Every One of Us [Import, Original recording remastered]

The Animals | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 30, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B00042YBTA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,619 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. White Houses

2. Serenade to a Sweet Lady

3. The Immigrant Lad

4. Year of the Guru

5. St. James Infirmary

6. New York 1963 - America 1968

7. River Deep, Mountain High [Single Version][*]

8. White Houses [Single Version][*]

Editorial Reviews

Limited digipak, remastered reissue, originally recorded in Los Angeles in 1968. Includes the bonus tracks 'River Deep, Mountain High' (single version) & 'White Houses' (single version). Repertoire. 2004.

Customer Reviews

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is One Heavy Album!!!, November 8, 2005

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R. A. Burke "Librarian" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every One of Us (Audio CD)

There are many who have tried to squeeze Eric Burdon's recording career into a few rigidly defined categories. Most love his recordings with the original Animals. Unfortunately, Eric's psychedelic period does seem to be an acquired taste for many. And this is unfortunate because some of his best material is made up of these recordings that seem to reek of pot and incense. It's almost as though you need to recreate the right atmosphere by wearing something of the period like a cossack shirt or a fringed jacket or something paisley and then turn the lights down so that the room is cool and dark. And, yeah, if you're one of the older generation, it's alright if you decide to go with a bottle of wine. Now, you're ready to receive Eric's vision. And it's a vision of great power and intensity. Check out John Wieder's slashing guitar solo on "White Houses" and his beautiful acoustic work on "Serenade to a Sweet Lady." "Immigrant Lad" is Eric's tribute to his native Newcastle. Then on to "Year of the Guru" - very 1967/1968 with flashes of hot guitar and a throbbing Danny McCulloch bass line along with some Burdon wit & humor. And then one of the bluesiest versions of "St. James Infirmary" ever laid down on vinyl. Eric's voice is so deep, so down there that you know right from the get-go that you are in the heart of the blues. What a powerful rendition this is - Eric has never sounded better, Vic Briggs' sitar chords glisten like tears, and Danny McCulloch provides a solid anchor with his bass. And then, just when you think you know what's coming, John Wieder takes off with another incendiary guitar solo. Given his work on "White Houses" and "St. James Infirmary", how is it that Wieder remains so little known? The longest cut is the most challenging - "New York 1963, America 1968." And, yeah I've heard some say that it is pretentious and self-indulgent. All I can say to the naysayers is "go back and listen to it once more but try to imagine that it's 1968 all over again." This is Eric's meditation/elegy on America, the hopes and visions that America held for people around the world against the turbulent backdrop of the Sixties as our dreams of love and peace were destroyed by the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr. Even now with all these years having passed, this album is "just one big experience." Get it, turn down the lights, and enjoy!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth and Dare, January 11, 2005

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Will Owen (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Every One of Us (Audio CD)

This has always been one of my favorites from the Animals, too, but I disagree with the other reviewers about the oddball stuff--the latter half of the immigrant lad, the black fighter pilot's monologue in the middle of New York 1963 - America 1968. When this album came out, that was the stuff that blew me away. It was Burdon taking his commitment to the black man and the poor man's plight and finding a radical new way of communicating it and making us listen. It was startling and gripping and now, hearing it for the first time in maybe 15 years, it still knocks me out. The man walked the walk, and the musicians were awesome; Danny McCullogh's bass defines almost every song on the album. On Winds of Change, there were lots of tricks reaching to break through the conventions of r&b and bring it into the acid age. I think Burdon larned a lot in doing that stuff and this album was a return to the simple, straightforward blues...even if it's sometimes a talkin' blues. Brilliant work that stretched the boundaries and the minds of the times. A perfect pair to the over the top trip of Love Is.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buy this CD!, November 19, 2004

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George A. Zaninovich "shortygoose" (SoCal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every One of Us (Audio CD)

The Reportoire label has just released this on CD and the sound quality is truly amazing, far outstripping the One Way and Toshiba of Japan versions.
This album has been one of my personal favorites for years, coupled with Eric & the Animals' next and last, "Love Is". The two have a completely different sound and approach, however. Whereas "Love Is" is in large part radical, extended interpretations of cover songs loosely based on the various aspects of love, "Every One of Us" is more of a psychedelic British folk album with lyrics relating to Burdon's personal observations and experiences.
As with my review of "Love Is", I'm giving 4 out of 5 stars based on filler tracks. "Uppers & Downers" is unnecessary, "Year of the Guru" is witty but dated (great riff, though), and the "America-1968" jam gets a might tedious. However, as others have stated, "Serenade to a Sweet Lady" is a killer instrumental while "St. James Infirmary" is one of Burdon's stand-out vocal performances, sort of a book-end to "House of the Rising Sun".