"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is a bit of a one-trick pony, but what a trick the pony can do": Is Iron Butterfly's iconic second album the most lopsided hit record ever?

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida cover art.

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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Most Anything You Want
Flowers And Beads
My Mirage
Termination
Are You Happy
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Its “strictly chickenshit” organ may have “bored to death” Rolling Stone in 1968, but Iron Butterfly’s second album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was a monster US hit and the first album ever to be certified platinum (for sales of a million copies) in America (it’s now sold 30 million).