Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you only buy one album by The Animals, it has to include 4 tracks -- House of the Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and It's My Life. Best Buy has a few albums with all of them, this one has the best selection of other songs. House of the Rising Sun is THE song The Animals are remembered for and rightly so. With the driving organ in the background they turned an old standard into something special. Alan Price, who played the organ, left the group about a year after they became famous (officially because he was afraid to fly but rumor has it that he and Eric Burden disliked each other -- violently at times.) Musically the band wasn't as good after that but they still had Eric Burden's great voice. I play the first 10 tracks on this album a lot, the others only occasionally. After they broke up, Eric Burden joined War, Alan Price had a successful solo career in England. (I got hooked on the soundtrack of O Lucky Man. He was also in Dylan's film Don't Look Back.) Chas Chandler, the bass player went on to manage some guy named Jimi Hendrix.