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1. House Of The Rising Sun

2. I'm Crying

3. Baby, Let Me Take You Home

4. Around And Around

5. Talkin' Bout You

6. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

7. Boom Boom

8. Dimples

9. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

10. I'm In Love Again

11. Bury My Body

12. Gonna Send You Back To Walker

13. Story Of Bo Diddley

14. It's My Life

15. Bring It On Home To Me

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While they're best remembered for "House of the Rising Sun," the Animals had more than one track. What about "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "We've Gotta Get Out of this Place," to name but two, as well as a later incarnation's "San Franciscan Nights," Eric Burdon's ode to the flower power of 1967? Always rough and ready, the Animals were a blues band from Newcastle who never looked completely comfortable in their suits, but who nonetheless produced some great pieces of music--although whether there was ever quite enough to fill an entire album you have to judge for yourself. --Chris Nickson

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent all around, Dec 28 2003

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Trevor Seigler (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This was the very first CD I ever bought, back during my adolesence in the early Nineties, and it is still a treasured part of my CD collection. Having discovered the British Invasion about the same time most of my peers and their older siblings were discovering grunge, I fell in love with the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, and the Animals. What I remember most about purchasing this album was the fact that I didn't even have a CD player yet, so for about two months all I could do was look at the CD case, read the booklet over and over again, and wonder just how good some of the less-well-known songs were. I finally got to listen to it Christmas day 1993, and it was well worth the wait!

The Animals represent the ultimate blues band of the early British rock scene to come across the Atlantic, and their material still sounds as good today as it must have back in 1964. While similar groups like the Yardbirds embraced pop, the Animals (at least in their incarnation preserved here) seemed to remain grounded in the blues. The great songs they recorded are an essential addition to anyone's British Invasion CD library. Eric Burdon is in top form on the hits, but his vocals are equally impressive on tracks like "Bring It Back Home to Me" and "Round and Round". The Animals had soul, and for a bunch of white boys from Northern England they could truely stake a claim in the pantheon of great blues acts.

Rock and roll was born of the blues and country music, and no self-respecting rock fan should be ignorant of the many styles and artists important to the earliest development of the rock sound itself. Do yourself a treat and pick up this album, it's a great history lesson and a fantastic musical journey.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD!, April 5 2004

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Eric Marshall (Hammond, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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I Love The Animals for two reasons: The lead singer bears my first name (Burdon) and the driving keybording of Alan Price (who has to be in the pathion of Rock's greatest keyboard players). I am writing this review because I think I have the answer regarding 'Music Fan From California''s concern over why they don't have the original version of "We Got To Get Out Of This Place" (I hope that he reads this) on CD: If you want to hear the original version, you have to look up an import CD called "The Animals, Vol. 2" which is a collection of their songs from 1965 that includes the album version AND the original single version (EUREKA!) of "Place". I think that about solves the problem

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bring This Album on Home To You!!!, Oct 30 2003

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chris meesey Food Czar (The Colony, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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Most of the Animals fabulous hits in the 1960's can be divided into two types: the r and b, soul, and blues shouting anthems they recorded from 1964 thru early 1966, and the mind-bending, thoughtful, psychedelia they recorded from 1966 through the Love Is album in 1968. This compilation represents highlights from the early, more blues-influenced years. What set the Animals apart from their British invasion counterparts was a keen understanding and love for the blues, from the pounding boogie beat of the John Lee Hooker classics "Boom, Boom" and "Dimples," to Alan Price's carnival keyboard hooks of "Gonna Send You Back to Walker." (The latter track, listed here as an original, is in fact a band rewrite of the Hound Dog Taylor blues standard "Gonna Send You Back to Georgia.") Sadly, this CD version of Best of the Animals does not include another "original rewrite" that was on the LP version of this album, the outstanding "I'm Mad," a rewrite of Hooker's "I'm Bad Like Jesse James," (and Willie Mabon's "I'm Mad"; this song, like many blues classics, has had several incarnations.) Guitarist Hilton Valentine offers an excellent opening riff of the New Orleans folk standard "House of the Rising Sun," a cut which also features singer Eric Burdon at his most dramatic. Eric's other highlights include "I'm Crying" (great organ by Alan Price), the Ray Charles-version of "Talkin' About You" (geat Isley-brothers style shouting!), and "We've Gotta Get Out This Place" (a slow buildup to a great, wailing climax). Outstanding! "Story of Bo Diddley" features many hilarious moments, with Eric's great impressions of Bobby Vee and the Beatles and Stones (even though his time line of rock history is a bit off). Finally, the versions of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "It's My Life" are much more soulful and honest than their 70's disco remakes. In short, this album should be one of the first on your list of British Invasion CDs to buy, along with 1962-1966 from the Beatles and The Singles Collection from the Stones. Bring it on home today!

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