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 had been almost two...
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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...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Love Is
“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 group. In their...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Every One Of Us
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...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Winds of Change
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....
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 – 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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