The version on my album (the original version, I think) is 17:05 long. A little background: in Brin's The Uplift War, if I recall correctly, Fiben Bolger mentions "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" as very popular among neochimps. After I read that, I remembered a time when that song seemed to be playing constantly in my big brother's room. I didn't remember the group, though, so I called him to find out. It seemed to me that that song was one which any decent collection of '60s music ought to contain, so I ordered the album.

I frequently do that - take a flyer on an album for the sake of one song. More often than not it pays off, and it did in this case. I'm not saying that I'm delighted with the other tracks, but they do do things that I don't often hear, and rather like.