Eric Burdon / discography
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Eric Burdon & the Animals discography
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Eric Burdon, 1973
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 Studio albums
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27 |
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Live albums
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1 |
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Compilations
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23 |
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Singles
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22nd |
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Video albums
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5 |
This discography is an overview of the published sound and image carriers of the British musician Eric Burdon including his collaboration with the Animals . For his work with War , see War (Funk-Band) / Discography .
Albums
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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 UK
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 US
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| The Animals | |||||
| 1964 | The Animals | - |
UK6 (20 weeks) UK |
US7 (27 weeks) US |
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| 1965 | The Animals on Tour | - | - |
US99 (9 weeks) US |
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| Animal tracks | - |
UK6 (26 weeks) UK |
US57 (25 weeks) US |
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| 1966 | Animalization | - | - |
US20 (30 weeks) US |
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| Animalism | - |
UK4 (17 weeks) UK |
US33 (22 weeks) US |
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| Eric Burdon & the Animals | |||||
| 1967 | Eric is here | - | - |
US121 (13 weeks) US |
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| Winds of Change | - | - |
US42 (20 weeks) US |
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| 1968 | The Twain Shall Meet | - | - |
US79 (29 weeks) US |
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| Every One of Us | - | - |
US152 (8 weeks) US |
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| 1969 | Love Is | - | - |
US123 (10 weeks) US |
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| 1977 | Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted | - | - |
US70 (11 weeks) US |
first reunion
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| 1983 | Ark | - | - |
US66 (10 weeks) US |
second reunion
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| The Eric Burdon Band | |||||
| 1974 | Sun Secrets | - | - |
US51 (16 weeks) US |
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| 1975 | stop | - | - |
US171 (5 weeks) US |
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| Eric Burdon | |||||
| 2004 | My Secret Life |
DE93 (1 week) DE |
- | - | |
| 2006 | Soul of a Man |
DE43 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - | |
| 2013 | 'Til Your River Runs Dry |
DE57 (1 week) DE |
- | - | |
More albums
- 1971: Guilty! (Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon )
- 1977: Survivor (Eric Burdon)
- 1980: Darkness Darkness (Eric Burdon)
- 1980: The Last Drive (Eric Burdon)
- 1982: Comeback (The Eric Burdon Band)
- 1983: Power Company (Eric Burdon)
- 1988: I Used To Be An Animal (Eric Burdon)
- 1995: Lost Within the Halls of Fame (Eric Burdon)
- 2008: Mirage (Eric Burdon)
- 2012: Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes (Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes)
Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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UK
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US
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| The Animals | |||||
| 1984 | Rip It to Shreds - The Animals Greatest Hits Live! | - | - |
US193 (4 weeks) US |
recorded 1983 in London
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Compilations
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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DE
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UK
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US
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| The Animals | |||||
| 1966 | The Best of the Animals | - |
UK-  |
US6th  (113 weeks)US |
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| The Most of the Animals | - |
UK4th (23 weeks)UK |
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Re-published in 1971 (18th place)
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| 1973 | Best of the Animals | - | - |
US188 (2 weeks) US |
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| Eric Burdon & the Animals | |||||
| 1967 | The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals, Vol. II | - | - |
US71 (24 weeks) US |
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| 1969 | The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals | - | - |
US153 (6 weeks) US |
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| 1988 | Good Times - The Very Best of Eric Burdon & the Animals |
DE36 (6 weeks) DE |
UK93 (1 week) UK |
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Placed in UK only in 2000 due to re-release
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| 2020 | When I Was Young - The MCA Recordings 1967-1968 |
DE76 (1 week) DE |
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| Eric Burdon | |||||
| 1971 | Star portrait |
DE36 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
Double album
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Further
- In the Beginning (The Animals, live album, 1965)
- Guilty! (Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon , 1971)
- Survivor (1977)
- Darkness, Darkness (1980)
- Last Drive (Eric Burdon's Fire Dept., 1980)
- Comeback (1982 soundtrack LP with 10 tracks, reissued as The Comeback Soundtrack with 27 tracks in 1994 )
- Power Company (1983)
- I Used to Be an Animal (1988)
- Wicked Man (1988)
- Access All Areas (with the Brian Auger Band, live album, 1993)
- Lost Within the Halls of Fame (1995)
- Live at the Roxy (1998)
- American Dream (1999)
- Live in Seattle 2002 (2002)
- Athens Traffic Live (2005, live album)
Singles
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks / months, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks / months, awards, notes) |
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US
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| The Animals | ||||||
| 1964 | Baby Let Me Take You Home | - | - |
UK21 (8 weeks) UK |
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| The House of the Rising Sun |
DE9 (5 months) DE |
- |
UK1 (29 weeks)UK |
US1 (11 weeks) US |
Grammy Hall of Fame , Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , 122nd place of the Rolling Stone 500
in UK republished three times: 1972 place 25, 1982 place 11, 2012 place 98 |
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| Gonna Send You Back to Walker (Gonna Send You Back to Georgia) | - | - | - |
US57 (3 weeks) US |
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| I'm crying | - | - |
UK8 (10 weeks) UK |
US19 (9 weeks) US |
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| Boom boom | - | - | - |
US43 (7 weeks) US |
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| 1965 | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | - | - |
UK3 (9 weeks) UK |
US15 (10 weeks) US |
315th place in the Rolling Stone 500
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| Bring It On Home to Me | - | - |
UK7 (11 weeks) UK |
US32 (6 weeks) US |
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| We Gotta Get Out of This Place |
DE31 (1 month) DE |
- |
UK2 (14 weeks) UK |
US13 (11 weeks) US |
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; 233rd place in Rolling Stone 500,
re-released in 1990 in UK (85th place) |
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| It's my life | - | - |
UK7 (11 weeks) UK |
US23 (12 weeks) US |
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| 1966 | Inside - Looking Out |
DE39 (½ month) DE |
- |
UK12 (8 weeks) UK |
US34 (7 weeks) US |
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| Don't bring me down |
DE17 (1½ months) DE |
- |
UK6 (8 weeks) UK |
US12 (10 weeks) US |
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| See lake rider | - | - | - |
US10 (10 weeks) US |
Original: See See Rider Blues by Ma Rainey (1925)
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| Eric Burdon & the Animals | ||||||
| 1966 | Help me girl | - | - |
UK14 (9 weeks) UK |
US29 (9 weeks) US |
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| 1967 | When I Was Young |
DE31 (1 month) DE |
- |
UK45 (3 weeks) UK |
US15 (9 weeks) US |
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| Good Times |
DE53 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
UK20 (11 weeks) UK |
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Chart entry in Germany only in 1988
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| San Franciscan Nights |
DE20 (2½ months) DE |
- |
UK7 (10 weeks) UK |
US9 (10 weeks) US |
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| Monterey | - | - | - |
US15 (9 weeks) US |
Song about the Monterey Pop Festival
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| 1968 | Anything | - | - | - |
US80 (4 weeks) US |
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| Sky Pilot (Part One) | - | - |
UK40 (3 weeks) UK |
US14 (14 weeks) US |
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| White Houses | - | - | - |
US67 (8 weeks) US |
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| 1969 | Ring of Fire |
DE19 (1½ months) DE |
AT8 (1 month) AT |
UK35 (5 weeks) UK |
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| 1983 | The Night | - | - | - |
US48 (10 weeks) US |
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gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
Video albums
- Finally (1991) (Documentation)
- Live at the Coachhouse (1999)
- The Eric Burdon Band Live (2000)
- Yes, You Can Go Home - On the Road with Eric Burdon & the Animals (2003)
- Live at the Venture Beach California (2008) (with Robby Krieger )
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
silver |
gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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 Denmark (IFPI)
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gold1
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- | 45,000 | ifpi.dk |
 Italy (FIMI)
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- | - |
platinum1
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50,000 | fimi.it |
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United States (RIAA)
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- |
2 × gold2
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- | 1,500,000 | riaa.com |
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United Kingdom (BPI)
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silver1
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2 × gold2
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- | 560,000 | bpi.co.uk |
| All in all |
silver1
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5 × gold5
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platinum1
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- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT UK1 UK2
- ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- ↑ Eric Burdon & the Greenhornes at discogs.com
- ^ The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll , Rock and Roll Hall of Fame