The Doobie Brothers - Best of the Doobies
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Artist: The Doobie BrothersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- China Grove
- Long Train Runnin'
- Takin' It to the Streets
- Listen to the Music [Long Version]
- Black Water
- Rockin' Down the Highway
- Jesus Is Just Alright
- It Keeps You Runnin'
- South City Midnight Lady
- Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)
- Without You
Music reviews of Best of the Doobies
Music Review: The ultimate, essential Doobies album. Here's why.
Rating: 5 Stars
I recently listened to this album, as well as The Very Best of the Doobie Bros.
The conclusion I draw is that "prime" Doobies material is found between the first album and Takin' It to the Streets, the first Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Michael McDonald album.
Mike 'n' Skunk's work in Steely Dan...ESPECIALLY on Katy Lied, the DEFINITIVE Dan album...is both humbling and inspiring. In The Doobie Brothers, they brought a sense of cold precision that killed off any charm the band once had.
"Best Of The Doobies" holds up better than any single album in their catalog. Tom Johnston was a key player who helped put the band on the map. Michael McDonald was a gifted songwriter / vocalist / keyboardist, but over time, his songs became artificial and lifeless and trivial and not in keeping with the Air Guitar Gods who crafted "China Grove" and "Listen To The Music."
If you like it all, more power to you. If you want to experience the heart of the Doobs, this is the heart. This album. Buy it.
Description of Best of the Doobies
The Doobie Brothers' career is best be divided into two camps. The band originally started out as a good-time party band, as their name implies, churning out a string of rock hits like "Jesus Is Just Alright," "Take Me in Your Arms," and "Black Water." The guitar intro to "China Grove" is a rock classic, lending itself to every bar band in the world. There was something infectious about the early hits--strong melodies, great harmonies, and a genre-bending beat lifted the songs above the ordinary. That rollicking, rocking edge was all but abandoned when Michael McDonald joined. McDonald brought an urban, white-funk feel to the band, as best exemplified by "It Keeps You Runnin'" and "Takin' It to the Streets." Best of The Doobies draws more heavily upon the hits before his arrival, which, to many, should make the collection almost perfect. --Steve GdulaGeneral CDs
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