Released March 1969 Length 47:17 Release date 1964 | Recorded 1967–68 | |
Label Columbia Graphophone Company Similar The Animals albums, Rock music albums | ||
The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals was the group's compilation representing the Animals' last three lineups, and showcased their venture into psychedelic rock. It was released in March 1969 in the US but never put out in the United Kingdom; it was the last album MGM Records would release in (more or less) the group's lifetime. Despite containing three tracks that had been US Top 15 singles, the collection was not commercially successful, placing only at number 153 on the Billboard 200.
Contents
The 1979 Rolling Stone Record Guide said the album's songs "are, in a way, great fun as memorabilia, they are surely no more than that." Allmusic considers it "An okay compilation of its kind", but supplanted by later compilations issued after the group had broken up.
Side 1
- "River Deep, Mountain High" (Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 7:20
- "San Franciscan Nights" (Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, Danny McCulloch) – 3:24
- "Year of the Guru" (Burdon) – 5:25
- "Anything" (Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch) – 3:20
- "Monterey" (Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch) – 4:18
Side 2
- "White Houses" (Burdon) – 4:43
- "Winds of Change" (Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch) – 4:00
- "To Love Somebody" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb) – 7:20
- "Sky Pilot" (Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, McCulloch) – 7:27
Personnel
Songs
1I'm in Love Again2:55
2Bury My Body2:45
3I'm Mad Again4:03