Magic Carpet Ride
| Magic Carpet Ride | |
|---|---|
| Steppenwolf | |
| publication | September 1968 |
| length | 2:55 |
| Genre (s) | Psychedelic rock , acid rock |
| Author (s) | John Kay , Rushton Moreve |
| Label | ABC Records |
| album | The Second |
Magic Carpet Ride is a charismatic rock song by the Canadian-American rock band Steppenwolf from 1968.
history
The single is a pre-release of the title from the band's second album ( The Second ), which was released in October 1968, and has been shortened by about 1:30 min. And thus by the improvisation part in the middle of the song . It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the United States ; in Germany it came to number 11 on the charts.
meaning
Includes approximately 4:25 minutes long album version of the title -. Alongside the Byrds -Titel Eight Miles High (1966), the Jimi Hendrix version of of Bob Dylan -penned songs All Along the Watchtower (1967) and the 17-minute version from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Californian rock group Iron Butterfly (1968) - to the most striking and well-known examples of drug-influenced psychedelic rock , the further development of which was mainly shaped by the music of the group Pink Floyd .
Soundtracks
The song was used in numerous movie soundtracks : The Mask (1985), Apollo 13 (1995), Austin Powers 2 (1999), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), The Dish (2000), Jay and Silent Beat Bob back (2001), Team America (2004), Sahara - Adventure in the Desert (2005), Friends with Certain Benefits (2011) and in the Bedlam version in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992).
Cover versions
There are only a few cover versions of the piece - the best known are perhaps the version of soul singer Billy Paul recorded in 1971 for the album Going East , the version by the rock group Bedlam (1991) , which is heavily based on the original, and the Latino version of the singer Myra from 2000. Another version of Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five was created - with the assistance of Steppenwolf - as early as 1988.