Looking Through Windows / Goin Back Indiana
The soundtrack album from the Jackson 5's 1971 TV specialGoin' Back to Indianais largely for completists. Strong new studio versions of "I Want You Back" and "Maybe Tomorrow" share space with murkily recorded but enjoyable live funk-rock and too much sketch material that doesn't work on record. Its follow-up,Lookin' Through the Windows, stands as one of the outfit's most consistent Motown long-players. It documents the Jacksons' continuing move toward softer soul music on the excellent title track, aPhilly-style cover of "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "Don't Want to See Tomorrow," and even a version ofJackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes." "Don't Let Your Baby Catch You" is an edgier cut in theFunkadelicvein, while "E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice Is Yours to Pull)" makes a final trip to the kid-stuff style of "ABC" and "The Love You Save." AnIndianaconcert outtake of "Who's Lovin' You" and theWindowsB-side "Love Song" expand this CD to nearly 80 minutes.--Rickey Wright