The Animals - Best of the Animals
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Artist: The AnimalsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Abkco
Soundtracks:
- The House of the Rising Sun - The Animals, Price, Alan
- I'm Crying - The Animals, Price, Alan
- Baby Let Me Take You Home - The Animals, Farrell, Wes
- Around and Around - The Animals, Berry, Chuck
- Talkin' 'Bout You - The Animals, Charles, Ray [1]
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals, Benjamin, Bennie
- Boom Boom - The Animals, Hooker, John Lee
- Dimples - The Animals, Hooker, John Lee
- We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals, Weil, Cynthia
- I'm in Love Again - The Animals, Domino, Fats
- Bury My Body
- Gonna Send You Back to Walker - The Animals, Matthews, Johnnie M
- Story of Bo Diddley - The Animals, Burdon, Eric
- It's My Life - The Animals, Atkins, Roger
- Bring It on Home to Me - The Animals, Cooke, Sam
Music reviews of Best of the Animals
Music Review: Great compilation!
Rating: 5 Stars
The Animals: Eric Burdon on vocals, Chas Chandler on bass, John Steel on drums, Hilton Valentine on guitar, Alan Price and Dave Rowberry on organ and piano. And this group made some of the best blues rock music of the 1960s. This CD includes works recorded in 1964 and 1965.
It starts out with the classic "House of the Rising Sun." This is rawly sung and sung in a compelling manner by Eric Burdon. He had one of the truest blues voices of the 1960s among younger singers. The organ of Alan Price adds a really neat element to this song, with foreboding lines such as "[this house] has been the ruin of many a poor boy, and Lord I'm one."
I also enjoy their effort at singing Chuck Berry. His "Around and Around" is a wonderful little rock and roll piece, and the Animals cover it nicely. Burdon does a credible job singing this familiar Berry work, with classic lines such as "never stop rockin' until the moon went down." And Hilton Valentine plays nice Chuck Berry guitar work.
John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" is a classic blues song. How well to the Animals cover this? Good blues guitar work by Valentine and a nice organ element by Price add to the song greatly. Burdon isn't John Lee Hooker "listen to the latter's vocal styling!), but he does a nice job in his own terms. In short, a satisfying cover of a fine blues song.
I could not resist commenting on their version of a Goffin-King composition, "I'm in Love Again." The Animals imbue this with a nice blues-rock sensibility.
And then one of their classic anthems, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place." Key line up front: "You'll be dead before your due." This is about living in a working/lower class situation; Burdon sings of his father's desperate life. He sings of how he and his girl have to escape, with the lines (poignantly and rawly sung): "We gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing we ever do," in order to achieve a "better life." A pretty somber picture of life at the bottom. This contains an awful lot of social commentary, scaffolded by some fine rock and roll instrumental work.
My last illustration of the work from this CD--"Story of Bo Diddley." They begin with that distinct Bo Diddley sound, played quite nicely. This is the story of Bo Diddley, with mention of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, and references to Bob Dylan and so on. Enchanting!
So, the bottom line? This is a wonderful collection of the Animals' best works. Obviously, one can argue that 15 cuts cannot do justice to the work of the Animals. But this is one unbelievable set of songs, so I have no beef on that point. A must buy if you want the best of the Animals.
Description of Best of the Animals
While they're best remembered for "House of the Rising Sun," the Animals had more than one track. What about "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "We've Gotta Get Out of this Place," to name but two, as well as a later incarnation's "San Franciscan Nights," Eric Burdon's ode to the flower power of 1967? Always rough and ready, the Animals were a blues band from Newcastle who never looked completely comfortable in their suits, but who nonetheless produced some great pieces of music--although whether there was ever quite enough to fill an entire album you have to judge for yourself. --Chris NicksonGeneral CDs
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