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I really like, not the blues based gritty Animals, but the psychedelicised (New?) Animals of San Francisco Nights and Sky Pilot.
Is there one really really faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar out album or even a compilation that is going to do it for me or were those the only tacks they did like that... and I have those on the wonderful Psychedelic Years and Psychedelic Years Revisited compilations (3 CDs each and fantastic so check the link below)?
Now, The Move, was there an album called soemthing like Message From The Country? I really want something about I Can Hear The Grass Grow, but did they make a great album? Roy wood seems like a guy with a short attention span and maybe he was best at singles. I don't know.
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"Winds of Change" includes "San Franciscan Nights" and was released in late 1967. Six months later they released "The Twain Shall Meet", their most psychedelic album. It included "Monterey" and "Sky Pilot." Both are great albums, especially "Twain."Their next albums found them going back toward the blues but there was still some of the psychedelic sound to be found there. Most notable is "Love Is" from late '68. By mid '69 the group had split with Alan Price going solo and Burdon picking up the Oakland funk group WAR to make two really fine but very different albums "Eric Burdon Declares WAR" and "Black Mans' Burdon", from 1970 and '71, respectively. The only big hit from either of these was "Spill the Wine" from the "War" album. Of course, WAR (the group) went on to become soul/funk giants.
Burdon was/is one of the great characters in the history of British rock/blues. If you ever get a chance to catch him in concert you will have a great time as he still can put on one helluva show.
Check out Year of the Guru, absolutely freaky, as Eric does a psychedlic rap circa 1968.Also, I'm listening to Ace Kefford "Ace The Face" who was a member of the Move, and it is really psychedelic with a freaked out cover of "For Your Love."
this could help
but it seems to include only the early, pre-Jeff Lynne Move stuff.
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Its not on that discography.
I usually find anything on Castle to be to my liking and well put together.
According to Robert Christgau's Record Guide, 1970s edition, Message From The Country was released on Capitol Records in the US in 1971.
I have a couple of Move compilations--one on CD and one on Harvest UK vinyl--and the song "Message From The Country" is on both of them.
This album was released after Jeff Lynne joined the band, started writing tunes and singing a lot of the lead vocals.
The CD compilation I have is called Great Move: The Best of the Move and it's on EMI. A lot of the songs from the album Message from the Country are included. Some of them are great, some of them are downright weird.
But, if you've ever heard the song "California Man" from Cheap Trick, well that's a cover of a Move song. The Move was one of Cheap Trick's biggest influences along with ELO, and IMO the most recent Cheap Trick album just might be the best ELO record ever produced.
Another Move tune that you might be familiar with is "Do Ya." The original Move version got zero attention in the US, but IIRC it charted when ELO covered it on their great album A New World Record .
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The Best of the Move is a double-LP which might be to your liking, I don't know if it was ever put on CD. The Castle Collection CD is also a good assortment with some live cover tracks on it.
dave c -IMHO, here's what you need;
The Animals, "Retrospective" (ABKCO 93252); a DSD remaster like the ones they did for the Stones. It's basically everything you need.
The Move, "The Complete Singles Collection And More" (Crimson CRIMCD233); similar story, a great comp.
Hmmm, dave c ... never really thought of the Animals, or Eric Burdon, as having a psychedelic phase. However, in terms of retrospectives, I have 2: the well known SACD, and a more obscure 1999 CD on a German label, Digimode Entertainment, a.k.a. "Brilliant Records." The title of this CD is "ERIC BURDON Greatest Hits." The vintage of the recordings is much later than the SACD, circa 1998; few details are offered regarding the musicians and dates and places of the recordings. In fact, the liner notes mention merely that the performances were "recorded recently." I bought it off a discount rack for $5.99 and wasn't expecting much. But this recording is superior to the SACD, mainly because of its later vintage, I believe. I would have to aver, even further, that it is one of the best rock recordings in my collection. If you can find it, I'd recommend it. Burdon is in exremely fine form, and, whoever the musicians are, they are cookin' with gas (yet, they are meticulously faithful to the original arrangements). Here are the tracks (titles abbreviated):Rising Sun
Misunderstood
Get Outta this Place
Bring it On Home to Me
It's my LIfe
S.F. Nights
When I Was Young
See See Rider
Boom Boom
Help Me Girl
Don't Bring Me Down
Monterey
Anything
White Houses
I'm Crying
Spill The Wine
As far as compilations to capture the latter "psychedelicized" Animals, you have several choices:1) The Animals Retrospective SACD (already mentioned)--I have it, and I've heard mixed reviews of its sound quality--only so much an SACD can do with some older recordings;
2) The Animals: Absolute Animals 1964-68: this remastered "newer" compilation was released in 2003 by Raven Records--made in Australia! From your own country, mate!
3) The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966-68 (1991 Polygram).In addition to San Franciscan Nights and Sky Pilot, other Animals' songs that have a psychedelic flavor (only the Polygram issue includes all of these) are White Houses, Monterey, Winds of Change, When I Was Young, and Don't Bring Me Down.
I own all three of these compilations. The one thing I like about the older Polygram one is the inclusion of the Animals' cover of "River Deep, Mountain High." I prefer their version to that of Ike And Tina Turner.
We use it to signal "Party's over, time for everyone to leave."
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It could have gone on either thread. Worry more about music, than policing my posts.
All the Move albums are good, MFTC is great. Roy Wood made great singles but that album is on of my favorites
It has a good mixture of early and later music, and I think it is a better stand-alone album than anything else they put out. As for the other, well, I have no personal experience there.
One big hit is missing.
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I agree. I didn't have any Animals on CD or vinyl, so this greatest hits SACD was very refreshing. I also enjoy the Donovan SACD by Audio Fidelity ... finally some hi-rez Jimmy Page! Mike.
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