The Animals

The Animals Is Here

1964 · Rhythm & Blues · Columbia

UK · SEG 8374

Credits

Producer: Mickie Most
Arranged by: Alan Price
Written by: Traditional, Jake Hammonds, Johnnie Mae Matthews, Alan Price, Eric Burdon, Bert Russell, Wes Farrell

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.