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Favorite "The Animals" Song (1 Viewer)

Favorite "The Animals" Song

  • Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

    Votes: 10 14.3%

  • It's My Life

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • House Of The Rising Sun

    Votes: 35 50.0%

  • We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place

    Votes: 13 18.6%

  • I'm Crying

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Don't Bring Me Down

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Boom Boom

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 8.6%
  • Total voters
    70
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Eric Burdon gets most of the recognition, but bass player Chas Chandler doesn't get his just due enough IMO. He was a terrific bass player that drove their sound.

Even more notably, he discovered Jimi Hendrix when he was playing in Greenwich Village and later managed him. Also later managed and produced Slade.
 
zamboni said:
Eric Burdon gets most of the recognition, but bass player Chas Chandler doesn't get his just due enough IMO. He was a terrific bass player that drove their sound.

Even more notably, he discovered Jimi Hendrix when he was playing in Greenwich Village and later managed him. Also later managed and produced Slade.
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And thus indirectly responsible for Quiet Riot.
 
Leroy Hoard said:
zamboni said:
Eric Burdon gets most of the recognition, but bass player Chas Chandler doesn't get his just due enough IMO. He was a terrific bass player that drove their sound.

Even more notably, he discovered Jimi Hendrix when he was playing in Greenwich Village and later managed him. Also later managed and produced Slade.
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And thus indirectly responsible for Quiet Riot.
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Thus two degrees of separation between Jimi and Randy Rhoads.
 
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by a mile we for me. I love the tension and emotion in that tune.
 
I'm going chalk with "Risin' Sun". This is one of the great records of the 1960s. The vocal, bass, and organ are awesome.

Eric Burdon is an *******. He bailed when Hendrix was choking on his own vomit because he didn't want to get busted. Then said he was the only one to "correctly" curate Jimi's posthumous releases.

I love some of the songs he sang on, but I am SO glad War left him in the dust. He's done nothing since.
 
House of the Rising Sun is one of my all time favorite songs so gets my vote here.
My second favorite by them is It's All Over Now,Baby Blue
 
Voted for "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood": good verse, great chorus, exceptional bridge.

I never really cared for "House of the Rising Sun"
 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Boom Boom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_RUY657KYQ
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Gimme a break with this ****. I love Eric Burdon, but let's face it, his version of "Boom Boom" doesn't hold a candle to John Lee Hooker's version.

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And, while I'm busting your balls, why isn't "Spill the Wine" on your list of choices??
ETA: OK, this isn't an Animules song. It's Eric Burdon & War. Still 10x better than anything he did with the Animules.

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Back when I was in my mid-to-late sixties garage kick, I loved The Animals.

I went chalk with "Sun" but the other songs are fine songs in their own right.
 
FairWarning said:
I don’t see you as a chalk guy.
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You're right.

I like crayons and paste with my pudding.

No, I'm serious in that you're probably right because I owned a huge Animals retrospective and dug a bunch of their songs way back when. "House Of The Rising Sun" was the hook that got me into them, though, so I'm staying with that one.

You're also right that I tend to be a contrarian. But I will say this (my philosophy on catching my contrarian self at times) -- when every reason for chalk determines you go with chalk, go with chalk.
 
rockaction said:
FairWarning said:
I don’t see you as a chalk guy.
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You're right.

I like crayons and paste with my pudding.

No, I'm serious in that you're probably right because I owned a huge Animals retrospective and dug a bunch of their songs way back when. "House Of The Rising Sun" was the hook that got me into them, though, so I'm staying with that one.

You're also right that I tend to be a contrarian. But I will say this (my philosophy on catching my contrarian self at times) -- when every reason for chalk determines you go with chalk, go with chalk.
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As a DJ, I’m always contrarian.
 
rockaction said:
FairWarning said:
As a DJ, I’m always contrarian.
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Weddings get death metal, graduations get songs about futility and heartbreak?
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Haha. I quit the wedding scene because I hated the music as much as the bridezillas. Now when I do the local joint (think rock/blues/alt) if someone asks for dire straits, they may get Industrial Disease instead of Sultans of Swing.

There are plenty that can fill their country and pop needs, it’s not me.
 
My wife and I saw Eric Burdon about 12-15 years ago at a smaller club near our house.
He still sounded great.
 
Went with "We gotta get out of this place"

Saturday I listened to Sky Pilot for the first time in forever. Long song for that era. Bad thing is for 2 days now it is in my head!

Sky pilot... Sky pilot
How high can you fly?
You'll never reach the sky.
 
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Went with Rising Sun as well. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood up there though — tough to top Nina Simone’s original, but they put a different spin on it and managed it.
 
Voted for "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". I first knew this as a Gary Moore song in the late 80s, then Elvis Costello a year later, then The Animals once I was in college. It wasn't until my 30s that I found out it was a Nina Simone original. I always thought it was The Animals who recorded it first.
 
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