Named after a Leonard Cohen book, which is significant: this is the album on which Bob Seger, Midwestern rock 'n roller, became Bob Seger, serious singer-songwriter. Good...
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Beautiful Loser winds up sounding more like Back in '72 than its immediate predecessor, Seven, largely because Bob Seger threaded reflective ballads and mid-tempo laments...
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Most artists that deliver a second record as shaky as Noah fold on their third album. Not Bob Seger. He reasserted control of the System, consigning Tom Neme to a fanboy's...
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Though it's ancient from a career standpoint, the title track and much of the rest of this album has a punkish, garage-rock aura about it that makes it sound particularly...
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The Bob Seger System throw everything into Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, dabbling in folk, blues-rock, psychedelia, and piledriving rock & roll synonymous with Detroit. Typical of...
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Another good example of workmanlike Seger--this includes the original versions of his strong live songs "Need Ya" and "Get Out Of Denver" (later covered by Dave Edmunds and...
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With his seventh album, appropriately titled Seven, Bob Seger delivered one of his strongest, hardest-hitting rock records -- the toughest since the days of the Bob Seger...
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Cheaply recorded and informal--this was never intended to be a major label release--this is a valuable document of the type of material--and performances--Seger used to give...
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Bob Seger closed out his Capitol contract with Brand New Morning, a singer/songwriter album quite unlike anything he had yet released. Following its release he moved to the...
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As Seger's career progressed, he included more and more ballads on his albums--and this one has several. Among the best are the title track and "You'll Accompany Me."...
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Though there are still some traces of the confessionals that underpinned Beautiful Loser through Stranger in Town, Against the Wind finds Bob Seger turning toward craft....
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At times sounding like a poor man's Springsteen, Bob Seger continued to mine the fields he'd plowed so well over previous efforts. There's the send-up of the U.S.A. in...
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Live Bullet 1/1/1976, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
It's rare that a live album stands out as an artist's absolute best, but in the case of Seger--a true showman who spent years playing rock 'n' roll on the road--this is the...
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Live Bullet introduced Bob Seger to a wide audience, revealing a rocker of unbridled passion and a songwriter of considerable talent. Prior to its release, Seger had been...
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Night Moves 1/1/1976, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Seger's mid-'70s music was tailor-made for album-rock radio play; this, one of most representative albums of the period, contains several of his classics. Among them: "Rock...
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Nine Tonight 1/1/1981, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
In light of the success of 1976's Live Bullet, was it really necessary to put out another live album so quickly? Fine, but ultimately...
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Features the title-track contribution to the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack and an effective cover of "Trying to Live My Life Without You." ~ Cub Koda, All Music...
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The highest-charting album of Seger's career upon its release, this features Seger and his band in their prime--and includes many of his classic tunes, Among them:...
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Night Moves was in the pipeline when Live Bullet hit, and wound up eclipsing the double live set anyway, so Stranger in Town is really the record where Bob Seger started...
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The Distance 1/1/1970, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Now at the height of his success, Seger felt at ease writing self-reflective material such as "Even Now" and "Makin' Thunderbirds"; Seger was more conscientious of his...
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The Distance was hailed as a return to form upon the time of its release and, in many ways, might be a little stronger, a little more consistent than its predecessor,...
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A transitional 90's-style album for Seger, this--his first album in five years--features two separate Tom Waits covers. Did he need more time to write...
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Michigan's Bob Seger is an American treasure, but he doesn't get the full respect or attention of, say, Bruce Springsteen or John Mellencamp because he wasn't as visible....
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For over 20 years, Bob Seger was one of the best mainstream rock & rollers in America, developing a distinctive body of honest, hard-rocking songs. More songs that can be...
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