Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Notes for Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: An introduction to Bob Seger...Class 101
Hit: 5 Stars
So, you heard a few Bob Seger tunes on the radio over the years like "Night Moves", "Turn the Page" or maybe even "Mainstreet" and you are looking for just one CD to buy, well you found it. This CD of 14 tunes covers some of Bob Seger's standard FM radio songs and is a very good place to start.
If you want a few older rockers like "Fire Down Below", "Sunspot Baby" and "Katmandu", then proceed to "Bob Seger Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" that has 16 songs plus a bonus video of "Turn the Page" on it. Both these CD's are a great introduction to Bob Seger.
After you have enjoyed those two CD's, you are now ready to graduate to the next level with "Live Bullet" for a little "U.M.C." and "Heavy Music". Listening to Seger "live" is the next best thing to watching Alto Reed flying through the air.
I am sure there will be a Seger GH3 one day but for now I would get those 3 CDs in that pecking order.
If you are a long time Seger System/Silver Bullet fan, well I am preaching to the choir here and you won't be satisfied until you get the full-boxed set. But hey, at least recently the "Smokin' O.P.'s" album was issued on CD.
Free Music Review: Too many hits?
Hit: 5 Stars
The Problem is...Seger is prolific as well as great. It's simply a case of too many big hits, and the Record Company exec's maximizing their own profits by selling individual CD's for more dough than, say a 6 CD package. There are 12 cuts per CD, and if you wanted to include everything that he did, you'd have to release, maybe, a 6 CD set (I'm not sure, it may be many more). Now that would make everyone happy, however, that would limit the potential audience of the Disc, since a gussied up 6 CD set, would most probably be out of the price range of the average human. Soooo, we receive a continuous stream of individual CD's (more profitable) released by the "oh so clever" record Co's, doing nothing but maximizing their bottom line...Ah yes, Capitalism at it's finest??????
BTW: Seger's "Still The Same", is the gitchiest. I love EVERYTING on the CD, and for that matter, I love EVERYTHING on ALL of Seger's CD's. I've probably played "Still the Same" 300 times or more, and I still can't stop listening to it. But there may be hope for me yet, I've been playing an awful lot of "Drivers Seat" by Sniff "N" the Tears, but I'm still unsure if I want to start sharing my listening time.
I also believe that music lovers should always strive to purchase the best equipment that they can, in order to truly appreciate the music that they so love.
Free Music Review: Great Seger Starter CD
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're looking to buy your first Seger CD, this is a great choice. I didn't know many Seger songs before buying this CD, and I've enjoyed pretty much every track on the disc. "Still the Same" rocks my world.Free Music Review: Bob Seger and the story of some good tunes.
Hit: 4 Stars
When Bob Seeger is good, he`s very good, but sometimes it swings into "average" but he`s never below average. The reason is that he`s a rock& roll craftsman that knows his roots. Track 1 Roll me away is a great opener. You know when Roy Bittan (E street band) just touches the piano tangent in the beginning, you are on the right track. This is a very uplifting song, with the right touch "open space"between the different instruments to make it a classic. Track 2 Night Moves, is more in "so so" country. It`s very traditional but nothing exceptional. Track 3 Turn the page is one of the early Seeger hit`s. Well performed vocal, but the tune is mediocre. Track 4 You`ll accomp`ny me it`s more up there.Easy to get hold of the song. Straightforward roots rock and roll done the "easy way out", but it certainly works. Track 5 Hollywood Nights has an effective rythm all trough. It`s the drumming which does it. Effective down to the smallest beat. Track 6 Still the same. Yeah. That`s all to say folks. It`s likable, but it`s still the same. Track 7. Old time Rock& Roll. Woooha. I just said wooha, when i first heard it. This is a jukebox and karaokee favourite, but that`s not all negative. The reason is that it`s so likeable when you hear it you know it`s time for "party party". It`s soooooo rock & roll man ! Track 8 We`ve got tonight is a great ballad. Moody and effective. Seeger sing`s with passion and you know he`s meanin` it. Track 9 Against the wind, is classical rock & roll with it`s "walkalong tempo" it goes in the right direction from beginning to the end. A classic this one. Track 10 Mainstreet is more in "average" Seger land. It`s certainly ok, but nothing extraordinary. Track 11 The Fire Inside. Bittan is back on the piano, and the uplifting soulcraftmanship is right there it should be. A fiery song that really sparks. Track 12 Like a rock is very straightforward. It has a refrain that it`s repeated. Seeger sing`s great, but that`s not pushing it to much above average. Track 12 C`est la vie it`s a Chuck Berry original that Seger does a very good version of. It`s full of passion and shows the early simple barebone stripdown rock & roll roots. Track 13 In youre time is an ok closer, but nothing to shout a big hurray of. As an introduction to Bob Seger this one shows you in the right direction,if you wanna listen to an artist and the story how to put together some good tunesFree Music Review: Seger Is Solid....Like A Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
There are some artists you like and are aware of for quite some time, but only the basic stuff and what you may hear in passing on the radio or wherever. Then maybe you pick up a greatest hits album or studio album of theirs somewhere and start to like more of their stuff that you may or may not of known of and start to see more of what this person has to offer. I love little discoveries like this. At the same time, you might also take their past hits you know and give them more appreciation. Bob Seger is one of those kinds of artists for me. I have always known the basics of his catalogue and have liked every single one of them. But I never thought beyond a song I might hear on the radio and so on. I picked up his second GH at the library and loved it. Got it a second time. Loved it even more. Now I have picked up his first greatest hits. As a causual fan, I really can't complain with the packaging or the track list. Most of what people know from Seger is on here(well known Seger songs such as "Shakedown" and "Beautiful Loser" are on GH 2). This disc is basically a refrsher course for the Seger fans who are not quite yet afficiondos. And really, this is a great disc all on it's own for what it is. I am not concerned with what is or isn't on here. A lot of essential great stuff is on GH 2. Maybe there will be a third one somewhere down the line, since these hits things appear to be the only thing Bob does anymore. 10 of the 14 songs here were chart hits for Bob(and not 9 as stated above in another review). I am not sure why this disc would start off with the track "Roll Away"(peaking at #27), when it is hardly a Seger chestnut. But you get a great menu of classic tunes. "Night Moves"(#4) is here, as well as "Mainstreet"(#24), and the hits keep coming. "Still The Same"(#4), "Hollywood Nights"(#12), "We've Got Tonite"(#13), the great "Old Time Rock And Roll"(#28, which is surprising), which is the most requested jukebos song behind Patsy Cline's "Crazy". You'll also get "Against The Wind"(#5), "You'll Accomp'ny Me"(#14), and "Like A Rock"(#12). Two new songs were recorded for the disc. A cover of Chuck Berry's "C'est La Vie", and a new tune, "In Your Time", which must of been a hit on radio since I remember hearing this song. The Seger classic "Turn The Page" is here, but it was never actually a top 40 hit. It doesn't matter. It's a hit to everybody. And there is "The Fire Inside", which didn't even chart, which is too bad because it's a good Seger tune. I always felt that Seger was never given the kind of attention or credit he deserves. He's a masterful rock & roller and writer, and has had nice success over the years, but he always seems to get looked over in favor of other blue collar type rockers like Springsteen. I think you can hear Springsteen, and other artists like The Eagles and Creedence/Fogerty in a lot of his music. So, this disc may not be wet the appetite of his most hardcore fans, and putting the 2 GH cd's together might not do the trick either, but this is a great starting point. If you put the two GH's together, you get 30 worthy songs from a wonderful artist.