Minute By Minute (studio album)
by The Doobie Brothers

Minute By Minute by The Doobie Brothers
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 4,600th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 81 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (80th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (767th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,600th)

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The Doobie Brothers bestography

Minute By Minute is ranked 2nd best out of 21 albums by The Doobie Brothers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Doobie Brothers is The Captain And Me which is ranked number 2661 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 584.

The Doobie Brothers album bestography « Higher ranked (2,661st)
The Captain And Me
This album (4,600th)
Minute By Minute
Lower ranked (6,102nd) »
Toulouse Street

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Minute By Minute track list

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 81 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.9.

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80/100
From 12/14/2023 02:40
Upbeat and poppy, though in a different direction than pre-Michael McDonald Doobies records. I like the older albums better, but there’s still great stuff here—mostly Here to Love You, What a Fool Believes and How Do the Fools Survive. Solid collection of songs.
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From 08/05/2020 12:10
Meh. Rating (74.50)
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Best Tracks: What a Fool Believes, You Never Change
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From 08/21/2017 20:44
Really fun and warm
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From 03/17/2016 10:42
A change of direction by a fun 70's party band. Mr. McDonald brought a mature and more sophisticated sound to a band that was running out of ideas.
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From 01/08/2014 18:06
Guilty pleasure ...
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From 08/20/2012 10:34
This fresh and mature pop record is a jewel...with Michael as a leader of a very good band
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