Eric Burdon & The Animals Love Is (Vinyl, MGM Records, 1968) ***
Genre: Pop rock
Places I remember: Real Groovy Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: White Houses (EOOU)
Gear costume: River Deep Mountain High (Love Is) - Tina Turner gets an extended shout out!
Active compensatory factors: The post original Animals years were uppers and downers for Eric (see what I did there?).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: White Houses (EOOU)
Gear costume: River Deep Mountain High (Love Is) - Tina Turner gets an extended shout out!
Every One Of Us and Love Is both come from 1968 and are typical of his new approach - try a different voice and move between different genres.
The gritty northern Nu-Cas-tle immigrant laddish version (Eric the rocker) is eventually replaced by a hippyish American laid back maan version and it takes a while to get used to that.
It's all a bit of a jolt. I mean Serenade To A Sweet Lady is a lovely instrumental but what's it doing on an Eric Burdon album?!
All up, one reviewer summed Every One Of Us up as 'a good psychedelic blues album, filled with excellent musicianship' and I mostly go along with that!
Love Is is a more energetic album, although he does like to draw things out, does he not? This is a double album with 9 tracks on it!
Personnel remain similar although a young Andy Summers is drafted in - he would later be one of the three men in The Police.
Where do they all belong? Overall, I prefer the post original Animals Burdon when he's with War.
Where do they all belong? Overall, I prefer the post original Animals Burdon when he's with War.
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