Bob Seger's "Night Moves": C or D

Night moves is so dope.

waited on the thunder iirc

This song is like the perfect Van Morrison song and the perfect Bruce Springsteen song rolled into one.

With the Simon-like opener "Little to tall, could-a used a few pounds."

too

…

… summertime

sweet summertime

he's adorable! he looks like a real person. why not pelt that guy with bras?

He could probably use one!

haha

night moobs

I didn't download that Never Mind The Bullets at the time, as I assumed it'd be around forever, and then megaupload went to jail and now I can't seem to find it without downloading some program that will turn my computer into a microwave oven. Is there a link somewhere that's safe to use?

Musician friend of mine from Stamps, Ark., once shared his Seger beef with me. A tune came on the radio and he shook his head and says, "Fuck Bob Seger, man. Every song is like 'I remember this' or 'I remember that.' Forget the past. I'm trying to push rock FORWARD."

Still makes me laugh.

I've got a soft spot for "Night Moves," maybe a few others. That simple, perfect acoustic riff is probably why Jesus invented the acoustic guitar.

Back in '72 is an album by American rock singer/songwriter Bob Seger, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music)

dlp9001, tyler posted a link to it recently:

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/20241194822/never-mind-the-bullets-bob-seger-1966-1974-q

best way to experience this song is to randomly discover it like two weeks before you lose your virginity ime

walking to work today and a painter's (totally painted-over but still working) boombox was playing this

sweet

little too tall

I gave this a lot of thought a while ago and decided the 1962 song is "Baby It's You," however I will accept other suggestions.

"Our Day Will Come" would be good symmetry, but it's too innocent for what they were up to. It's Detroit, so maybe "You Really Got a Hold on Me."

I guess Seger says it was "Be My Baby" but that's from 1963. Maybe it's all lies. He's probably a virgin.

So I was close...ish

Was checking out the lyrics online and did a double take at the writing credit, attributed to Michael Franks. Uh, no.

"Night Moves" was released on 10/31/2006. It is track #4 on the album Greatest Hits. It was written by SMALL, MICHAEL / FRANKS, MICHAEL

and only off by a few decades

also I forgot to mention that I was bumping this thread to announce that years after the episode aired I figured out that Liz Lemon was referencing this in her "workin on my night cheese" song, not that it was obvious or anything.

I'm going to teach this next semester:

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Moves-Stephanie-Barber/dp/0988750309

it's a work of conceptual literature that consists of just the comments on the You Tube thread for Bob Seger's "Night Moves"

Does she know about Sad Youtube

Really enjoyed the book.

I know it's totally corny but I love the way he plays with the meaning of 'night moves', from teenage lovin/ putting on the moves, to time passing ie the night has moved on, to nature & things literally moving in the night with an oncoming storm

love this guy

also:

WAITIN ON THE THUNDAH

I guess it is strange how the night moves.

http://i.imgur.com/rlfCqGE.jpg

^^^funny, in fact

Night Moves would definitely not sound anything like it does if recorded now, considering how the tempo varies through the tune and how much modern recording is fixed to a click by hook, crook or edit. I've listened to the song and still can't decide if they cut the track as a whole or if the middle break down was tape edited in. The vocal performance is pretty seamless and sounds real natural, but it is possible that was overdubbed after getting together the bed track. It's a cool production and has quite a bit of space in the mix. I also really like the female backing vocals.

Just realized that Matt Hegelson may deserve some credit for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcZ5BwQukE

I've listened to the song and still can't decide if they cut the track as a whole or if the middle break down was tape edited in.

The local "oldies" station plays an edit of "Night Moves" that cuts out the whole midsection breakdown altogether. It's fucking annoying and stupid and awkward and I can't imagine anyone hearing that edited version being glad that that section is missing.

you know what I really love about this (though there are about 100 things) is how mellow the crash cymbal is. great production choice.

Night Moves would not be half as good if it didn't have the female backing vocals.

I read about that book on Slate... wonder if she omitted all the "i was born in the 90s but i think this is real music, not like the Justin Bieber crap kids are listening to today" comments or if all 5000 of them were left in.

Also, if at any point the song was on Family Guy...

http://greilmarcus.net/2014/09/30/bob-seger-silver-bullet-band-night-moves-1975

autumn closing in

Never knew about Muscle Shoals thing until this past weekend.

I LOVE NIGHT MOVES

lol

Night moves is so dope.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The other day in the car I heard what I thought was going to be night moves but it turned out to be some bullshit and I was sad.

Not many Seger threads, but they're almost all from 2003/2004. What happened then? Anyway, from my accidentally ILE post:

I've never thought that much about Bob Seger, and never listened to anything of his on purpose (other than when it popped up on the radio), but I just saw him at Madison Square Garden and it was not bad! Totally corny, somewhere between Springsteen and Billy Joel, but he was having a blast for a 74-year old. Learned there were two songs by him that I never knew were by him ("Her Strut" and "We've Got Tonight"). Best of all I learned that his ridiculous ponytailed sax player, who never did much and rocked both sunglasses and a trench coat, actually goes by the name Alto Reed.

My step-mom won free tickets. Catch was that it was 150 miles away in Memphis.

ME: Looks like he's starting off all his shows with... "Simplicity"?

DAD: Huh. Kinda surprised that one's his opener.

ME: You know that song?

DAD: Never heard it. How does it go?

dad otm

Ha, I've actually heard it, and it sort of makes sense he'd open with it (heavy deep groove mid-tempo rocker from Face The Promise, Seger's idea of a Kid Rock song).

fine but have you heard it in a CVS

i thought bob seger had died when i saw both this thread and the one on ile bumped

XP Nope, but I have heard other things from Face The Promise in stores, pretty much all of which was when the album was new.