Animal (Bar-Kays album)

Animal
Animal
Studio album by the Bar-Kays
Released	1989
Studio	Kiva
Genre	R&B
Label	Mercury
Producer	Kenni Hairston and Trevor Gale (tracks 1, 2 and 8), Harvey Henderson, Larry Dodson and Winston Stewart (co-producers on tracks 1, 2 and 8), James Mtume (tracks 3, 7 and 9), Jerry Goldstein (tracks 4–6), Sly Stone (co-producer on track 7)
The Bar-Kays chronology

Released1989

StudioKiva

GenreR&B^[1]

LabelMercury^[2]

Animal is an album by the American R&B band the Bar-Kays, released in 1989.^[3]^[4]

The album peaked at No. 36 on the Billboard Top Black Albums chart.^[5] Its first single was "Struck By You", which peaked at No. 11 on the Hot Black Singles chart.^[6]^[7] The title track was also released as a single.^[8]

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[11]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[10]
Orlando Sentinel	^[12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[13]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Animal"	5:14
2.	"Struck by You"	5:45
3.	"Stop! Look What You're Missing"	5:15
4.	"Someone Else"	4:49
5.	"Are U Available"	5:37
6.	"Get Your Fingers Wet"	5:45
7.	"Just Like a Teeter Totter"	4:14
8.	"I Adore You"	5:16
9.	"Leaving You"	5:15

v t e Bar-Kays
James Alexander Larry Dodson Ronnie Caldwell Ben Cauley Willie Hall Phalon Jones Angelo Earl
Studio albums	Soul Finger (1967) Coldblooded (1974) Too Hot to Stop (1976) Flying High on Your Love (1977) Money Talks (1978) Light of Life (1978) Injoy (1979) As One (1980) Nightcruising (1981) Propositions (1982) Dangerous (1984) Animal (1989)
Singles	"Soul Finger" "Boogie Body Land"
Related albums	Hot Buttered Soul (1969)

Animal (Bar-Kays album)

Critical reception

Track listing

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