The Animals - Best of the Animals
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Free Music Notes for Best of the Animals
Free Music Review: Recommended
Hit: 4 Stars
At their best ("We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," and "House of the Rising Sun,") the Animals were as good as any of their contemporaries. Their version of the classic "House of the Rising Sun" is still the best interpretation around (including Bob Dylan's - which in-itself is fantastic), and "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" is a rock classic. When he was on his game, Eric Burdon ascended to the the same league as other great rock vocalists such as John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Roger Daltry. The Animals sound is unmistakeable, and their work remains important to anyone interested in both the influence of the British Invasion on the 1960s and the evolution of rock in general. The only drawback to the Animals stems from their lack of consistency: they produced some extraordinary singles such as the ones mentioned above, but they were uneven, an uneveness that can be detected even on a greatest hits complitation. You don't find the volume of quality work that you will find with the Beatles, Stones, Who, or Kinks - but what you will find here is a truly original group who contributed considerably to the spirit of their times. If you want to get a full picture of rock music, you have to deal with the Animals at some point, and the experience will be a stimulating one.
Free Music Review: Among The Best Of The British Invasion
Hit: 5 Stars
Eric Burdon & The Animals were every bit as good as other r&b influenced British bands like the Stones, Yardbirds, etc. but never got the same attention as they did. How many kids with electric keyboards cut their teeth on House Of The Rising Sun & Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood? So many of the Animals' hits became garage band classics. This is probably the best of their big hits. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: Definitive collection of the Animals!
Hit: 5 Stars
The original american hits, by Eric Burdon & his Animals. Songs included like "House Of The Rising Sun", "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", "It's My Life", "Dimples" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place". In a CD compilation originally recently released in 1965. Lineup of performances is strong, sound quality is good not indifferent. Best of The Animals covers every territory to a much finest effect with superior sound and a few liner notes with it includes the british bands own historical personal profile interview of themselves!Free Music Review: buy this album yesturday
Hit: 5 Stars
great album to start your album collection cause it has all their great 60s hits or if you have other animals albums this is amust if you don't have itFree Music Review: The Animals Are Grrrrrrrreat!
Hit: 5 Stars
Like many early British Invasion bands (the Yardbirds, the Who, Rolling Stones and Them), the original Animals were a hard-driving R&B band featuring the gritty vocals of Eric Burdon and the trademark organ playing of Alan Price.This 15-track collection hits the group's highlights from its two-year stay on Britain's EMI. [Note: Although all the Animals' hits throughout the Sixties were distributed by MGM in America, the band switched labels in the UK to Decca in 1966. That's why the Decca singles "Inside Looking Out" and "Don't Bring Me Down" are not on this set. Also, this album was originally released in February 1966--four months before "Don't Bring Me Down" was even released.]
The centerpiece of this collection is Alan Price's four-and-a-half-minute arrangement of "House of the Rising Son," and despite its length shot to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. It would be the band's only No. 1 single.
Unlike most of the British Invasion bands with lengthy chart careers, the Animals seldom wrote their own material. The only exception is the Burdon-Price collaboration "I'm Crying." For the rest of their material they turned to the likes of John Lee Hooker ("Boom Boom" and "Dimples"), Fats Domino ("I'm in Love Again"), Sam Cooke ("Bring It on Home to Me) and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ("We Gotta Get out of This Place") among others.
By 1967 the rest of the original Animals were gone. Burdon formed a new version of the Animals and entered his psychedelic phase ("Montery," "Sky Pilot"). But this Abkco release features the original lineup and as such, the group's best material. If you want more of the original band's work, consider Complete Animals. At 40 tracks it includes virtually all of the Animals' first three U.S. albums along with various B-sides and unreleased material. But if you're on a budget, The Best of the Animals will do just fine. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED