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Night Moves / Shame on the Moon

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"Night Moves" is a 1970s American rock classic that holds its own with Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" as one of the best of that decade. What Seger may have lacked in comparison to Springsteen's epic songwriting, he more than makes up for with his ability to write a good hook and with his energetic performances and great singing. The song "Night Moves" has become a classic rock radio staple. But "Rock and Roll Never Forgets," "Mainstreet," "The Fire Down Below" and "Sunspot Baby" are all first rate songs. Seger still has a bit of a rough edge here that he would lose later on during his more polished "Like a Rock" television commercial phase. This album deserves to be in any classic rock fan's collection.

Bob Seger's masterpiece! An album filled with rock 'n' roll anthems and classics,this is as American as American music gets. Blue collar rock, tales of young love, tributes to rock 'n' roll, road travellin' blues, Bob Seger sang it all on Night Moves. Bringing Midwest life to the music, Seger opened alot of ears all over the country and world to what it's like to be living. An absolute classic, anyone who likes rock n roll, must have this album.

Night Moves is by far Seger's best. The songs Mainstreet and Night Moves are as great today as 23 years ago. Highly recommended

This CD has RHYTHM! Bob's best by far, great songs, GREAT music. Wish he'd find the energy and fun-ness he had in these songs again.

By 1976, Bob Seger was 12 years into his recording career - not seven. In 1964 he came out with his first song on a 45 (remember those), he and his band were known first as THE LAST HEARD, then they were known as BOB SEGER AND THE LAST HEARD, and their first song was EAST SIDE STORY - on the flip side of the 45 the song was EAST SIDE SOUND, which was an instrumental of EAST SIDE STORY. So therefore, Mr. Milward - you are 12 years off in your information. Also, I would like to add - does anyone remember Bob Seger's War Protest song in 1968? It was titled "2 + 2" Thank you. Juanita Scott

Bob Seger's Night Moves (1976) catapulted the hard working and long deserving rock n' roller into the national spotlight, and it's really no wonder that it did. It's an almost perfect album. With the classic title song, the reflective and atmospheric Main Street and some basic hard driving rock n' roll, the album caught on with true rockers who were growing tired of pretentious, wimpy and platform shoe lifted glitter rockers. With Night Moves, Bob Seger offered intelligent rock music with backbone and true grit, sung by a man with a soulful voice who looked and sounded like he could actually back up what he was singing. All-American Rock n' Roll!

The music on Night Moves is mostly basic stuff, but highly enthusiastic with the smart professionalism that road tested experience brings. The Silver Bullet Band plays on half of the songs which were recorded in Bob's hometown of Detroit, and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section plays on the other half, recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama.

Night Moves. Ain't it funny how you remember? The song brings back memories for a lot of people. Who doesn't remember the exuberance of youth and the "awkward teenage blues" that Bob himself so vividly recalls.

We weren't in love, oh no, far from it
We weren't searchin' for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Living by the sword

Rock And Roll Never Forgets, Sunspot Baby, Mary Lou and the smokin' hot Fire Down Below are all energetic and durable rock n' roll. It's the kind of stuff that rocks with the best, but hangs tough and doesn't lose it's mature and masculine character. Main Street is a classic, one of the best songs of Seger's career. Winding and picturesque, it describes a scene right out of 1950s-60s Main Street, U.S.A. from a young boy's perspective.

In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losers
I used to watch 'em through the glass
Well, I'd stand outside at closing time
Just to watch her walk on past
Unlike all the other ladies she looked so young and sweet
As she made her way alone down that empty street

Come To Poppa is a funky, soulful and pounding strut that Seger works for all it's worth. Great song. There's really nothing on Night Moves to complain about. It's almost perfect, actually. Atmospheric and picturesque in a vivid and personal way, Night Moves touches many people in many different ways. It rocks like there's no tomorrow , wistfully reflects, and lusts for the wild touch of love's madness. Classic in every way, Night Moves is American rock n' roll at it's very best!

When this album came I was 14 years old and living in a small farm town in Kentucky. Night Moves was on the radio and catching on big time, but Bob Seger was far from a household name. I remember how hip I felt turning my friends onto this album, until, that is, my cousin from the Motor City came to visit and told me that everyone up north felt that Bob had sold out, and if I REALLY wanted to hear a great Seger album I should buy Live Bullet. Hip factor aside, I still felt it was a great album...and it is. From Night Moves to Mainstreet, it had FM radio tuned in...but the beauty lays in the lesser known cuts, Ship of Fools, Sunspot Baby, Rock and Roll Never Forgets. There's really not a bad track on the album. A lot of people feel that Night Moves scored big because it was primed by Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run...the market was ready for a more radio-friendly version...but for me, it worked the other way around. Night Moves eased me into Spingsteen's world. John Lennon once said that Imagine was Plastic Ono Band sugar coated for grandmothers. The same could be said for Night Moves and its relation to Bruce's 1975 masterpiece. One no better or more serious than the other, just more accessible. Looking back on it now, almost three decades later, it was a grand summer for rock and roll, one that can be experienced again. Like the man sang, Rock and Roll Never forgets, that's true...and if you want to remember it, here's a tip. Get in your car one night this summer, roll the windows down and take three CD's. Start with Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell, follow it up with Seger's Night Moves and end it off with Born To Run. If you time it just right Jungleland should end just as the sun is coming up. It just might change your life. That's rock and roll. And this album is part of it.

I know it's amazing, someone under 13 is writing a review about Bob Seger. :->. Anyway, Bob Seger is probably the most underated musicians of all time. He is a great singer, song writer, pianist and a good guitar player. This album has awesome songs, I can choose a song at random and be impressed even if it is one of the first times I heard it. Night Moves is a masterpiece, especially Mainstreet. The riffs, the solos and the songs in general are all good. I can't think of a complaint but...Bob needs more respect. We hear bout Angus Young not getting enough respect as a guitar player but I know other kids that know Angus' name but not Bobs. So to all you moms and dads expose your children to one of the best men in the music industry. This is a great addition to any collection.

I know it's amazing, someone under 13 is writing a review about Bob Seger. :->. Anyway, Bob Seger is probably the most underated musicians of all time. He is a great singer, song writer, pianist and a good guitar player. This album has awesome songs, I can choose a song at random and be impressed even if it is one of the first times I heard it. Night Moves is a masterpiece, especially Mainstreet. The riffs, the solos and the songs in general are all good. I can't think of a complaint but...Bob needs more respect. We hear bout Angus Young not getting enough respect as a guitar player but I know other kids that know Angus' name but not Bobs. So to all you moms and dads expose your children to one of the best men in the music industry. This is a great addition to any collection.

With classics from "Night Moves" and "Main Street", to lesser-known jewels like "Sunburst" and "Ship of Fools", this album is a must have for any fan of the iconic singer/songwriter and the "workingman's rock'n'roll" genre.