1617 - The Animals Inside Looking Out 1966

"Inside-Looking Out", often written "Inside Looking Out", is a 1966 single by The Animals. It was a substantial hit in their native land, reaching number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. British albums by the 1964-66 R&B incarnation of the band were cut up by MGM in America into slapdash packages like Animalization, a mess of '66 singles and tracks from the British Animalisms. But an import CD reissue of Animalisms combines the two, and the result is essential British Invasion fire, a visceral portrait of a beleaguered band (founding organist Alan Price was gone; drummer John Steel was about to split) in its fighting prime. Burdon's voice is as hard and dark as Jack Johnson's fist The Animals' reading of the prison lament "Inside Looking Out" is vividly brutal. Burdon wails like he's being horsewhipped; Steel, Rowberry and bassist Chas Chandler throb underneath him with war-dance brawn; Valentine's guitar is tense with neurotic treble. For those four minutes, the Animals never sounded more like real animals - vicious, hungry, desperate.

1406 - The Animals We Gotta Get Out Of This Place 1965

"We Gotta Get out of This Place", occasionally written "We've Gotta Get out of This Place", is a rock song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and recorded as a 1965 hit single by The Animals. It has become an iconic song of its type and was immensely popular among United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. The UK and U.S. single releases were different versions from the same recording sessions. The take that EMI, The Animals' parent record company, sent to MGM Records, the group's American label, was mistakenly one that had not been selected for release elsewhere. The two versions are most easily differentiated by the lyric at the beginning of the second verse: in the U.S. version the lyric is, "See my daddy in bed a-dyin'," while the UK version uses, "Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'." In the U.S. the song (in its "mistaken" take) was included on the album Animal Tracks, released in the fall 1965, and again on the popular compilation The Best of The Animals released in 1966. The song was not on any British Animals album during the group's lifetime.

675 - Animals The House of the Rising Sun 1964

The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song "House of the Rising Sun", the band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-oriented album material. The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes and emerged as an exponent of psychedelic rock before dissolving at the end of the decade.