# Bob Seger's "Night Moves" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2019, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149 "2019-02-08T04:50:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/41 "2019-02-08T20:21:51Z")
Seger’s Live Bullet album is a classic that every fan should have in their collection. The Silver Bullet band is the best backing band that Bob ever had. They gave him a raw edge that’s missing in the recorded albums. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/42 "2019-02-08T21:28:59Z")
I don’t understand why people think “Turn the Page” is “bragging”. The narrator of that song is not an A-list act, playing in stadiums and touring with an entourage. He is a D-list act, playing in bars and state fairs, setting up his own equipment and driving his own van. When he sings “playing the star again”, it’s dripping with irony. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/43 "2019-02-08T21:31:54Z")
All of Bob Seger’s songs are about his penis. Literally every single one. Edited: _Night Moves_ is a good song. Bit of trivia, the song from 1962 was ‘Be My Baby’ by the Ronettes, which was recorded in 1963. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/44 "2019-02-08T21:36:16Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Seger’s Live Bullet album is a classic that every fan should have in their collection. > > The Silver Bullet band is the best backing band that Bob ever had. They gave him a raw edge that’s missing in the recorded albums. I was going to say something similar. He is one of the few rock artist where the definitive versions of his hits are on a live album. Live Bullet is one of the best live albums of all time. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/45 "2019-02-08T22:56:12Z")
Interesting mix of perspectives here. I am not as sour on Seger as **Snowboarder Bo** or **wguy123** ; my default “change the station” band is probably Boston, and I kind of like “Still the Same”. When I was an old-soul teen in the 1980s hanging around in the college library listening to Billie Holiday and Frank Zappa records, I thought Seger was resonant and wistful. Nowadays, I am not as taken with him. The impact is diminished, perhaps because he is a little trite. Some singer-songwriters you grow out of. Seger may be one of them, as, perhaps, is Jackson Browne. Some bards you grow into. I didn’t have much use for Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell when I was a kid; now I appreciate them. Some are in a place between, like Paul Simon or John Lennon. (Heresy, I know.) We take from artists what we need at the time, I think. Sometimes that changes drastically over the life cycle. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/46 "2019-02-08T23:29:49Z")
Most of you are overlooking Seger’s best tunes. Katmandu, 2+2=?, Beautiful Loser, Nutbush City Limits, Get Out of Denver, Lookin’ Back, U.M.C., and, a flat-out kick ass rocker, Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man: “…_ain’t good looking, but you know I ain’t shy, ain’t afraid to look you girl, in the eye…_” Like a Rock did nothing for me when it was released, but I now consider it underrated. And if you don’t know the song “Lookin’ Back”, seek it out. It’s awesome. mmm ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/47 "2019-02-08T23:30:02Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > If you don’t get up and dance when “Old Time Rock and Roll” is played, I don’t want to know you. > > Call me a relic, call me what you will. > Say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. > Today’s music ain’t got the same soul. > I like that old time rock and roll. I was a hotel banquet server in college. If I never hear that song again, it will be too soon. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/48 "2019-02-08T23:36:35Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > All of Bob Seger’s songs are about his penis. Literally every single one. Isn’t most popular music - their own, or someone else’s? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/49 "2019-02-09T02:47:54Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > Not a huge Seger fan myself, but I’ve heard that he was quite good in concert. > > Anyone seen him live who can confirm or deny? I saw him a few months back on his farewell tour in Chicago. It was a high energy show with no filler. He did most of his hits and a few lesser known songs and had everyone up out of their seats. Which was quite the achievement since most of the crowd was older (at 46 I was on the younger side of the audience). You would have found it difficult to believe he’s 73 after seeing him live. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/50 "2019-02-09T03:21:23Z")
I’m with the OP on that particular song. Every time I listen, I get wistful with an uncomfortable feeling in my chest. That song is a classic. Seger and/or his genre may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I’m surprised he got so many negative reactions in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/51 "2019-02-09T04:43:06Z")
> [@Bruce\_Wayne](#): > > … Seger and/or his genre may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I’m surprised he got so many negative reactions in this thread. I think a lot of it stems from his stuff being massively overplayed in many markets. That can turn a song one doesn’t particularly like into a song one thoroughly despises. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/52 "2019-02-09T19:36:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > There’s something about the sound of a Bob Seger song that just fills my mind with words like “slick,” “commercial,” “inauthentic,” “self-aggrandizing,” “insincere,” “creepy,” etc. I would have said the same thing and expected to be pilloried for it. I’m glad I’m not the only one. It was OK in limited amounts in the “minor part of the soundtrack of my youth” sense, but no more then that. I’ve always considered him to be the midwest’s version of the east’s Bruce Springsteen “salt of the earth” soul ( soft ) rocker. Never liked his stuff either because I found it just as cloyingingly sentimental as Bob Segar. I near want to wretch when some lame-o’s of my peers near clutch their chests in aching wistfulness during a performance of ‘Beautiful Loser’. I just can’t see the mawkish soulful sentimentality through all the slick schlock. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/53 "2019-02-09T21:35:48Z")
Night Moves definitely has its moments, I have to be in a certain mood for Seger but I do like, Mainstreet, We’ve got tonight, and Still the Same. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/54 "2019-02-09T21:56:23Z")
I’m surprised at all the Seger hate here. _Night Moves Hollywood Nights Roll Me Away Beautiful Loser Main Street Old Time Rock & Roll Rock & Roll Never Forgets Makin’ Thunderbirds Her Strut Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man_ Great songs all. And I could go on. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/55 "2019-02-09T22:12:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > When he sings “points of her own sittin way up high” my skin crawls just about OFF. He was a kid, and he liked nipples and breasts. WTF is wrong with that? Anyway, _Night Moves_ the album is easily in the top 50 **rock** albums of the seventies. As for the song, there are few moments in rock music as poignant as when the song has quieted down, the lyrics are finished, and then it slowly kicks back in with that amazing acoustic guitar. Very fucking few. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/56 "2019-02-09T22:17:33Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Even if Turn the Page is just another of a long string of rock stars signing about how haaaaaarrd, man it is to tour and make oodles of money and sleep with an endless sting of anonymous groupies. Life is so haaaaard, man. They said the same about the whole of Jackson Browne’s _Running on Empty_. They didn’t get it then either, that the old saw about how money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness is one of the truest things in life. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/57 "2019-02-09T23:55:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Back when I listened to the radio in my car, I had the Bob Seger Rule: as soon as I heard a Bob Seger song start, I’d turn the radio to another station. I do this as well. Not out of any animus for Bob Seger or his musical style, but for the simple fact that I’ve heard all and every single one of his usual airplay songs hundreds of times over the years, and can’t stand to listen to them one more time. I get the same feeling for Queen, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, etc. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/58 "2019-02-10T00:35:08Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > They said the same about the whole of Jackson Browne’s _Running on Empty_. They didn’t get it then either, that the old saw about how money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness is one of the truest things in life. But _Running on Empty_ ran its course. Where I lived back then, it was popular and then faded away, as far as airtime went. _Turn the Page_ never went away. All the rock stations in central Indiana still think they have to play it at least once a day, along with _Like a Rock_ and _Against the Wind_! ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/59 "2019-02-10T01:15:53Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > The idea of Matt Leblanc in a video of that song is just…weird. I thought this was a well-known thing. Matt Leblanc and Daphne Zuniga star, with Johnny Galecki. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149/60 "2019-02-10T02:15:49Z")
The Bob Seger concert at the Tacoma Dome tonight has been postponed due to all the snow in the area. I saw him about 5 years ago in a 200 seat theater at a casino. It was a stripped down show, just him and 3 others. The first 45 minutes was acoustic then they blew the roof off the place for an hour and a half. I walked in not expecting a good rock concert, the ringing in my ears when I left told me otherwise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-segers-night-moves/829149.md?page=4)