House of the Rising Sun [Import]

Eric Burdon, The Animals | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2008)
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B0014KWQXE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #720,070 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An absolutely waste of money, August 22, 2002

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alexliamw (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of the Rising Sun (Audio CD)

If you are looking for a good Animals compilation, DO NOT BUY THIS CD! It contains good songs murdered by awful, badly produced rerecording featuring the duffest arrangements possible (complete with cheesy 80s electric Piano) and a drummer who can't keep time properly.

Everything about it is unclear, it is a dirt-cheap swindle which doesnt tell you whether this really is the Animals or not. No effort went into this. The sleeve notes are sparse, the sound quality is bad, the CD itself looks like it is a CD-R, the arrangements are criminal and the cover is horrible, with the ugliest photo of the band ever taken.

Whether it be Eric Burdon solo songs or Animals songs, these are absolutely rubbish re-recordings on which it is unclear whether this really is the Animals themselves. Everything about this is unproffesional, it looks like it came off a third world illegal CD market! I hope I have convinced anyone with the slightest doubt in their mind NOT to buy this.

The only ever slightly okay tracks are the last 4: and they are not written by the Animals. This is awful. I wish I had never laid eyes on it and so will you if you buy it. STEER WELL CLEAR!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Albums "like this" are pathetic--, April 11, 2001

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Into "voidness" (everywhereandnowhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: House of the Rising Sun (Audio CD)

--especially when the label provides no documentation whatsoever as to exactly what the buyer is getting--but, of course, they never do, because hardly anyone would ever buy the album! If you are some sort of Eric Burdon and the Animals completist who's interested in having ALTERNATE VERSIONS of their classics, you might enjoy this album, otherwise you'll likely think it's garbage. I won't even dignify this release by describing the sound quality of the album or the relative merits of these versions of the songs. I will say that, despite the label's attempt at "pretty" packaging, the liner notes were non-existent--and the back of the CD booklet even said, something like, "see inside for licensing info," but when you open up the "booklet," it's blank inside! --nice presentation, guys!

As a collector, I had an inkling that this might be one of "those" albums, mainly due to the suspicious lack of information accompanying the album listing, but I had an Amazon gift certificate, so I decided to "take a flier" on it, because I'm trying to replace an old beat up Animals compilation tape I had, and this album had some songs that one can't normally get, all together, on other compilations. Well, here's another example of "if something seems too good to be true, it probably is."

I couldn't even bring myself to perpetuate this fraud on to another misguided soul, by trading it in at a used CD store, so I did something I've never done before: salvaged the jewel case, recycled the pitifully uninformative paper inserts, and broke the CD right in half! Yeah, gift certificate down the drain, but it was somewhat therapeutic taking this CD out of circulation forever.

[Note to Amazon: How 'bout another gift certificate when you get a chance, to replace the one I squandered on this CD? And my advice to you is to be careful, as well, when YOU buy things from one of these "fly by night" labels, that provide no documentation about the origins of the recordings on the albums they release. Albums like this are blemishes on your catalog.]

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simply not THE ANIMALS, May 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: House of the Rising Sun (Audio CD)

The tracks on this CD are 1990's recording by a group formed and fronted by Danny McCulloch (bassist with Eric Burdon & The Animals in late 1960's) ... calling itself THE ANIMALS but containing no other 1960's members of The Animals or Eric Burdon & The Animals. Interesting re-recordings of 1960's hits made famous by The Animals and Eric Burdon & The Animals plus enjoyable new songs by McCulloch and Co but simply not THE ANIMALS and no Eric Burdon vocals on this CD.