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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sometimes I think I should really take these entries out of order (or in emotional/biographical order), because I shouldn’t embark on the Jefferson Airplane discography without starting with the record […]
I first became aware of Elmore James through Eric Burdon, of the Animals. On an odd import soundtrack album by the Eric Burdon Band from 1982, he sings a song […]