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Iron Butterfly - Ball (1969)

Track listing:
  1. In The Time Of Our Lives 4:52
  2. Soul Experience 2:54
  3. Lonely Boy 5:00
  4. Real Fright 2:45
  5. In The Crowds 2:14
  6. It Must Be Love 4:26
  7. Her Favorite Style 3:15
  8. Filled With Fear 3:47
  9. Belda-Beast 5:46

Notes

Following the huge success of their second record, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly scored a second straight Top Five album with Ball. While it didn't have any acid rock freak-out to compare with the epic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," Ball was a more ambitious album, as the group experimented with shorter, more melodic songs. Like any Iron Butterfly album, the quality of the material is wildly inconsistent, yet cut for cut, Ball is a more consistent album than their two previous records, as the group trimmed away some of the acid rock excesses of their earlier records while retaining their brutally loud trademark heavy guitars.