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When I was young : the MGM recordings 1967-1968


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Record collector

502 (2020 February)

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Jon Harrington

502 (2020 February)

"Unlike The Animals' R&B hits for Columbia and Decca, which are considered bona fide classics, Eric Burdon's reconfigured band's MGM recordings are undervalued, their worth hidden beneath his over-enthusiastic proselytisingfor LSD and all things late 60s countercultural. The mix of psych blues, social commentary, spoken word and wigged-out acid rock might be ostentatious but it's also his most ambitious, groundbreaking music and deserves reappraisal".


The Arts Desk

d. 1. Mar. 2020

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Kieron Tyler

d. 1. Mar. 2020

"Burdon had a new version of The Animals - credited as Eric Burdon & The Animals - which released four fantastic, blown-mind albums. They are collected by the new 5-disc box set When I Was Young: The MGM Recordings 1967-1968. Winds of Change is teamed with The Twain Shall Meet (released May 1968), Every One of Us (August 1968) and Love Is (December 1968). The stereo and mono versions of Winds of Change appear, along with non-album alternate versions from singles and 45-only tracks. All four albums are sincere missives. Each is an unmediated expression of where Burdon was at and essential to any understanding of British psychedelia. Each is also a great listen, although Love Is was a bit flabby as it was a double album".


Mojo

2020 April

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Lois Wilson

2020 April

"During 1967 and '68, Eric Burdon with his reconfigured Animals soundtracked the hippy experience he was living in California. Over four albums, one of them a double, and a slew of singles, he proselytised LSD, the counterculture and the politics of the time ... By 1969 ... his psychedelic Animals dismissed. Here's proof they shouldn't be".