Lost Classics: "Flowers and Beads" by Iron Butterfly

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A couple of days ago I decided to get the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" album and I was completely amazed on "Flowers and Beads".

I'm pretty sure I've heard it in a movie or something but it was just so weird how I had know idea about this song before.

What does everyone else think about it?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I just listened to it and it's better than I realized. Bit of a sunshine pop classic.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Most anything that you want dear... well thats alright by me... except calling this song a "lost classic." I mean, all and all its not an awful song, but classic goes a bit too far. I WILL say it has brevity on its side, as compared to its album's namesake.

― GuitarCenter521, Monday, 11 July 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

I think it's quite well written.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

And has a good lead vocal.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

"unconscious power" is their best song.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

What album's that on? I've only ever owned Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida. I heard Ball once. Is it on the first album? I wouldn't mind hearing that.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

it's on heavy.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

it's also on the soundtrack to the savage seven!

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

i love their Get Out My Life Woman (i love almost all verisons of that song though).

i djed an artshow and gygax showed up and i wanted to talk to him so i threw on Inna-gadda-da-vida to get 17minutes of freedom.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

when i did college radio i would throw that on when i wanted to leave the station for a quick snack or a trip to the can.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Girls go to "the can"? Surely there's a male:sweat::female:perspire analog to this?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

I like how Doug Ingle employed the just-write-one-moronic-verse-and-sing-it-three times lyrical technique (not just on "Flowers And Beads" but throughout the entire album) that would later serve Kurt Cobain so well on Bleach. In fact I've loved that whole LP for years. But the Fender Reverb tour-de-force "Iron Butterfly Theme" from their first LP is still my favourite.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

"My mirage ... I'll be drawing you soon."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

"But the Fender Reverb tour-de-force "Iron Butterfly Theme" from their first LP is still my favourite"

A great moment indeed. I remember also a pretty good Lithium Xmas cover of this song.
I read on All Music that Metamorphosis has Iron Butterfly trying their hands at funk: is it worth a listen?

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

TS: "Flowers and Beads" vs. "Rugs of Woods and Flowers" by the Turtles

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

"unconscious power" is their best song.

soul experience!!

― dmr, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

love these dudes. Ball might be the best record I stole outta my dad's collection (oh wait nah that's gotta be CCR Green River)

― dmr, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

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kencoa (1 week ago) Show Hide
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The first time I heard this was in the Biker movie "The Savage Seven".
Also, the bass player or guitarist ended up being a physicist. Supposedly, he found a way to transport matter from one place to another in seconds like on "Star Trek".

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What a coincidence, kencoa. I had forgotten all about this song until I rented Tarantino's biker movie,"Hell Ride," last week. 'Unconsciouis Power' was featured in that, too. I guess bikers are into mind expanding drugs.

lol

― dmr, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

It is growing on me...

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Colored on TV! (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:42 (thirteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Checking out IB's 'Scorching Beauty' which was a reunion LP, there is a song called "People of the World" that has a demento repeating 70s cult/glam rock mantra "Making each day a little bit better" that would have to make people crazy after a few hours of repeated listening.

― earlnash, Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:30 (six years ago)

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