The Doobie Brothers - Best Of The Doobies / Takin' It To The Streets - 2x JAPAN PRESS - LP Albums (multiple items) - Japanese pressing - 1983

1.) The Doobie Brothers – Best Of The Doobies
Vinyl, LP, Compilation - Japanese Pressing - 1983 - Japan - Warner Bros. Records – P-5903
Media: MINT / Sleeve, Insert & OBI: MINT

A1 China Grove 3:14
A2 Long Train Runnin' 3:25
A3 Takin' It To The Streets 3:36
A4 Listen To The Music 3:49
A5 Black Water 4:17
A6 Rockin' Down The Highway 3:18
B1 Jesus Is Just Alright 4:33
B2 It Keeps You Runnin' 4:20
B3 South City Midnight Lady 5:27
B4 Take Me In Your Arms 3:39
B5 Without You 4:58

Featuring 11 of the group's best-known songs from 1971-1976, Best of the Doobie Brothers contains the boogie rock band's very best songs, including the big hits "Listen to the Music," "Jesus Is Just Alright," "Long Train Runnin'," "China Grove," "Black Water," and "Takin' It to the Streets." For most casual fans, The Best of the Doobie Brothers is the perfect summation of the group's e arly career, before they turned into a slick, jazzy blue-eyed soul band in the late '70s.

2.) The Doobie Brothers – Takin' It To The Streets
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold - Japanese Pressing - 1981 - Japan - Warner Bros. Records – P-6539W
Media: NM / Sleeve, Insert & OBI: EX to NM

A1 Wheels Of Fortune 4:54
A2 Takin' It To The Streets 3:56
A3 8th Avenue Shuffle 4:39
A4 Losin' End 3:39
B1 Rio 3:49
B2 For Someone Special 5:04
B3 It Keeps You Runnin' 4:20
B4 Turn It Loose 3:53
B5 Carry Me Away 4:09

The group's first album with Michael McDonald marked a shift to a more mellow and self-consciously soulful sound for the Doobies, not all that different from what happened to Steely Dan -- whence McDonald (and Jeff Baxter) had come -- between, say, Can't Buy a Thrill and Pretzel Logic. They showed an ability to expand on the lyricism of Patrick Simmons and Baxter's writing on "Wheels of Fortune," while the title track introduced McDonald's white funk sound cold to their output, successfully. Simmons' "8th Avenue Shuffle" vaguely recalled "Black Water," only with an urban theme and a more self-consciously soul sound (with extraordinarily beautiful choruses and a thick, rippling guitar break). "Rio" and "It Keeps You Runnin'" both manage to sound like Steely Dan tracks -- and that's a compliment -- while Tiran Porter's hauntingly beautiful "For Someone Special" was a pure soul classic right in the midst of all of these higher-energy pieces. Tom Johnston's "Turn It Loose" is a last look back to their earlier sound, while Simmons' "Carry Me Away" shows off the new interplay and sounds that were to carry the group into the 1980s, with gorgeous playing and singing all around.
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