The Animals / “The Mickie Most Years and More” / five CD box set

Fifty years after the first release from The Animals comes The Mickie Most Years And More – a new five CD box set.

The box offers, for the first time on CD, the group’s first four American albums The Animals, The Animals on Tour, Animal Tracks and Animalization in their original mono versions. The fifth CD features the band’s first ever release – the I Just Wanna Make Love To You EP.

Each album has been newly remastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering from the original tapes, and all four albums feature a selection of bonus tracks, such as single versions, radio spots and alternate takes.

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke provides liner notes for each album and this box set also comes with an Animals T-shirt (100% cotton; size extra large) which is exclusive to this set.

The Mickie Most Years And More is released on 25 November 2013.

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Track listing

Disc 1 – I Just Wanna Make Love to You (1963)

• I Just Wanna Make Love to You
• Big Boss Man
• Boom Boom
• Pretty Thing

Disc 2 – The Animals (1964, produced by Mickie Most)

• House of the Rising Sun
• The Girl Can’t Help It
• Blue Feeling
• Baby Let Me Take You Home
• The Right Time
• Talkin’ ‘Bout You
• Around and Around
• I’m in Love Again
• Gonna Send You Back to Walker
• Memphis, Tennessee
• I’m Mad Again
• I’ve Been Around

Bonus tracks

• Talkin’ ‘Bout You (full seven minute version)

Disc 3 – The Animals on Tour (1965, produced by Mickie Most)

• Boom Boom
• How You’ve Changed
• Mess Around
• Bright Lights, Big City
• I Believe to My Soul
• Worried Life Blues
• Let the Good Times Roll
• Ain’t Got You
• Hallelujah, I Love Her So
• I’m Crying
• Dimples
• She Said Yeah
• Bonus Tracks

Bonus tracks

• Baby What’s Wrong
• F-E-E-L
• New Year’s Radio Spot (Recorded December, 1964)

Disc 4 – Animal Tracks (1965, produced by Mickie Most)

• We Gotta Get Out of This Place
• Take It Easy Baby
• Bring It on Home to Me
• The Story of Bo Diddley
• Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
• I Can’t Believe It
• Club A-Go-Go
• Roberta
• Bury My Body
• For Miss Caulker

Bonus tracks

• Roadrunner (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
• Don’t Want Much (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
• We Gotta Get Out of This Place (U.K. single version)
• It’s My Life (single only)
• I’m Gonna Change the World

Disc 5 – Animalization (1966, produced by Tom Wilson)

• Don’t Bring Me Down
• One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
• You’re on My Mind
• Cheating
• She’ll Return It
• Inside-Looking Out
• See See Rider
• Gin House Blues
• Maudie
• What Am I Living For
• Sweet Little Sixteen
• I Put a Spell on You

Bonus tracks

• Don’t Bring Me Down (stereo)
• Cheating  (stereo)
• See See Rider (stereo)