Eric Burdon - Sings The Animals Greatest Hits

Eric Burdon - Sings The Animals Greatest Hits Artist: Eric Burdon
Label: Avenue Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 081227170820
EAN: 0081227170820
ASIN: B0000033BE


Release Date: 1994-04-19

Eric Burdon - Sings The Animals Greatest Hits


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Tracks:

  1. House Of The Riding Sun
  2. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
  3. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
  4. It's My Life
  5. When I Was Young
  6. The Real Me
  7. Home Dream
  8. Stop
  9. Paint It Black
  10. Nights In White Satin
  11. Tobacco Road
  12. Mother Earth
  13. City Boy
  14. Have Mercy Judge
  15. A Day In The Life

Similar Items:

  1. The Animals' Greatest Hits
  2. The Complete Animals

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars MUSIC WITH GUTS!!!!.......2005-05-09

That is,something the original Animals NEVER had.I believe that these recordings were to make up for the lackluster musicianship that Eric had to endure through his early days.Don't get me wrong.I've always enjoyed the originals...until I got a hold of this!!Way before CD's came out,I had bought a cassete with most of the songs on here.I think it was a German import.I was a little put off at first(not being the originals),but listen to it.This album(yes,I still call them albums)ROCKS!!!If anything sounds like a lounge band,it's the original Animals.I can't blame Eric for a millisecond for wanting to redo these songs with a real rock band.I just like these versions BETTER!!

3 out of 5 stars Decent live solo compilation.......2005-01-30

Okay, the cover of "Nights in White Satin" is downright painful. Aside from that, these takes are a worthy record of what Eric Burdon was up to in the decade and a half after the Animals. Just don't expect the arrangements and sounds you remember from the real greatest hits. (Except "Spill the Wine", which is basically the original.)

One of my Christmas gifts this year to my son and his intended was that each could pick a favorite vinyl and I'd burn it on CD. This was his pick. At 28, he doesn't have my ingrained memories of the Animals recordings, and to him this was just solid - and treasured - rock and roll.

4 out of 5 stars Correction to my review below.......2004-03-11

Home Dream is also from the Jimmy Witherspoon-Eric Burdon Album, not Declares War. I was thinking of Home Cooking. The others are War, as stated.
Also, this CD's title should have been something like "Eric Burdon: The Best of the 70s" and then people wouldn't have had the rude surprise of discovering its content does not match its title. The word Animals should have been nowhere on this thing. All else remains the same. A great compilation.

4 out of 5 stars Don't prejudge this CD.......2004-03-07

This CD is an excellent compilation of the middle period of Burdon's solo work. IT IS NOT The Animals. If you want to hear the originals, buy Best Of and Best Of 66-68. As explained in the CD's liner notes, these songs are pretty much from the early to mid-70s. I had both Stop and Sun Secrets (Eric Burdon Band albums with two different line-ups) when they originally came out on vinyl and they contain some nice material. I also had Declares War and The Black-Man's Burdon (both Eric Burdon and War) before that, when they came out. This CD contains work from all four albums, although the War material is not credited, even on the liner notes, but if that's not War backing him up on Home Dream, Paint It Black, Nights In White Satin, Tobacco Road, and Mother Earth, then Burdon found an excellent and similar back-up band that should be working full time. Trust me, it's War. I don't have the originals anymore and haven't replaced the CDs yet, but anybody who knows the originals and listens to the combination of jazz-funk-R&B that's on those songs will recognize those cuts. Stop and City Boy, and I think We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, are from Stop, and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, It's My Life, When I Was Young, and The Real Me are from Sun Secrets. The three covers are very good once you get beyond your expectations (bias, if you will) for the originals. The Real Me is a particular favorite of mine because its style is very reminiscent of the feel of material on the classic Winds Of Change album, especially It's All Meat From The Same Bone. Not in melody, but in production, sound, and feel. It sounds like it could be a lost cut from Winds or The Twain Shall Meet. It's total Burdon's West Coast mid-60s sound. Have Mercy Judge is a nice blues piece from the rare Eric Burdon-Jimmy Witherspoon album. I think A Day In The Life comes from Declares War, but I don't rememember for sure. I don't know the origin of this version of The House Of The Rising Sun. It's probably previously unreleased and sounds like an out-take. Not my favorite version, but a nice interpretation if you LISTEN to what the artist is presenting. That's the key to this entire CD. If Eric Burdon showed up in your living room with some back up musicians and did this version of House right in front of you, you wouldn't compare it to the original, you'd say Holy Mackerel, I just heard Eric Burdon do a really neat version of The House Of The Rising Sun right in my own living room. Appreciation is a function of expectation. Listen to the artist/s on this CD and the material for what it presents. Not what you think it should present. This is a great compilation. You get classic Eric Burdon Band and Eric Burdon and War cuts, plus some nice treats thrown in for good measure. It's a good cross-section of stuff. And again, if you want to hear the originals, BUY them, not this one. But if you want to hear Eric Burdon workin' and workin', this one'll do it.

1 out of 5 stars

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