The Twain Shall Meet

The Twain Shall Meet
Studio album by Eric Burdon and the Animals
Released	May 1968 (1968-05) & June 1968 (UK)[1]
Recorded	December 1967
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	43:11
Label	MGM
Producer	Tom Wilson
Eric Burdon & The Animals UK chronology
Winds of Change(1967) The Twain Shall Meet(1968) Love Is(1968)
Eric Burdon & The Animals US chronology
Winds of Change(1967) The Twain Shall Meet(1968) Every One of Us(1968)

The Twain Shall Meet is the second album by Eric Burdon & the Animals. It was released in 1968 on MGM Records.

Background

The record includes "Sky Pilot", an anti-war song of the Vietnam War era, and "Monterey", the band's tribute to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Reviewer Bruce Eder of AllMusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up its tempo like the dance music from Zorba the Greek while mimicking the Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'".

The Twain Shall Meet peaked at No. 79 on the U.S. Billboard Top LPs during a twenty nine-week stay on the chart.^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Rolling Stone	(negative)[3]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Monterey" (4:18)
2. "Just the Thought" (3:47)
3. "Closer to the Truth" (4:31)
4. "No Self Pity" (4:50)
5. "Orange and Red Beams" (3:45)

Side two

1. "Sky Pilot" (7:27)
2. "We Love You Lil" (6:48)
3. "All Is One" (7:45)

All selections written by Eric Burdon, Vic Briggs, John Weider, Barry Jenkins, & Danny McCulloch except "Orange and Red Beams", written by McCulloch.

Personnel

• Eric Burdon - vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
• John Weider - guitar, violin
• Vic Briggs - guitar
• Danny McCulloch - bass, vocals (2, 5)
• Barry Jenkins - drums

Charts

Chart (1968)	Peakposition
US Billboard Top LPs[2]	79

References

1. "Album Reviews"(PDF). Record Mirror. 8 June 1968. p. 8. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
2. Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 11. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
3. Miller, Jim (22 June 1968). "The Twain Shall Meet - Album Reviews - Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 1 January 2015. Retrieved 13 July 2013.