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{{Infobox artist discography
{{Infobox artist discography
| Artist = [[The Animals]]
| Artist = [[the Animals]]
| Image = Eric Burdon & the Animals.jpg
| Image = Eric Burdon & the Animals.jpg
| Caption = Posing for publicity in 1964: L–R Eric Burdon (Vocals), Alan Price (Keyboards), Chas Chandler (Bass), Hilton Valentine (Guitar), John Steel (Drums).
| Caption = Posing for publicity in 1964: L–R Eric Burdon (Vocals), Alan Price (Keyboards), Chas Chandler (Bass), Hilton Valentine (Guitar), John Steel (Drums).
| Option = 3
| Option = 5
| Option name = Studio albums (US)
| Option name = Studio albums (US)
| 1Option = 5
| 1Option = 3
| 1Option name = Studio albums (UK)
| 1Option name = Studio albums (UK)
| 2Option = 2
| 2Option = 5
| 2Option name = Other studio albums
| 2Option name = Other studio albums
| Compilation = 6
| Live = 1
| EP = 5
| Compilation = 4
| EP = 5
| Singles = 25
| Singles = 25
}}
}}


The [[discography]] of '''[[The Animals]]''', an English music group of the 1960s formed in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], contains 20 studio albums, six compilation albums, five EPs and 25 singles. Featuring a gritty, [[blues]]y sound and a deep-voiced frontman in [[Eric Burdon]], they are best known for their rendition of an American folk song named "[[House of the Rising Sun]]", which is described by many as their [[signature song]].<ref>Muze article, [http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1013556 "Best of The Animals (Abkco)"], [[Tower Records]]. Accessed 4 May 2007.</ref> This single had worldwide sales of nearly 5 million<ref name=goldendiscs>''The Book of Golden Disks'', Joseph Murrells. {{ISBN|0-214-20512-6}}.</ref> and became a Number One hit in both the UK and US in 1964. Overall, the group balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles such as "[[We Gotta Get Out of This Place]]" and "[[It's My Life (The Animals song)|It's My Life]]" against [[rhythm and blues]]–oriented album material. The Animals released separate UK and US albums, a practice common to other [[British Invasion]] bands of the time such as [[The Beatles]] and [[The Rolling Stones]].
The discography of [[the Animals]], an English music group of the 1960s formed in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], contains 20 studio albums, six compilation albums, five EPs and 25 singles. Featuring a gritty, [[blues]]y sound and a deep-voiced frontman in [[Eric Burdon]], they are best known for their rendition of an American folk song "[[The House of the Rising Sun]]", which is described by many as their [[signature song]].<ref>Muze article, [http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1013556 "Best of The Animals (Abkco)"], [[Tower Records]]. Accessed 4 May 2007.</ref> This single had worldwide sales of nearly 5 million<ref name=goldendiscs>''The Book of Golden Disks'', Joseph Murrells. {{ISBN|0-214-20512-6}}.</ref> and became a Number One hit in both the UK and US in 1964. Overall, the group balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles such as "[[We Gotta Get Out of This Place]]" and "[[It's My Life (The Animals song)|It's My Life]]" against [[rhythm and blues]]–oriented album material. The Animals released separate UK and US albums, a practice common to other [[British Invasion]] bands of the time such as [[the Beatles]] and [[the Rolling Stones]].


The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s and suffered from poor business management. An incarnation using the name '''Eric Burdon and the Animals''' moved to California in 1967 and achieved commercial success as a [[psychedelic rock]] outfit, before disbanding at the end of the decade. Altogether, the group had ten Top Twenty hits on both the [[UK Singles Chart|UK charts]] and [[US Billboard Hot 100|US charts]].
The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s and suffered from poor business management. An incarnation using the name "Eric Burdon and the Animals" moved to California in 1967 and achieved commercial success as a [[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] outfit, before disbanding at the end of the decade. Altogether, the group had ten Top Twenty hits on both the [[UK Singles Chart|UK charts]] and [[US Billboard Hot 100|US charts]].


The original lineup had a brief comeback in 1977 and 1983. There have been several partial regroupings of the original era members since then under various names. The Animals were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1994.
The original lineup had a brief comeback in 1977 and 1983. There have been several partial regroupings of the original era members since then under various names. The Animals were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1994.


== Albums ==
== Studio albums ==
The Animals' studio album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents.


===UK 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, very many compilation and repackaging releases have been made over the years.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

===UK Albums ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! rowspan=2 | Year
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Title
! rowspan=2 | Album details
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Album details
! Peak chart positions
! scope="col" colspan=1 | Peak chart positions
|-
! rowspan=2 | Notes
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK">{{cite web |url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/animals/ |title=Artist Chart History: Animals |work=[[The Official Charts Company]] |access-date=24 March 2011}}</ref>
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
!width="30"|[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK">{{cite web |url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/animals/ |title=Artist Chart History: Animals |work=[[The Official Charts Company]] |accessdate=24 March 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
! colspan="4" | The Animals
! scope="row" | ''[[The Animals (British album)|The Animals]]''
|-
|
* Released: 30 October 1964
| 1964
| '''''[[The Animals (British album)|The Animals]]'''''
* Released: November 1964
* Label: [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia]] <small>(SX 1669)</small>
* Label: [[Columbia Graphophone Company|Columbia]] <small>(SX 1669)</small>
* Format: [[LP record|LP]]
* Format: [[LP record|LP]]
| 6
| align="center" | 6
|
*Their debut album
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Animal Tracks (British album)|Animal Tracks]]''
| 1965
| '''''[[Animal Tracks (UK album)|Animal Tracks]]'''''
* Released: May 1965
* Label: Columbia <small>(SX 1708)</small>
* Format: LP
| align="center" | 6
|
|
* Released: 7 May 1965
|-
* Label: Columbia <small>(SX 1708)</small>
| 1966
| '''''[[Animalisms]]'''''
* Released: May 1966
* Label: [[Decca Records|Decca]] <small>(LK 4797)</small>
* Format: LP
* Format: LP
| 6
| align="center" | 4
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Animalisms]]''
! colspan="4" | Eric Burdon & the Animals
|-
| 1967
| '''''[[Winds of Change (Eric Burdon & The Animals album)|Winds of Change]]'''''
* Released: September 1967
* Label: [[MGM Records|MGM]]
* Format: LP
| align="center" | —
|
|
* Released: 13 May 1966
|-
* Label: [[Decca Records|Decca]] <small>(LK 4797)</small>
| rowspan="2"|1968
| '''''[[The Twain Shall Meet]]'''''
* Released: April 1968
* Label: MGM
* Format: LP
* Format: LP
| 4
| align="center" | —
|
|-
| '''''[[Love Is (The Animals album)|Love Is]]'''''
* Released: December, 1968
* Label: MGM
* Format: LP
| align="center" | —
|
|-
! colspan="4" | "—" denotes a release that did not chart.
|}
|}


===US Albums ===
===US albums ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
|-
! rowspan=2 | Year
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Title
! rowspan=2 | Album details
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Album details
! colspan="3" | Peak chart positions
! scope="col" colspan=3 | Peak chart positions
|-
! rowspan=2 |Notes
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic |class=artist|id=p3555|tab=charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Animals: Charts & Awards – ''Billboard'' Albums|website=[[AllMusic]]|location=United States|access-date=24 March 2011}}</ref>
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Cashbox (magazine)|US<br>Cash.]]<br><ref name="Cashbox">{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Cash-Box-Magazine.htm|title=CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Archive of all issues from1942 to 1996|website=www.americanradiohistory.com|access-date=2018-08-16}}</ref>
!width="30"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US">{{cite web|url={{Allmusic |class=artist|id=p3555|tab=charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Animals: Charts & Awards – ''Billboard'' Albums|work=[[Allmusic]]|publisher=[[Rovi Corporation]]|location=United States|accessdate=24 March 2011}}</ref>
!width="30"|[[Record World|<small>Record World</small>]] <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Record_World.htm|title=RECORD WORLD MAGAZINE: 1942 to 1982|website=www.americanradiohistory.com|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Record World|US<br>RW]]<br><ref name="RecordWorld">{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Record_World.htm|title=RECORD WORLD MAGAZINE: 1942 to 1982|website=www.americanradiohistory.com|access-date=2018-08-15}}</ref>
![[Cashbox (magazine)|<small>Cash</small>]]
[[Cashbox (magazine)|<small>box</small>]]

<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Cash-Box-Magazine.htm|title=CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Archive of all issues from1942 to 1996|website=www.americanradiohistory.com|access-date=2018-08-16}}</ref>
|-
|-
! colspan="6" | The Animals
! scope="row" | ''[[The Animals (American album)|The Animals]]''
|-
|
| 1964
| '''''[[The Animals (American album)|The Animals]]'''''
* Released: September 1964
* Released: September 1964
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4264)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4264)</small>
* Format: [[Monaural|mono]]/rechanneled [[Stereophonic sound|stereo]] LP
* Format: [[Monaural|mono]]/rechanneled [[Stereophonic sound|stereo]] LP
| 7
|align="center" |7
| 14
|align="center" |8
| 8
|align="center" |14
|
*Featuring original lineup of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, <br>Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine, and John Steel
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Animals on Tour]]''
|rowspan=2|1965
|
| '''''[[The Animals on Tour]]'''''
* Released: March 1965
* Released: February 1965
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4281)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4281)</small>
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
|align="center" |99
| 99
| —
|align="center" |92
| 92
|align="center" |-
|
*Not a live album as the title hints
|-
|-
| '''''[[Animal Tracks (U.S. album)|Animal Tracks]]'''''
! scope="row" | ''[[Animal Tracks (American album)|Animal Tracks]]''
|
* Released: September 1965
* Released: September 1965
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4305)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4305)</small>
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
|align="center" |57
| 57
|align="center" |27
| 27
|align="center" |27
| 27
|
*Featuring tracks with original keyboardist Alan Price and replacement Dave Rowberry;<br> Price is shown on the front and back covers
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Animalization]]''
|rowspan=2|1966
|
| '''''[[Animalization]]'''''
* Released: July, 1966
* Released: August 1966
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4384)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4384)</small>
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP with 1 true stereo track
* Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP with 1 true stereo track
|align="center" |20
| 20
| 17
|align="center" |13
| 13
|align="center" |17
|
*Featuring tracks with original drummer John Steel (who appears on the back cover) <br>and new drummer Barry Jenkins, who appears on the front cover
|-
|-
| '''''[[Animalism (album)|Animalism]]'''''
! scope="row" | ''[[Animalism (album)|Animalism]]''
|
* Released: 21 November 1966
* Released: 21 November 1966
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4414)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4414)</small>
* Format: mono/stereo LP
* Format: mono/stereo LP
|align="center" |33
| 33
| 27
|align="center" |21
| 21
|align="center" |27
|
|-
|-
! colspan="6" | Eric Burdon & The Animals
| colspan="5" | <small>"—" denotes a release that did not chart.</small>
|}

=== Eric Burdon & the Animals albums ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
|-
|rowspan=2|1967
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Album details
| '''''[[Eric Is Here]]'''''
! colspan="4" |Peak chart positions
* Released: March 1967
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Cashbox (magazine)|US<br>Cash.]]<br><ref name="Cashbox" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Record World|US<br>RW]]<br><ref name="RecordWorld" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Eric Is Here]]''
|
* Released: March 1967 <small>(US only)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4433)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4433)</small>
* Format: mono/stereo LP
* Format: mono/stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |121
|121
|align="center" |54
|84
|align="center" |84
|
|54
*First LP billed to "Eric Burdon & The Animals", <br>although only Burdon and Jenkins appear on this album, accompanied by session musicians
|-
|-
| '''''[[Winds of Change (The Animals album)|Winds of Change]]'''''
! scope="row" | ''[[Winds of Change (Eric Burdon & the Animals album)|Winds of Change]]''
|
* Released: September 1967
* Released: September 1967
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4484)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4484)</small>
* Format: mono/stereo LP
* Format: mono/stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |42
| 42
|align="center" |23
|align="center" |26
| 26
|
| 23
*First full LP featuring the new lineup of Burdon, Jenkins,<br> Weider, Briggs, and McCullough
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Twain Shall Meet]]''
|rowspan=3|1968
|
| '''''[[The Twain Shall Meet]]'''''
* Released: April 1968
* Released: April 1968
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4537)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4537)</small>
* Format: mono/stereo LP
* Format: mono/stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |79
|79
|align="center" |48
|84
|align="center" |84
|
|48
|-
|-
| '''''[[Every One of Us]]'''''
! scope="row" | ''[[Every One of Us]]''
|
* Released: August 1968
* Released: August 1968 <small>(US only)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4553)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4553)</small>
* Format: stereo LP
* Format: stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |152
|152
|align="center" |107
|—
|align="center" |-
|
|107
*Band becomes a sextet with the addition of Zoot Money <br>(credited as George Bruno)
|-
|-
| '''''[[Love Is (The Animals album)|Love Is]]'''''
! scope="row" | ''[[Love Is (The Animals album)|Love Is]]''
|
* Released: December, 1968
* Released: December 1968
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4591-2)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4591-2)</small>
* Format: stereo LP
* Format: stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |123
|123
|align="center" |96
|94
|align="center" |94
|
|96
*2 record set. Band becomes a quintet again with departure of Briggs and McCullough <br>and addition of future Police member Andy Summers; Zoot Money now official member
|-
|-
! colspan="6" | "—" denotes a release that did not chart.
| colspan="6" |<small>"—" denotes a release that did not chart.</small>
|}
|}


== Compilation albums ==
=== Reunion albums ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
|-
! rowspan="2" width="1%" | Year
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title
! rowspan="2" width="30%" | Album details
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Album details
! colspan="4" |Peak Chart Positions
! colspan="4" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" width="100%" |Notes
|-
|-
![[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
![[Record World|<small>Record World</small>]] <ref name=":1" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Canadian Albums Chart|CAN]]<br><ref name="CAN">{{Cite web |title=Canadian Charts |url=http://www.cria.ca/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227234752/http://www.cria.ca/ |archive-date=27 February 2008 |access-date=13 October 2010 |publisher=[[Music Canada|CRIA]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
![[Cashbox (magazine)|<small>Cash</small>]]
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[RIANZ|NZL]]<br><ref name="NZL">{{Cite web |title=New Zealand Chart |url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Santana |access-date=13 October 2010 |website=Charts.nz}}</ref>
[[Cashbox (magazine)|<small>box</small>]]
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted]]''<br><small>(released as The Original Animals)</small>
|
* Released: August 1977
* Label: [[Jet Records|Jet]]
* Format: LP
|—
|70
|84
|24
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Ark (The Animals album)|Ark]]''
|
* Released: August 1983
* Label: [[I.R.S. Records|I.R.S.]]
* Format: LP
|—
|66
|—
|—
|}


== Live albums ==
<ref name=":0" />
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
![[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title
! rowspan="2" scope="col" | Album details
! colspan="2" |Peak chart positions
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Greatest Hits Live (Rip It to Shreds)]]''
|
* Released: 1984
* Label: I.R.S.
* Format: LP
|—
|—
|-
|}

== Compilation albums ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Title
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Album details
! scope="col" colspan=4 | Peak chart positions
! scope="col" rowspan=2 | Certifications
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Cashbox (magazine)|US<br>Cash.]]<br><ref name="Cashbox" />
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" | [[Record World|US<br>RW]]<br><ref name="RecordWorld" />
|-
|-
! colspan="7" | The Animals
! colspan="7" | The Animals
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Best of The Animals]]''
| 1966
|
|'''''[[The Best of The Animals (1966 album)|The Best of the Animals]]'''''
* Released: February 1966
* Released: February 1966
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4324)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4324)</small>
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
|—
|align="center" |6
|6
|align="center" |4
|5
|align="center" |5
|4
|align="center" |—
|
|
* [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]: Gold<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=the+animals&ti=&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section|title=Gold & Platinum |publisher=RIAA|access-date=2018-08-14|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]]: Gold<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=the+animals&ti=&lab=&genre=&format=&date_option=release&from=&to=&award=&type=&category=&adv=SEARCH#search_section|title=Gold & Platinum |publisher=RIAA|access-date=2018-08-14|language=en-US}}</ref>

* First LP to feature new keyboardist Dave Rowberry in the photos
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[The Most of the Animals]]''
|1966
|
|'''''[[The Most of Animals|The Most of the Animals]]'''''
* Released: February 1966
* Released: February 1966
* Label: Columbia <small>(SX-6035)</small>
* Label: Columbia <small>(SX-6035)</small>
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
|4
|align="center" |—
|—
|align="center" |—
|—
|align="center" |—
|—
|align="center" |4
|
|
|-
|-
! colspan="7" | Eric Burdon and the Animals
! colspan="7" | Eric Burdon & the Animals
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals Vol. II''
| 1967
|
|'''''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals Vol. II'''''
* Released: June 1967
* Released: June 1967
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4454)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(E/SE-4454)</small>
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
* Format: Mono/Stereo LP
|—
|—
|54
|48
|
|
|-
|align="center" |48
! scope="row" | ''[[The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals|The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals]]''
|align="center" |54
|
|
| Features tracks from the three previous lineups and the recent single from the new lineup of Burdon, Barry Jenkins, John Weider, Vic Briggs, and Danny McCullough
|-
| 1969
|'''''[[The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals|The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals]]'''''
* Released: March 1969
* Released: March 1969
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4602)</small>
* Label: MGM <small>(SE-4602)</small>
* Format: Stereo LP
* Format: Stereo LP
|
|—
|—
|align="center" |—
|
|—
|
|—
|
|
|}
|}

=== 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 ===
=== Off-sequence albums ===
These albums are principally a continuing re-release of a set of live recordings from Club A Go-Go, Newcastle, 1963, either solely The Animals or The Animals and [[Sonny Boy Williamson II]]. The track listing for the all-Animals set is generally all of or a selection from "[[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]]", "Gotta Find My Baby", "[[Bo Diddley (song)|Bo Diddley]]", "[[Dimples (song)|Dimples]]", "[[Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)|Boom Boom]]" "[[C Jam Blues]]" and "[[Almost Grown (song)|Almost Grown]]". The recordings were made in December, 1963 by [[Giorgio Gomelsky]] and involved seven live tracks of the Animals alone and eleven tracks with the Animals backing Sonny Boy Williamson.<ref>Uncredited, Liner Notes to ''Almost Grown'', Pazzazz Records, 2006</ref>
These albums are principally a continuing re-release of a set of live recordings from Club A Go-Go, Newcastle, 1963, either solely The Animals or The Animals and [[Sonny Boy Williamson II]]. The track listing for the all-Animals set is generally all of or a selection from "[[Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)|Let It Rock]]", "Gotta Find My Baby", "[[Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley song)|Bo Diddley]]", "[[Almost Grown (song)|Almost Grown]]", "[[Dimples (song)|Dimples]]", "[[Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)|Boom Boom]]" and "[[C Jam Blues]]". The recordings were made in December, 1963 by [[Giorgio Gomelsky]] and involved seven live tracks of the Animals alone and eleven tracks with the Animals backing Sonny Boy Williamson.<ref>Uncredited, Liner Notes to ''Almost Grown'', Pazzazz Records, 2006</ref>


*''The Animals'' (September 1964, Canada (Capitol T-6092)
*''The Animals'' (Capitol [Canada] T-6092, Sep 1964)
*''British Go Go'' (January/1965)
*''Mickie Most Presents 'British Go Go' '' (MGM SE-4306, Jan 1965)
*''Wild Animals'' ([[Decca Records|Decca]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/wild-animals-mw0000853594|title=Wild Animals - The Animals &#124; User Reviews &#124; AllMusic|access-date=27 April 2021|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref> 1966)
*''In the Beginning'' (Live, 1965)
*''In the Beginning'' ([[Wand Records|Wand]], 1970) - Live album, recorded 30th December 1963
*''Wild Animals'' ([[Decca Records|Decca]],<ref>http://www.allmusic.com/album/wild-animals-r29134</ref> 1966)
*''Rock Generation Vol. 2'' (BYG 529 702, 1973)—The Animals at the Club A Gogo, Newcastle, 1963
*''Rock Generation Vol. 2'' (BYG 529.702, 1973) - The Animals at the Club A Go-Go, Newcastle, 1963
*''Rock Generation Vol. 4'' (BYG 529 704, 1973)—more of the same, joined by Sonny Boy Williamson
*''Rock Generation Vol. 4'' (BYG 529.704, 1973) - more of the same, backing Sonny Boy Williamson
*''Night Time Is the Right Time'' (Springboard 4065, year uncertain) with Sonny Boy Williamson
*''Night Time Is the Right Time'' (Springboard 4065, 197?) - with Sonny Boy Williamson
*''Live'' (Woodford, 1991){{ref|a|A}}
*''Live'' (Woodford, 1991){{ref|a|A}}
*''In the Beginning: Live in 1963'' ([[Sundazed Records|Sundazed]], 1994){{ref|b|B}}
*''In the Beginning: Live in 1963'' ([[Sundazed Records|Sundazed]], 1993){{ref|b|B}}
*''Almost Grown'' (Pazzazz, 2006){{ref|c|C}}
*''Almost Grown'' (Pazzazz, 2006){{ref|c|C}}
*''The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson'' ([[Charly Records|Charly]], 2006){{ref|d|D}}
*''The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson'' ([[Charly Records|Charly]], 2006){{ref|d|D}}
* ''Live at the Club A Go-Go'' ([[Hallmark Records|Hallmark]], 2008)
*''Live at the Club A Go-Go'' ([[Hallmark Records|Hallmark]], 2008)

== Reunion albums ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=2| Year
! rowspan=2| Album details
! colspan=4|Peak chart positions
! rowspan=2|Notes
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
!width="30"| [[Billboard 200|US]]<br><ref name="US" />
!width="30"| [[UK Albums Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="UK" />
! width="30"| [[Canadian Albums Chart|CAN]]<br><ref name="CAN">{{Cite web
|url = http://www.cria.ca/
|title = Canadian Charts
|publisher = [[Music Canada|CRIA]]
|accessdate = 13 October 2010
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080227234752/http://www.cria.ca/
|archivedate = 27 February 2008
|df = dmy-all
}}</ref>
!width="30"| [[RIANZ|NZL]]<br><ref name="NZL">{{Cite web
| url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Santana
| title=New Zealand Chart
| publisher=charts.nz
| accessdate=13 October 2010}}</ref>
|-
! colspan=7| The Original Animals
|-
| 1977
| '''''[[Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted]]'''''
* Released: August 1977
* Label: [[Jet Records|Jet]]
* Format: LP
| align="center"|70
| align="center"|—
| align="center"|84
| align="center"|24
| First album after 9 years
|-
! colspan=7| The Animals
|-
| 1983
| '''''[[Ark (The Animals album)|Ark]]'''''
* Released: August 1983
* Label: [[Castle Records|Castle]]
* Format: LP
| align="center"|66
| align="center"|—
| align="center"|—
| align="center"|—
|
|-
|}

* '''''[[Greatest Hits Live (Rip It to Shreds)]]''''' (1984)


=== Post-lifetime compilation and reissue albums ===
=== Post-lifetime compilation and reissue albums ===
* ''The Most Of'' ([[Music for Pleasure (record label)|Music For Pleasure]] 5218, 1971)
* ''Best of the Animals'' ([[ABKCO]] 4426, 1973, two-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'' ([[ABKCO]] 4426, 1973, 2-LP set)
* ''Best of the Animals'' (Springboard 4025, 1973)
* ''Best of the Animals'' (Springboard 4025, 1973)
* ''Best of the Animals'' (ABKCO 4324, 1975, 1-LP --- first U.S. compilation to feature the UK "correct" version of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place")
* ''[[The Best of The Animals (1988 album)|The Best of the Animals]]'' (ABKCO, 1988)
* ''The Best of the Animals'' (ABKCO, 1988)
* ''The Complete Animals'' ([[EMI]], 1990)
* ''The Complete Animals'' ([[EMI]], 1990)
* ''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966–1968'' ([[Polygram]], 1991){{ref|e|E}}
* ''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966–1968'' ([[Polygram]], 1991){{ref|e|E}}
* ''Original Hits'' (Disky, 1995){{ref|f|F}}
* ''Original Hits'' (Disky, 1995){{ref|f|F}}
* ''[[The Best of The Animals (1997 album)|The Best of the Animals]]'' (EMI, 1997)
* ''The Best of the Animals'' (EMI, 1997)
* ''The Best of the Animals'' ([[Liberty Records|Liberty]], 2000)<ref>http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-best-of-the-animals-liberty-r2062374</ref>
* ''The Best of the Animals'' ([[Liberty Records|Liberty]], 2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/|title=AllMusic &#124; Record Reviews, Streaming Songs, Genres & Bands|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
* ''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals'' ([[Universal Music|Universal]], 2001){{ref|g|G}}
* ''The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals'' ([[Universal Music|Universal]], 2001){{ref|g|G}}
* ''Interesting Life'' (2003)
* ''Interesting Life'' (2003)
* ''Complete French EP 1964/1967'' (2003)
* ''Complete French EPs 1964/1967'' (2003)
* ''Retrospective'' (2004)
* ''Retrospective'' (ABKCO 93252, 2004, Hybrid SACD)
* ''The Hits'' (2010)<ref>http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-hits-r2147515</ref>
* ''The Hits'' (2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-hits-mw0002116339|title=The Hits - The Animals &#124; User Reviews &#124; AllMusic|access-date=27 April 2021|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>


== Extended plays ==
== Extended plays ==
{|class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! Year
! Title
! EP details
! EP details
! Notes
! Comments
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''The Animals is Here''
| rowspan="2"|1964
|
|'''''The Animals is Here'''''
* Released: December 1964
* Released: December 1964
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8374)</small>
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8374)</small>
* Format: [[Gramophone record|7" 45 RPM]]
* Format: [[Single (music)#7-inch format|7-inch 45 RPM]]
|
|
*Debut EP released, but not the first recorded.
*Debut EP released, but not the first recorded.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
|-
|-
|'''''The Animals'''''
! scope="row" | ''The Animals''
|
* Released: March 1965
* Released: March 1965
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8400)</small>
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8400)</small>
* Format: 7" 45 RPM
* Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
|
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''The Animals No. 2''
| rowspan="3"|1965
|
|'''''The Animals No. 2'''''
* Released: July 1965
* Released: July 1965
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8439)</small>
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8439)</small>
* Format: 7" 45 RPM
* Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
|
|
|-
|-
|'''''Animal Tracks'''''
! scope="row" | ''Animal Tracks''
|
* Released: September 1965
* Released: September 1965
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8499)</small>
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8499)</small>
* Format: 7" 45 RPM
* Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
|
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" | ''The Animals Are Back''
|'''''In the Beginning There Was Early Animals'''''
|
* Released: October 1965
* Label: Columbia <small>(SEG 8452)</small>
* Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
|
|-
! scope="row" | ''In the Beginning There Was Early Animals''
|
* Released: 1966
* Released: 1966
* Label: Decca <small>(DFE 8643)</small>
* Label: Decca <small>(DFE 8643)</small>
* Format: 7" 45 RPM
* Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
|
|
*First recorded EP, but last released. It is also their first record, recorded 1963.
*First recorded EP, but last released. It is also their first record, recorded 1963.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
|-
|-
|}
|}


==Singles==
==Singles==
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center;
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Year
!rowspan="2"|Year
!rowspan="2"|Title (A-side)
!rowspan="2"|Title (A-side)
!colspan="9"|Peak chart positions
!colspan="8" |Peak chart positions
!rowspan="2"|U.S. [[Record label|Record Label]]
!rowspan="2"|U.S. record label
!rowspan="2"|[[A-side and B-side|B-side]]<br><small>From same album as A-side except where indicated</small>
!rowspan="2"|[[A-side and B-side|B-side]]<br><small>From same album as A-side except where indicated</small>
!rowspan="2"|Album
!rowspan="2"|Album
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
|- style="font-size:smaller;"
!align=centre| [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]
! [[UK Singles Chart|UK]]
!align=centre| [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]
! [[Billboard Hot 100|US]]
! [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]
!align=centre| [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|US <br/>Main.]]
! [[Canadian Singles Chart|CAN]]
!align=centre| [[Kent Music Report|AUS]]
! [[GfK Entertainment|GER]]
!align=centre| [[VG-lista|NOR]]
! [[MegaCharts|NLD]]
!align=centre| [[Canadian Singles Chart|CAN]]
! [[VG-lista|NOR]]
!align=centre| [[GfK Entertainment|GER]]
!align=centre| [[MegaCharts|NLD]]
! [[Sweden|SWE]]
!align=centre| [[Sweden|SWE]]
|-
|-
|rowspan="4"| 1964
|rowspan="4"| 1964
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| 1
| 1
| 1
| —
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| —
| 1
| 1
| 10
| 10
| 5
| 5
| —
| 4
| 4
| "[[Talkin' 'bout You|Talkin' 'Bout You]]"
| "Talkin' 'bout You"
|-
|-
|align=left| "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"
|align=left| "Gonna Send You Back to Walker"
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| 25
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| "Take It Easy"
| "Take It Easy"
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| 3
| 3
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| 15
| —
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| 29
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| 4
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| —
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| 26
| 26
| —
| 7
| 7
| "Club A-GoGo"
| "Club A-GoGo"
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| 7
| 7
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| 32
| —
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| 42
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| 7
| 7
| —
| —
| 3
| 3
| —
| 1
| 1
| "For Miss Caulker"
| "For Miss Caulker"
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| 2
| 2
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| 13
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| 49
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| 33
| 31
| 31
| 12
| 12
| —
| 6
| 6
| "I Can't Believe It"
| "I Can't Believe It" (US-only LP track)
|-
|-
|align=left| "[[It's My Life (The Animals song)|It's My Life]]"
|align=left| "[[It's My Life (The Animals song)|It's My Life]]"
| 7
| 7
| 23
| 23
| —
| 10
| 10
| 5
| 2
| —
| —
| —
| 12
| 12
| 5
| 3
| 3
| "I'm Going to Change the World"<small> (Non-LP track)</small>
| "I'm Going to Change the World"<small> (Non-LP track)</small>
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| "You're on My Mind"
| "You're on My Mind"
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| "Cheating"
| "Cheating"
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| "A Girl Named Sandoz"
| "A Girl Named Sandoz"
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| "Good Times"
| "Good Times"
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| "San Franciscan Nights" (A-side)
| "San Franciscan Nights" (A-side)
|-
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|align=left| "[[Monterey (song)|Monterey]]"
|align=left| "[[Monterey (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)|Monterey]]"
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| "Ain't That So"<small> (Non-LP track)</small>
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== Explanatory notes ==
== Notes ==
:A.{{note|a}}The cover is original Animals lineup that made the recordings. No identification of recordings as being 1963. Licensed from Disky Music; Disky ownership interest uncertain. Five songs only, excluding "Let It Rock" and "C Jam Blues".
:A.{{note|a}}The cover is original Animals lineup that made the recordings. No identification of recordings as being 1963. Licensed from Disky Music; Disky ownership interest uncertain. Five songs only, excluding "Let It Rock" and "C Jam Blues".
:B.{{note|b}}As described by reviewer Bruce Eder, "Recorded in December of 1963 at a live concert, this CD captures the Animals at their rawest and most animated on record, ripping ferociously through a bunch of standards (by Chuck Berry, James B. Odom, et al.), playing the crowd and making snide comments about their London rivals [[The Rolling Stones]], all with Sonny Boy Williamson II hanging somewhere around the stage. Sundazed has actually found the original master to this oft-bootlegged piece of rock/blues history."<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r29131|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''In the Beginning'']; www.allmusic.com.</ref>
:B.{{note|b}}As described by reviewer Bruce Eder, "Recorded in December of 1963 at a live concert, this CD captures the Animals at their rawest and most animated on record, ripping ferociously through a bunch of standards (by Chuck Berry, James B. Odom, et al.), playing the crowd and making snide comments about their London rivals [[The Rolling Stones]], all with Sonny Boy Williamson II hanging somewhere around the stage. Sundazed has actually found the original master to this oft-bootlegged piece of rock/blues history."<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r29131|pure_url=yes}} Review of ''In the Beginning'']; [[AllMusic]]</ref>
:C.{{note|c}}The album contains uncredited liner notes describing the early history of The Animals and the December 1963 recording by Giorgio Gomelsky. There is no indication on cover that the 2006 release is the 1963 live recording. The cover photo includes Dave Rowberry, who did not join the band until 1965, rather than Alan Price.
:C.{{note|c}}The album contains uncredited liner notes describing the early history of The Animals and the December 1963 recording by Giorgio Gomelsky. There is no indication on cover that the 2006 release is the 1963 live recording. The cover photo includes Dave Rowberry, who did not join the band until 1965, rather than Alan Price.
:D.{{note|d}}In fact being the seven live recordings of The Animals ''without'' Sonny Boy Williamson.
:D.{{note|d}}In fact being the seven live recordings of The Animals ''without'' Sonny Boy Williamson.
:E.{{note|e}}The album includes detailed liner notes by Rob Lipshutz; includes unedited single version of "[[Monterey (song)|Monterey]]", included on an album for the first time. Previous album inclusions, from the time of ''The Twain Shall Meet'', involved fade-in intro; see Lipshutz liner notes.
:E.{{note|e}}The album includes detailed liner notes by Rob Lipshutz; includes unedited single version of "[[Monterey (Eric Burdon and the Animals song)|Monterey]]", included on an album for the first time. Previous album inclusions, from the time of ''The Twain Shall Meet'', involved fade-in intro; see Lipshutz liner notes.
:F.{{note|f}}Eighteen songs from the 1964–1965 period, licensed from [[EMI]].
:F.{{note|f}}Eighteen songs from the 1964–1965 period, licensed from [[EMI]].
:G.{{note|g}}The album of ten tracks, principally 1967–1968 material, featuring the "new" Animals, yet the cover is of the 1963–1965 lineup with Alan Price. Also includes "Shake" and "All Night Long" from 1966. No liner notes, production details or recording times. Contains three actual "hits"—"Monterey", "Sky Pilot" and "San Franciscan Nights". "Sky Pilot" is the abridged, single version, though not so indicated.
:G.{{note|g}}The album of ten tracks, principally 1967–1968 material, featuring the "new" Animals, yet the cover is of the 1963–1965 lineup with Alan Price. Also includes "Shake" and "All Night Long" from 1966. No liner notes, production details or recording times. Contains three actual "hits"—"Monterey", "Sky Pilot" and "San Franciscan Nights". "Sky Pilot" is the abridged, single version, though not so indicated.


== Citations ==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


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* {{Official website|http://www.theanimalswebsite.com/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.theanimalswebsite.com/}}
* {{discogs artist|269090-The-Animals|The Animals}}
* {{discogs artist|269090-The-Animals|The Animals}}
* {{cite web |title=Animals |url=http://www.45-rpm.org.uk/dira/animals.htm |date= |publisher=45-rpm.org.uk |access-date=8 June 2020}}
* [http://www.ericburdonalbums.com/ Eric Burdon discography]


{{The Animals}}
{{The Animals}}

Latest revision as of 22:37, 10 November 2024

the Animals discography
Posing for publicity in 1964: L–R Eric Burdon (Vocals), Alan Price (Keyboards), Chas Chandler (Bass), Hilton Valentine (Guitar), John Steel (Drums).
EPs5
Live albums1
Compilation albums4
Singles25
Studio albums (US)5
Studio albums (UK)3
Other studio albums5

The discography of the Animals, an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, contains 20 studio albums, six compilation albums, five EPs and 25 singles. Featuring a gritty, bluesy sound and a deep-voiced frontman in Eric Burdon, they are best known for their rendition of an American folk song "The House of the Rising Sun", which is described by many as their signature song.[1] This single had worldwide sales of nearly 5 million[2] and became a Number One hit in both the UK and US in 1964. Overall, the group balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and "It's My Life" against rhythm and blues–oriented album material. The Animals released separate UK and US albums, a practice common to other British Invasion bands of the time such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s and suffered from poor business management. An incarnation using the name "Eric Burdon and the Animals" moved to California in 1967 and achieved commercial success as a psychedelic outfit, before disbanding at the end of the decade. Altogether, the group had ten Top Twenty hits on both the UK charts and US charts.

The original lineup had a brief comeback in 1977 and 1983. There have been several partial regroupings of the original era members since then under various names. The Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Studio albums

[edit]

The Animals' studio album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents.

UK albums

[edit]
Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[3]
The Animals
  • Released: 30 October 1964
  • Label: Columbia (SX 1669)
  • Format: LP
 6
Animal Tracks
  • Released: 7 May 1965
  • Label: Columbia (SX 1708)
  • Format: LP
 6
Animalisms
  • Released: 13 May 1966
  • Label: Decca (LK 4797)
  • Format: LP
 4

US albums

[edit]
Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[4] 		US
Cash.
[5] 		US
RW
[6]
The Animals
  • Released: September 1964
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4264)
  • Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
 7 14 8
The Animals on Tour
  • Released: February 1965
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4281)
  • Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
 99 — 92
Animal Tracks
  • Released: September 1965
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4305)
  • Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP
 57 27 27
Animalization
  • Released: August 1966
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4384)
  • Format: mono/rechanneled stereo LP with 1 true stereo track
 20 17 13
Animalism
  • Released: 21 November 1966
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4414)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 33 27 21
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Eric Burdon & the Animals albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[3] 		US
[4] 		US
Cash.
[5] 		US
RW
[6]
Eric Is Here
  • Released: March 1967 (US only)
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4433)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 — 121 84 54
Winds of Change
  • Released: September 1967
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4484)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 — 42 26 23
The Twain Shall Meet
  • Released: April 1968
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4537)
  • Format: mono/stereo LP
 — 79 84 48
Every One of Us
  • Released: August 1968 (US only)
  • Label: MGM (SE-4553)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — 152 — 107
Love Is
  • Released: December 1968
  • Label: MGM (SE-4591-2)
  • Format: stereo LP
 — 123 94 96
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Reunion albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[3] 		US
[4] 		CAN
[7] 		NZL
[8]
Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
(released as The Original Animals)
  • Released: August 1977
  • Label: Jet
  • Format: LP
 — 70 84 24
Ark
  • Released: August 1983
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Format: LP
 — 66 — —

Live albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[3] 		US
[4]
Greatest Hits Live (Rip It to Shreds)
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Format: LP
 — —

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[3] 		US
[4] 		US
Cash.
[5] 		US
RW
[6]
The Animals
The Best of The Animals
  • Released: February 1966
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4324)
  • Format: Mono/Stereo LP
 — 6 5 4
The Most of the Animals
  • Released: February 1966
  • Label: Columbia (SX-6035)
  • Format: Mono/Stereo LP
 4 — — —
Eric Burdon & the Animals
The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals Vol. II
  • Released: June 1967
  • Label: MGM (E/SE-4454)
  • Format: Mono/Stereo LP
 — — 54 48
The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals
  • Released: March 1969
  • Label: MGM (SE-4602)
  • Format: Stereo LP
 — — — —

Off-sequence albums

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These albums are principally a continuing re-release of a set of live recordings from Club A Go-Go, Newcastle, 1963, either solely The Animals or The Animals and Sonny Boy Williamson II. The track listing for the all-Animals set is generally all of or a selection from "Let It Rock", "Gotta Find My Baby", "Bo Diddley", "Almost Grown", "Dimples", "Boom Boom" and "C Jam Blues". The recordings were made in December, 1963 by Giorgio Gomelsky and involved seven live tracks of the Animals alone and eleven tracks with the Animals backing Sonny Boy Williamson.[10]

  • The Animals (Capitol [Canada] T-6092, Sep 1964)
  • Mickie Most Presents 'British Go Go' (MGM SE-4306, Jan 1965)
  • Wild Animals (Decca,[11] 1966)
  • In the Beginning (Wand, 1970) - Live album, recorded 30th December 1963
  • Rock Generation Vol. 2 (BYG 529.702, 1973) - The Animals at the Club A Go-Go, Newcastle, 1963
  • Rock Generation Vol. 4 (BYG 529.704, 1973) - more of the same, backing Sonny Boy Williamson
  • Night Time Is the Right Time (Springboard 4065, 197?) - with Sonny Boy Williamson
  • Live (Woodford, 1991)A
  • In the Beginning: Live in 1963 (Sundazed, 1993)B
  • Almost Grown (Pazzazz, 2006)C
  • The Animals with Sonny Boy Williamson (Charly, 2006)D
  • Live at the Club A Go-Go (Hallmark, 2008)

Post-lifetime compilation and reissue albums

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  • The Most Of (Music For Pleasure 5218, 1971)
  • Best of the Animals (ABKCO 4426, 1973, 2-LP set)
  • Best of the Animals (Springboard 4025, 1973)
  • Best of the Animals (ABKCO 4324, 1975, 1-LP --- first U.S. compilation to feature the UK "correct" version of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place")
  • The Best of the Animals (ABKCO, 1988)
  • The Complete Animals (EMI, 1990)
  • The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966–1968 (Polygram, 1991)E
  • Original Hits (Disky, 1995)F
  • The Best of the Animals (EMI, 1997)
  • The Best of the Animals (Liberty, 2000)[12]
  • The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals (Universal, 2001)G
  • Interesting Life (2003)
  • Complete French EPs 1964/1967 (2003)
  • Retrospective (ABKCO 93252, 2004, Hybrid SACD)
  • The Hits (2010)[13]

Extended plays

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Title EP details Notes
The Animals is Here
  • Released: December 1964
  • Label: Columbia (SEG 8374)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
The Animals
  • Released: March 1965
  • Label: Columbia (SEG 8400)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
The Animals No. 2
  • Released: July 1965
  • Label: Columbia (SEG 8439)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
Animal Tracks
  • Released: September 1965
  • Label: Columbia (SEG 8499)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
The Animals Are Back
  • Released: October 1965
  • Label: Columbia (SEG 8452)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
In the Beginning There Was Early Animals
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Decca (DFE 8643)
  • Format: 7-inch 45 RPM
  • First recorded EP, but last released. It is also their first record, recorded 1963.[citation needed]

Singles

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Year Title (A-side) Peak chart positions U.S. record label B-side
From same album as A-side except where indicated 		Album
UK US AUS CAN GER NLD NOR SWE
1964 "Baby Let Me Take You Home" 21 102 — — — — — — MGM Records "Gonna Send You Back to Walker" The Animals
"The House of the Rising Sun" 1 1 2 1 10 5 — 4 "Talkin' 'bout You"
"Gonna Send You Back to Walker" — 57 — 25 — — — — "Baby Let Me Take You Home" (A-side)
"I'm Crying" 8 19 40 6 — 44 — — "Take It Easy" The Animals on Tour
1965 "Boom Boom" — 43 39 14 — — — — "Blue Feeling" The Animals
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" 3 15 29 4 — 26 — 7 "Club A-GoGo" Animal Tracks
"Bring It On Home to Me" 7 32 42 7 — 3 — 1 "For Miss Caulker"
"We Gotta Get out of This Place" 2 13 49 2 31 12 — 6 "I Can't Believe It" (US-only LP track)
"It's My Life" 7 23 10 2 — 12 5 3 "I'm Going to Change the World" (Non-LP track) The Best of The Animals
1966 "Inside-Looking Out" 12 34 20 21 34 24 — 14 "You're on My Mind" Animalization
"Don't Bring Me Down" 6 12 20 3 17 15 — 16 "Cheating"
"See See Rider" — 10 9 1 — — — — "She'll Return It"
"Help Me Girl" 14 29 18 25 — — — — "That Ain't Where It's At" Eric Is Here
1967 "When I Was Young" 45 15 2 10 31 9 — — "A Girl Named Sandoz" The Best of Eric Burdon and The Animals Vol. II
"San Franciscan Nights" 7 9 9 1 20 5 — — "Good Times" Winds of Change
"Good Times" 20 — — — — — — — "San Franciscan Nights" (A-side)
"Monterey" — 15 9 3 — 37 — 17 "Ain't That So" (Non-LP track) The Twain Shall Meet
"Anything" — 80 65 45 — — — — "It's All Meat" Winds of Change
1968 "Sky Pilot" 40 14 7 7 — — — — "Sky Pilot (Part Two)" The Twain Shall Meet
"White Houses" — 67 66 46 — — — — "River Deep – Mountain High" (from Love Is) Every One of Us
1969 "Ring of Fire" 35 — 8 — — 2 — — "I'm An Animal" Love Is
1972 "The House of the Rising Sun" 25 — — — — — — — ABKCO Records "Bring It On Home to Me"
1982 "The House of the Rising Sun" 11 — — — — — — —
1983 "The Night" — 48 — — — — — — I.R.S. Records "No John No" Ark
"Love Is for All Time" — — — — — — — — "It's Too Late"

Notes

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A.^ The cover is original Animals lineup that made the recordings. No identification of recordings as being 1963. Licensed from Disky Music; Disky ownership interest uncertain. Five songs only, excluding "Let It Rock" and "C Jam Blues".
B.^ As described by reviewer Bruce Eder, "Recorded in December of 1963 at a live concert, this CD captures the Animals at their rawest and most animated on record, ripping ferociously through a bunch of standards (by Chuck Berry, James B. Odom, et al.), playing the crowd and making snide comments about their London rivals The Rolling Stones, all with Sonny Boy Williamson II hanging somewhere around the stage. Sundazed has actually found the original master to this oft-bootlegged piece of rock/blues history."[14]
C.^ The album contains uncredited liner notes describing the early history of The Animals and the December 1963 recording by Giorgio Gomelsky. There is no indication on cover that the 2006 release is the 1963 live recording. The cover photo includes Dave Rowberry, who did not join the band until 1965, rather than Alan Price.
D.^ In fact being the seven live recordings of The Animals without Sonny Boy Williamson.
E.^ The album includes detailed liner notes by Rob Lipshutz; includes unedited single version of "Monterey", included on an album for the first time. Previous album inclusions, from the time of The Twain Shall Meet, involved fade-in intro; see Lipshutz liner notes.
F.^ Eighteen songs from the 1964–1965 period, licensed from EMI.
G.^ The album of ten tracks, principally 1967–1968 material, featuring the "new" Animals, yet the cover is of the 1963–1965 lineup with Alan Price. Also includes "Shake" and "All Night Long" from 1966. No liner notes, production details or recording times. Contains three actual "hits"—"Monterey", "Sky Pilot" and "San Franciscan Nights". "Sky Pilot" is the abridged, single version, though not so indicated.

References

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  1. ^ Muze article, "Best of The Animals (Abkco)", Tower Records. Accessed 4 May 2007.
  2. ^ The Book of Golden Disks, Joseph Murrells. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Artist Chart History: Animals". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d e "The Animals: Charts & Awards – Billboard Albums". AllMusic. United States. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "CASH BOX MAGAZINE: Archive of all issues from1942 to 1996". www.americanradiohistory.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  6. ^ a b c "RECORD WORLD MAGAZINE: 1942 to 1982". www.americanradiohistory.com. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Canadian Charts". CRIA. Archived from the original on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  8. ^ "New Zealand Chart". Charts.nz. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  9. ^ "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  10. ^ Uncredited, Liner Notes to Almost Grown, Pazzazz Records, 2006
  11. ^ "Wild Animals - The Animals | User Reviews | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  12. ^ "AllMusic | Record Reviews, Streaming Songs, Genres & Bands". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  13. ^ "The Hits - The Animals | User Reviews | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  14. ^ Review of In the Beginning; AllMusic
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