Bob Seger

[quote] What's your favorite?

This old, closed thread has a poll.

I meant to have a poll but hit submit by mistake. Here's some choices:

Turn the Page

Night Moves

Main Street

Still the Same

Hollywood Nights

We've Got Tonight

Old Time Rock and Roll

Fire Lake

Against the Wind

You'll Accompany Me

Shame on the Moon

Like a Rock

That's a pretty impressive list. My favorite is Night Moves.

Yes, I've always liked his music and his voice. Main Street is my favorite.

[quote] I meant to have a poll but hit submit by mistake.

[quote] Okay ... please ignore this post, I forgot to include the poll

Hollywood Nights. Seger is great. I guess he's been around since the sixties as he's featured in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

I've liked him for decades. Never, ever get tired of Night Moves. Against the Wind is my second favorite of his. The rest ain't bad, either.

Those both are excellent songs!

Night Moves and Still the Same

You'll Accomp'ny Me. His 1969 debut was Ramblin' Gamblin Man which was recently brought to life in a scene from OUATIH

In the 70s, he was thought to be one of the good guys in rock along with Springsteen and Petty. Never really got to their level, possibly because he wouldn't leave the midWest. Those residuals for Old Time Rock and Roll must be huge.

I saw an interview with him back during the seventies. Very laid back but serious about music. Came off as being a guy you'd like as a friend.

My faves are Night Moves and Beautiful Loser.

Night Moves forever!!

"Come to Poppa" was often played for the strippers on Daddy Night at our local gay bar.

Years ago he pretty much semi-retired to raise his kids. In Michigan I believe. He took himself way out of the spotlight. He might not have reached the levels of Bruce but I think he's much better. At least vocally anyway.

Come to Poppa was a good song! I can see strippers getting into that song.

My very favorite is "Roll Me Away". Just such an ass kicker!

He was a good looking man.

Hollywood Nights, Against The Wind and Fire Down Below are all incredible but I think my favorite is Night Moves. It’s as evocative as any song can be. It’s poetry.

He has really good politics, too. A solid Democrat who considers Barack Obama the best president of his lifetime and supported Hillary Clinton in 2016.

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Why is this thread greyed out?

It’s not greyed out for me

Seger is no Dylan!

r24 Thank goodness - one was enough

I like him better than Springsteen

Night Moves

Roll Me Away

Hollywood Nights

Beautiful Loser

Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

Her Strut.

"Roll me away" is one of the few genuinely sucesfully feel good rock songs of all time. What a banger!

I woke last night to the sound of thunder

How far off I sat and wondered

Started humming a song from 1962

Ain't it funny how the night moves

When you just don't seem to have as much to lose

Strange how the night moves

With autumn closin' in

If I'm in one of those missing my youth moods this can almost bring me to tears.

When I was younger I thought "with autumn closing in" meant he was just feeling sad about summer ending. When your older you finally get what he wrote. His stuff is way better than Bruce's and stands the test of time better. If he had been more PR aggressive he would have reached Bruce's level.

Rolling down the road in my brothers Ford Granada blaring Bob Seger , getting high and laughing our asses off with our buddies . One of the very few straight-centric things I ever did ! Bob Seger will always be a favorite of mine.

A Bob seger is absolutely one of my favorites and it looks so many strong memories for me. Mainly the nights at my mom would be playing poker and drinking at my aunt's house. My games go well into the night usually wrapping up around 2 or 3:00 a.m. and I was expected to be asleep in the living room just on the other side of the wall to the kitchen where they'd be playing and listening to the radio and chatting and Bob seger was often one of the records playing in the background while my mom and friends were chatting and the clacking of poker chips and the heavy smell of cigarette smoke.

He's still one of the favorite artists of mine to listen to on a chill Saturday night playing low while I sit on my porch and play with my cat s.

Whenever I hear a Bob song it makes me wish that I still smoked.

No.

Come to Papa

When I was a kid, my mom, who really didn’t know much about current music, somehow found out about him and was crazy about him. She thought she was being so naughty when she sang along with “Betty Lou’s Gettin’ Out Tonight.”

“Still the Same” and “Against the Wind” are my favorites. “We’ve Got Tonight” and “Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You” are also great. Sad that his only #1 is the forgettable “Shakedown.” He did come close with the great “Shame on the Moon” which hit #2.

I still listen to him.

I remember, I remember

Night Moves is his best song. I have never once in the hundreds, thousands? of times I've heard it since it was new have I not enjoyed it. The backup singers were great, too.

The Eagle's Heartache Tonight was inspired by Bob Seger. A few of the Eagles went to a Seger show and Bob was talking to the audience and one of the things he said, when he started a sad song, was "there's gonna be a heartache tonight". The rest is history.

and then years later....

I have never liked his music. I don't know why. No offense or disrespect to anyone who does, but it just has never rung my bell.

I mean, I don't immediately turn it off or change the radio station if he comes on, as I do with some artists. Just not my cup o' tea.

R2 and his list is point on for me. Night Moves is my favorite, too, with Turn the Page a close second.

The Eagles actually shared with him song writing credit for the simple "there's gonna be a heartache tonight" line. That's some coin.

Well..

Seger said:

"Heartache Tonight started with me and Glenn at his house. I was playing bass and he was playing guitar. He had this little thing: "Somebody’s gonna hurt somebody." He wanted to write a shuffle. So we’re playing that groove, and Glenn’s singing the verses, and suddenly, out of the blue, the chorus came into my head. "There’s gonna be a heartache tonight, heartache tonight, I know." I started singing that and Glenn goes: “Yeah!”. I took what he was singing about and jumped right into the chorus. Then Glenn called [Joe] Walsh. Now it’s like one o’clock in the morning. Walsh gets up and comes down and starts playing guitar on it, and comes up with the bridge. Then JD Souther came in right after Walsh that same night. He’d help Glenn with lyrics. The next day Henley chimes in and goes: "Oh yeah," and he starts writing a lot of the lyrics. So that’s how that song happened."[4]

I love his lyrics and ability to tell a story. (I was the OP of the thread in 2021, btw.)

I have so many favorites but "Blame it on the Moon" might be at the top.

Some men go crazy

Some men go slow

Some men go just where they want

Some men never go

"Roll me away" is my favorite. I love that the lyrics make you think it's going to be a love song since he mentions meeting a girl in a bar and getting out on the bike together, but the following lyrics just say that she got cold and missed her home and he let her off without hesitation and continued on his own. He was lusting for FREEDOM BABY!

So I was wrong about Heartache Tonight. That's what I get for getting my music history off a YouTube short. LOL thanks for the correction though.

R47 he's definitely written some amazing songs and lyrics and while he's made shame on the moon his own he didn't actually write that one. It was written by Rodney crowell.

I never liked him on America's Home Videos or Full House - but his stand up was actually pretty funny.

r51 Simpsons reference, LOL!

Night Moves, Main Street and We've Got Tonight are my top three.

I'd forgotten about Bog Seger until recently a funny music guy I follow on social media started a campaign to bring Like a Rock back to Chevy commercials (instead of the junk country music they apparently use now).

One of those performers I never really appreciated when I was young, hearing them on the radio, but do now that I'm old.

Fire Lake is a great song, too.

[quote]Bog Seger

Peated spongy folk-rock.

Here I go, playin’ star 🌟 again

There I go, turn the page

My faves are "Hollywood Nights," "Night Moves" and "Still the Same."

"Against the Wind" is in the second tier, but I love the line "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."

[quote]My very favorite is "Roll Me Away". Just such an ass kicker!

Me too; that line "I, too, am lost, I feel double-crossed and I'm sick of what's wrong and what's right" gets me every time.

My dad liked Bob Seger & it was one of the few records we had (along with Johnny Cash & Barry Manilow, of all people) so takes me back to being a kid .

While his music is streaming now, for years it wasn't. Supposedly Bob never came to an agreement with Apple/ITunes. Not sure exactly why since you think he could've used the $$ but for years he (along with the much wealthier Garth Brooks) were among the ITunes hold outs

I think part of the reason I like to ask so much besides that she was just great is that Bob seger songs were used throughout the film. Apparently the original intention was to use Springsteen songs but for whatever reason they had to go with seger. I think Michelle is better for it because well Springsteen is a working class type of guy he's just not grungy enough to be a smoky tavern biker bar sort of musician and Seeger fits that perfectly to me.

I think Mask resonated so much for me too because my mom got pregnant with my older brother is 16 with a Hell's Angel guy. He was a total dirtbag and fathered like 14 children across several States and women and didn't meet at my brother until he was 20.

Oy I meant mask and cher. Also my older brother looks a lot like Rocky Dennis in that they're both ugly.

Bob Seger doesn't have to do anything for cash. Streaming or otherwise. Dude is rolling in the green. I'm not one of those people who cares about music I like in commercials or movies. One thing about Bob is he didn't care who wanted to use his song for what so long as they paid. Anyway...

"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."

yes to that.....I heard that line shortly after I broke up with my first serious BF

Minus 100 points for the phrase “bro rock”.

Mine was greyed out, too.

Never heard BS’s music before, so I let Spotify play a few of his big hits for me. MHO: corny, trying too hard and cringy. Kind of like the Steve”The Pompatus of Love “ Miller Band.

So many great songs but such modesty; you don’t think of him immediately when you think of the greats but he is definitely one of them. “Still the Same,” “Beautiful Loser,” “Night Moves” and “Fire Lake” are my favorites.

Hollywood Nights rocks as well.

"Still the Same" is a great one too.

Thanks r50! I didn't know that