--- product_id: 3750592 title: "Original Album Series 2" price: "156.89 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3750592-original-album-series-2 store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Original Album Series 2 **Price:** 156.89 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Original Album Series 2 - **How much does it cost?** 156.89 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3750592-original-album-series-2) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description UK five CD box set containing a quintet of albums from the Classic Rock legends. Features the albums The Doobie Brothers, Livin'' on the Fault Line, Minute By Minute, One Step Closer and Farewell Tour. Review: Finish The Essential Doobie Brothers with this Terrific Collection - If you purchased the Original Album Series set with TOULOUSE STREET, THE CAPTAIN & ME, WHAT WERE ONCE VOICES ARE NOW HABITS, STAMPEDE, and TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS as I did (it essentially replaced my muddy original CD issues of all of the titles with terrific remastered sound), and you are a full blown Doobie fan, this is the next obvious step. I have the remaster of MINUTE BY MINUTE but at this price it is well worth forking out the $17 for five CDs to finish the "essential" collection. The self-titled debut actually belongs in this set since it was re-released on vinyl during the slump between Johnston exiting and McDonald taking the helm with Simmons. Johnston, as most knowledgeable fans understand, took a slow exit out, appearing less and less after STAMPEDE. The addition of Skunk Baxter brought a clean and bright Steely Dan jazz guitar into the mix and McDonald brought more Dan-ishness to the Doobie Dan sound which is highly represented in this set. A REAL Doobie Brothers fan has an existential appreciation for both iterations of The Doobies since all of their music has had the jazz-soul influence woven into that funky folk rock and even the heavier edges going back to TOULOUSE STREET. My argument for LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE through ONE STEP CLOSER and the live FAREWELL is that McDonald virtually inherited the reins by default with zero resistance from Simmons and Porter, both of whom had a deep appreciation for the jazzy soulful stylings of Michael. Had Tom stayed with the group would have they mutated in this way? Listen to his masterful compositions on STAMPEDE and try to tell me he was not moving into the Memphis Soul arena himself! Yes the boy could rock like John Fogerty, but he could lay down blues and soul equally as well and with great talent. So the swamp water edge moved upstream to Memphis and Michael McDonald hopped on board for the riverboat ride. LIVIN ON THE FAULT LINE has all the jazz and soul leaning which were evident on STREETS with even more jazzier tinges brought forward from Skunk and Tiran. Highly underrated, the album is more TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS for fans of that fabulous effort (which I prefer a mile over MINUTE BY MINUTE), and speaking of MxM, yes that was the crowning commercial glory of The Doobie Brothers, but literally everything it brings to the table in talent, was already trumped on STREETS and FAULT LINE. It just happened to gel as a complete album for successful sales and top hits at the right time in commercial radio. Don't take anything away from MINUTE just because it was successful, and it is an easy listen at any time you want good solid tunes and nary a clunker. Thus, MINUTE BY MINUTE while critically and commercially acclaimed as one of the "great" albums of the 70's, might be held in great esteem by some and lauded by others as a Doobie Sellout to commercialism, one should consider the art in and of itself. First of all, unlike its two predecessors where Michael and Pat seemed to have melded the Memphis soul, swamp water folk, and southern rock (via California) genre's into a cool sunglasses sound, MxM has a definite schitzophrenic feel to it. On one hand you have Michael dishing out blue-eyed soul and on the other you have Pat and Skunk serving up helpings of the previous jazzy rock efforts and one downright country-fried instrumental. Where the two meet is in the brilliant fusion of You Never Change which would have fit perfectly on FAULT LINE. Unfortunately, for fans of the old Doobies including STREETS and FUALT LINE where Tom was at least a ghostly apparition, this album marks the turning point and eventual decline. The Doobie Brothers were on the peak, poised to fall. Now ONE STEP CLOSER clearly had the Doobies standing on the precipice of the cliff and it was pretty evident that they would either continue on as another band with a clear cut new sound, or they would fold and go the way that Johnston and then Hartman and Baxter had. This was indeed a new band with only Pat and Tiran left of the "original" TOULOUSE days. Here, a new entity, Bumpus, brings a whole new fresh Doobies to the fore with McDonald, and one can see Simmons and Porter getting frustrated, but the end result is a smooth jazz radio friendly effort that belies direct criticism. Also, the tragically late Nicolette Larson enhances this album with gorgeous vocals on three tracks. Granted, it is just barely a Doobie Brothers album but enjoy it for what it is, because if you like this kind of music, this is one of the best in the genre. Back to square one, something needs to be said about THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, an album which I purchased as a budget thing around 1976 a full five years after it was initially released to no attention whatsoever. This album is also just barely The Doobie Brothers: there is only one drummer so that element of syncopation is entirely missing. Where it really shines is in Tom and Pat's acoustilectric folksy rock diddys which point directly at the direction which would culminate in TOULOUSE STREET (one of the best albums ever made in my book), but the sound is raw and discoverable. You will easily figure out why the album made no noise upon its initial release and was relegated to reissue for interested fans later in life. It is a "good" album, but would have been "great" with a better second half. Listen for the tracks which clinically are forerunners of The Captain & Me, Listen To The Music, and Black Water, they are in there in a primitive state and are highlights of this album musically. Most of the first half and half of the second half are solid folk-rock efforts with a catchy sound. A definite must for Doobie fans at the very least. Finally, The FAREWELL Tour album. Pat had made it clear he was leaving the fold and the band was decidedly throwing the cards in. You get the picture on the cover with Knudsen cutting McFee's strings on his guitar. Neither Hartman nor Skunk would sign up for this tour but Tommy did and he brandishes his guitar licks and hot savvy vocals on the final two performances of Long Train Runnin' and China Grove. The live set is captured beautifully and give the recording engineers massive kudo's for making an album with both a terrific audience and superb sound recording where the music is not drowned out by audience intrusion (as is the case in many live recordings). The set is unflawed and perfectly rendered for the hard core Doobie fan. This is how you go out on top! Can't Let It Get Away and Olana are two songs which were made in the studio but not released on albums so their presence in this live set (delivered by Pat and Michael respectively) is highly welcomed. The only thing I really miss on this live set is Skunk's unparalleled slides and deft jazz fingering, which for me gave The Doobies a signature sound from THE CAPTAIN & ME on up. For the price, this is a real treasure to complete your Doobie collection if you have already ponied up for the first set. If your Doobie collection is a few 80's and 90's muddy CD releases, you can't go wrong in buying both Original Album Series sets. They are all the millennium remasters with fantastic sound. Perfect renditions of the original recordings, bright and clean! Review: Get both Original Album Series Box Sets! - OK. The Headline says it all. The first box set has albums 2 through 6 and this one has album 1 and then albums 7 through10. One could ask why they would package the albums this way, but why as why? Get both and get over it! Right out of the gate, the Dobbie Brothers started out with excellent musicianship and combined that with excellent production and state of the art recording. As they progressed their music changed to the point where they sounded like whole other group. Again, be thankful for what we have. All 10 albums are spectacular and should be judged on their own merits. For the audiophiles out there (I count myself as one of them) these albums were really well recorded to begin with and this set is really well mastered, so there should be no fear that you are getting bargain basement left overs! When I was growing up I couldn't afford to buy all the music I wanted. As an old man, I can afford to buy both of these box sets, especially as they are priced. The lack of liner notes or cardboard sleeves does not bother me. Just listen to the music because that is what matters! ## Images ![Original Album Series 2 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71PYcZm1TqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finish The Essential Doobie Brothers with this Terrific Collection *by B***K on September 26, 2016* If you purchased the Original Album Series set with TOULOUSE STREET, THE CAPTAIN & ME, WHAT WERE ONCE VOICES ARE NOW HABITS, STAMPEDE, and TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS as I did (it essentially replaced my muddy original CD issues of all of the titles with terrific remastered sound), and you are a full blown Doobie fan, this is the next obvious step. I have the remaster of MINUTE BY MINUTE but at this price it is well worth forking out the $17 for five CDs to finish the "essential" collection. The self-titled debut actually belongs in this set since it was re-released on vinyl during the slump between Johnston exiting and McDonald taking the helm with Simmons. Johnston, as most knowledgeable fans understand, took a slow exit out, appearing less and less after STAMPEDE. The addition of Skunk Baxter brought a clean and bright Steely Dan jazz guitar into the mix and McDonald brought more Dan-ishness to the Doobie Dan sound which is highly represented in this set. A REAL Doobie Brothers fan has an existential appreciation for both iterations of The Doobies since all of their music has had the jazz-soul influence woven into that funky folk rock and even the heavier edges going back to TOULOUSE STREET. My argument for LIVIN' ON THE FAULT LINE through ONE STEP CLOSER and the live FAREWELL is that McDonald virtually inherited the reins by default with zero resistance from Simmons and Porter, both of whom had a deep appreciation for the jazzy soulful stylings of Michael. Had Tom stayed with the group would have they mutated in this way? Listen to his masterful compositions on STAMPEDE and try to tell me he was not moving into the Memphis Soul arena himself! Yes the boy could rock like John Fogerty, but he could lay down blues and soul equally as well and with great talent. So the swamp water edge moved upstream to Memphis and Michael McDonald hopped on board for the riverboat ride. LIVIN ON THE FAULT LINE has all the jazz and soul leaning which were evident on STREETS with even more jazzier tinges brought forward from Skunk and Tiran. Highly underrated, the album is more TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS for fans of that fabulous effort (which I prefer a mile over MINUTE BY MINUTE), and speaking of MxM, yes that was the crowning commercial glory of The Doobie Brothers, but literally everything it brings to the table in talent, was already trumped on STREETS and FAULT LINE. It just happened to gel as a complete album for successful sales and top hits at the right time in commercial radio. Don't take anything away from MINUTE just because it was successful, and it is an easy listen at any time you want good solid tunes and nary a clunker. Thus, MINUTE BY MINUTE while critically and commercially acclaimed as one of the "great" albums of the 70's, might be held in great esteem by some and lauded by others as a Doobie Sellout to commercialism, one should consider the art in and of itself. First of all, unlike its two predecessors where Michael and Pat seemed to have melded the Memphis soul, swamp water folk, and southern rock (via California) genre's into a cool sunglasses sound, MxM has a definite schitzophrenic feel to it. On one hand you have Michael dishing out blue-eyed soul and on the other you have Pat and Skunk serving up helpings of the previous jazzy rock efforts and one downright country-fried instrumental. Where the two meet is in the brilliant fusion of You Never Change which would have fit perfectly on FAULT LINE. Unfortunately, for fans of the old Doobies including STREETS and FUALT LINE where Tom was at least a ghostly apparition, this album marks the turning point and eventual decline. The Doobie Brothers were on the peak, poised to fall. Now ONE STEP CLOSER clearly had the Doobies standing on the precipice of the cliff and it was pretty evident that they would either continue on as another band with a clear cut new sound, or they would fold and go the way that Johnston and then Hartman and Baxter had. This was indeed a new band with only Pat and Tiran left of the "original" TOULOUSE days. Here, a new entity, Bumpus, brings a whole new fresh Doobies to the fore with McDonald, and one can see Simmons and Porter getting frustrated, but the end result is a smooth jazz radio friendly effort that belies direct criticism. Also, the tragically late Nicolette Larson enhances this album with gorgeous vocals on three tracks. Granted, it is just barely a Doobie Brothers album but enjoy it for what it is, because if you like this kind of music, this is one of the best in the genre. Back to square one, something needs to be said about THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, an album which I purchased as a budget thing around 1976 a full five years after it was initially released to no attention whatsoever. This album is also just barely The Doobie Brothers: there is only one drummer so that element of syncopation is entirely missing. Where it really shines is in Tom and Pat's acoustilectric folksy rock diddys which point directly at the direction which would culminate in TOULOUSE STREET (one of the best albums ever made in my book), but the sound is raw and discoverable. You will easily figure out why the album made no noise upon its initial release and was relegated to reissue for interested fans later in life. It is a "good" album, but would have been "great" with a better second half. Listen for the tracks which clinically are forerunners of The Captain & Me, Listen To The Music, and Black Water, they are in there in a primitive state and are highlights of this album musically. Most of the first half and half of the second half are solid folk-rock efforts with a catchy sound. A definite must for Doobie fans at the very least. Finally, The FAREWELL Tour album. Pat had made it clear he was leaving the fold and the band was decidedly throwing the cards in. You get the picture on the cover with Knudsen cutting McFee's strings on his guitar. Neither Hartman nor Skunk would sign up for this tour but Tommy did and he brandishes his guitar licks and hot savvy vocals on the final two performances of Long Train Runnin' and China Grove. The live set is captured beautifully and give the recording engineers massive kudo's for making an album with both a terrific audience and superb sound recording where the music is not drowned out by audience intrusion (as is the case in many live recordings). The set is unflawed and perfectly rendered for the hard core Doobie fan. This is how you go out on top! Can't Let It Get Away and Olana are two songs which were made in the studio but not released on albums so their presence in this live set (delivered by Pat and Michael respectively) is highly welcomed. The only thing I really miss on this live set is Skunk's unparalleled slides and deft jazz fingering, which for me gave The Doobies a signature sound from THE CAPTAIN & ME on up. For the price, this is a real treasure to complete your Doobie collection if you have already ponied up for the first set. If your Doobie collection is a few 80's and 90's muddy CD releases, you can't go wrong in buying both Original Album Series sets. They are all the millennium remasters with fantastic sound. Perfect renditions of the original recordings, bright and clean! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get both Original Album Series Box Sets! *by T***O on July 13, 2015* OK. The Headline says it all. The first box set has albums 2 through 6 and this one has album 1 and then albums 7 through10. One could ask why they would package the albums this way, but why as why? Get both and get over it! Right out of the gate, the Dobbie Brothers started out with excellent musicianship and combined that with excellent production and state of the art recording. As they progressed their music changed to the point where they sounded like whole other group. Again, be thankful for what we have. All 10 albums are spectacular and should be judged on their own merits. For the audiophiles out there (I count myself as one of them) these albums were really well recorded to begin with and this set is really well mastered, so there should be no fear that you are getting bargain basement left overs! When I was growing up I couldn't afford to buy all the music I wanted. As an old man, I can afford to buy both of these box sets, especially as they are priced. The lack of liner notes or cardboard sleeves does not bother me. Just listen to the music because that is what matters! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Collection *by M***I on May 20, 2025* Great Music from a fantastic group. ## Frequently Bought Together - Original Album Series, Vol. 2 - Original Album Series - The Studio Albums 1972-1979 --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3750592-original-album-series-2](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3750592-original-album-series-2) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*