Animals, Eric Burdon - Love Is
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Free Music Review: The most underrated album ever?
Hit: 5 Stars
I will never understand rock critics, especially the way they put a tag on a record or artist and manage to contaminate other critics with their wrong ideas. There are many many records in rock history which have been underrated, maybe sometimes rediscovered when some rock star casually let understand that "actually it was a big influence on me, even though I was the only one listening to it" and blah blah blah. "Love is" by Eric Burdon & The New Animals is one of likeliest to win this bizarre competition that will never be thrown (how sad critics are so reluctant to admit they were wrong). Try as a might, from the first time I listened to it back in 1977 (hey, I was just 7 when it came out!) to the last of the innumerable listens so far, I could never understand what was wroong with it, to dismiss it at best as lacklustre, out of focus and uninspired and at worst with the deadliest insult, "unlistenable". To me, this as a single collection stands as the absolute best of Eric Burdon as a vocalist and the music is so creative that it just bursts from your speakers as if alive, the band is very tight and very loose at the same time and the overall effect is totally mesmerizing. I like everything and I mean EVERYTHING this man has produced from 1964 to 1980 at least (plus his recent very good comeback album), but if I were to pick one for the Desert Island, it would be this one. Just think about the phenomenal covers, especially "River deep-Mountain high", or maybe you like experiments a lot and then you have "The Madman and "Gemini", but the track that will really blow your mind is the blues "As the years go passing by" with its moody beginning as an almost "normal blues" close to the version by Albert King, then Eric launches an incredible battle between a bluesy guitar and a very distorted one (one of the two is future Police Andy Summers!) that reaches an impressive climax only to be replaced by the out-of-this-world vocal return by Eric, who delivers one the most powerful blues vocal ever by a white man and then slowly fades away intoning "till the day I die" until it becomes inaudible and you feel like he's really dying. Listen to this record without preconceptions and you'll surely find many delights. Down with rock journalists!Free Music Review: Have You Seen Tina Turner?!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Sixties zeigeist, at least on the face of it, was one of peace, love, and freedom. Love Is, originally released as a double vinyl album was Eric Burdon & the Animals' most ambitious effort and very much epitomizes that period. It's a recording that truly reflects its times with equal amounts of great musicianship and inspiration but a good deal of pretentiousness and overkill as well. River Deep, Mountain High is one of the most energetic cuts on the album as Eric pays tribute to the lovely Tina Turner with a great rendition of the song that she made famous. I'm an Animal is fun in a sort of dumb bar song type way while I'm Dying or Am I is basically a throwaway. I love Eric's version of Ring of Fire. It doesn't sound at all like Johnny Cash's original but Eric more than does justice to the tune even though there's some sloppiness (the harmony vocals don't always sound in tune and Barry Jenkins comes in a tad too early on drums on one of the choruses). Some reviewers have dumped on Coloured Rain but I have to disagree. This is a great version with an outstanding guitar solo (apparently by a pre-Police Andy Summers) and cool horns. The only negative note on it is again the harmony vocals. Although I've never particularly liked Eric's version of To Love Somebody, it's a sweet production job complete with soulful singers in the background and mellow guitar lines. As the Years Go Passing By is Eric's heartfelt tribute to the blues, "the ball and chain around every musician's leg." This minor key blues has it all: powerful vocal, smoking guitar solos, and real feeling. Whether you like Gemini and Madman or not depends on your personal taste. I have loved them since I first heard them on the vinyl release with all the psychedelic effects and trippy choruses. So this album is a mixed bag but I think that most of these "double-album" efforts during the Sixties tended to be part inspiration and part filler. George Martin once said that he felt that, looking back at the Beatles' White Album, the really good material would have made one great album. There is definitely one great album within the grooves of Love Is. You just have to be patient and stick with it.Free Music Review: Hats off to Eric! 5 big wobbly, psychedelic stars in the 1968 UFO sky
Hit: 5 Stars
Hats off to Eric!
Well, you know, if you remember the 60s, you weren't there and all of that. mumble, mumble
This was one incredible live band. Eric, Andy Summers, Zoot Money, the little dweeb who played the electric violin - this was one energetic, out-of-control band in the summer of 1968. I'm glad they got some of that energy down on vinyl and I only wish there was a lot more! (Live "Sky Pilot" with the on-stage explosions, bagpipes and roaring Eric, for instance).
If you purchase this, its essentially a time machine. You don't get concert performances like this anymore, to put it mildly. Eric could be somewhat overwhelming, but he sure was/is lovable, soulful and unique. What a set of pipes! - evidenced particularly here by "River Deep" and "Ring of Fire". (Jeez, didn't they have a usable take of Traffic's "Coloured Rain"? Eric got inside of, de-constructed and worked that one over to a "fair thee well"!)
Anyway, if you do like Amazon suggests and buy both this CD and "Every One of Us", which came out concurrently with this tour, you'll get an idea of how wild and woolly the summer of '68 was. And this was just 1/1,000,000th of what was happening musically that summer.
Word of warning - when you play this, some one in your house is going to hold their ears and complain: just the kind of musical effect I like!
One last note - no band this physically ugly would EVER get signed today -much to our everlasting regrets! These Animals definitely weren't the Backstreet Boys w/ Justin Timberlake fronting - these were moldy, hairy, patchy-looking blue collar gits from the industrial North of England, but they were "way into the music" and they as for real, baby.
Free Music Review: LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE IS!
Hit: 5 Stars
When I was a teen visiting England, my uncle played this album and I fell in love with it. After much searching I located it as a young adult, but my record player gave up the ghost so I was without it for many years. I was thrilled to discover it had been remastered and released on this CD.
Music is very subjective. And this is definately a work that you are either passionate about or think HUH? I just love it.
When I got this CD and put it on and heard it again for the first time in years I cried!
Colored Rain, River Deep Mountain High, and Ring of Fire are just incredible. Eric Burdon moves my soul!
This remastered recording is outstanding.
Free Music Review: Where was everybody?
Hit: 5 Stars
How come Eric Burdon never got the recognition he deserved? He was an individual. He faced down the record industry, lost money, but not respect. There never was a singer from England who sang better than Eric. This album is a masterpiece. Who else could put together ,blues psyschedelia, jump r&bs, and a fun, great song dedicated to Tina Turner and pull it off? Only Eric. Buy this CD and wonder," Why was I listening to the garbage out there when I could have been freaking to this? Ask MGM.