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Retrospective (CD)

By: The Animals (Artist)

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The Animals Artist Snapshot:

In their classic mid-1960s lineup, the Animals were one of the most formidable British blues groups, helping to spearhead the British Invasion led by the Beatles. Though heavily influenced by American blues artists, the Animals created their own voice, personified by the gruff, scrappy singing of Eric Burdon. After the original group fell apart in 1967, Burdon carried on as a solo artist, occasionally leading various new versions of the Animals.

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DISC 1 for Retrospective (CD) Album By The Animals (Artist)
1   House Of The Rising Sun
2   I'm Crying
3   Baby Let Me Take You Home
4   Gonna Send You Back To Walker
5   Boom Boom
6   Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
7   Bring It On Home To Me
8   We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (US)
9   It's My Life
10   Don't Bring Me Down
11   See See Rider
12   Inside - Looking Out
13   Hey Gyp
14   Help Me Girl
15   When I Was Young
16   Girl Named Sandoz, A
17   San Franciscan Nights
18   Monterey
19   Anything
20   Sky Pilot
21   White Houses
22   Spill The Wine - (with Eric Burdon & War)
 

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Rolling Stone (p.192) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The Animals were the most authentic-sounding R&B band to emerge from the British Invasion of the mid-Sixties....An essential collection."
Rolling Stone (p.154) - Included in Rolling Stone's The 10 Best Reissues & Anthologies Of 2004 - "The Animals finally get a best-of set that shows off the breadth and ferocity of their Sixties-hit streak..."

Title Note

The Animals: Eric Burdon (vocals); Hilton Valentine (guitar); Alan Price (keyboards); Chas Chandler (bass instrument); John Steel (drums).

Additional personnel: War.

Recording information: 1964 - 1970.

Today the most recognition the Animals get is "House of the Rising Sun" being played on oldies radio, but in the mid-1960s they were a powerful part of the British Invasion, often reckoned on a par with the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who. Like those bands, the Animals had strong roots in blues and R&B, but, in their original incarnation, they stayed closer to those roots than their peers did. This definitive compilation, masterfully assembled by the ABKCO think tank of Teri Landi and Jody Klein, shows the tough, uncompromising use to which the Animals put their American influences. John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" is recast as a raw garage rocker glazed with Alan Price's sinister organ riffs, and the aforementioned "House of the Rising Sun" is transformed from a traditional folk lament to an urgent, ominous piece of churning tumult.

Of course, the group skillfully expanded those roots (with the help of some great writers), and turned out some classic working-class-rebel anthems ("We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "It's My Life"). By '67, the original lineup disbanded, and Eric Burdon led a new batch of Animals into a psychedelic West Coast sound ("San Franciscan Nights," "Monterey"). The Animals may not be given pride of place in the rock history books, but RETROSPECTIVE shows that they fully deserve it.

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