The Animals discography

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A discography for The Animals.

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[edit] Albums

Animals album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents. In addition countless compilation and repackaging releases have been made over the years.

[edit] UK albums

  • The Animals (October/1964)
    1. "Story of Bo Diddley"
    2. "Bury My Body"
    3. "Dimples"
    4. "I've Been Around"
    5. "I'm in Love Again"
    6. "The Girl Can't Help It"
    7. "I'm Mad Again"
    8. "She Said Yeah"
    9. "The Right Time"
    10. "Memphis Tennessee"
    11. "Boom Boom"
    12. "Around and Around"
  • Animal Tracks (May/1965)
    1. "Mess Around"
    2. "How You've Changed"
    3. "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
    4. "I Believe to My Soul"
    5. "Worried Life Blues"
    6. "Roberta"
    7. "I Ain't Got You"
    8. "Bright Lights Big City"
    9. "Let the Good Times Roll"
    10. "For Miss Caulker"
    11. "Roadrunner"
  • Animalisms (June/1966)
    1. "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"
    2. "Maudie"
    3. "Outcast"
    4. "Sweet Little Sixteen"
    5. "You're on My Mind"
    6. "Clapping"
    7. "Gin House Blues"
    8. "Squeeze Her, Tease Her"
    9. "What Am I Living For"
    10. "I Put a Spell on You"
    11. "That's All I Am to You"
    12. "She'll Return It"
  • Winds of Change (1967) (now Eric Burdon and the New Animals)
    1. "Winds of Change"
    2. "Poem By the Sea"
    3. "Paint It Black"
    4. "The Black Plague"
    5. "Yes I'm Experienced"
    6. "San Franciscan Nights"
    7. "Man - Woman"
    8. "Hotel Hell"
    9. "Good Times"
    10. "Anything"
    11. "It's All Meat"
  • The Twain Shall Meet (1968)
    1. "Monterey"
    2. "Just the Thought"
    3. "Closer to the Truth"
    4. "No Self Pity"
    5. "Oranges and Red Beans"
    6. "Sky Pilot"
    7. "We Love You Lil"
    8. "All Is One"
  • Love Is (1968)
    1. "River Deep, Mountain High"
    2. "I'm an Animal"
    3. "I'm Dying, Or Am I"
    4. "Ring of Fire"
    5. "Colored Rain"
    6. "To Love Somebody"
    7. "As the Years Go Passing By"
    8. "Gemini - The Madman"

[edit] US albums

  • The Animals (MGM E/SE-4264, September/1964 -- Featuring original lineup of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine, and John Steel)
    1. "The House of the Rising Sun" (edited 2:58 single version)
    2. "Blue Feeling"
    3. "The Girl Can't Help It"
    4. "Baby Let Me Take You Home"
    5. "The Right Time"
    6. "Talkin' 'Bout You"
    7. "Around and Around"
    8. "I'm in Love Again"
    9. "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"
    10. "Memphis Tennessee"
    11. "I'm Mad Again"
    12. "I've Been Around"
  • The Animals on Tour (MGM E/SE-4281, March/1965) (Not a live album as the title hints)
    1. "Boom Boom"
    2. "How You've Changed"
    3. "I Believe to My Soul"
    4. "Mess Around"
    5. "Bright Lights, Big City"
    6. "Worried Life Blues"
    7. "Let the Good Times Roll"
    8. "I Ain't Got You"
    9. "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
    10. "I'm Crying"
    11. "Dimples"
    12. "She Said Yeah"
  • Animal Tracks (MGM E/SE-4305, September/1965 -- Featuring tracks with original keyboardist Alan Price and replacement Dave Rowberry. Price is shown on the front and back covers)
    1. "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"
    2. "Take It Easy"
    3. "Bring It On Home to Me"
    4. "Roberta"
    5. "Story of Bo Diddley"
    6. "I Can't Believe It"
    7. "For Miss Caulker"
    8. "Club a Go-Go"
    9. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
    10. "Bury My Body"
  • Animalization (MGM E/SE-4384, August/1966 -- Featuring tracks with original drummer John Steel (who appears on the back cover) and new drummer Barry Jenkins, who appears on the front cover)
    1. "Don't Bring Me Down"
    2. "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"
    3. "You're on My Mind"
    4. "She'll Return It"
    5. "Cheating"
    6. "She'll Return It" (This song appears on the album but does not appear on the cover listing)
    7. "Inside Looking Out"
    8. "See See Rider"
    9. "Gin House Blues"
    10. "Maudie"
    11. "What Am I Living For"
    12. "Sweet Little Sixteen"
    13. "I Put a Spell on You"
  • Animalism (MGM E/SE-4414, December/1966)
    1. "All Night Long"
    2. "Shake"
    3. "The Other Side of This Life"
    4. "Rock Me Baby"
    5. "Lucille"
    6. "Smoke Stack Lightning"
    7. "Hey Gyp"
    8. "Hit the Road Jack"
    9. "Outcast"
    10. "Louisiana Blues"
    11. "That's All I Am to You"
    12. "Going Down Slow"
  • Eric Is Here (MGM E/SE-4433, March/1967 -- first LP as by "Eric Burdon and the Animals", although only Burdon and Jenkins appear on this album, accompanied by session musicians)
    1. "In the Night"
    2. "Mama Told Me Not to Come"
    3. "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today"
    4. "On This Side of Goodbye"
    5. "That Ain't Where It's At"
    6. "True Love (Comes Only Once in a Lifetime)"
    7. "Help Me Girl"
    8. "Wait Till Next Year"
    9. "Losin' Control"
    10. "It's Not Easy"
    11. "The Biggest Bundle of Them All"
    12. "It's Been a Long Time Comin'"
  • The Best of Eric Burdon and The Animals Vol. II (MGM E/SE-4454, June 1967 -- features tracks from the three previous lineups and the recent single from the new lineup of Burdon, Jenkins, John Weider, Vic Briggs, and Danny McCullough)
    1. "When I Was Young"
    2. "A Girl Named Sandoz"
    3. "Don't Bring Me Down"
    4. "She'll Return It"
    5. "See See Rider" (erroneously shows the edited single time of 2:44 as the unedited 4:00 version is included here)
    6. "The Other Side of Life"
    7. "Hey Gyp"
    8. "Help Me Girl"
    9. "That Ain't Where It's At"
    10. "You're on My Mind"
    11. "Inside Looking Out"
    12. "Cheating"
  • Winds of Change (MGM E/SE-4484, September 1967 -- first full LP featuring the new lineup of Burdon, Jenkins, Weider, Briggs, and McCullough)
    1. "Winds of Change"
    2. "Poem by the Sea"
    3. "Paint It Black"
    4. "The Black Plague"
    5. "Yes, I Am Experienced"
    6. "San Franciscan Nights"
    7. "Man-Woman"
    8. "Hotel Hell"
    9. "Good Times"
    10. "Anything"
    11. "It's All Meat"
  • The Twain Shall Meet (MGM E/SE-4537, April 1968)
    1. "Monterey"
    2. "Just the Thought"
    3. "Closer to the Truth"
    4. "No Self Pity"
    5. "Orange and Red Beams"
    6. "Sky Pilot"
    7. "We Love You Lil"
    8. "All Is One"
  • Every One Of Us (MGM SE-4553, August 1968 -- Band becomes a sextet with the addition of George Bruno)
    1. "White Houses"
    2. "Uppers and Downers"
    3. "Serenade to a Sweet Lady"
    4. "The Immigrant Lad"
    5. "Year of the Guru"
    6. "St. James Infirmary"
    7. "New York 1963 - America 1968"
  • Love Is (2 record set, MGM SE-4591-2, October 1968 -- Band becomes a quintet again with departure of Briggs and McCullough and addition of future Police member Andy Summers. George Bruno reverts to "Zoot Money" pseudonym on this LP)
    1. "River Deep, Mountain High"
    2. "I'm an Animal"
    3. "I'm Dying, Or Am I"
    4. "Ring of Fire"
    5. "Colored Rain"
    6. "To Love Somebody"
    7. "As The Years Go Passing By"
    8. "Gemini - The Madman"

[edit] Non-LP U.S. single B-sides

  • "I'm Going to Change the World" (B-side of "It's My Life")
  • "Ain't That So" (B-side of "Monterey")

[edit] Off-sequence albums

  • British Go Go (January/1965)
  • In the Beginning (Live, 1965)
  • Rock Generation Vol. 2 (BYG 529 702, year uncertain) - The Animals at the Club A Gogo, Newcastle 1963
  • Rock Generation Vol. 4 (BYG 529 704, year uncertain) - more of the same, joined by Sonny Boy Williamson
  • Night Time Is the Right Time (Springboard 4065, year uncertain) - with Sonny Boy Williamson

[edit] Reunion albums

  • Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted (Jet JT-LA 790-H, 1977)
    1. "Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)"
    2. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
    3. "Fire on the Sun"
    4. "As the Crow Flies"
    5. "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
    6. "Many Rivers to Cross"
    7. "Just a Little Bit"
    8. "Riverside County"
    9. "Lonely Avenue"
    10. "The Fool"
  • Ark (1983)
    1. "Loose Change"
    2. "Love Is for All Time"
    3. "My Favourite Enemy"
    4. "Prisoner of the Light"
    5. "Being There"
    6. "Hard Times"
    7. "The Night"
    8. "Trying to Get You"
    9. "Just Can't Get Enough"
    10. "Melt Down"
    11. "Gotta Get Back to You"
    12. "Crystal Nights"
    13. "No John No"
  • Greatest Hits Live (Rip It to Shreds) (1984)
    1. "It's Too Late"
    2. "House of the Rising Sun"
    3. "It's My Life"
    4. "Don't Bring Me Down"
    5. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
    6. "I'm Crying"
    7. "Bring It On Home to Me"
    8. "O Lucky Man!"
    9. "Boom Boom"
    10. "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place"
    11. "When I Was Young"

[edit] Post-lifetime compilation and reissue albums

  • Best of The Animals (Abkco 4426, 1973 -- 2 LP set)
  • Best of The Animals (Abkco 4324 -- 1 LP, first U.S. compilation to feature the UK. "correct" version of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place")
  • Best of The Animals (Springboard 4025, 1973)
  • The Best of The Animals (Compilation album, 1988)
  • The Best of The Animals (Compilation album, 1997)
  • Interesting Life (2003)
  • Complete French EP 1964/1967 (2003)
  • Retrospective (Compilation album, 2004)

[edit] UK EPs

  • The Animals Is Here – "House of the Rising Sun"/"Gonna Send You Back to Walker"/"I'm Crying"/"Baby Let Me Take You Home" (1964, Columbia SEG 8374)
  • The Animals – "Boom Boom"/"Around and Around"/"Dimples"/"I've Been Around" (1964, Columbia SEG 8400)
  • The Animals No. 2 – "I'm in Love Again"/"Bury My Body"/"I'm Mad Again"/"She Said Yeah" (1965, Columbia SEG 8439)
  • Animal Tracks – "How You've Changed"/"I Believe to My Soul"/"Let The Good Times Roll"/"Worried Life Blues" (September 1965, Columbia SEG 8499)
  • In the Beginning There Was Early Animals – "I Just Wanna Make Love to You"/"Boom Boom"/"Big Boss Man"/"Pretty Thing" (January 1966, Decca DFE 8643)

[edit] Singles

Highest position reached in UK and US singles charts
Year Title UK US
The Animals
1964 "Baby Let Me Take You Home" 21 -
1964 "Gonna Send You Back to Walker" - 57
1964 "House of the Rising Sun" (2:58 edit) 1 1
1964 "I'm Crying" 8 19
1965 "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" 3 15
1965 "Bring It On Home to Me" 7 32
1965 "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" 2 13
1965 "It's My Life" 7 23
1966 "Inside-Looking Out" 12 34
1966 "Don't Bring Me Down" 6 12
Eric Burdon and the New Animals
1966 "See See Rider" (2:44 edit) - 10
1966 "Help Me Girl" 14 29
1967 "When I Was Young" 45 15
1967 "Good Times" 20 -
1967 "San Franciscan Nights" 7 9
1967 "Anything" - 80
1967 "Monterey" - 15
1968 "Sky Pilot" 40 14
1968 "White Houses" - 67
1969 "Ring of Fire" 35 -
1969 "River Deep, Mountain High" - -
Reissues
1972 "House of the Rising Sun" 25 -
1982 "House of the Rising Sun" 11 -
The Animals (reunited)
1983 "The Night" - 48

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