"Inside Looking Out" Eric Burbon and The Animals or Grand Funk Railroad?

I have to disagree with you on this one because it simply amazes me how a three man group at the time (Lead Guitar Bass Guitar and Drums with one of them doubling on harmonica and on vocals), Grand Funk Railroad, could produce a fuller sounding song than a group with five musicians at the time of recording, Eric Burdon and the Animals. I don't know weather it was a crappy arrangement, or the recording techniques in the UK at the time or just simply a bad mix, the song sounds thin. And at all time in Burdon's version, you are aware that this is a band playing in a studio, specially with that studio echo and that gives the recording a distantness and coldness. it is not a recording were you can close your eyes and imagine the group in the room with you playing where with the Grand Funk Railroad recording you can. It didn't help when the Animal's arrangement obliviously was meant to emphasize Burdon's aggressive vocals at the expense of the other musicians. Like someone did say, it is indeed rougher than Funk's version. And at times it sounds like there is only one or two instruments playing instead of at least four in a five man group. If there are more than one instrument playing the beginning chords then they must be playing the exact same note because it sound like only one guitar until the bass breaks away 16 secounds into the song. Drums don't start until late in the song, 26 secounds, almost a half minute and the electric piano (yeah, that is not an organ playing) starts even later and then they repeat the opening later in the song. At some points in the song it sounds like a two instruments playing a duet between the lead guitar and the electric piano. And they don't modulate at all in the song or develop it's theme.
That is not so the GFR's verion at all. The arrangement clearly was not meant to emphisize someone's vocals but both the vocals and the instruments on an equal level. Each instrument claerly is playying it's own melody ling or voce (if you want to use techinical musican terms) that is distinct from each other and clearly heard after the first chord. there is no waiting 1 seciunds or nearly a half a minute to interoduce the other instruments. They are right there after the first chord crunch. in fact the drums is the first instrument heard.. The only instrument that is held back is the Harmonica which doesn't appear until the 6:50 minute mark in the song. they moduate, change speeds and develop the theme of the song and even threw in a counter theme whereas the Aminals' version didn't. The riffs are much more easily heard in GFR's version. THe only drawnbacks that I can think of is that the amount of distortion and feedback they use actually forces them to play the song slightly slower than it should be. The recording of the Drums could have been better. Other than that, it is by far the suprior verion.of the song.