The Animals
by The Animals
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/05/2026 12:48 |  Tamthebam | 23,090 | 69/100 |
| ! | 04/25/2026 23:00 |  Robert Anton Wil | 1,149 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/13/2026 16:25 | gmessian | 385 | 60/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 01:54 | PapaShiz86 | 11,528 | 79/100 |
| ! | 12/22/2025 18:57 | Olli | 7,488 | 62/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 9% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.
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Hilton Valentine's guitar introduction to House Of The Rising Sun is a classic/iconic moment in modern music history - sadly, Hilton passed in 2021 - but his moment of musical brilliance will live on.
Jboy56 09/03/2022 09:41 | #289227
Quite nice for a debut album mostly comprised of traditional blues rock tunes. Seminal stuff to begin the Brit Invasion to the USA. This BEA entry is for the US album version
2nd-Impressions 12/14/2020 18:37 | #262699
63/100
Best tracks: The House of the Rising Sun, I'm Mad Again
Worst tracks: Blue Feeling, Baby Let Me Take You Home, Night Time Is the Right Time, I've Been Around
Straight ahead, well produced (especially for 1964) garage rock albums. Eric Burdon has one of the best voices in rock and the rest of the band sounds great. Gets a little bit repetitive towards the back half of the album, but taken in bites this is a great slice of early rock music.
A very strong debut. Maybe even better than the Rolling Stones 64 debut.
The band sound very tight and clear, and the bass lines are glorious.
A commonplace would be to say that "House of the rising sun" is the highlight. HOTRS is the best track, but the real highlight is Eric Burdon's powerful and deep voice through the entire record. His performance is almost unbelievable.
The first track is deservedly the best known, but there are some other strong tracks here as well. Solid debut.
junodog4 09/04/2012 22:59 | #50000 | TOP COMMENT
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Naples is right... House of the Rising Sun is an all-time epic track.
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