In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Lengthy drum showcase
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the title of a 1968 psychedelic rock song by Iron Butterfly, famous for its seventeen-minute album version featuring an extended drum solo.
The phrase is a slurred corruption of "in the garden of Eden," reportedly the result of the singer's intoxicated delivery during rehearsal.
The title has become shorthand for the excesses of late-1960s rock: The song went full In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida with a twenty-minute jam session.
Neutral options spread position
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- 1968Volatile year of upheaval
- drum soloUnaccompanied percussive passage
- organBody's working component
album track · heavy · slurred · riff · extended · jam · distortion · rock anthem
Drug-influenced heavy music
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- hallucinogenicCausing sensory distortions
- 1960sDecade after the fifties
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
mind-expanding · droning · hypnotic · consciousness · San Diego · Sunset Strip · flower power · lysergic
Indistinct verbal articulation
- misheardFailed to hear correctly
- drunkImpaired by alcohol
- garbledConfused and unintelligible
- mondegreenMisperceived lyric or phrase
biblical · paradise · serpent · Adam and Eve · intoxicated · mumbled · accident · mistake
Animated TV family
- infomercialExtended TV sales broadcast
- parodySatirical imitation
- memeShared online humor
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
boomer · oldies · cliche · overplayed · iconic · recognizable · pop culture · movie soundtracks
Iron Butterfly
Neutral options spread position
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
- 1968Volatile year of upheaval
- drum soloUnaccompanied percussive passage
organ · album track · heavy · slurred · riff · extended · jam · distortion · rock anthem · trippy
acid rock
Drug-influenced heavy music
- trippyResembling a hallucination
- hallucinogenicCausing sensory distortions
- 1960sDecade after the fifties
counterculture · mind-expanding · droning · hypnotic · consciousness · San Diego · Sunset Strip · flower power · lysergic · trance
slurred speech
Indistinct verbal articulation
mondegreen · biblical · paradise · serpent · Adam and Eve · intoxicated · mumbled · accident · mistake · origin story
Simpsons
Animated TV family
- infomercialExtended TV sales broadcast
- parodySatirical imitation
- memeShared online humor
nostalgia · boomer · oldies · cliche · overplayed · iconic · recognizable · pop culture · movie soundtracks · commercial
In-A-Gadda-Da-VidaLouie Louie
Notoriously unintelligible sixties hit
jingle · bubblegum pop · radio edit · Good Vibrations · radio single
in, a, garden, of, Eden, gardens, gardener, gardening, Edenic