LeBaron wrote:Yeah, as a matter of American Musical Geography, there’s almost nothing more midwestern than a Seger hit.
Like Springsteen without the chest-beating and roller skating waitresses.
LeBaron wrote:Yeah, as a matter of American Musical Geography, there’s almost nothing more midwestern than a Seger hit.
kath wrote:i will make it my mission to nail you.
Diamond Dog wrote:it's just that Bob Seger has a simply wretched voice
Bent Fabric wrote:Great arrangement choices (piano, organ, tambourine, acoustic guitar, prominent backing vocals)
fange wrote:The slow build-ups, the gentle rhythm and soul swing, the backing vocalists: there's an intangible rightness in those things and those changes here
fange wrote:It's pure FM radio gold.
Twang wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:it's just that Bob Seger has a simply wretched voice
This is a simply wretched opinionBent Fabric wrote:Great arrangement choices (piano, organ, tambourine, acoustic guitar, prominent backing vocals)fange wrote:The slow build-ups, the gentle rhythm and soul swing, the backing vocalists: there's an intangible rightness in those things and those changes here
I agree with all here except I could take or leave the backing vocals...which I guess is an accomplishment of itself when it comes to these type of backing vocals (see "Still the Same").fange wrote:It's pure FM radio gold.
It sounds perfect coming on the radio on a hot summer night.
I'll also take Mainstreet, You'll Accomp'ny Me, and Beautiful Loser. Maybe a few others had they not been subjected to attrition by classic rock radio
Matt Wilson wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:To be honest it's pretty much the summation of what I think I dislike about that era.... but then I remember I like things like Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan etc... so I'm not averse to that (very loose) genre*.... it's just that Bob Seger has a simply wretched voice and writes and sings stuff like it's come direct from the pages of "The American West Coast Soft Rock Guide To Music". And does that fairly poorly too.
Besides that it's fine.
* I do realise this a ridiculous, sweeping generalisation.
The fact that he most definitely can sing and has absolutely nothing to do with the "American West Coast" notwithstanding.
Diamond Dog wrote:Being lectured about geography by two citizens of the country where barely 10% of the people hold a pasport.
Yes, that sits well one must say.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
LeBaron wrote:Yeah, as a matter of American Musical Geography, there’s almost nothing more midwestern than a Seger hit.
Diamond Dog wrote:Especially as admins previously informed us all that you'd closed your BCB account down.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
Twang wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Especially as admins previously informed us all that you'd closed your BCB account down.
Who do you think I am
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
Twang wrote: Beautiful Loser
Jonny Spencer wrote:fange wrote:I've got my quad pants on and i'm ready for some Cock.
By CHRIST you're a man after my own sideways sausage, Ange!
Diamond Dog wrote:LeBaron wrote:Yeah, as a matter of American Musical Geography, there’s almost nothing more midwestern than a Seger hit.
To the world outside of the US it goes like this :
New York - punky and spiky
South east - soul
Rest of the country - west coast FM rock.
My pleasure.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
LeBaron wrote:The world outside of the US is more ignorant than I ever dared imagine! What a pity that all those passports didn’t bestow greater worldliness and curiosity! Heaven help us all.
NMB wrote:I can't write as eloquently as Mr Fabric but my take on Bob Seeger is that he's a decent home cook working with basic ingredients. He won't serve you a cordon bleu meal but sometimes he makes a damn fine hamburger
Diamond Dog wrote:Which part of "I do realise this a ridiculous, sweeping generalisation" was too much of a stretch for you, Lance?