In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (song).
Although commonly referred to as In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, the actual album title is In the Garden of Eden.

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest song ever written at 17 minutes and 5 seconds. However, that is not even half the length of the actual song. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" isn't even the actual title, either!

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[edit] History

Charles Ingalls, keyboardist and singer for Gospel/acid rock band Iron Butterfly, began writing a pseudo-heavy metal song entitled, "In the Garden of Eden" in December of 1967. "It just started with that riff and then I just couldn't end it!" Ingalls explains. "The guys wanted to know when I was ever gonna finish it!"

In 1968, Iron Butterfly was in the middle of recording their second album, and they pushed Ingalls to finish the song. In fact, they literally put a gun to his head. Although explaining that the song wasn't finished yet, he gave in and performed the song on the keyboards. After exactly 17 minutes and 5 seconds had passed, drummer Ron Weasley waved his arms and told Charles, "Stop! That's enough! That is the most annoying song I have ever heard since 'Lazy Sunday'! Let's do it...but not the whole damn thing!" Six hours of the song had been written at this point.

The song filled up the entire album, also entitled In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. In fact, there was no room for the other five songs, which were not released until the third album. The song became a monster hit, thanks not only to its horrendous length, but also, its memorable guitar riff.


The song reached number 30 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, as well as Number 1 on the Billboard Most Annoying Singles chart. The album was in the Top Ten for 17 weeks and 5 days.

[edit] Today

The song is still being written to this very day and the whole damn thing is expected to be released some time in 2013. It is expected to reach the length of no longer than 45 years, 6 months, 5 weeks, 2 days, 7 Hours, 17 Minutes, and 5 seconds. The album will be released as a 299,607-disc set entitled In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: The Extended Version and will be available exclusively from Time Life.

[edit] Lyrics and incorrect titles

Annie Gobbled DeVito?

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida's" title and lyrics have been the subject of debate since 1968. Drummer Ron Weasley and guitarist Erik "Raisin" Brann asked Charles Ingalls what the hell he was saying, and he replied in a drunken slur, "In the Garden of Eden." The song has actually been recorded and relased under various incorrect titles over the years.

[edit] What Ron and Erik thought Charles was saying

Among other things:

When Charles Ingalls had to properly pronounce the title, bassist Carlton Lee Doorman stormed out of the room, only to return and suggest the title "In-A-Google-Da-... whatever you just said."

Ingalls declined the suggestion and kept the original title, "In the Garden of Eden." However, the company hired to press the album kept releasing the album all across the United States with several different titles, the most common being In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Others include the aforementioned titles; Ali Baba DeVito; I Don't Want a Libido; Man, I Gotta Go Pee, Duh; Anyone on Wikipedia?; Onomatopoeia; and finally, ???.

[edit] Anatomy

As stated above, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is notorious not only for its length but also its guitar riff. Here is a full anatomy of the epic stoner song:

The song begins with the Vox organ playing an arpeggio in D minor.


Nuh-nuh-nuh,
Nuh-nuh-nuh,
Nuh-nuh-nuh, Nuh-nuh-nuh,

Nuh-nuh-nuh,
Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh

Nuuuuuhhh, Nuh-nuh nuh, Nuh, Nuh, Nuh, Nuh

And next is the guitar riff:


Duh! Nuh! Nuh-nuh-nuh Nuh! Dun! Dun! Dun!
(Play infinitely)

Next Charles Ingalls says something completely unintelligible:


In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey!
Dunncha Nudda La La-Huh Voo-Who?


In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby!
Dunncha Noda Lawl always bee chew?

Next comes some scary-sounding part:



Duh-nuh nuh-nuh! Nuh-nuh nuh-nuh!
Nuh-nuh nuh-nuh! Nuh-nuh nuh-nuh!

Next Charles sings some more unintelligible stuff, too hard for anybody to decipher. The last thing he sings is "Pleeeeeease.... take myyyyy... haaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaannnnd!" which then takes us back to the main riff.

Then Charles repeats the same parts over and over and over and then the solos begin.

First is the organ solo:



Splish! Splosh! Pfffffarrrt! P-P-P-P-Ppppppt-Pt-Pt!

Squish! Splish! Splish-Splosh-Squish AAAAAAAAA!

Next is the guitar solo, which is probably a ripoff of another guitar solo, but hey, aren't they all?

Next is a short bass solo, unfortunately the fish got away mid-solo and jumped back into its aquarium.

After the abbreviated bass solo is the now-infamous drum solo.



Da-da duht!
Da duht!
Da duht-da duht! Dun duht!


(Repeat for about 8 minutes)

Then the organ joins in, stealing the melody from that Trans-Siberian Orchestra song, I think. Or maybe it was the Pinky and the Brain theme song.

Then all the instruments join in and the song starts from the riff and back into the verse. Then the riff is repeated a billion more times and then the end on the arpeggio and the first six notess of the riff:



Duh! Nuh! Nuh-nuh-nuh Nuh!

[edit] References in pop culture

[edit] Trivia

  • Is one of VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders... but not by Iron Butterfly. Rather, it was the versions by Kevin Federline and William Shatner that topped this chart.
  • Is too damn long!

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