What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits (studio album) by The Doobie Brothers

What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits by The Doobie Brothers
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 6,490th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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76/100 (from 62 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1974 (99th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,045th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,490th)
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What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits is ranked 4th best out of 20 albums by The Doobie Brothers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Doobie Brothers is The Captain And Me which is ranked number 2689 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 575.

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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Probably the Doobies' second best effort after The Captain and Me. Black Water is obviously a classic, but the rest is really good too. Another Park, Another Sunday, Eyes of Silver, Spirit, Song to See You Through, Daughters of the Sea, all excellent.
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I'm surprised that no one has yet commented on this album. It is one of their better efforts and no, I don't think the overplayed hit Black Water was the best song. Pursuit on 53rd St., Eyes of Silver, and Another Park are all better songs. This band was so much better before Michael McDonald became the lead singer.
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