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Reverend Lovejoy: And now, please rise for our opening hymn, uh... "In the Garden of Eden," by I. Ron Butterfly.
Homer Simpson: Hey, Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?
Iron Butterfly were a psychedelic rock band and a major influence on heavy metal. They are well known for "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", the title track of their second album. The 17 minute long piece was epic, menacing and altogether awesome, and has since become a staple of numerous pop culture references thereafter. Oh yeah, and they did some other songs, too.
From: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/IronButterflyBand
It started out as a slurred lyric misheard by a bandmate and morphed into one of the signature songs of the psychedelic era. Iron Butterfly’s 17-minute “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” took root in the American consciousness on its release in 1968 and went on to enjoy an afterlife that spanned rock, disco and hip-hop. As The Simpsons episode where Bart tricks the church organist into playing the song shows, unexpected things can happen when you play around in the “garden of Eden”.
Iron Butterfly always wanted to do things differently. The Los Angeles quartet gave equal weight to organ, guitar, drums and bass, with no frontman, had little of the blues heritage of their peers and, as their name suggests, wanted to convey both light and heavy moods. “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” drew on Missa Luba - percussive renditions of the Latin Mass from the Democratic Republic of Congo - for the lengthy drum solos that would help make the song famous, while the organ arpeggios in the intro nod to Bach’s melodramatic Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. From: https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/in-a-gadda.html
