Track Listing

1. Rock and Roll Never Forgets
2. Night Moves
3. Fire Down Below
4. Sunburst
5. Sunspot Baby
6. Main Street
7. Come to Poppa
8. Ship of Fools
9. Mary Lou

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208021 in Music
• Released on: 1999-10-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.com
Bob Seger was seven years into his recording career and a regional rock star in the Detroit area when he broke nationally in 1976 with a concert album, Live Bullet, and his best-ever studio album, Night Moves. The song "Night Moves" is a brawny rock ballad about coming-of-age sexually; the album itself built on the experience of Seger's previous work to find him maturing artistically. Seger's a powerful singer who's always believed in the traditional rock trimmings of a big beat accompanied by Chuck Berry figures on the guitar and hammering riffs on the piano. He deploys such techniques with equal assurance on an oldie ("Mary Lou") and on his own heavier rockers ("The Fire Down Below," "Sunspot Baby"). But it was with songs like "Mainstreet" and "Night Moves" that he found a way to address the frustrations and fun of the working class lives of his primary audience. And with the rip-roaring "Rock and Roll Never Forgets," he produced an anthem that would keep them rocking way past the age of consent. --John Milward

Customer Reviews

Seger's best studio album
"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.

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC
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.

BORN TO RUN: THE POP VERSION
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.