Heavy

Iron Butterfly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 14, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00000335G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,103 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only paper sleeve SHM pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing, SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc, allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff. Underrated, June 17, 2004

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Rock God "Rock God" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heavy (Audio CD)

I love this album. Granted, it's not perfect. The sound quality is a bit muddy at times, and a few of the performances resemble rough drafts which were never expanded upon or finished. But there are some killer tracks included on this album. The trademark Butterfly sound is already in place, and Doug Ingle sounds good. No, he's not Robert Plant or even Jim Morrison. But he emotes with a raw passion that certainly comes through here, devoid of pretense. When the band backs him up, vocally, they sound similar, and the voices mesh well. No, DeLoach wasn't the best vocalist on the planet. But he provided an excellent counterpoint to Ingle's deep- throated gospel- oriented wails. DeLoach represented the "light", Ingle the "heavy", and the band works as a team on this album, coming up with some cool original tunes and a nice cover of "Get Out of My Life, Woman" (Allen Toussaint). The bass lines foreshadow all of the group's recordings that followed; in fact, bassist Jerry Penrod sounds like a major influence on Lee Dorman. Listen to him on "Unconscious Power", and you'll hear it. It would have been interesting to hear where the band would have gone had this line-up stayed intact. Best songs: "Unconscious Power", "Stamped Ideas", "Iron Butterfly Theme", "Fields of Sun".

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beginning of Heavy Rock, September 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Heavy (Audio CD)

Okay, maybe that is a bit exaggerrated. However, when Iron butterfly started playing the club circuit in '66, there had never been anything that sounded like them. Dubbed "heavy metal", Butterfly both directly and indirectly influenced more bands than arguably anyone else. However, this album shows that butterfly were not a one-trick-pony, and also dabbled in psychedelia, pop, and other styles too. While their following album honed their style to near-perfection, "Heavy" is quite possibly the most historically-important Rock album ever.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Classic Rock, October 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Heavy (Audio CD)

If you are a classic rock fan, then you need to buy this CD. Iron Butterfly is truly a perfect name for this band; the way they blend light and heavy sound is amazing. They were the true pioneers of heavy metal, yet their music is melodic due to the keyboards. This is their debut, and it is probably their best album as well. "Fields of sun", "possesion", and "get out of my life woman" are three songs that any true classic rock fan wouldn' be missing from their collection.