Glamrock's British Invasion...The Animals 2

[Glamrock]

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Glamrock's British Invasion...The Animals

[Ohiogal]

1. Eric Burdon's vocals...

such a bad boy! A real working-class bluesman.

[Glamrock]

3. Always loved Eric.

Not necessarily a singer I aspired to be like.... But sooo much precense!

[thucythucy]

2. I'm an Animals fan, but

I wish they hadn't changed the gender in "House of the Rising Sun."

The song is about a young girl lured into prostitution in New Orleans. Told from the point of view of a disheartened sex worker who can't break her way out of the trade.

By changing the gender, I think it alters the impact of the song--particularly since there really was a House of the Rising Sun, a notorious brothel at the turn of the (20th) century.

Bob Dylan sings it and keeps it as intended...."And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl, and God knows, I'm one..."

Still, Eric does a great job, and the keyboard solo can't be beat.

Edited to add: Eric's version of "Paint it Black" done at Monterey is simply beautiful.

[Glamrock]

4. No shit?

I was unaware. You remember what album that was on perchance?

[thucythucy]

6. It's on his very first album, "Bob Dylan."

Here it is:

Still my favorite version. The story is he stole the arrangement from Dave von Ronk, who used to sing it everywhere in the Village.

Edited to add: this was released in 1962, two years before the Animals record. Dylan was all of twenty-one years old, and yet his voice is so intense. "Tell my baby sister, not to do what I have done..."

Brings a chill down my spine.

[Ohiogal]

5. What a powerful song

"Paint It Black" was.

[thucythucy]

7. And here it is:

Live at Monterey, June 1967.