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“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” by The Animals
From the album Animal Tracks (1965)
“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” by The Animals appears on 13 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2009 and 2026. It was first released in 1965 on the album Animal Tracks. Its best result is #185 on the WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,483 indie & aaa song of all time.
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"We Gotta Get Out of This Place" was written by two Americans, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, but the Animals sing it like a jailbreak plan. Eric Burdon growls and pleads through it as if he's got one foot out the door already, Mickie Most produced, and it went out in September 1965 and turned up on Animal Tracks.
The title says everything, and plenty of people heard it as their own story: American G.I.s in Vietnam took to it in a big way. In 2004 Rolling Stone ranked it 233 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame counts it among the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and the Grammy Hall of Fame inducted it in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 776 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
| 2010 | 185 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2012 | 418 | WYEP | WYEP Top 500 Songs Countdown | 500 |
| 2012 | 402 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) | 885 |
| 2013 | 279 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR CT 500 (2013) | 500 |
| 2014 | 817 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2019 | 625 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 1660 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 305 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2022 | 801 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2024 | 456 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2024) | 500 |
| 2025 | 205 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2025) | 500 |
| 2026 | 404 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2026) | 500 |
Also listed as: We Gotta Get out of This Place; We Gotta Get Out of This Place.
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