The House of the Rising Sun" comments are interesting. To me, The Animals simply took a hammer to Bob Dylan's version. Where Dylan builds up the tension of the song beautifully over a number of verses -with lovely folkie twists and turns in his vocal, The Animals were blasting away from the first few seconds - talk about lack of subtlety. However, to be fair, I'm sure producer Micky Most ( recently deceased ) wasn't into subtlety but just wanted to get the message across - fast!