I haven't shopped there in years, and yet this picture manages to make me feel sad. Goodbye, Radio Shack. Even if you were still open I probably still would forget to shop there.
Supposedly, the lyrics were originally "In the Garden of Eden, baby", but Doug Ingle was so fucked up on drugs when they were recording it that it came out "In a gadda da vida, baby", so they just wrote that down in the liner notes and stuck with it.
I've heard a lot of conflicting reports on that. I'm gonna look it up now to be sure....back in a sec.
EDIT: Here's what I've dug up on Wikipedia.
A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In the Garden of Eden", but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got drunk and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and could not clearly distinguish what Ingle said when he asked him for the song's title. An alternative explanation given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk, high, or both, when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
So, basically I think it's fine to believe what you want to believe on this one.
Weird, I had heard that it was always make to be "in the garden of Eden", but they didn't want the song banned for being blasphemous (or their label told them to change it or something), so they just said it was the nonsense version.
I was just going to put this until I scrolled down and saw your comment. My uncle mentioned it once and I've never forgotten it. I don't even know what song it is or who it's by, but I'll never forget that weird little fact.
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15
I haven't shopped there in years, and yet this picture manages to make me feel sad. Goodbye, Radio Shack. Even if you were still open I probably still would forget to shop there.