Light & Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly

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Light & Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly
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ReleasedJanuary 19, 1993 (1993-01-19)
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Length74:08
Label Rhino
Iron Butterfly chronology
Sun and Steel
(1975)
Light & Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly
(1993)
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Light & Heavy: The Best of Iron Butterfly is a greatest hits compilation released by Iron Butterfly in 1993. It contains most of their studio recordings from 1967 to 1970, including 21 of their 33 studio album tracks from that period.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Iron Butterfly Theme" – 4:34
  2. "Possession" – 2:45
  3. "Unconscious Power" – 2:32
  4. "You Can't Win" – 2:41 (Bonus Track)
  5. "So-Lo" – 4:05 (Bonus Track)
  6. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Single version) – 2:53
  7. "Most Anything You Want" – 3:44
  8. "Flowers and Beads" – 3:05
  9. "My Mirage" – 4:55 (Bonus Track)
  10. "Termination" – 3:00
  11. "In the Time of Our Lives" – 4:52
  12. "Soul Experience" – 2:53
  13. "Real Fright" – 2:44 (Bonus Track)
  14. "In the Crowds" – 2:13
  15. "It Must Be Love" – 4:26
  16. "Belda-Beast" – 5:45 (Bonus Track)
  17. "I Can't Help But Deceive You, Little Girl" – 3:34
  18. "New Day" – 3:20 (Bonus Track)
  19. "Stone Believer" – 4:25
  20. "Soldier in Our Town" – 3:22 (Bonus Track)
  21. "Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)" – 3:07

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