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Winds of Change is the debut album by British-American band Eric Burdon & the Animals, released in October 1967 by MGM Records.The album was recorded following the 1966 dissolution of the original group the Animals and singer Eric Burdon's move to San Francisco, where he and drummer Barry Jenkins formed the new Animals lineup with musicians Vic Briggs, Danny McCulloch and John Weider.
The flipside of the UK version of this single was a song called "Gratefully Dead", another nod from the Animals to the San Francisco scene. Burdon's notion that San Francisco's nights are warm drew some derision from Americans more familiar with the city's climate – best exemplified by the apocryphal Mark Twain saying, "The coldest winter I ...
Love Is was issued in both the United Kingdom and United States.It was the last album released before the Animals' second dissolution in 1968. An edited version of the track "Ring of Fire" was released as a single and peaked at No. 35 in the UK singles chart, breaking the top 40 in Germany, Holland, and Australia as well.
The record includes "Sky Pilot", an anti-war song of the Vietnam War era, and "Monterey", the band's tribute to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.Reviewer Bruce Eder of AllMusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up ...
The album combines several styles such as blues, folk rock, and raga rock, while the track "Year of the Guru" is notable for its early use of rapping vocals. At the time of the release of the album in August 1968, both Danny McCulloch and Vic Briggs had been fired from the band earlier that summer, and Eric Burdon was seeking replacement musicians.
Burdon then assembled a mostly new lineup of musicians under the name Eric Burdon and the Animals; the much-changed act moved to California and achieved commercial success as a psychedelic and progressive rock band with hits such as "San Franciscan Nights", "When I Was Young" and "Sky Pilot" before disbanding at the end of the decade.
Best of the Animals (Springboard 4025, 1973) Best of the Animals (ABKCO 4324, 1975, 1-LP --- first U.S. compilation to feature the UK "correct" version of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place") The Best of the Animals (ABKCO, 1988) The Complete Animals (EMI, 1990) The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals 1966–1968 (Polygram, 1991) E; Original Hits ...
1969 The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals, No. 153 in US; 1971 The Most of Animals, No. 18 in UK; 1973 The Best of The Animals (double album), No. 188 in US; 1973 Starportrait, No. 36 in GER; 1976 Mad Man; 1980 Eric Burdon and the Animals; 1982 Eric Burdon's Greatest Animal Hits; 1984 The Road; 1987 Star portrait; 1988 Wicked Man