Esoteric RecordingsA new five-CD box set featuring expanded versions of all four albums recorded by Eric Burdon‘s late-1960s incarnation of The Animals will be released on February 21, 2020.
When I Was Young — The MGM Recordings 1967-1968 includes remastered editions of 1967’s Winds of Change and 1968’s The Twain Shall Meet, Every One of Us and Love Is, plus a rare mono mix of Winds of Change.
After the original Animals lineup broke up in late 1966, Burdon formed a new version of the group under the moniker Eric Burdon & The Animals. The group’s first single, “When I Was Young,” was released in April 1967 and reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track wasn’t included on the band’s ensuing album, Winds of Change, which was issued in October 1967. The record featured the #9 hit “San Franciscan Nights” and a cover of The Rolling Stones‘ “Paint It Black.”
The Twain Shall Meet was released in April 1968, and featured the top-20 hits “Sky Pilot” and “Monterey.”
Every One of Us was issued in August 1968, and didn’t yield any hit singles.
Eric Burdon & The Animals’ final album, Love Is, was released as a two-disc set in the U.S. in December 1968. Future Police guitarist Andy Summers had joined the band’s lineup prior to the recording of the album, which includes cover of Ike & Tina Turner‘s “River Deep – Mountain High,” Johnny Cash‘s “Ring of Fire” and The Bee Gees‘ “To Love Somebody.”
Among the box set’s bonus tracks are various single A-sides and B-sides, including “When I Was Young” and the two-part mono single edit of “Sky Pilot.” The collection comes packaged with a poster and a booklet featuring a new essay.
Here’s the box set’s full track list:
Disc One
Winds of Change (Remastered Stereo Mix)
“Winds of Change”
“Poem by the Sea”
“Paint It Black”
“The Black Plague”
“Yes, I Am Experienced”
“San Franciscan Nights”
“Man – Woman”
“Hotel Hell”
“Good Times”
“Anything”
“It’s All Meat”
Bonus Tracks
“When I Was Young” (single released in May 1967)
“A Girl Named Sandoz” (B-side released in May 1967)
“Ain’t That So” (B-side released in August 1967)
“Gratefully Dead” (B-side released in October 1967)
“Anything (Single Version) (B-side released in May 1968)
Disc Two
The Twain Shall Meet (Remastered Edition)
“Monterey”
“Just the Thought”
“Closer to the Truth”
“No Self Pity”
“Orange and Red Beams”
“Sky Pilot”
“We Love You Lil”
“All Is One”
Bonus Tracks
“Sky Pilot (Part One)” (Mono Single) (single released in January 1968)
“Sky Pilot (Part Two)” (Mono Single) (B-side released in January 1968)
“Monterey” (Mono Single Version) (single released in May 1968)
Disc Three
Every One of Us (Remastered Edition)
“White Houses”
“Uppers and Downers”
“Serenade to a Sweet Lady”
“The Immigrant Lad”
“Year of the Guru”
“St. James Infirmary”
“New York 1963 – America 1968”
Bonus Track
“White Houses” (Single Version) (single released in November 1968)
Disc Four
Love Is (Remastered Edition)
“River Deep, Mountain High”
“I’m an Animal”
“I’m Dying, or Am I?”
“Ring of Fire”
“Coloured Rain”
“To Love Somebody”
“As the Years Go Passing By”
“Gemini”
“The Madman (Running Through the Fields)”
Bonus Track
“River Deep, Mountain High” (Single Version) (B-side released in November 1968)
Disc Five
Winds of Change (Remastered Mono Mix)
“Winds of Change”
“Poem by the Sea”
“Paint It Black”
“The Black Plague”
“Yes, I Am Experienced”
“San Franciscan Nights”
“Man – Woman”
“Hotel Hell”
“Good Times”
“Anything”
“It’s All Meat”
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