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This Week's Desert Island Poll

Choose your bullet (or write one in)

Ramblin' Gamblin' Man	0 votes
Old Time Rock n' Roll	0 votes
Turn the Page	2 votes
Katmandu	0 votes
Night Moves	8 votes
Hollywood Nights	0 votes
Still the Same	0 votes
Main Street	0 votes

Johnny Dickshot Jul 27 2007 08:42 AM

From the Motor City, to the desert island, you have to take 1 song with you. A) Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (awesome video!) B) Old Time Rock n' Roll C) Turn the Page D) Katmandu E) Night Moves (crappy 'Greatest Hits' cut video) F) Hollywood Nights G) Still the Same (a tribute to Howie and Becky!) H) Main Street (a curious video tribute to this family)

sharpie Jul 27 2007 08:58 AM

Night Moves. Mostly car commercial stuff.

Willets Point Jul 27 2007 09:14 AM

What band is this?

metirish Jul 27 2007 09:23 AM

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

metirish Jul 27 2007 09:25 AM

Tough choice,I know I used to like some of these songs.I voted for Turn the Page.

HahnSolo Jul 27 2007 09:53 AM

Tough choice, I think most of these are on par with each other. However, I'm writing in "Even Now."

metirish Jul 27 2007 09:59 AM

HahnSolo wrote: Tough choice, I think most of these are on par with each other. However, I'm writing in "Even Now." That's an excellent way of putting it.

DocTee Jul 27 2007 10:15 AM

If stranded on a desert island, I'd hope to have a lady along for the ride. Hence my write-in for " You'll Accompany Me"

Gwreck Jul 27 2007 11:00 AM

Second write-in for You'll Accomp'ny Me. Hollywood Nights, otherwise.

TransMonk Jul 27 2007 11:09 AM

Summertime, summertime...Night Moves.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 27 2007 12:26 PM

The correct answer is 'Night Moves,' a wonderful song about screwing a chick with large breasts. Seger himself admits it: ]You have one of those tunes a career...I milked 'Night Moves' a little bit after that with 'Brave Strangers' and 'Against the Wind,' but material of that nature became a problem for me. I kept trying to out-write 'Night Moves' and finally said 'No more. I'm not gonna try to out-write it.'" Seger released the "Live Bullet" album because he was still trying to finish the lyrics to Night Moves. He finally got inspiration from Springsteen's "Jungleland" to add that second bridge when the music stops. Seger said inspiration for that song was a real affair that he had, and that he remembered after seeing the film "American Grafiiti" "I started hummin a song from 1962" -- apparently, "Be My Baby" by the Ronnettes. Seger -- his stuff, much of it, sounds dated now. But he had a mighty fine voice that did the blues stuff a little better than the Chevy commercial/adult-contempary stuff. But even that was pretty good. He proved with "Fire Lake" he coulda been a good lead vocalist for the Eagles if he wanted to. One selection I forgot to include here but deserves consideration was "Till it Shines" which was similar to "Main Street."

sharpie Jul 27 2007 03:13 PM

"Old Time Rock and Roll" joins Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" and Huey Lewis' "The Heart of Rock and Roll is Still Beating" as fogey "music was better in my day" songs. All three of those songs must be deplored whenever played.

Edgy DC Jul 27 2007 03:57 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 28 2007 02:56 PM

I considered BS & the SBB rightly consigned to the past until I heard "'Till It Shines" played over the denoument of the film Mumford. Consider this a write-in for "'Till It Shines."

Johnny Dickshot Jul 27 2007 06:51 PM

Apparently 'Old-Time' is the most-played song on jukeboxes ever, or something like that. That song soaks up multi-generational appeal + had a scene with Tom Cruise in tighty whities. I think it's a crap song. Till it Shines has nice lyrix too: ]Take away my inhibitions Take away my solitude Fire me up with your resistance Put me in the mood Storm the walls around this prison Leave the inmates Free the guards Deal me up another future From some brand new deck of cards Take the chip off of my shoulder Smooth out all the lines Take me out among the rustling pines Till it shines Like an echo down a canyon Never coming back as clear Lately I just judge the distance Not the words I hear Ive been too long on these islands Ive been far too long alone Ive been too long without summer In this winter home Still if we can make the effort If we take the time Maybe we can leave this much behind Till it shines See the rich man lost and lonely Watch him as he dines Sitting there just testing all the wines Till it shines

metirish Jul 27 2007 07:02 PM

I love Thin Lizzy's version of "Rosalie"....

Batty31 Jul 27 2007 11:25 PM

Kind of a tough one. I also like the write-in votes You'll Accomp'ny Me and Till It Shines. I also love the intro to Her Strut...a song nobody mentioned. I ended up going with Night Moves. Being a chick with black hair and big dark eyes, I always liked that line from the song. :P Years ago I might have picked Turn the Page, but I like Metallica's cover better.

seawolf17 Jul 28 2007 09:28 AM

Yet again, Batty and I lead similar lives. I was thinking "Turn The Page," but Metallica did do it better, so I went "Night Moves."

smg58 Jul 28 2007 10:48 AM

I'll write in "Against The Wind." Death to anyone who writes in "Shakedown."

Willets Point Jul 28 2007 11:36 AM

These are all songs I'm familiar with from endless replay on classic rock radio. They all kind of fade into background music for me. I guess I never paid enough attention to realize that thye're all by the same dude.

Edgy DC Jul 28 2007 03:16 PM

Well put. I think a purpose of VIPs is to force background music back in to the foreground for one last piece of reconsideration. "Old Time..." isn't outright crap. It's just a shallow novelty that was and would have remained a B-side if many years later Tom Cruise wasn't willing --- for all his faults --- to aggressively pour himself into any dumb idea his director asked of him. It's like if Robby Benson in 1975 danced around in his underwear to "I'm Down," and the scene was such a hit that "I'm Down" eclipsed "Help!" in radio playlists. You'd fucking hate "I'm Down."

Johnny Dickshot Jul 28 2007 04:48 PM

The purpose of the Desert-Island Mix-Tape is survival, man. I kind of find myself turning into a fan of whatever band I throw up there, at least for a couple of days. I went to download some Bob Seger on iTunes but he's not available there, so I'm listening to this thread (plus the live version of Fire Lake on YouTube).

Edgy DC Jul 28 2007 05:38 PM

The funny thing that happened was that, from 1979 to 1985, Bob Seger and Kenny Rogers slowly became the same guy.

Iubitul Jul 28 2007 08:03 PM

I'll have to write in "We've Got Tonight"

Edgy DC Jul 28 2007 08:11 PM

Bob's or Kenny's?

Iubitul Jul 28 2007 09:40 PM

I'm glad someone caught that ;-)

Edgy DC Jul 28 2007 10:03 PM

One thing I get from "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," "Turn the Page," "We've Got Tonight," and others, to a lesser extent, is that he's not particularly keen on sleeping with the same woman more than once. When he's not writing his own, I think he's covered a lot of Tom Waits songs.

Rockin' Doc Jul 29 2007 06:12 AM

Seger wrote some good music and I listened to a lot of it during my high school and college years. There are several songs that I really enjoy on this list, "Night Moves", "Main Street", "Till It Shines", "Her Strut", "Old Time Rock and Roll" (though it is apparently much maligned here on the CPF) and "Turn the Page". I eventually decided to go with "Night Moves" in a close call over "Till It Shines".

Centerfield Jul 30 2007 10:12 AM

Edgy DC wrote: One thing I get from "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," "Turn the Page," "We've Got Tonight," and others, to a lesser extent, is that he's not particularly keen on sleeping with the same woman more than once. Meanwhile,"Rock and Roll Never Forgets", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "Against the Wind", seem to suggest the man has a thing about getting older. Maybe the two themes are connected...

Edgy DC Jul 30 2007 10:18 AM

Bounce around YouTube and you see that the desperate pickup lines of "We've Got Tonight" were covered by all sorts of folks with an otherwise prim and proper image. Dinah Shore?

Willets Point Jul 30 2007 10:21 AM

I remember Kirstie Alley singing it to Ted Danson on Cheers.