Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
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Features Disc of the day
The Animals
The Singles +
(BR Music, 1999)
Don’t do the Newcastle Brown acid!
Question: is there a back catalogue in a bigger mess than that of The Animals? Answer: no, but it was always thus. First off, The Animals were one of many unfortunate mid ’60s British acts imprisoned in a Byzantine Mickie Most contract who also got lumbered with a somewhat acquisitive manager, the late Mike Jeffery, who happily overlooked his artists’ well-being in the service of his own. What then happened over at Decca and MGM is anyone’s guess. In 1966 the band released three albums – Animalisms in the UK and Animalization and Animalism in the US – all powerfully produced under the watchful eye of the benevolent Tom Wilson and all containing a confusing remix of each others’ tracks. Since then, no-one has adequately cleaned up or remastered the Wilson tracks and a series of muffled, fudged, confusing and dishonest releases have emerged over the past twenty years, seriously denting the Animals legend. However, while The Singles + still suffers from the poor quality control of currently available masters it at least offers a compelling career overview of one of the most exciting bands of the ’60s. From the raw, spare sound of such Tyne blues venom shots as It’s My Life and We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, via feverish, over-amped Wilson productions of live screamers like Inside Looking Out to the proto-Earl Brutus brown-ale psych of Monterey and Sky Pilot, few catalogues can compare with the rough, boreal growls and vibrant, electric daftness of The Animals, but until digital justice is done it might still be an idea to track down the vinyl.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 14/10/2008
Further Listening
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Winds Of Change (MGM, 1967)
Alan Price – O Lucky Man! (Warner Bros, 1972)
Earl Brutus – Tonight You Are the Special One (Fruition, 1998)
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A bigger mess than the Animals? Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Yardbirds. Their catologue remains a constant nightmare of what where and when. Somebody please sort it out!!!!
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RE: Simon F
Fair point, well made!
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..And the DECCA years from the fabulous
Rolling stones...What a mess 40 years after !!!
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..And the DECCA years from the fabulous
Rolling stones...What a mess 40 years after !!!
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..And the DECCA years from the fabulous
Rolling stones...What a mess 40 years after !!!
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