Ramblings about My Records
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 the “new” Animals were...
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 when they were covering...
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 to be thrown out....
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 collection in June, 1967....
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 until this Record Store...
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, most of the tracks...
This is their fourth American album, released in August 1966, and was very similar to the UK album “Animalisms,” which unfortunately I don’t own. It seems that their poppier efforts only appeared on the...
This “best of” compilation came out in February of 1966, and went gold in the US, peaking at no. 6, higher than any of their individual albums. Considering their first album in the US,...
As we noted last time, this US release, the Animals’ third in the US, had little to nothing to do with the British release (their second there) by the same name. With the benefit...
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