Long live smooth music. :)
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir OTM
― The Corner Stander, The Suggest Ban Hammer (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i like the pre-mcdonald stuff better
Listening to "The Captain and Me" at the moment, and yeah. I don't think I prefer Tom Johnston to Michael McDonald as a vocalist, because that would be a crazy man talking. But I think I like the Hell's Angels period of the band better. The records were more solid.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Monday, 14 November 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
"Clear as the Driven Snow" and "Ukiah" and so many other track off of this are underrated if not unknown. At their best, they were as good as The Band.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Monday, 14 November 2011 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
They're basically two different bands to my ears. Prefer the McDonald one, fwiw.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 November 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
But take an album like Minute By Minute. So many dud tracks, and five or six brilliant ones. It's a band that's all over the place. How can "How Do The Fools Survive" (classic as hell) and "Steamer Lane Breakdown" (wtf awful) be on the same record?
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
I've long been curious about MxM.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyZM93YhLA
― buzza, Monday, 14 November 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, November 14, 2011 5:08 PM Bookmark
perfect post for ILX taken out of context
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
and in my case a redundancy.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 November 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Stormy otm about the slept-on debut
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
duddudududdududududududududududududududdudududdudududdududududud
mcdonald has a hell of a voice, tho. he should permanently front grizzly-bear.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
dave q otm upthread about minute by minute chord changes...incredible. and mcdonald one of the great harmony vocalists of the whole rock era
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
Doobie Bros had a rhythm section, dude.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
hm, true.
okay, mcdonald should be the singer, and chic should provide the rhythm section. the other grizzly-bears can sing backup vocals.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Just leave their mics off. They'll never know the difference.
― Melle Mel and the Coconuts (thewufs), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
*takes it to the streets*
― buzza, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
I'm really surprised how few people are sticking up for Tom Johnston and his stack of riff rock gems.
And their take on "Take Me in Your Arms" is fab. Love the string arrangement, especially the plucked breakdown.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
This is a pretty crazy arrangement; first you start with some folky CSN arrangement that moves into a big orchestral piece then onto some krautrock Doc Severinsen ending. It's a pretty weird Doobie Brothers track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7EZv5GsGzs
― earlnash, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
Been doing a deep dive in the pre-McDonald albums and the album cuts are full of some of the most wonderfully recorded, tastefully played acoustic guitar riffery in the whole 70s. (Some of the radio cuts were as well, but there is more of it beneath the surface.)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 22 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Good examples?
― calstars, Saturday, 22 July 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
The title track on Toulouse Street and "Spirit" from What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits are the ones that really stood out to me the most, but it was just something I kept noticing continuously through my listening binge.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
I think it's just that there's real "in the room" sound that was captured with the acoustic strings on a lot of things, more so than on a lot of other 70s recordings. Like, "shit, this guitar is right next to me!"
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
their whole catalog thru at least Minute By Minute is richly worthy of close listening. Beautifully recorded, beautifully played records
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 July 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Johnny, those are nice. As is Black Water as long as you stop it before it becomes acapella barber shop.
Thirteen by big star is the acoustic recording holy grail imho.
― calstars, Sunday, 23 July 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
Ah, Michael McDonald.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 June 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
I did a deep dive into the catalog last year, and I wound up nearly hating them. They can be a fine meat-and-potatoes band, but after 15 or 20 minutes, the vocals (at least before McDonald came on board), the lyrics and the musical clichés start to wear thin, and stretched beyond an hour, it wasn't so enjoyable anymore. It was much more palatable to string all of their singles together - I didn't like them all, but even at their worst (like "Listen to the Music" or "Takin' It to the Streets" as Alfred suggested) there were still parts of their music that could be enjoyed, usually a riff or a light groove to hang on to while letting the rest zip on by.
― birdistheword, Monday, 15 February 2021 08:54 (three years ago) link
I enjoy three songs apiece from their first two best-of collections (five sung by Mike McDonald), but get sufficiently annoyed by the ones I don't like that I'd never consider listening to an original album.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 15 February 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
A lot of their music just sounds like nothing is at stake. There’s a bit of a blankly cherry, up with people kind of vibe to it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
*blankly cheery
For people who found the Eagles too intense.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
LMAO
― birdistheword, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
A lot of their music just sounds like nothing is at stake.
Pretty damning when one of their signature tunes is "Takin' It to the Streets."
― birdistheword, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
Yeah but that song is just about getting a new remote-controlled car for Christmas
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
Neil Young:Model Trains::Michael McDonald:Radio-Controlled Cars
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
REMOTE-CONTROLLED
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 February 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, 15 February 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9URZfqYf2o
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 11 September 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
^ pretty funky jammed-out version w Cornelius Bumpus leading the band
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
full show is here, those live mcdonald vocals are ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LCB_RdfdXc
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 11 September 2021 08:58 (two years ago) link
Damn, that show is dope
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 12 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
Started crying this morning listening to Here to Love You for the first time, what a song.
― lukas, Monday, 13 September 2021 05:34 (two years ago) link
that set is unbelievable
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 13 September 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
feel like this video disproves every old "Doobies pre-Mcdonald is real Doobies" douchebag so hard. This band only got classic when they went full funky r&b.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Yass ^
― calstars, Monday, 13 September 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
They can sit on the bench with the "Fleetwood Mac pre-Buckingham Nicks is real Fleetwood Mac" dorks imo
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 September 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
My dad insists everything post Peter Green stinks. xTRUEDADCHALLOPSx
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 13 September 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, 13 September 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
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― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2023 02:32 (eight months ago) link