So here we have the first eponymous album with The Animals, and this is just as marvellous as it can be,
yeah it's very early English RB album, it wasn't so many groups that have made some album in 1964, so the
boom of the British Invation has just started, but what a start they had and The Animals show on this
album that they were one of the top group that sprung out of the British RB scene, and they got a man
with a golden voice as their principal leader Mr. Eric Burdon, it was the Alan Price group that Eric
rejoin when he returned to Newcastle in the early 1963, and after that it was Eric's group, even that
the record company saw it as it was still Alan Price's group, so they give the arr credit of the hit
House Of The Rising Sun to Price, even that it was a join arr by the whole group, that and the fighting
between Burdon and Price over the leadership over the group, make Price to depart from the group in May
1965 just after they had released their second album the wonderful Animal Tracks.





01 - Story Of Bo Diddley (5:45) (Burdon-McDaniel)
02 - Bury My Body (2:52) (Trad Arr Price)
03 - Dimples (3:19) (Hooker-Bracken)
04 - I've Been Around (1:39) (Domino)
05 - I'm In Love Again (3:03) (Domino-Bartholomew)
06 - The Girl Can't Help It (2:23) (Troup)
07 - I'm Mad Again (4:18) (Hooker)
08 - She Said Yeh (2:21) (Jackson-Christy)
09 - The Right Time (3:48) (Herman)
10 - Memphis (3:08) (Berry)
11 - Boom Boom (3:19) (Hooker)
12 - Around And Around (2:45) (Berry)


Eric Burdon - Vocals
Alan Price - Piano, Organ
Hilton Valentine - Guitar
Chas Chandler - Bass
John Steel - Drums

Produced by Mickie Most in 1964

This is the Mono album remaster at Abbey Road Studios by Peter Mew 1997

Review	by Bruce Eder

The group's U.K. debut long-player, containing -- in the custom of the time in England -- not one of their singles up to that point, including "House of the Rising Sun." Apart from "Story of Bo Diddley" (which is, itself, heavily steeped in conventions out of Bo Diddley's repertory), everything here is a cover of traditional blues and R&B material, and a bit on the dry side, as though the band was trying too hard to prove themselves. This is one of the more serious and dour British Invasion-era albums, with none of the cheerfulness evident on the work of the Liverpool, Birmingham, or Manchester-based bands of the period -- the Chuck Berry covers, in particular, seem rather joyless compared to rival versions by the Rolling Stones, et al. For adult orientation, The Animals is roughly on a par with the Rolling Stones' debut LP (though that album is also more fun). The group would do better in the future in a less stiff and intense posture, but this is a strong debut. In 1998, The Animals was reissued in remastered form as part of EMI's 100th Anniversary series, and all of its tracks also appear on EMI's Complete Animals double-CD set as well.