Animals, Eric Burdon - The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968
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Free Music Notes for The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968
Free Music Review: The best
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent vocals and feet tapping rhythms, these songs all have meaning. Gooseflesh raising.Free Music Review: good price fast delivery
Hit: 5 Stars
It was just the cd I was always wanting it was a good price and it was delivered fastFree Music Review: Eric Gets All Over the Place
Hit: 4 Stars
The Animals are most known for their earlier years of Alan Price, the time of "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," but this CD represents an exit from that sound. Instead, the singles and LP tracks included reflect a musical evolution, for The Animals were merely the revolving door Animals; people came and went, except for Eric Burdon, who managed at one point to pull off three LPs in less than one year, during 1968. Not among these three was the earlier psychedelic Winds of Change, represented here by the so-so title cut with Eric's name-dropping and the three beautiful ballads preceding it, among the best material on the CD. The later psychedelic-period numbers "Sky Pilot" and "Monterey" are quite well known, but the still-later "White Houses" is the best post-1967 song, more as a nice piece of music than for Eric's social commentary. Still, "Don't Bring Me Down," the opening track, is special to me. Released in 1966, it is most reminiscent of the original group in grit and texture, reminding us that even as performers move onward the longing for the original sound, that which brought fame, is always there.Free Music Review: Sky Pilot is an awesome track
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is worth having just for the track SKY PILOT, which is an incredible musical composition. Don't be confused: Sky Pilot is military slang for a chaplain, and this the song is really an anti-war statement. The story is that Eric Burdon wrote this song based on his grandfather's recollections of World War I. Sky Pilot didn't get much radio air play back in the '60's, because it is quite intense, and runs over 7 minutes.The CD also has "San Francisco", and other great tracks.
By the way, don't buy the other Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals CD, even though it's cheaper. They remastered and messed up some tracks on it.
Free Music Review: Terrific Collection Of Their Later Work
Hit: 4 Stars
No collection of sixties pop music is quite complete without the work of the Animals, especially (in my humble opinion, the later work including a number of selections contained in this CD. From the big hit "Don't Bring Me Down" to "Help Me Girl", from When I Was Young" to See See Rider", there are a lot of great cuts here. My personal favorites are "Monterey", "San Franciscan Nights", and of course, the mind-blowing "Sky Pilot", an eery psychedilic diatribe against the Vietnam war. Also contained herein is "White Nights" and "Winds of Change". All in all, a great representation of their later work, and one I am glad to have in my collection. Enjoy!