The Animals – Ark
In 1983, the original Animals recorded another reunion album, on I.R.S. Records, of all things (I.R.S. was well known for new wave and alternative rock, not for bands whose heyday […]
In 1983, the original Animals recorded another reunion album, on I.R.S. Records, of all things (I.R.S. was well known for new wave and alternative rock, not for bands whose heyday […]
The original Animals — Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel — hadn’t recorded together since 1965. They did a single reunion concert in 1968 (when […]
“Love Is” is the last Animals album in my collection. It is also the last album by the “new” Animals, but bassist Danny McCullough and guitarist/pianist Vic Briggs had left […]
The pace of record releases in the ’60s was truly astonishing, and almost certainly one of the reasons so many bands fell apart under the pressure. Perhaps a bit easier […]
As we’re going through these old records, some of them are so well-known and familiar to me that I really don’t have any need to play them to tell the […]
The ‘60s were an incredible time of social upheaval, experimentation, change. Anything was possible — any artist could borrow inspiration from anything that had come before. The old rules had […]
Following up on the disaster (from an Animals standpoint) that was Eric Is Here – essentially a solo album – MGM came out with a second “best of” The Animals […]
The ‘60s are hard to explain sometimes. There was all that excitement and revolutionary change, and at the same time, there was the embrace of weird “old-timey” stuff and non-ironic […]
This one’s really just a novelty. As a 10” 45 RPM EP, it was apparently released in the UK, New Zealand and Australia in 1964, but never in the US […]
This is their fifth American album, released in November 1966. It has nothing in common with the UK album “Animalisms,” which came out in May 1966 in the UK; instead, […]