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Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Night Moves

13 votes

Main Street

1 votes

Still the Same

0 votes

We've Got Tonight

0 votes

Against The Wind

2 votes

You'll Accomp'ny Me

1 votes

Like A Rock

0 votes

"Other"

2 votes

bmfc1 Sep 21 2011 06:38 AM

Part II of the Bob Seger "Stranded" poll. This one is for his slower songs: SLOW: Night Moves (1976--#4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRFWQoX ... re=related Main Street (1977--#24) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSllNKhz ... re=related Still the Same (1978--#4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjDpKeiY ... re=related We’ve Got Tonight (1978--#13) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JymsO5Sj ... re=related Against the Wind (1980--#5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2efTlU36Tw You'll Accomp'ny Me (1980--#14) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsj0bPy ... 188CC593BA Like A Rock (1986--#12) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIPfNFdXqI8

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 07:22 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

I think I'll choose "'Til It Shines" here and change my vote in the other thread.

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 07:38 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Sep 21 2011 08:44 AM

Bonus track: "Understanding" from the Teachers soundtrack. [youtube]pOlN2KRACdU[/youtube]

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 07:44 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Came to adore "Night Moves" when Steve Somers would play/narrate it every overnight around 3:05 AM as a way of telling his life story. Always liked when after the line "way up firm and high," he'd say, "good school". What cemented my affection was hearing it on chilly fall Sunday in 2000. 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 closing in Liked "Night Moves" OK when I first heard it in the spring of '77. Loved it after autumn closed in relentlessly on the 2000 Mets.

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 07:51 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 21 2011 08:45 AM

Another slow (or majestic) bonus track: 1983's "Roll Me Away": [youtube:3bd7y4vc]NfbBw-YMBeQ[/youtube:3bd7y4vc] I listen to this every time I'm 12 hours out of Mackinaw City...which I may be now, for all I know.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 21 2011 07:51 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

The shortened, retooled version of "Night Moves" you hear on the radio today is a crime; whoever approved that ought to be up on murder charges. But the original, long album version is still great. Seger's catalog still hasn't surfaced on Rdio although it shows his two live albums (Nine Tonight, Live Bullet) were due to "turn on" last week. It's one of the most difficult to find streamable, and as a result, lots of crappy covers get played accidentally.

TransMonk Sep 21 2011 07:58 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

I chose "Against the Wind" because when I wake up at 5:45am to go running, inevitably either this song or Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty" is stuck in my sleepy head as motivation to get ready. Visions of Forrest Gump in my head, I guess.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 08:10 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

"Night Moves," despite the insanely goofy line of "points of her own sitting way up high" is a pretty amazing song that only grows more haunting as I grow older. It's not like the theme of "relationships were pretty disposable when I was young, but now that I'm old and alienated, I realize what I've wasted" hasn't been done, but he kills it here. When he sings that verse that Greg quotes above he drops all the instruments out and it's practically a capella, save for a single strum at the top of the measure to stay on key. And if you're listening to the song late at night, its a dagger to the gut. Aging has left him absolutely empty, utterly alone, and listening has done the same to the audience. And that thunder on the horizon? Well that's the coming of imminent death that you could scarcely imagine when you were young and "getting your share," but you can't ever totally get out of your mind now. But then the acoustic rhythm guitar comes back in, slowly, steadily, and then stronger. And it's like ol' Bob is picking you up off the pavement, and he says, "Come on. We've got to find a way to go on. I'll help you." And he was only 30 at the time. Agreed about the radio edit. The tough part of embracing golden-age 1974-1982 Bob Seger for me is that the backup singers are used the same way on every track. I have the same problem with Eric Clapton records of the same era. He got a lot of mileage out of a limited skill set, but if I was in MGiM's radio market, where he describes Seger as every other record on rock radio, I'd have gone mad long ago.

TransMonk Sep 21 2011 08:17 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Alos, as overplayed and cliched as "Turn the Page" is, the lyrics ring pretty true for a guy like me who spent a lot of time in his 20's playing a rock star. But damn that saxophone.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 21 2011 08:26 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Way up firm n' high.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 08:30 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

That radio edit --- was that the version used in American Pop?

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 08:31 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

"You'll Accomp'ny Me" used to great effect on Freaks and Geeks, btw.

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 08:33 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 21 2011 08:43 AM

Bonus Track: From Like A Rock, "It's You"... [youtube]GsCk008KwoM[/youtube] Lovely, uncharacteristically straight ahead love song.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 08:39 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Going to #2 in 1982 with some country. [youtube:2er4fklj]JnKoAEs65Pg[/youtube:2er4fklj]

G-Fafif Sep 21 2011 08:46 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Let us not forget the Mets' connection to "Like a Rock": http://vimeo.com/4072958

metirish Sep 21 2011 08:54 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Sweet polls Night Moves , great song

Frayed Knot Sep 21 2011 09:14 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

When [Seger] sings that [Night Moves] verse that Greg quotes above he drops all the instruments out and it's practically a capella, save for a single strum at the top of the measure to stay on key. And if you're listening to the song late at night, its a dagger to the gut. Aging has left him absolutely empty, utterly alone, and listening has done the same to the audience. And that thunder on the horizon? Well that's the coming of imminent death that you could scarcely imagine when you were young and "getting your share," but you can't ever totally get out of your mind now. The story behind that one is that Seger was sitting on the unfinished song for months unsure of how to complete it. He then got the idea for the a capella verse upon hearing Bruce's spoken-word portion of 'Jungleland' -- beneath the city, two hearts beat ... . Just stop the song, say what you want to say, then back to the music and wrap it up. I'm usually hesitant to go with 'the biggest hit' in polls like these, but 'Night Moves' is my clear choice here.

Willets Point Sep 21 2011 09:55 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Odd that "Turn the Page" is not an option here. I hate it but it's played hourly on klassik rawk radio and by every bar cover band ever so somebody must like it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Sep 21 2011 10:46 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

I hate Turn the Page too. It's the Matchbox car to Night Moves' Hot Wheel.

metirish Sep 21 2011 10:57 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Made all the more hateful by the awful Metallica cover.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 11:05 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

I was thinking of making an auxiliary poll of Seger covers. It'd come down to a steel cage death match between Metallica and Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton. Who wouldn't pay to see that?

metirish Sep 21 2011 11:16 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Didn't know Easton covered it too......not that I am eager to hear it. There are many things I dislike about that song, the guitars for one, so whiny , pretty sure Bon Jovi stole the chords for "Blaze of Glory" too.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 12:00 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

No, sorry, I was unclear. Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton did a cover of "We've Got Tonight" that was a mega-hit and began the slow strange process whereby Kenny and Bob slowly began to merge into one artist. Without checking, I'm sure Kenny and Sheena's "We've Got Tonight" went top ten in Ireland.

Edgy DC Sep 21 2011 12:02 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Checking now, I'm finding no evidence that Kenny and Sheena's "WGT" charted in Ireland, but I am finding that Ronan Keating recorded it as well.

metirish Sep 21 2011 12:12 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

Edgy DC wrote: Checking now, I'm finding no evidence that Kenny and Sheena's "WGT" charted in Ireland, but I am finding that Ronan Keating recorded it as well. found it http://www.irishcharts.ie/search/placement punch the song in there, reached #18 , 20.02.1983 -

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 21 2011 12:27 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

G-Fafif wrote: "You'll Accomp'ny Me" used to great effect on Freaks and Geeks, btw. Oh, yeah. Make out city! It HAS to be "Night Moves."

RealityChuck Sep 21 2011 01:04 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

None of these are particularly good.

bmfc1 Sep 21 2011 01:40 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

The guitar solo in Main Street is fantastic.

Edgy DC Oct 21 2011 10:09 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 22 2011 05:33 AM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

This might be the biggest blowout in Desert Island Mix Tape history.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 22 2011 02:08 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

"We've Got Tonight" was the theme for our prom, too, the year before! One of the reasons I missed so much music from the 1990s -- I only discovered Live a few years ago and a friend recently tried to get me to listen to something called Pearl Jam -- was because it was all Seger, all the time, no matter the station format. I'm pretty sure news talk stations would work in Seger songs. It was that bad.

Edgy DC Oct 22 2011 02:19 PM Re: Stranded! With Bob Seger--Slow

I just thing it's something that a Catholic school --- the one from the seat of the diocese --- has a song about a one-stand for a prom theme.