The Beatles – Please Please Me
I started working on The Beatles entries thinking that I didn’t own their very first album, “Please Please Me,” released in the UK (not the US) on March 22, 1963. I also don’t own...
Category: British Invasion
Prelude to The Beatles
The Beatles present a particular challenge for presenting in any sort of order. On my shelf, the albums sit chronologically, but that has no relation to how I experienced them, coming to The Beatles...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – The Best of Eric Burdon & The Animals, Vol. II
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....
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Eric Is Here
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 backsliding. And as the...
The Animals – The Animals (10″ EP)
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...
The Animals – Animalism
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...
The Animals – Animalization
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...
The Animals – Animalisms
Catch-up time! The next several entries will include records I’ve added to my collection since I passed their place in the alphabet! On our record crawl back in February (which right now feels about...
The Animals – The Best of The Animals
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,...
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