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Retrospective (CD)

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Retrospective (CD)
Disc: 1
Track 1: House of the Rising Sun
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Track 2: I'm Crying
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Track 3: Baby Let Me Take You Home
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Track 4: Gonna Send You Back to Walker
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Track 5: Boom Boom
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Track 6: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
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Track 7: Bring It on Home to Me
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Track 8: We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Us)
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Track 9: It's My Life
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Track 10: Don't Bring Me Down
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Track 11: See See Rider
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Track 12: Inside - Looking Out
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Track 13: Hey Gyp
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Track 14: Help Me Girl
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Track 15: When I Was Young
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Track 16: Girl Named Sandoz, A
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Track 17: San Franciscan Nights
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Track 18: Monterey
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Track 19: Anything
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Track 20: Sky Pilot
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Track 21: White Houses
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Track 22: Spill the Wine - (with Eric Burdon & War)
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Miscellaneous The Animals: Eric Burdon (vocals); Hilton Valentine (guitar); Alan Price (keyboards); Chas Chandler (bass instrument); John Steel (drums).
Additional personnel: War.
Recording information: 1964 - 1970.
Today the most recognition the Animals get is "House of the Rising Sun" being played on oldies radio, but in the mid-1960s they were a powerful part of the British Invasion, often reckoned on a par with the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who. Like those bands, the Animals had strong roots in blues and R&B, but, in their original incarnation, they stayed closer to those roots than their peers did. This definitive compilation, masterfully assembled by the ABKCO think tank of Teri Landi and Jody Klein, shows the tough, uncompromising use to which the Animals put their American influences. John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" is recast as a raw garage rocker glazed with Alan Price's sinister organ riffs, and the aforementioned "House of the Rising Sun" is transformed from a traditional folk lament to an urgent, ominous piece of churning tumult.
Of course, the group skillfully expanded those roots (with the help of some great writers), and turned out some classic working-class-rebel anthems ("We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "It's My Life"). By '67, the original lineup disbanded, and Eric Burdon led a new batch of Animals into a psychedelic West Coast sound ("San Franciscan Nights," "Monterey"). The Animals may not be given pride of place in the rock history books, but RETROSPECTIVE shows that they fully deserve it.


Reviews Rolling Stone (p.192) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The Animals were the most authentic-sounding R&B band to emerge from the British Invasion of the mid-Sixties....An essential collection."
Rolling Stone (p.154) - Included in Rolling Stone's The 10 Best Reissues & Anthologies Of 2004 - "The Animals finally get a best-of set that shows off the breadth and ferocity of their Sixties-hit streak..."

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    "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good".
by jeff_wilder78, 10/6/2004

Pros: All of the Animals hits from beginning to end, superb sound.
Cons: The psychedelic era tracks are somewhat dated.
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