Ball [Extra tracks]

Iron Butterfly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Collector's Choice
• ASIN: B000025APG
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,185 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. In the Time of Our Love

2. Soul Experience

3. Lonely Boy

4. Real Fight

5. In the Crowds

6. It Must Be Love

7. Her Favorite Style

8. Filled With Fear

9. Belda-Beast

10. I Can't Help But Deceive You, Little Girl [*]

11. To Be Alone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A FIVE-STAR CLASSIC NOW WITH TWO-STAR SOUND QUALITY!, December 23, 1999

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David Parker (burlington, vermont United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ball (Audio CD)

"BALL" is the Butterfly's peak moment, and Collectors Choice has re-released it with enough tape hiss to actually ruin the listening experience. I'd mistakenly expected a remastering a la the "In-a- gadda-da-vida" reissue by Rhino, and this sure isn't it. In this day of so many careful and high-quality remastering jobs, this is a major disappointment. Thank God for the two extra songs. Otherwise, I'm sure the original Atlantic Records release sounds superior to this. In fact, other than the pops and crackles, my original 1968 vinyl copy has better sound!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Massive hiss, March 10, 2010

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David Chetkin "Have You Read The Manual" (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ball (Audio CD)

For those who experiment with any new digital audio resotration software, you should be able to figure out the reason they can not improve upon this recording.
It will virtually eliminate the frequencies of a bad recording in the first place.
It will pretty much wipe out the high's and the lows will be mud.
Many albums from this era were recorded poorly.
How many of you purchased the digital remasterd Disraeli Gears? Same thing. A wall of hiss, especially noticeable on Strange Brew. My vinyl sounds better.
There is nothing you can do. I purchased a German import CD of Ball many years ago and it was the same.
They could not improve on it.
Enjoy it as it is. I bet many of you still listen to vinyl with cracks and scratches like myself.
Belda Beast is timeless. Superb effort from the Iron.
Way underrated when compared to their big hit Inna Gadda.
Great song writing and top notch melodies.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Iron Butterfly "Ball", July 28, 2007

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R. Cianci "DrumBob" (NW NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ball (Audio CD)

I also agree that Mr. Talsma is a bona fide know-nothing. To say that Iron Butterfly "never broke true" (did he mean "never broke through"?)is a total joke. My God, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, and although "Ball" didn't sell the numbers it's predecessor did, it clearly shows IB expanding their sound, growing and venturing into new musical ideas. The album has it's weaker moments, but there are killers too, like "In The Time Of Our Lives" and "Soul Experience." I saw and heard Butterfly play some of this album live at the Fillmore East in NYC and they did the material well. All in all, not my favorite Butterfly effort, but a very good one.