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Night moves bob seger10/29/2023 Chris Campbell – bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 9) background vocals on "Mary Lou" (track 9).Alto Reed – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute (tracks 1, 3, 4, 9).Robyn Robbins – piano, organ (tracks 1, 3, 4, 9).Drew Abbott – guitar (tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, 9) background vocals on "Mary Lou" (track 9).Ĭash Box said that "'Ship of Fools' might turn into a classic rocker." Ĭlassic Rock History critic Janey Roberts ranked 4 songs from Night Moves among Seger's 20 greatest – the three singles plus "Come to Poppa". Erlewine also feels that the album has a wide range of styles and has not lost any of its influence years later. A later review of the album by Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic says that the album was very similar to Beautiful Loser (1975), but Night Moves is harder than Beautiful Loser. The only problem that Rachlis had with the album was the production not being strong enough. The Rolling Stone review of the album by Kit Rachlis stated that the album is one of the best to come out of 1976–77, that Seger sounds like Rod Stewart and writes lyrics like Bruce Springsteen, and that the album is classic rock and roll. ![]() Village Voice critic Robert Christgau wrote that the riffs on Night Moves are classic rock and roll riffs, like those performed by Chuck Berry or the Rolling Stones, and that the album is about rock and roll for those who are no longer in their teens, like the song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". Reception Professional ratings Review scores It later achieved a certification of sextuple platinum. The album became Seger's second to become certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and was his first to be certified platinum by the same association. Three singles were released from the album two of them made the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was well received by critics, and brought Bob Seger nationwide success. Although the front cover only credits backing by the Silver Bullet Band, four of the nine songs on the album feature backing by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The album was released by Capitol Records on October 22, 1976. Henson in a “Get Out of Denver” video or Randall Park and Sofía Vergara one for “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man.” They’d be as wonderfully bizarre as this “Night Moves” video.Night Moves is the ninth studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, and his first studio album to credit the Silver Bullet Band. Maybe he can cast Jim Parsons and Taraji P. He can even promote with them “Night Moves”-style videos. Let’s hope by then there’s some movement on getting the rest of his catalog back into print. When Seger hits the road in late August for his first US tour in two years, “Night Moves” will almost certainly come at a key moment in the encore section. ![]() It’s a wonder they didn’t find roles for Wayne Knight, Calista Flockhart, Jenna Elfman and Dave Coulier. If the video wasn’t packed full of enough 1990s TV icons, Johnny Galecki from Roseanne (and later The Big Bang Theory) is also in it. ![]() Got all that? It filmed months before Matt LeBlanc got cast as Joey Tribbiani on Friends, so he was willing to take a role as the love interest to Daphne Zuniga, then in the middle of her run on Melrose Place. So, it features 1994 Bob Seger lip-syncing to 1976 Bob Seger singing about 1962 Bob Seger. He didn’t get around to making a video for “Night Moves” until 1994 when he released his first greatest hits package. ![]() ‘SNL’: Lady Gaga Introduces Bad Bunny’s ‘Un Preview’ Performance The song takes place during his teenage years in 1962, but he wrote it in 1976 when he was entering his thirties and beginning to look back nostalgically at a time when he was trying to make “front page drive-in news” by hooking up with a “black-haired beauty with big dark eyes” in the back of his 1960 Chevy. One song you can definitely hear is “Night Moves.” The title track to his breakthrough LP has been a mainstay on classic rock radio for decades, and you can check out the official video right here, though it requires a great deal of context. They finally came to their senses last week, though a very sizable chunk of his work remains unavailable. It was like his team felt if they just held out long enough this whole Internet fad would go away and people would go back to shelling out 20 bucks whenever they wanted to hear an album. Very few albums were on iTunes and absolutely nothing was on the streaming services, meaning you had to buy physical CDs to get the famous albums or resort to expensive collectible vinyl for his early catalog, which has been out of print for decades. Up until last week, hearing most of Bob Seger‘s catalog without committing some sort of minor copyright violation was no easy task.
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