Listen to the music! The first truly complete single-disc retrospective covering the Doobies' extended career. Twenty hits released between 1971 and 1991, including "Jesus Is Just Alright," "China Grove," and "What A Fool Believes."

The Doobie Brothers' Greatest Hits is arguably the best greatest hits compilation ever assembled and released by a 1970s rock band.

Indeed, it is a most enjoyable listen. It has the early hits, "Listen to the Music", "Jesus Is Just Alright", and the chart-topping "Black Water", all of which were equipped with top-notch guitar work and the harmonizing vocals which, for so long, characterized the Doobies. Tracks 1-9 are what I call the radio airplay essences of the Phase I, or Album Rock Oriented, period of this great band, which put out the classic LPs "Toulouse Street" and "The Captain and Me".

For a good portion of the remaining set from Track 10 on, we have Phase II, or the Pop, Rock and Soul period, which was comprised of the commercially successful records of the Michael McDonald era. In the set are "Takin' It to the Streets", "Minute by Minute", and the signature hit "What a Fool Believes".

Amalgamating together the various genres and styles, regardless of how heterogeneous they were, the Doobie Brothers never failed to create a sound or to transcend one. All in all, for those who want a perfect Doobie Brothers sampler without delving into the boxed sets or anything that is outside that frequently played on the classic rock radio stations, this is it.

I am 47 years old, was considered a "disco queen" in the 70's and missed out on the GREAT music that was being done outside the "disco" genre. I heard "China Grove" on a recent TV show and it took me immediately back to 1975 when I was 15 years old. I purchased the "Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits" THAT NIGHT, and am BLOWN away at how fantastic it is!!
Don't wait another minute to order this CD, it is the BEST!! I ordered it on a Thurday night, regular shipping, and it was in my mailbox on Tuesday!

the doobie bothers greatest hits has 20 classic songs including listen to the music,china grove,black water,what a fool believes,minute by minute,one step closer,and the doctor. pick up this album and listen to the music. ed wilson

The Doobie Brothers started out life as a greasy California biker band and took their name after a fondness for getting high. That ethic led to big riff rockers like "China Grove" and "Long Train Runnin'," but was lacking in the eventual slick sophistication of Michael McDonald's urbane soul. The original 1976 "Best Of The Doobies" included songs up to "Taking It To The Street," which meant that the number one "What A Fool Believes" was after the cut off date. (Oddly, this time The Doobie Brothers recognize the debut album by including one song, the acoustically flavored "Nobody.")

Once McDonald joined, the band entered a second era and began to move more towards urban soul and Steely Dan jazz. Tom Johnston split after "Living On The Faultline" over the Doobies' new direction with Jeff Baxter and McDonald, and the resulting "Minute By Minute" bore little resemblance to the mellow hippy-vibes of "Rocking Down The Highway."

What this CD does is successfully chronicle both Johnston's biker bar band and McDonald's more soul dominated period. When the Doobies broke up after "One Step Closer," it put the band on ice until a 1989 Doobie Brothers reunion that yielded "Cycles" and a hit in "The Doctor." The band soldiered on minus McDonald, which meant that Johnston and Patrick Simmons were able to regain the steering wheel and make bar-band riff-rock once more. (Even if - IMHO - "Cycles" was pedestrian and "Brotherhood" worse.)

For my money, this CD rates a half-star over the 1976 set by virtue of the extra songs post "Taking It To The Streets" and remastered sound. But then again, I totally lost interest in the band when they started churning out factory made classic rock like "The Doctor."

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