The Best of Eric Burdon & the Animals, 1966-1968

The CD also has "San Francisco", and other great tracks.

By the way, don't buy the other Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals CD, even though it's cheaper. They remastered and messed up some tracks on it.


Good stuff -- but not the complete story   April 11, 1999
21 out of 23 found this review helpful

A lot of great tunes are on this CD. "Don't bring me down" just revs me up every time I hear it. What a great song. However, if you just get this, you are missing a lot of the earlier classic Animals tunes. No Animals collection is complete without tunes like "House of the Rising Sun," "It's My Life," "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." Pick up the Abkco collection for those songs.


Terrific Collection Of Their Later Work   April 28, 2002
Barron Laycock (Temple, New Hampshire United States)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful

No collection of sixties pop music is quite complete without the work of the Animals, especially (in my humble opinion, the later work including a number of selections contained in this CD. From the big hit "Don't Bring Me Down" to "Help Me Girl", from When I Was Young" to See See Rider", there are a lot of great cuts here. My personal favorites are "Monterey", "San Franciscan Nights", and of course, the mind-blowing "Sky Pilot", an eery psychedilic diatribe against the Vietnam war. Also contained herein is "White Nights" and "Winds of Change". All in all, a great representation of their later work, and one I am glad to have in my collection. Enjoy!


Eric Gets All Over the Place   May 31, 2002
David C. Heires (New York, NY USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

The Animals are most known for their earlier years of Alan Price, the time of "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," but this CD represents an exit from that sound. Instead, the singles and LP tracks included reflect a musical evolution, for The Animals were merely the revolving door Animals; people came and went, except for Eric Burdon, who managed at one point to pull off three LPs in less than one year, during 1968. Not among these three was the earlier psychedelic Winds of Change, represented here by the so-so title cut with Eric's name-dropping and the three beautiful ballads preceding it, among the best material on the CD. The later psychedelic-period numbers "Sky Pilot" and "Monterey" are quite well known, but the still-later "White Houses" is the best post-1967 song, more as a nice piece of music than for Eric's social commentary. Still, "Don't Bring Me Down," the opening track, is special to me. Released in 1966, it is most reminiscent of the original group in grit and texture, reminding us that even as performers move onward the longing for the original sound, that which brought fame, is always there.