We weren’t in love, oh no, far from itWe weren’t searchin’ for some pie in the sky summitWe were just young and restless and boredLivin’ by the swordAnd we’d steal away every chance we couldTo the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woodsI used her, she used meBut neither one caredWe were gettin’ our share
The chorus still annoys me. I don't like the phrase "Night Moves" -- it just sounds dumb. But I think maybe I'm hitting the age when I start to really like mid 70s super-steady-beat medium-light rock.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
this is pretty much adult life summed up in a line.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
uh, quite the opposite actually. as one who fits that description .. it makes it easy to LOVE it. Because we already knew how great Bob's early stuff wuz. tho it is fun to laugh at Soofjam lovin pitchdorks who discover Bob's early stuff and make an about-face.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmm... the scenario I describe also applies to a lot of Motown--some of which I still love, and a lot of which I can't stand anymore--or to which I've become numb--due to overexposure. And some Seger just hasn't aged that well ("Old Time Rock & Roll" I avoid for fear I will go on a killing spree if it comes within earshot). Anyway, YMMV, etc.
― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Bob Seeger is the king of songs that I hear on the radio but don't know who they're by and think they're pretty good.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link
it was deeply resonant for me for the opposite reason -- it represented what i wished being a teenager was going to be like but which i knew it could never be, not for me anyway. it was kind of like reading the letters to penthouse.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
that use of "one" always bothered me, and still does. it's a really awkward line.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 13 January 2006 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
i just think, you know, Seger was a real good craftsman -- wudn't no genius, his inspirations were fairly obvious. but the songs are great. And his vocals are great. and there are tons of great little moments throughout his catalog .. from "k-k-k-k-katmadu" to the high-hats on "Hollywood Nights". And "Travellin Man"/"Beautiful Loser" from the live album is such an awesome performance. I just hate all the fucking hedged-bets when people bring him up. There are many great songs.
but you know, this year Prog is Not a Four Letter Word, five years from now, Mellencamp is Not a Ten letter Word...
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 13 January 2006 06:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
(Were there any great punk/'70s bands from Indiana? Detroit and Ohio had their share, and Chicago obviously had a scene, but I can't think of a damn thing from Indiana outside of John Cougar.)
― js (honestengine), Friday, 13 January 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 06:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 13 January 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 2 February 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.pentaclerecords.net/covenstead/bob_seger_live_bullet.jpg
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 2 February 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― brettino's bounce (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bassment Jacks (Bimble...), Sunday, 8 October 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
okay, so when we were all desperately hungover last week, my friends and i drove around listening to 'Night Moves' at full blast, and it kinda made me feel incredibly good.
but what is the song from 1962?
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2009 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
(i feel like i just became a little straighter by admitting that)
Wondered about that song from '62 for a long time, too
"autumn closing in" is a great romantic line.
― Mark, Friday, 23 October 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I really like this song, but I also can't hear it without laughing at it.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 23 October 2009 03:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but it's that kind of laughter that is more laughing at the sentimentality because..well, it's kind of easy to identify with? it's like laughing at yourself for being a sentimental shit bag. i feel the same way when i hear Thunder Road, which i also know all the lyrics to.
anyway.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Friday, 23 October 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Who wants to wear those gypsy leathers????
― akm, Friday, 23 October 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
don't get me started...
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 23 October 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
No love for "Big River" aka "The Original Night Moves"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hekBAk5L7k4
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 October 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
this (along with more seger) is in permanent rotation in my father-in-law's truck
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Saturday, 24 October 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The drums on "Hollywood Nights" are great, as others said above. I like this song a lot, but lyrically I think it misses the payoff that the opening stanza sets up. "He knew right then he was too far from home". I expect Manson-style mayhem, or SLA. But no, I guess it's just that they fuck..."with a passion that kills", it's true, but what does that mean? The song still rocks and I'm just overthinking it, but fuck it, it's ILM, that's what it's here for.
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Saturday, 21 November 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
True for a handful of Bob Seger songs.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 21 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
He's a Midwestern boy who gets in way over his head; he winds up broke and alone and emotionally devastated and he's not sure he'll ever make it back to where he came from.
― Mark, Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
cocaine is a helluva drug
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that works; broke and lonely. I think the conceit could be milked a bit more, but it's cool; and a great song.
― Yah Kid A (Euler), Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
A friend of mine told me he was getting his tires changed or brakes fixed or something here in Ann Arbor, Michigan about 10 years ago, and there was a plaque on the wall in the waiting room. It said "The Drive-in that inspired Bob Seger's 'Night Moves' stood on this site."
Ah-the internet says it's the Tuffy Muffler on Stadium Boulevard, not but a half mile from the house I'm now living in. Maybe I should go in there and perform some kind of ritual.
Personally, I'm ok with the MOR Bob Seger,but young punk Bob Seger is amazing. "East Side Story", "Down Home", 2+2=?. All killer.
― jsimp, Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard this and "someone saved my life tonight" back-to-back on the classic station.It was freakin awesome!
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=487t88pz-2Y
thanks to jsimp for reminding me what the one bob sega master system song i heard and enjoyed once on the radio was
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 November 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Just heard this for the first time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp25PHbLPcU
...after years knowing Bob's cover. Awesome.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 May 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
This song is like the perfect Van Morrison song and the perfect Bruce Springsteen song rolled into one.
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 16 April 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Just realized there is a coded boob reference in an early verse. The bit about "points of her own".
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 April 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
Not really so coded!
― Mark, Monday, 16 April 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Chicks used to throw their bras onstage when he sang that line. Probably still do.
― henry s, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJuIv41o2DY
― JacobSanders, Monday, 16 April 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, wouldn't you?
http://www.icplaces.com/image/ic_BobSegerandTheSilverBulletBandsongPics1TaBXvAsoX2BPVM.jpg
― Hoo Nu Cookies (crüt), Monday, 16 April 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, that one is much better.
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 April 2022 01:25 (two years ago) link
all the seger -- particularly betty lou's getting out tonight -- reminds me of good burgers at the landmark inn
it was an absolute dive owned by my classmate's dad and always shady as fuck. classmate, last i heard, was in prison -- but his younger brother was flying blimps over sporting events
anyway seger rules
― mookieproof, Monday, 18 April 2022 01:32 (two years ago) link
my least favorite music subgenre is washed middleaged guys complaining about music
True, I need them to be filthy before they start their whining.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 April 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
Mr. Seger if you're nasty
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 April 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
nostalgia often has little to do with the quality of the experiences, and a lot to do with our own shifts in feeling about ourselves. This is actually a pretty feckin wise point, and one that I don't think was ever made in song before "Night Moves."
I'd say this is the point of "People Take Pictures of Each Other" by the Kinks, written eight years earlier.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 April 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
...and "Picture Book".
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 18 April 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
The worst thing that happened to OTR&R was Risky Business.― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:23 (three hours ago) link
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 April 2022 00:23 (three hours ago) link
idk, if you've ever seen the Stone Mountain laser show...
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 18 April 2022 04:08 (two years ago) link