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- A1 Hollywood Nights 5:00
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songwriter
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piano, organ
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background vocals
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background vocals
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background vocals
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background vocals
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- A2 Still the Same 3:21
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songwriter
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background vocals
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background vocals
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background vocals
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background vocals
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- A3 Old Time Rock & Roll 3:13
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background vocals, songwriter
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songwriter
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- A4 Till It Shines 3:53
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songwriter
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guitar
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- A5 Feel Like a Number 3:42
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songwriter
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piano
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- B1 Ain't Got No Money 4:12
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guitar
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songwriter
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- B2 We've Got Tonite 4:39
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songwriter
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background vocals
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background vocals
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background vocals
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- B3 Brave Strangers 6:21
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songwriter
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piano
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background vocals
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- B4 The Famous Final Scene 5:08
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songwriter
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- Total length: 39:29
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35 Reviews
Bob Seger might not be my favorite of the heartland rock subgenre, but this album is pretty solid. Still the Same is one of his best hits. I've never been a big fan of Old Time Rock & Roll, it's too campy. We've Got Tonight is a solid ballad hit. And then there's the closing track, The Famous Final Scene, which is arguably the best track on the album but somehow never was a hit.
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A1
Hollywood Nights
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A2
Still the Same
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A3
Old Time Rock & Roll
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A4
Till It Shines
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A5
Feel Like a Number
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B1
Ain't Got No Money
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B2
We've Got Tonite
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B3
Brave Strangers
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B4
The Famous Final Scene
Some highlights for me are: Hollywood Nights, Till it Shines and Brave strangers.
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Hollywood Nights Is Super Killer
How could Bob Seger drift for a decade doing little to nothing and then just go super nova in 1976 and start cranking out one great song and album after another? Seger's album Stranger In Town continues his unstoppable momentum and contains four US Top 40 songs and bunch of other rock hits he writes.
The album explodes from the get go with one of his best tunes ever, Hollywood Nights (US #12), which is a guitar and piano boogie song that just builds and builds and builds. Meanwhile, Seger sings with a passion that kills and tells a story of love and disillusionment in Tinseltown, while his female backup singers go on overdrive til airborne on high.
Then there is the US top 5 hit Still The Same, which is a R&B ragtime piano tune and a winner every time.
Next is the great song is Old Time Rock And Roll, which is so good that it charted the US Top 40 twice. Once during the peak of disco and another during the peak of new wave where it tells both to go F off.
It's followed by another fine single titled Til It Shines. After which is the working class rock anthem Feel Like A Number, but I'm not a number cause dammit I'm a man.
That last one ends the suburb side one. Side two starts with the rocker I Ain't Got No Money, but I got a whole lot of love.
The next song is the super hit ballad We've Got Tonight (who needs tomorrow)? Well for starters, Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton did, as they remade it into a US Top 10 hit after Seger took it to only #13.
The last two songs Brave Strangers and Famous Final Scene are stellar and complete the brilliant album.
In summary, Bob Seger could not make a bad record during his 10 year streak from 1976 it shows on the album Stranger In Town.
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Stranger In Town is a slightly stronger effort than the previous record. There's a good chance most people have heard a good chunk of this album without realising, there are a stack of radio hits. Everyone knows Old Time Rock and Roll, which is a banger. Still the Same, Hollywood Nights and We've Got Tonight are the others, all very strong tracks. One of my favourites happens to be the closer The Famous Final Scene, which doesn't seem to get enough love around these parts.
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It surprised me that this album was more than just Old Time Rock and Roll, it got the heartland feeling down really well at times and got a nice rougher sound at others, but the entire time it didn't feel all that genuine. The instrumentals are good, but they feel manufactured and repetitive, with the same few riffs on every song and solid piano that always played second to the vocals. The vocals are front and center without any need, they aren't all that great even if they work alright with the instrumentals, but it feels like their dominance is holding back the music a lot. The highlights were Old Time Rock & Roll (Dumb message but its catchy), Hollywood Nights, and Till it Shines, while the lowlights were Brave Strangers and The Famous Final Scene, which actually had some solid instrumentals, but the vocals were off and the songs were a bit boring. The album art is good, it's very simple but it fits the music and the genre. Overall, fine vocals but they take up too much of the music, good instrumentals but brought down by repetition, and good highlights.
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Good record. The only things that spoil the party a little are a song that descends a bit from art to one that sounds performed by a dime a dozen bar band ("Ain't Got No Money") and hearing a few piano-led songs by (checks credits) Robyn or Barry playing that, the piano melodies work on songs individually like "Still the Same" but over a whole album they're a tad bland. "We've Got Tonite" works as well because of its tune and emotive subject/delivery than the piano itself, and "The Famous Final Scene," maybe my second least-favourite on here doesn't feel like something to come back to all that often. Other than that, this mostly has the tone of a classic. It's classic rock, but a good bit of soul in the sound. The Side A is pretty much flawless. The aforementioned "Still the Same" is a relic of an individual download that I still like to this day, and "Old Time Rock & Roll" has a great groove/energy, say what you will about it. The opening track and "Till It Shines" were good new discoveries for me on a similar quality scale. And of course, the aforementioned ode to desperation for a lay dressed up in a early-stage power ballad ("We've Got Tonite"). I was going to mention that "Feel Like a Number" is also alright (more overtly 'heartland rock' in subject matter than the rest of the album) but then I did mention the general strength of Side A I suppose. Good work. I'm curious to find out if Night Moves is superior, the title track and "Mainstreet" being the big singles and slightly even more interesting, perhaps, than the ones on here.
Least favourite songs? "Ain't Got No Money," "Brave Strangers." "The Famous Fine Scene."
Least favourite songs? "Ain't Got No Money," "Brave Strangers." "The Famous Fine Scene."
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A1
Hollywood Nights
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A2
Still the Same
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A3
Old Time Rock & Roll
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A4
Till It Shines
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A5
Feel Like a Number
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B1
Ain't Got No Money
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B2
We've Got Tonite
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B3
Brave Strangers
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B4
The Famous Final Scene
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Accolades to Bob Seger for improving so rapidly at growing facial hair in the less than two years that separates Stranger in Town from Night Moves! Points deducted for the tiresome "Old Time Rock & Roll", which I regard as one of the most obnoxiously and proudly low-brow songs in over-rotation (Van Morrison is every bit as grumpy about new music but has the good sense not to write a song this crappy about it)! "Hollywood Nights" is such a choice way to start. "Feel Like a Number" is nearly as terrific.
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A1 Hollywood Nights
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A5 Feel Like a Number
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B1 Ain't Got No Money
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B2 We've Got Tonite
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B3 Brave Strangers
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B4 The Famous Final Scene
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