Power

International Singles

  • Iron Butterfly Theme/So-Lo

[edit] Personnel