It showcases the Animals' tough-edged pop hits combined with their more devoted blues and R&B workouts.

[citation needed] In addition, "I'm In Love Again" was incorrectly attributed to Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, as it was on The Animals debut album.

[2][3] The album was a great commercial success in the U.S., peaking at number six on the Billboard 200, the highest such mark of their career, and remaining on the chart for over two years.

[5] In his 1979 volume Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, famed rock critic Greil Marcus selected The Best of the Animals for inclusion on same, writing: "This was trash R&B from Newcastle, England, and especially when the focus shifted from American blues to savage pleas for release from working-class slums, more powerful than it had any right to be.

Presumably their first compilation on CD, it featured the same album cover and the same hit singles as their original 1966 US collection, but had more and different other tracks.