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Bob Seger Site
Like A Rock
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Originl Albums
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Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
The Bob Seger System
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#1 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
#2 Tales of Lucy Blue
#3 Ivory
#4 Gone
#5 Down Home
#6 Train Man
#7 White Wall
#8 Black Eyed Girl
#9 2 + 2 = ?
#10 Doctor Fine
#11 The Last Song
1968 Capitol
LP (172) - Out of print
CD (CDP-96261) - Out of print
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The Bob Seger System throw everything into Rambin' Gamblin' Man, dabbling
in folk, blues-rock, psychedelia, and piledriving rock & roll synonymous
with Detroit. Typical of such a wide-ranging debut, not everything works.
The System stumbles when they take psychedelic San Franciscan bands on
their own turf. Trippy soundscapes like "Gone" drift into the
ether, and the longer jams "White Wall" and "Black Eyed
Girl," meander. But the stuff that does work are absolute monsters,
highlighted by the title track, a thunderous bit of self-mythology driven
by a relentless rhythm, wailing organ riff, and gospel chorus. |
(LP Back Sleeve) |
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Noah
The Bob Seger System
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#1 Noah
#2 Innervenus Eyes
#3 Lonely Man
#4 Loneliness Is a Feeling
#5 Cat
#6 Jimpin' Humpin' Hip Hypocrite
#7 Follow the Children
#8 Lennie Johnson
#9 Paint Them a Picture Jane
#10 Death Row
1969 Capitol
LP (236) - Out of print,
No CD
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For reasons never entirely explained,
Bob Seger suffered a bit of a breakdown shortly after "Ramblin Gamblin
Man" so he decided to bring Tom Neme, a guitarist/pianist, into the
Bob Seger System to help lighten the load and share the burden. Thing is,
Neme wound up taking over the band. It's hard to tell whether Seger endorsed
his mutiny or if he was just so disinterested that he didn't put up a fight,
but all the same, the second Seger album, Noah, is one strange affair. |
(LP Back Sleeve) |
Mongrel
The Bob Seger System
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#1 Song to Rufus
#2 Evil Edna
#3 Highway Child
#4 Big River
#5 Mongrel
#6 Lucifer
#7 Teachin' Blues
#8 Leanin on My Dream
#9 Mongrel Too
#10 River Deep-Mountain High
1970 Capitol
LP (499) - Out of print
CD (CDP-81240) - Out of print
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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 footnote, and returning the group to the piledriving rock that was his trademark. All of this was evident with his third album, the superb Mongrel. Never before, and never since, has Seger rocked as recklessly and viciously as he did here — after a spell in the wilderness, he's found his voice. |
(CD Back Sleeve)
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Brand New Morning
Bob Seger
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#1 Brand New Morning
#2 Maybe Today
#3 Sometimes
#4 You Know Who You Are
#5 Railroad Days
#6 Louise
#7 Song for Him
#8 Something Like
1971 Capitol
LP (731) - Out of print
No CD
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In light of Seger's past prior
to Brand New Morning and the records that followed it, it's easy to see
why he's disowned it, since it's no rock & roll album — it's a
singer/songwriter album. He needn't be worried since Brand New Morning is a fine album
on its own terms. Yes, none of the songs resonate as deeply as the best
ballads on his other records, and there are times where it feels like he's
very conscious of proving himself as a writer, but, in light of his later
work, that's quite charming. |
(LP Back Sleeve)
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Smokin' O.P.'s
Bob Seger
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#1 Bo Diddley
#2 Love the One You're With
#3 If I Were a Carpenter
#4 Hummin' Bird
#5 Let It Rock
#6 Turn on Your Love Light
#7 Jesse James
#8 Someday
#9 Heavy Music
1972 Palladium
LP (1006) - Out of print
CD (CDP-99077) - Out of print |
Following its release he moved
to the Detroit-based label Palladium and returned to hard-driving rock &
roll with Smokin' O.P.'s, the polar opposite of Brand New Morning. According
to legend, the title stands for "smoking other people's songs,"
which makes sense since this is a cover album that even covers Bob Seger
& the Last Heard. In other words, it's nothing like the intimate, reflective,
risky Brand New Morning, but that doesn't matter since it rocks so good
and since it reveals that Seger isn't just a first-class bandleader and
rock songwriter, but that he's a terrific interpreter of other writer's
songs. |
(LP Back Sleeve) |
Back in '72
Bob Seger
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#1 Midnight Rider
#2 So I Wrote You a Song
#3 Stealer
#4 Rosalie
#5 Turn the Page
#6 Back in '72
#7 Neon Sky
#8 I've Been Working
#9 I've Got Time
1971 Reprise
LP (2126) - Out of print
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Returning to independent status,
Bob Seger recorded Back in 72, not only the finest of his early-'70s albums,
but one of the great lost hard rock albums of its era. Seger didn't limit
himself to self-penned songs on this excursion; borrowing an idea from Smokin'
O.P.s, he covers quite a few tunes, providing a balance to his own tunes.
He makes "Midnight Rider" sound as if it were a Motor City raver
instead of a sultry, late-afternoon Southern rocker, while casually tossing
off "Rosalie," an irresistible ode to a local DJ that turned into
a hard rock anthem when Thin Lizzy decided to record it later in the decade. |
(LP Back Sleeve)
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Seven
Bob Seger
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#1 Get Out of Denver
#2 Long Song Comin'
#3 Need Ya
#4 School Teacher
#5 Cross of Gold
#6 U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)
#7 Seen a Lot of Floors
#8 20 Years from Now
#9 All Your Love
1974 Reprise
LP (2184) - Out of print
CD (CDP-81241) - Out of print
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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 System. Not to say that
he ever abandoned rock & roll, since Back in 72 was filled with fantastic
rockers, but it was tempered with reflective singer/songwriter material.
Not here. |
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Beautiful Loser
Bob Seger
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#1 Beautiful Loser
#2 Black Night
#3 Katmandu
#4 Jody Girl
#5 Travelin' Man
#6 Momma
#7 Nutbush City Limits
#8 Sailing Nights
#9 Fine Memory
1974 Capitol
LP (11378) - Out of print
CD (19820) |
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 back into his
hard-driving rock. He doesn't shy away from it, either, opening with the
lovely title track. And why shouldn't he? These ballads were as much a part
of his success as his storming rockers, since his sentimental streak seemed
all the more genuine when contrasted with the rockers. If anything, Beautiful
Loser might err a little bit in favor of reflection, with much of the album
devoted to introspective, confessional mid-tempo cuts. |
(Japanese LP Obi) |
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Live Bullet [Live Album]
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Nutbush City Limits
#2 Travelin' Man
#3 Beautifu Loser
#4 Jody Girl
#5 I've Been Working review
#6 Turn The Page
#7 U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)
#8 Bo Diddley
#9 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
#10 Heavy Music
#11 Katmandu
#12 Lookin' Back
#13 Get Out of Denver
#14 Let It Rock
1976 Capitol
2LPs (STBK-11523) - Out of print
CD (24089)
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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 toiling away, releasing seven albums
and touring constantly ever since his debut scraped the national consciousness
in 1968. Live Bullet was recorded live at Detroit's Cobo Hall, in front
of a passionate, loving hometown audience spurring him into a great performance.
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Live Bullet
[Limited Collector's Edition]
1999 Capitol US CD (2435-21691-2)
This CD is digitally remastered from the English masters
and mini LP type cardboard double jacket.
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Night Moves
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1Rock & Roll Never Forget
#2 Night Moves
#3 The Fire Down Below
#4 Sunburst
#5 Sunspot Baby
#6 Mainstreet
#7 Come to Poppa
#8 Ship of Fools
#9 Mary Lou
1976 Capitol
LP (ST-11557) - Out of print
CD (24034)
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Throughout much of the album, he's coming to grips with
being on the other side of 30 and still rocking. He floats back in time,
turning in high school memories, remembering when wandering down "Mainstreet"
was the highlight of an evening, covering a rockabilly favorite in "Mary
Lou." Stylistically, there's not much change since Beautiful Loser,
but the difference is that Seger and his Silver Bullet Band — who
turn in their first studio album here — sound intense and ferocious,
and the songs are subtly varied.
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Night Moves
[Limited Collector's Edition]
1999 Capitol US CD (2435-21186-2)
This CD is digitally remastered and mini LP
type cardboard jacket with the original type inner sleeve. |
Stranger in Town
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Hollywood Nights
#2 Still The Same
#3 Old Time Rock & Roll
#4 Till It Shines
#5 Feel Like a Number
#6 Ain't Got No Money
#7 We've Got Tonight
#8 Brave Strangers
#9 The Famous Final Scene
1978 Capitol
LP (SW-11698) - Out of print
CD (35232)
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Night Moves was in the pipeline when Live Bullet
hit and that album wound up eclipsing the double-live set anyway, so Stranger
in Town is really the record where Bob Seger started grasping the changes
that happened when he became a star. It happened when he was old enough
to have already formed his character. Even as celebrity creeps in, as on
"Hollywood Nights," Seger remains a middle-class, Midwestern rocker,
celebrating "Old Time Rock & Roll," realizing old flames are
still the same and still feeling like a number. |
(Picture Disc)
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Against the Wind
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 The Horizontal Bop
#2 You'll Accomp'ny Me
#3 Her Strut
#4 No Man's Land
#5 Long Twin Silver Line
#6 Against the Wind
#7 Good for Me
#8 Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
#9 Fire Lake
#10 Shinin' Brightly
1980 Capitol
LP (SOO-12041) - Out of print
CD (46060)
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Throughout Against the Wind, Seger
winds up performing better on the ballads than the rockers, which, while
good, tend to sound a little formulaic. Still, Seger's formula is good and
if "Her Strut" and "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight"
would have been second stringers on Stranger in Town, they offer a nice
balance here, and the rest of the record alternates between similarly well-constructed
rockers and introspective ballads like "Against the Wind" and
"Fire Lake." Compared to its predecessors, this does feel a little
weak, but compared with its peers, it's a strong, varied heartland rock
album that finds Seger at a near peak. |
(Japanese CD Obi) |
Nine Tonight
[Live Album]
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Nine Tonight
#2 Trying to Live My Life Without You
#3 You'll Accomp'ny Me
#4 Hollywood Nights
#5 Old Time Rock & Roll
#6 Mainstreet
#7 Against the Wind
#8 The Fire Down Below
#9 Her Strut
#10 Feel Like a Number
#11 Fire Lake
#12 Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
#13 We've Got Tonight
#14 Night Moves
#15 Rock & Roll Never Forgets
#16 Let It Rock
1981 Capitol
2LPs (STBK-12182) - Out of print, CD (46086)
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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."
CD version "Let It Rock"
is slightly shorter than the original LP version; it's an edited version.
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(Japanese LP Obi)
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The Distance
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Even Now
#2 Makin' Thunderbirds
#3 Boomtown Blues
#4 Shame on the Moon
#5 Love's the Last to Know
#6 Roll Me Away
#7 House Behind a House
#8 Comin' Home
#9 Little Victories
1982 Capitol
LP (12254) - Out of print
CD (46005)
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The Distance was hailed as a return
to form upon the time of its release and, in many ways, it might be a little
stronger, a little more consistent than its predecessor, Against the Wind.
Still, this album has the slickest production Seger had yet granted and
the biggest hit single on The Distance wasn't written by him, it was a cover
of Rodney Crowell's "Shame on the Moon." Now, this wasn't entirely
unusual, since Seger had been an excellent interpreter of songs for years,
but this, combined with the glossy sound, signaled that Seger may have been
more concerned with his status as a popular, blue-collar rocker than his
music. |
(Japanese CD Back Sleeve) |
Like a Rock
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 American Storm
#2 Like a Rock
#3 Miami
#4 The Ring
#5 Tightrope
#6 The Aftermath
#7 Sometimes
#8 It's You
#9 Somewhere Tonight
#10 Fortunate Son
1986 Capitol
LP (2011) - Out of print
CD (C2-46195)
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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 "American Storm,"
and the hard-rockin' "Sometimes," and the heartbreakingly beautiful
"Somewhere Tonight." Oh yes, and the song used in those incessant
commercials for American pickup trucks, "Like a Rock." A mature
effort from a great American talent. |
(Japanese CD Back Sleeve)
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The Fire Inside
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Take a Chance
#2 The Real Love
#3 Sightseeing
#4 Real at the Time
#5 Always in My Heart
#6 The Fire Inside
#7 New Coat of Paint
#8 Which Way
#9 The Mountain
#10 The Long Way Home
#11 Blind Love
#12 She Can't Do Anything Wrong
1991 Capitol
LP (C1-91134) - Out of print
CD (C2-91134)
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1991's The Fire Inside is credited to Bob Seger and the
Silver Bullet Band, but that's misleading. Keyboardist Craig Frost plays
on most of the songs, but saxophonist Alto Reed and bassist Chris Campbell
are virtually MIA. Instead, Seger uses countless special guests. So many,
in fact, that listing them all would eat up this review space, but they
include Joe Walsh, Bruce Hornsby, Roy Bittan, Steve Lukather, Don Was,
Waddy Wachtel, Rick Vito, Mike Campbell, Patty Smyth, Lisa Germano, and
Kenny Aronoff.
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(CD Back Sleeve)
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It's a Mystery
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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#1 Rite of Passage
#2 Lock and Load
#3 By the River
#4 Manhattan
#5 I Wonder
#6 It's a Mystery
#7 Revisionism Street
#8 Golden Boy
#9 I Can't Save You Angelene
#10 16 Shells from a 30-6
#11 West of the Moon
#12 Hands in the Air
1995 Capitol
No LP
CD (99774) |
Since Bob Seger's mid-tempo, Middle American
rock sound remains constant — the drums in the pocket, the guitars
chugging along, the vocals husky and choked — it's the variables of
performance and composition that separate his good albums from his great
ones. On both counts, It's a Mystery is not great. Both as writer and performer,
Seger seems tired and bitter. Always a reflective, backward-looking lyricist,
Seger is full of regret on "Lock and Load" (one of four songs
that contain references to firearms, including a cover of Tom Waits' "16
Shells From a 30-06"), and in "Rite of Passage," among other
songs, he gives us a critical view of the state of the nation. |
(Japanese CD Obi)
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Face The Promise
Bob Seger
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#1 Wreck This Heart
#2 Wait for Me
#3 Face the Promise
#4 No Matter Who You Are
#5 Are You
#6 Simplicity
#7 No More
#8 Real Mean Bottle
#9 Won't Stop
#10 Between
#11 The Answer's in the Question
#12 The Long Goodbye
2006 Capitol
No LP
CD (54506) |
Seger quietly faded into a semi-retirement after 1995's It's a Mystery,
choosing to spend time with his young family instead of churning out records.
He wasn't exactly turning away at the peak of his popularity ? he still
had a dedicated following, but the '90s weren't treating him particularly
well, with 1991's The Fire Inside and 1995's It's a Mystery not playing
far outside of the cult. So, the time was ripe for a hiatus, and Seger
slipped into normal life. While he was away, his stature slowly started
to rise, particularly around the turn of the millennium when Detroit once
again rose to prominence as a rock & roll city thanks to Eminem, the
White Stripes, and most significantly in Seger's case, Kid Rock, who was
often seen in Seger shirts and blatantly tried to position himself as the
heir to Bob's throne. |
Face The Promise
[Special Deluxe Edition]
2006 Capitol US CD+DVD (CDP094637368626) |
Ride Out
Bob Seger
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#1 Detroit Made
#2 Hey Gypsy
#3 The Devil's Right Hand
#4 Ride Out
#5 Adam And Eve
#6 California Stars
#7 It's Your World
#8 All Of The Roads
#9 You Take Me In
#10 Gates Of Eden
#11 Listen
#12 The Fireman's Talkin'
#13 Let The Rivers Run
2014 Capitol
LP (002173401)
CD (002182302/002184302) |
Arriving a mere eight years after the decade-in-the-making Face the Promise,
Ride Out nearly feels rushed by Bob Seger's latter-day standards. At 34
minutes, it's brief and nearly half of its ten songs were composed by songwriters
other than Seger, two characteristics that would suggest something of a
patchwork job if it weren't for the fact that in the days before the Silver
Bullet Band, Bob used to regularly split his brief albums between originals
and covers. |
Ride Out
[Target Exclusive]
#14 It All Goes On
#15 Passin' Through
2014 Capitol US CD
(012-06-0390) |
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man - Blue Vinyl
The Bob Seger System |
#1 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
#2 Tales of Lucy Blue
#3 Ivory
#4 Gone
#5 Down Home
#6 Train Man
#7 White Wall
#8 Black Eyed Girl
#9 2 + 2 = ?
#10 Doctor Fine
#11 The Last Song
2017 Capitol
LP (B0026533-01) |
Bob Seger's first major label album was issued in 150gram black vinyl and
for the first time in blue colored vinyl.
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I Knew You When
Bob Seger  |
#1 Gracile
#2 Busload of Faith
#3 The Highway
#4 I Knew You When
#5 I'll Remember You
#6 The Sea Inside
#7 Marie
#8 Runaway Train
#9 Something More
#10 Democracy
2017 Capitol
LP (B002760001) |
This album is dedicated to the memory of Glenn Frey.
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I Knew You When [Deluxe Album]
#11 Forward Into The Pas
#12 Blue Ridge
#13 Glenn Song
2017 Capitol US CD (0602567075639) |
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