I first purchased this album(although it was called Animalization) when I was 16 years old, then I found it in a record catalog in the 70's and purchased it again. I still find this album to a (still) very relevant blues album. The covers of Hooker, et al. are truly authentic sounding and the sound quality is good even by todays standards. The guitar and keyboard solo's are true to the original flavor and not overdone. The Animals strong suit, in my opinion, was not their originals, which were often too poppy for my taste(even at that young age), but their absolutely soulful blues covers. I often wonder why the complete Animals catalog is not available in CD or any other format & I often search the used record bins for them, but to no avail. The band was such an influential 60's band its hard to imagine their work has not been re-released, especially when its very easy to find the "complete recordings" of band such as The Strawberry Alarm Clock.