Original Hits [IMPORT]

The Animals

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 4, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 10, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disky Records
• ASIN: B000006SGV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #163,719 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Best of Collection from Early Beatles-Era British Rock Group that Featured Eric Burdon and Über-Producer Chas Chandler. Includes the Tracks "House of the Rising Sun", "The Story of Bo Diddley", "Bring it on Home to Me" and Many More.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best 60's music around, February 10, 2001

By A Customer

This is absolutely the best of the best. How could anyone growing up in the 60's not like the Animals! The House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out of this Place, oh boy brings back great memories of school chums, dances and even classes!!!. It's the greatest!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Animals - Original Hits, September 4, 2005

By	Top Down Vette (Colorado Springs, CO USA) - See all my reviews

EXCELLENT/Totally awesome! Has all the hits I wanted on one CD!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Three of the greatest sixties rock classics ever (and more), October 21, 2002

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

The Animals were one of the raunchiest and most uncompromisingly raw bands to come out of England in the Sixties and their reputation is sustained on the strength of the three songs that that start off this EMI collection of "Original Hits," namely: "The House Of The Rising Sun," "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Before everybody knew how to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar, we all knew how to play "The House Of The Rising Sun," and after the Animals covered the song nobody remembered that Pete Seeger sang it with the Weavers way back when. "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" is one of the Top 10 songs from the Sixties for my money, and, to keep the theme of this review going, was what we played at the end of classes before Alice Cooper did "School's Out." "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" is one of the moodiest songs of that decade and is probably most representative of the blues-based rock 'n' roll that represented the Animals. This particular hits collection has the virtual of having almost three dozen tracks, about twice as many as most of the competing offerings. Most of these songs reflect the group's early repertoire taken from American Blues and R&B sources. For me, it is simply that those first three classic tracks are rock 'n' roll essentials that stack up against the best three songs the Rolling Stones put out in the same period. The problem was that beyond those three the pickings get relatively slim for the Animals. But those are still three really great songs that you absolutely have to have in music library.