The Animals discography

A discography for The Animals.

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.

UK albums

*"The Animals" (October/1964)
*# "Story of Bo Diddley"
*# "Bury My Body"
*# "Dimples"
*# "I've Been Around"
*# "I'm in Love Again"
*# "The Girl Can't Help It"
*# "I'm Mad Again"
*# "She Said Yeah"
*# "The Right Time"
*# "Memphis Tennessee"
*# "Boom Boom"
*# "Around and Around"

*"Animal Tracks" (May/1965)
*# "Mess Around"
*# "How You've Changed"
*# "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
*# "I Believe to My Soul"
*# "Worried Life Blues"
*# "Roberta"
*# "I Ain't Got You"
*# "Bright Lights Big City"
*# "Let the Good Times Roll"
*# "For Miss Caulker"
*# "Roadrunner"

*"Animalisms" (June/1966)
*# "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"
*# "Maudie"
*# "Outcast"
*# "Sweet Little Sixteen"
*# "You're on My Mind"
*# "Clapping"
*# "Gin House Blues"
*# "Squeeze Her, Tease Her"
*# "What Am I Living For"
*# "I Put a Spell on You"
*# "That's All I Am to You"
*# "She'll Return It"

*"Winds of Change" (1967) (now Eric Burdon and the New Animals)
*# "Winds of Change"
*# "Poem By the Sea"
*# "Paint It Black"
*# "The Black Plague"
*# "Yes I'm Experienced"
*# "San Franciscan Nights"
*# "Man - Woman"
*# "Hotel Hell"
*# "Good Times"
*# "Anything"
*# "It's All Meat"

*"The Twain Shall Meet" (1968)
*# "Monterey"
*# "Just the Thought"
*# "Closer to the Truth"
*# "No Self Pity"
*# "Oranges and Red Beans"
*# "Sky Pilot"
*# "We Love You Lil"
*# "All Is One"

*"Love Is" (1968)
*# "River Deep, Mountain High"
*# "I'm an Animal"
*# "I'm Dying, Or Am I"
*# "Ring of Fire"
*# "Colored Rain"
*# "To Love Somebody"
*# "As the Years Go Passing By"
*# "Gemini - The Madman"

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)
*# "The House of the Rising Sun" (edited 2:58 single version)
*# "Blue Feeling"
*# "The Girl Can't Help It"
*# "Baby Let Me Take You Home"
*# "The Right Time"
*# "Talkin' 'Bout You"
*# "Around and Around"
*# "I'm in Love Again"
*# "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"
*# "Memphis Tennessee"
*# "I'm Mad Again"
*# "I've Been Around"

*"The Animals on Tour" (MGM E/SE-4281, March/1965) (Not a live album as the title hints)
*# "Boom Boom"
*# "How You've Changed"
*# "I Believe to My Soul"
*# "Mess Around"
*# "Bright Lights, Big City"
*# "Worried Life Blues"
*# "Let the Good Times Roll"
*# "I Ain't Got You"
*# "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
*# "I'm Crying"
*# "Dimples"
*# "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)
*# "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
*# "Take It Easy"
*# "Bring It On Home to Me"
*# "Roberta"
*# "Story of Bo Diddley"
*# "I Can't Believe It"
*# "For Miss Caulker"
*# "Club a Go-Go"
*# "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
*# "Bury My Body"

*"The Best of The Animals" (MGM E/SE-4324, February 1966) (certified gold) (First LP to feature new keyboardist Rowberry in the photos)
*# "It's My Life"
*# "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"
*# "Bring It On Home to Me"
*# "I'm Mad"
*# "House of the Rising Sun" (unedited 4:29 version)
*# "We Gotta Get out of This Place"
*# "Boom Boom"
*# "I'm in Love Again"
*# "Roberta"
*# "I'm Crying"
*# "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

*"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)
*# "Don't Bring Me Down"
*# "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"
*# "You're on My Mind"
*# "She'll Return It"
*# "Cheating"
*# "She'll Return It" (This song appears on the album but does not appear on the cover listing)
*# "Inside Looking Out"
*# "See See Rider"
*# "Gin House Blues"
*# "Maudie"
*# "What Am I Living For"
*# "Sweet Little Sixteen"
*# "I Put a Spell on You"

*"Animalism" (MGM E/SE-4414, December/1966)
*# "All Night Long"
*# "Shake"
*# "The Other Side of This Life"
*# "Rock Me Baby"
*# "Lucille"
*# "Smoke Stack Lightning"
*# "Hey Gyp"
*# "Hit the Road Jack"
*# "Outcast"
*# "Louisiana Blues"
*# "That's All I Am to You"
*# "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)
*# "In the Night"
*# "Mama Told Me Not to Come"
*# "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today"
*# "On This Side of Goodbye"
*# "That Ain't Where It's At"
*# "True Love (Comes Only Once in a Lifetime)"
*# "Help Me Girl"
*# "Wait Till Next Year"
*# "Losin' Control"
*# "It's Not Easy"
*# "The Biggest Bundle of Them All"
*# "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)
*# "When I Was Young"
*# "A Girl Named Sandoz"
*# "Don't Bring Me Down"
*# "She'll Return It"
*# "See See Rider" (erroneously shows the edited single time of 2:44 as the unedited 4:00 version is included here)
*# "The Other Side of Life"
*# "Hey Gyp"
*# "Help Me Girl"
*# "That Ain't Where It's At"
*# "You're on My Mind"
*# "Inside Looking Out"
*# "Cheating"

*"Winds of Change" (MGM E/SE-4484, September 1967 -- first full LP featuring the new lineup of Burdon, Jenkins, Weider, Briggs, and McCullough)
*# "Winds of Change"
*# "Poem by the Sea"
*# "Paint It Black"
*# "The Black Plague"
*# "Yes, I Am Experienced"
*# "San Franciscan Nights"
*# "Man-Woman"
*# "Hotel Hell"
*# "Good Times"
*# "Anything"
*# "It's All Meat"

*"The Twain Shall Meet" (MGM E/SE-4537, April 1968)
*# "Monterey"
*# "Just the Thought"
*# "Closer to the Truth"
*# "No Self Pity"
*# "Orange and Red Beams"
*# "Sky Pilot"
*# "We Love You Lil"
*# "All Is One"

*"Every One Of Us" (MGM SE-4553, August 1968 -- Band becomes a sextet with the addition of George Bruno)
*# "White Houses"
*# "Uppers and Downers"
*# "Serenade to a Sweet Lady"
*# "The Immigrant Lad"
*# "Year of the Guru"
*# "St. James Infirmary"
*# "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)
*# "River Deep, Mountain High"
*# "I'm an Animal"
*# "I'm Dying, Or Am I"
*# "Ring of Fire"
*# "Colored Rain"
*# "To Love Somebody"
*# "As The Years Go Passing By"
*# "Gemini - The Madman"

*"The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals" (MGM SE-4602, March 1969)
*# "River Deep, Mountain High"
*# "San Franciscan Nights"
*# "Year of the Guru"
*# "Anything"
*# "Monterey"
*# "White Houses"
*# "Winds of Change"
*# "To Love Somebody"
*# "Sky Pilot"

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")

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

Reunion albums

*"Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted" (Jet JT-LA 790-H, 1977)
*# "Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)"
*# "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
*# "Fire on the Sun"
*# "As the Crow Flies"
*# "Please Send Me Someone to Love"
*# "Many Rivers to Cross"
*# "Just a Little Bit"
*# "Riverside County"
*# "Lonely Avenue"
*# "The Fool"

*"Ark" (1983)
*# "Loose Change"
*# "Love Is for All Time"
*# "My Favourite Enemy"
*# "Prisoner of the Light"
*# "Being There"
*# "Hard Times"
*# "The Night"
*# "Trying to Get You"
*# "Just Can't Get Enough"
*# "Melt Down"
*# "Gotta Get Back to You"
*# "Crystal Nights"
*# "No John No"

*"Greatest Hits Live (Rip It to Shreds)" (1984)
*# "It's Too Late"
*# "House of the Rising Sun"
*# "It's My Life"
*# "Don't Bring Me Down"
*# "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
*# "I'm Crying"
*# "Bring It On Home to Me"
*# "O Lucky Man!"
*# "Boom Boom"
*# "We've Gotta Get out of This Place"
*# "When I Was Young"

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)

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)

Singles

External links

*http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dira/animals.htm The Animals discography
*http://www.ericburdonalbums.com/ Eric Burdon discography