Eric Burdon Sings the Animals Greatest Hits [Live]

Eric Burdon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Avenue Records
• ASIN: B0000033BE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,576 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

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. 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

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't prejudge this CD, March 6, 2004

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Jimbo (In The Catskills) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eric Burdon Sings the Animals Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MUSIC WITH GUTS!!!!, May 9, 2005

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"Everybody's got one" (The Queen City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eric Burdon Sings the Animals Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

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!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars probably not what you think it is...., May 16, 2000

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Leo B "Scientist" (Cupertino, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eric Burdon - Sings the Animals Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

....all the hits are here, but not how you remember them. Eric Burdon shows us how "artistic" he can be, changing the timing, emphasis and arrangements for no good reason. Knowing the original Animals versions, I found these ones painful to listen to and had to return the CD