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...
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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,...
The Animals – Animal Tracks (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...
The Animals – Animal Tracks (UK)
Continuing to walk through my record collection in something like alphabetical order (excluding the classical section, which I may not always exclude), we come up next on The Animals. If you thought I had...
The Original Animals – Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
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 Music Machine — (Turn On) The Music Machine
The Music Machine appeared in my collection long before I bought this record, represented twice by “Talk Talk.” The first time was on the legendary Nuggets anthology, a garage rock collection that I couldn’t...
Mickie Most Presents English In-Groups
This is one of those weird acquisitions from the time in my life when my policy was to buy nearly anything from the British Invasion. Being a huge fan of The Animals and pretty...
John Mayall — Blues Breakers
For the longest time, I just paid no attention to John Mayall. My British blues was mostly filtered through The Animals and the like – that particularly British turn on R&B. For my blues,...
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