The Best of Eric Burdon & War

Product Description
The cream of WAR's output recorded during Burdon's brief, but productive, stint with the group! Includes the 1970 classic, "Spill The Wine." Brought to you from our friends at Avenue Records.

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Average customer rating: Animals... Yea! this is killer music! The best The Other Animals Great Compilation Of Late-60s Eric Burdon

The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968 Eric Burdon & the Animals Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | British Isles | Europe | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | British Isles | Europe | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music $7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classic Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Rock | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music International | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $7.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Best of the Animals The Best of Eric Burdon & War The Complete Animals "The Yardbirds - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: 1964-1966" Soul of a Man ASIN: B000001G1N Release Date: 1991-06-11

Tracks:

1. Don't Bring Me Down
2. See See Rider
3. Inside Looking Out
4. Hey Gyp
5. Help Me Girl
6. When I Was Young
7. A Girl Named Sandoz
8. San Franciscan Nights
9. Good Times
10. Anything
11. Winds Of Change
12. Monterey
13. Sky Pilot
14. White Houses
15. River Deep, Mountain High

Customer Reviews:

Animals... Yea!.......2007-04-09

This is a pretty good compilation of the animals later work. It is regretable that it does not include the Bee Gees cover"To Love somebody" that was included on the original LP that only perhaps Janis Joplin covered better(debatable) I never liked the Bee Gees much but the Animals version rocks. But then just about anything the Animals did rocked.

this is killer music!.......2006-08-25

Prior to 1970, Burdon/The Animals could do no wrong. This is Burdon leaving his soul/blues and exploring broader landscapes. Not only are the songs great, but also I love the production. It is so raw!

The best song...River Deep Mountain High. For Tina Turner, it was a dog/overblown tune. For Burden, wow! awesome.

If you are checking out this cd, you must be an Animal's fan. This rocks harder. is more raw, more experimental that the animals yet still has the animals vibe. This is a true 5 star compilation.

The best.......2006-06-29

Excellent vocals and feet tapping rhythms, these songs all have meaning. Gooseflesh raising.

The Other Animals.......2006-03-23

I hate to start a review with a backhanded compliment, but I was surprised at how good this CD is. Somehow, Burdon's work of the late 60s has gotten lost in the public mind. We hear his early work with the Animals on the radio all the time as well as his later collaboration, "Spill the Wine," that he did with War. But what about the period from 66 to 68? This CD ably fills the gap in the collective consciousness. Here, Burdon used a different group from the one that made him famous in England. His new bandmates sound like the Newcastle Animals on heavy doses of psychedelia. But the group never strays too far from Burdon's R & B and blues roots. Sure, there's goofy, poppy stuff like "Sky Pilot," but for the most part, the new Animals play good old rock and roll. The bass work on "A Girl Named Sandoz" is absolutely filthy. Lapdance filthy. Burdon's voice maybe isn't quite as deep and bellowing as on his earlier work with the Animals. It sounds a bit scratchier, a bit more whiskey soaked than his earlier stuff. But it's still great. There are no weak songs, which cover a wide range of musical styles. Monterrey, for example, recounts that 1967 concert while imitating the sound of some of the groups who performed there. When Burdon talks about the Who, his band shifts into Who mode. When he talks about Ravi Shankar, the sitar strikes up. And so on. It's a fun, imiginative song. The CD concludes with River Deep, Mountain High, which reminded me of the Faces's tune, "Stay with Me." It's fast, long, and rocks. I bought this CD for the one song, "When I was Young." Thankfully, the rest of it was just as good. Recommended listening for anyone who likes Eric Burdon or the Animals.

Great Compilation Of Late-60s Eric Burdon.......2005-08-12

THE BEST OF ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS, 1966-1968 is a great collection that starts off in the Memphis-Chicago-Detroit-Great Plains blues-rock-soul vein of early Animals, and then quickly moves into psychedelia. The most compelling cuts on this anthology, which I own on cassette, are "Monterey", a hymn to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, and the devastating anti-war screed "Sky Pilot", which was released during the height of the Vietnam War but was actually not specifically about that war; rather, it was a condemnation of war in general seen through the eyes of a military chaplain. This is a great anthology which any fan of classic rock should own.

Average customer rating: The most potent white singer gifted of the blackest voice! Jerry Goldstein's Far Out, errr Far Off production. And the fold- out was ?????????? Newcastle Cat's Funky Night Shift Best album ever......

The Best of Eric Burdon & War Eric Burdon & War Manufacturer: Avenue Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968 Eric Burdon Declares "War" My Secret Life Soul of a Man The Black-Man's Burdon ASIN: B0000033J7 Release Date: 1995-03-28

Tracks:

1. Magic Mountain
2. Spill The Wine
3. Tobacco Road
4. Mother Earth
5. Love Is All Around
6. Home Dream
7. Bare Back Ride
8. Nights In White Satin
9. Beautiful New Born Child
10. Paint It Black
11. They Can't Take Away Our Music
12. Gun
13. Home Cookin'

Album Description

The cream of WAR's output recorded during Burdon's brief, but productive, stint with the group! Includes the 1970 classic, "Spill The Wine." Brought to you from our friends at Avenue Records.

Customer Reviews:

The most potent white singer gifted of the blackest voice! .......2006-09-02

Eric Burdon, the white singer with the most privileged black voice ever born established during the brief time together (1969-1971) with WAR a true halo of musical fluency and literally opened a gate for the necessary exit of so many encountered rhythms that were in baling point at that moment. On one hand, Santana and his fusion elements, the Soul as the most genuine expression from the sixties, was in decay.

This fortunate blending of jazz elements and the Latin swing (alas Poncho Sanchez- Dizzy Gillespie and Manteca) was much more than a simple ensemble with successful results as Chicano for instance.

Burdon knew wisely to arrange famous versions of the hard rock and could harmonize them through his potent voice and a memorable team of notable musicians. Lonnie Jordan recalled with admiration these revealing opinions: 2 Eric taught me a lot - we were able to improvise with him in ways that I had not thought were possible before. Sometimes we'd play for 45 minutes nonstop on stage, improvising all the way through. He really amazed me."

Tobacco road and Paint in black were two anthological themes that literally received a new treatment and shone with own light. On the other hand you should take into ccou8nt the fantastic blues "Mother earth" and "Home dream", two track many times forgotten and even neglected at the moment to consider the most representative pieces of this famed ensemble.

Nevertheless "Spill the wine" would become the main presentation card and practically its hymn through the world.

In this sense this ensemble marked a landmark and not simply a transition vehicle as you could suppose, around the richness and future source of inspiration to many future ensembles that found and still on determining clues to create new possibilities of expression.

So this album is not only a refulgent and historical album, it's part of the reduced elite of invaluable recordings along the treasures of time. Pitifully I cannot give five stars because these pieces are not exactly the best of their production.

Jerry Goldstein's Far Out, errr Far Off production........2006-03-29

...although it was nice to see Magic Mountain make the cut (the flip side to the smash hit Spill the Wine, which also made an appearance in the film called "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart" with the tagline; "Stanley Sweetheart needs a new head. He's growing one in his magic garden". starring Don "Miami Vice" Johnson). This by no means is the best of Eric Burdon & War. Not even close.

Sure, the essentials are here like Gun, Tobacco Road, Spill The Wine and Beautiful New Born Child. But it's what's left off that I find somewhat disturbing. Almost insulting to anyone who liked this version of War (Eric Burdon) more than the latter (Jerry's version). It can be argued that the latter were more relevent based on the amount of hits manufactured by the post-Burdon War. And they had alot of them in the 70's like The Cisco Kid, Gypsy Man and Slippin Into Darkness to name a few. I mean, who could forget Cheech prepping his Chevy to Low Rider in "Up In Smoke"? But when you think of "The Best Of;" you're thinking of something definitive. And that's not here on this compilation. Even though Burdon wasn't with War for very long, much more ground could have been covered.

The omissions are plentiful here. And why Out Of Nowhere, Sun/Moon and Pretty Colors are left off is any War-philes guess. No Roll On Kirk? Are you kidding? CD's hold approximately 70 minutes of recorded material and the gems The Bird And The Squirrel and (Charles Miller, famous for his sax solo in The World Is A Ghetto, played the flute every bit as good) Nuts, Seeds & Life are nowhere to be heard. Avenue records and whomever compiled this collection of songs for release proves yet again...to be out of touch with the War effort and their fans. oh and..."I am not wrong! They say they understand me, But I cannot stand to be understood!".

"The Best Of;"? ...Hardly.

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And the fold- out was ??????????.......2004-05-27

Despite the somewhat unusual gatefold photo the music was even more unusual. PC 3 was about as un-p.c. as it could be in 1970.Going on 34 years of hearing "Spirit" it still is a haunting song.Eric's voice melds with War's georgeous harmonies throughout.Especially on Pretty Colors. Eric is his sometimes salicious self on Bare Back Ride[great music].War brought out the best of Eric Burdon's stories.I had the pleasure of seeing this tour in 1970 in a college gym.Eric & War played over 2 1/2 hours of totally stoned out jazz/funk/soul/rock/blues/latin/ gospel/psychedelic/boogie/etc. To this day it was the best show I have ever seen.Eric makes "Knight's in White Satin" his own & even further confuses me about the song!Eric brings out the emotional highs & lows of the lyrics.War is the most under-rated part of this combo.What bar were they playing in before hooking up w/ Burdon?I would have liked to have seen the first time eric met them.A truely unique pairing that produced music that combined everything & knew no boundries.......the album/cd sounds as fresh & innovative today as in 1970.They even sneak in the hated DRUM & BASS solos.Eric still preachs love[Out of Nowhere].....The best is saved for last with "They Can't Take Away Our Music".Eric Burdon has always worn his heart on his sleeve w/ his references to those artists who made him the artist he still is in 2004.In this song he/they pays tribute to so many people that I had heard of but had never really HEARD that it still amazes me how far his /their musical experience was. This is music at it's Finest..... Crank up the volume and spend 90 minutes in musical bliss.Hey "Pretty Colors " brought back memories of ROY G BIV.

Newcastle Cat's Funky Night Shift.......2002-05-14

Following the collapse of the New Animals after the fetid LOVE IS double set, Eric regrouped in L.A., ostensibly to break into the film industry. His new managers Steve Gold and Jerry Goldstein had other ideas and paired the Newcastle Cat with Night Shift, a local Latin-funk bar band. The combo not only clicked, but cooked, 'specially when E.B. brought in a Danish harmonica ace named Lee Oskar to fill out the Shift's simmering, joyous soul/R&B gumbo. (Renaming the band War was Eric's way of turning a word associated with tragedy into a positive.) This collection gathers several high-points from their fertile fusion, most notably the loopy, infectious "Spill the Wine" and the moving "They Can't Take Away Our Music," easily the best song Burdon ever had a hand in writing. Note how E.B. graciously shares the mic with his bandmates before bringing down the house on the chorus---absolute magic. At their best, the Burdon/War partnership artfully fuses impressionistic lyricism with fluid funk ("Magic Mountain"; "Home Dream"; "Gun"; the anthemic "Home Cookin'"; the stirring chorus of the gospel-like "Beautiful Newborn Child" sounds like something from the O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU soundtrack). Even the oft-covered "Paint It Black" (Burdon already recorded it with the New Animals) is revived with a trippy salsa-funk arrangement. The only lemon here is the ridiculous cover of "Nights In White Satin," but Burdon never could let go of the sixties. And yet, War's so committed, they nearly make this dopey epic work. Even so, "Vision of Rahsaan" would have worked better here. Although War scored a string of great hits like "Slipping Into Darkness" and "Why Can't We Be Friends" after Burdon left the group (a long story), the band seemed somewhat faceless without their "overfed, long-haired leaping gnome" of a frontman.

Best album ever.............1998-11-16

Music which goes to the core of life... Powerfull, original and very very cool...

Average customer rating: Disappointed Delete "Monterey" And I'll Give It 4 Stars Absolutely The Best So many things are not right about this recording Disappointing

Absolutely the Best Eric Burdon Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Soul of a Man The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968 My Secret Life The Lovin' Spoonful - Greatest Hits Retrospective ASIN: B00000ILXT Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

1. House Of The Rising Sun
2. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
3. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
4. It's My Life
5. Help Me Girl
6. Boom Boom
7. Inside - Looking Out
8. Don't Bring Me Down
9. I'm Crying
10. Bring It On Home To Me
11. San Franciscan Nights
12. See See Rider
13. Spill The Wine
14. Monterey
15. When I Was Young
16. White Houses

Customer Reviews:

Disappointed.......2007-06-05

Though it's Eric Burdon singing, these aren't the original recordings of his songs. They've been redone, not remastered, and you can tell. All of the band music simply isn't there. The Rising Sun isn't as good as the original, nor is Spill the Wine. I was looking for the "Original" recordings. I'll have to search for them elsewhere, probably on I-Tunes. Bummer.

Delete "Monterey" And I'll Give It 4 Stars.......2007-03-18

Everytime "Monterey" comes on the radio my first instinct is to change the station. But, somehow it's like passing a train wreck and not being able to look away. It's so bad I have to listen. The lyrics make me cringe. Whoever wrote this song apparently had never heard of "poetic meter". Can someone explain to me why Eric Burdon whispers "In the beginning......." at the start of the song? It makes no sense. The instruments sound like some non-musicians came into the studio and began playing with them. I'm a fan of Eric Burdon (and The Animals) but this song should never have been written or recorded.

Absolutely The Best.......2005-09-25

Absolutely The Best.That would be my thought if I listened these tracks in a row ignoring they all were part of an album. The albums walks through all the trends and ages of Burdon & The Animals or with War. The selection is exact both for Burdon's followers who want to have the best at hand and for those who are discovering Burdon's music. I'm thinking of more tracks that might be part of this album, like "Bright Lights Big City" or "How you've changed", but this compilation is excellent.

So many things are not right about this recording.......2005-06-02

1. Absolutely lacks the fire of the originals; it sounds tired.
2. At best, the packaging is misleading; at worst, it is fraudulent. Name another "greatest hits" recording that did not consist of the originals?
3. The background vocals sound lame - see #1 above.

The Animals did some great stuff, especially some of their covers of Howlin' Wolf and Little Richard. It's too bad that this tired re-hash is being pawned off as their best.

Disappointing.......2004-07-03

This CD contains 16 re-recordings of Eric Burdon's greatest songs. Sadly, the arrangement is quite weak, and the songs are from an album released earlier called "The Animals' Greatest Hits" or something like that. That CD is a bootleg released by Disky, and Eric doesn't receive any royalties from it.
But still - Eric sings quite all right, so if the info above doesn't scare you off, perhaps you should give it a shot.

Average customer rating: Have never received it good sampler GREAT ALBUM, Should have been called Vol. 3 Only Part Of The Best Get the other one

Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals Eric Burdon and the Animals Manufacturer: Umvd Special Markets ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music British Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | British Invasion | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Best Of Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1966-1968 The Complete Animals The Animals' Greatest Hits Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted Animalisms ASIN: B0000047OD Release Date: 1998-04-08

Tracks:

1. Monterey
2. Shake
3. Sky Pilot
4. San Franciscan Nights
5. All Night Long
6. St. James Infirmary
7. Paint It Black
8. To Love Somebody
9. Ring Of Fire
10. Winds Of Change

Customer Reviews:

Have never received it.......2005-07-28

I've never received the order. It's been paid well and confirmed.

good sampler.......2005-04-19

Ok this isnt "The Best of Eric Burdon And The Animals. However it is a good sampler from the 1966-1968 lineup. It contains HARD to find cuts from "Every One Of Us" "Animalism" and "love Is" The sound quality is very good. It isnt perfect,(edit part 2 of sky pilot included not full song) Anyway for the money its a deal.

GREAT ALBUM, Should have been called Vol. 3.......2004-05-09

I love this CD, but, as typical, the TITLE and PICTURE on it have little to do with its contents. The shot of the original Animals on the cover is meaningless, since it only includes selections from 1966-68, long after that line-up was gone. With two exceptions, the songs truly are from the "Eric Burdon AND the Animals" period, and the cover picture should have reflected that.
My advice is to buy this because both the price and the content are excellent, and then make your own cover to stick in the jewel case. I did, and added Vol. 3 to the title. If you cover up that incorrect cover photo (use anything, draw one with crayons if you have to), you'll suddenly find a new appreciation for this album. The material on it is excellent, and some of it is hard to come by.
The two non-EB&A songs are from The Animals' 1966's "Animalism," the last "Animals" album prior to regrouping in the 70s. The first song is their remake of the Sam Cooke classic "Shake," with everybody doing an excellent job.
The other is "All Night Long," which I always thought was an old blues standard re-worked, but was apparently written by Frank Zappa. He's credited with it anyway, and Zappa aficionados even maintain he plays guitar on it. However, that same album also credits a reworking of "Buy You A Chevrolet" to the British folkie Donovan and calls it "Hey Gyp."
Anyway, both cuts are excellent and you're not likely to run across the Animalism album out there, so it's nice to have some on this CD. (This "Animalism" album should not to be confused with an earlier album called "Animalisms," with an S, which was not released here in America. It was the British title for the original Animals' 1964 second album. Here that second album (or most of it) was called "The Animals On Tour."
There are sadly no selections from 1966's superb "Eric Is Here," but there are three from 1967's "Winds of Change," the excellent title cut plus "Paint It Black" and "San Franciscan Nights."
"Black" is really nice because you get to experience it without the traditional "Poem By The Sea" intro lead-in from the "Winds" album. I love "Poem," but hearing just "Black" among a different mix of material is nice.
Also, I'm still trying to figure out whether SFN had a different take for the 45 version and whether this is it. I'm not sure on either count. There's just something about the one on this CD that seems brighter.
I do know that the two songs from 1968's "The Twain Shall Meet" that are included, "Monterey" and "Sky Pilot," are both 45 rpm singles versions. This version of "Monterey" is sometimes added as a bonus track on other CDs, so it's nice to get it here on its own merits. I actually prefer it to the album version. The horns are accented better and so is McCulloch's bass.
The "Sky Pilot" is actually "Sky Pilot, Part Two," from the B-side of the 45. In the past, compilations typically focus on the A-side of any given single, so I like the fact that they used Part Two. It's been less aired, and unless you have "Twain," you're not apt to hear it. I had the single back then, and I think there was a difference between the album and the 45, other than cutting it in two, but I haven't discerned it again yet. There may not be any.
One of the super treats on this CD is Burdon's rendition of "St. James Infirmary," which is the only cut on here from 1968's "Every One Of Us," a great album that features Burdon's exit from the psychedelic mindsets of "Winds" and "Twain" and returns him to his forte', rhythm and blues-based ballads.
It was, after all, the Animals' R&B version of the folk standard "House of the Rising Sun" that essentially caught the nation's eye. "Infirmary" is no "House," but he does a great job on it, and you can hear him working to achieve the R&B sound that all pre-"Winds" albums contained.
Like "Animalism," "Every One Of Us" is not an album you'll typically run into, so I appreciate having a cut from it on this CD. Also, "White Houses," one of my favorite songs, is the one usually selected to represent "Every One" when compilations are made, so the fact that "Infirmary" was chosen for a change is extra nice.
The last two songs are from Eric Burdon & the Animals' last 60s LP, a double album called "Love Is." It is difficult to find. It is extremely good, highly under-rated, and I miss not having my copy a whole bunch. The selection usually chosen from it is Burdon's masterful cover of the Ike & Tina Turner hit "River Deep, Mountain High."
For this CD, however, the Johnny Cash standard "Ring Of Fire" and the BeeGee's "To Love Somebody" were the covers chosen. Both are superb, and contrary to what some may feel, I believe the pre-Police Andy Summer guitar influence can be heard on the album, including these two songs. Summer was a member of the Animals for this album.
One of the Police's trademarks, for me, is creative use of accent, beat, syncopation, and timing, and not all of it was due to Sting. There are significant examples of the above in both songs, especially in "Somebody," when for brief moments of interlude everything becomes unified on the single straight-ahead beat, only to erupt into song again. Anyway, I love "Love Is," and I love the fact that these two songs are on this CD.
Lastly, I call it Vol. 3 because I still consider the old mid-60s vinyl LP "Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals, Vol. 2" (which was the first compilation from the psychedelic era line-up, and has never been issued on CD) to legitimately hold the Vol. 2 title. Calling it Vol. 3 also helps me focus on what the CD's true content is.
In short, if you cover up that picture so you can visualize who you're really listening to, and accept that this is a collection of gems, and not necessarily just big radio play hits, I think you'll like this CD. I'm glad I bought it.

Only Part Of The Best.......2003-11-10

Although this is far from the "Best" of the Animals, it has some rare gems that are not always available on other collections. As one of the most authentic 'sounding' California bands (Burdon was British and moved to San Francisco), the Animals have produced great period songs from the sixties. These include the ultimately mellow, "San Franciscan Nights", the vibrant "Winds Of Change" and of course, the really exciting "Monterrey". Too bad "White Houses" and "Year Of The Guru" are missing, not to mention the wonderful, soulfully altered "River Deep, Mountain High".

There are two cuts on this album that beg listening to as they are of the most unique that the Animals have recorded. "To Love Somebody" (written by the Bee Gees in 1967) is one of the most energetic and soulful versions, this listener has ever heard. It clocks in at over six minutes. The other song is probably one of the best anti-war songs, "Sky Pilot" with its synthesized soaring drums and the several chorus and bridge cuts. This is the long version and was released as a single with the B-Side carrying the last half of the song. It's a treasure.

Get the other one.......2003-03-06

If you would be looking for a Best of compilation by Eric Burdon and the Animals you would be better off buying `Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966 E968E which in my humble opinion is about the best there is with most of their best songs but is now old, having been released in 1991, so needs remastering or something. To comment on the review below neither of these CDs have "House of the Rising Sun," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," and "We Gotta Get Out Of This PlaceEon them. Oh I wonder why Mr Bernabo? If you really were aware of music in the Sixties you might have realized that the original Animals fell apart in the latter half of 1966, Eric Burdon continued with essentially a new band EEric Burdon and the Animals. Slightly different name in quite a different style singing different songs.

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Sounds of the Seventies: 1970 Take Two Rare Earth , Joe South , The Shocking Blue , The Moody Blues , Mungo Jerry , Eddie Holman , Tyrone Davis , The Ides of March , Brook Benton , and Eric Burdon and War Manufacturer: Time Life Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000S358LA

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Track list: 1 I Want You Back The Jackson Five 2:56 2 Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) The Temptations 4:05 3 Get Ready Rare Earth 2:47 4 Mississippi Queen Mountain 2:30 5 Evil Ways Santana 3:14 6 Spill the Wine Eric Burdon and War 4:53 7 Venus The Shocking Blue 2:59 8 No Time The Guess Who 3:49 9 Closer to Home Grand Funk Railroad 5:31 10 Question The Moody Blues 4:55 11 Let's Work Together Canned Heat 2:48 12 Walk a Mile in My Shoes Joe South 3:43 13 Up on Cripple Creek The Band 3:33 14 In the Summertime Mungo Jerry 3:30 15 Vehicle The Ides Of March 2:55 16 Hey There Lonely Girl Eddie Holman 3:34 17 Turn Back the Hands of Time Tyrone Davis 2:57 18 Cry Me a River Joe Cocker 3:55 19 The Thrill Is Gone B.B. King 4:07 20 Don't Play That Song Aretha Franklin 2:58 21 Rainy Night in Georgia Brook Benton 3:36

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Absolutely the Best Eric Burdon Manufacturer: True ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005J8XJ Release Date: 2001-02-23

Tracks:

1. House Of The Rising Sun
2. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
3. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
4. It's My Life
5. Boom Boom
6. Don't Bring Me Down
7. I'm Crying
8. Bring It On Home To Me
9. San Franciscan Nights
10. See See Rider
11. Spill The Wine
12. Monterey

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It's My Life-Eric Burdon Sings the Best Eric Burdon Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00004T3YC Release Date: 2000-05-18

Tracks:

1. House Of The Rising Sun
2. I'm Crying
3. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
4. Bring It On Home To Me
5. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
6. It's My Life
7. Inside Looking Out
8. Don't Bring Me Down
9. Help Me Girl
10. When I Was Young
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