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

"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.

"Wait For Me" had retail soundscape legs for a few years.

xpost Yeah, I was worried people would think he died, sorry about that.

Does Bob Seger Choogle Y/N

I saw him at the Garden in 2007. He/it ruled.

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Posted: 30 September 2014 at 20:13:24
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Otm

Not many Seger threads, but they're almost all from 2003/2004. What happened then?

The White Stripes dropped Seven Nation Army

Quick story:

I've been thinking about Bob Seger this week and knew he was on tour because he was mentioned while I was walking my daughter to school by Diane -- a 70 y/o-ish lady from the Boston 'burbs who has smoked all her life and been our neighborhood school's crossing guard for 30 years. We've always had a really fun time jabbering with one another but she's never been above telling me to stay the hell out of the road when the light's green. Anyway, out of nowhere last week, she told me that she and her brother had seen Seger dozens of times over the years, but that this week he had gone to see him without her for the first time in years because "I can't go up all those stairs anymore." She was disappointed, but, she said, her brother sent her a video so she could see some of it anyway. We joshed around for a few and I think I made a "Turn the Page" joke or something before crossing the street.

On Wednesday, I noticed Diane wasn't there at pickup after school -- that wasn't super out of the ordinary so I didn't make too much of it. But I found out later that she had died the night before, I think from a heart attack, and didn't show up for work that morning. On the way to find some last-minute Halloween costumes, I broke the news to my 9 y/o. We were both pretty sad about it so in her honor we played a bunch of Seger hits -- Still the Same, Night Moves, Turn the Page, Old Time Rock n' Roll. Like Josh said, and a lot of us I imagine, these songs were all etched in my memory from classic rock radio as a kid but ... they hold up. They're tough, heartfelt and earnest but not corny. Kind of like Diane. RIP to a really cool lady.

Aw, RIP (though lots of Seger is absolutely corny).

Also, every time I hear the piano riff in the title track to Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) I hear “Still the Same.”

^ YES.

Dad says, ahem, one of the highlights of the show was a cover of "Forever Young," featuring a slideshow of dead rock stars like Prince, Jimi, Janis, etc.

Full of snark, I asked, Oh, did he have Glenn Frey up there?

HOW DID YOU KNOW? LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HE SAID ABOUT GLEN FREY.... and then he told me.

Well, yeah.

I’ve always got time for Still the Same and Til it Shines. Not really much else though.

Working for the man on the nights every night and day

bob rules all the way through the 70’s up until the mid 80’s and then i peace out of his cataloh.

but overall i love him. i love that he’s still touring - am yet to see him live, really want to though! even if it’s a corn-fest of songs i dont particularly care for.

*catalog

The one Bob Seger song that I truly love without finding it at all corny (as opposed to the ones I love but also find corny) is Roll Me Away. I think the last verse is legit gorgeous, and I love that he takes the basic idea of a song that builds to a triumphant final line but then makes that line "Next time we'll get it right!"

Bob is pretty great but he didn’t write Willin’ or anything so

Gave Bill Payne a buncha session paydays tho.

Before he played "Night Moves" he said something like "let's move some nights!"