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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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I was a hotel banquet server in college. If I never hear that song again, it will be too soon. :rolleyes:
Isn’t most popular music - their own, or someone else’s? 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I thought this was a well-known thing. Matt Leblanc and Daphne Zuniga star, with Johnny Galecki.
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.