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Some Great Tunes!
There are many must have's on this CD.It came out before my time, but I discovered Seger as a teen and I'm so glad that I did."Against The Wind" is a very welcome addition to any music collection.

***1/2 - typical Bob Seger
Typical in the sense that Bob Seger's albums almost always include a number of excellent songs and a handful of forgettable ones as well.

"Against The Wind" is the last of Seger's "classic" albums. Originally issued in 1980, it features one of Seger's very best ballads, the simple but superbly melodic "You'll Accomp'ny Me", as well as the slow rock of "Fire Lake", the title track (another ballad), and a couple of grinding rockers, most notably "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight" and "Her Strut". And then there's all the filler...bland, formulaic numbers like "Long Twin Silver Line" and "The Horizontal Bop" (honestly!).

So, as is the case with most Bob Seger albums, this one is mostly for hardcore fans. There's a lot of good music here, but all of it is available on Seger's two "Greatest Hits" albums, and the best of the best is on the superb 1981 live album "Nine Tonight" as well.

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The last of the "real" Seger
By the early '80s, Bob Seger had established himself as a firm proponent of the guitar-heavy, rhythmically driven, classic-rock school of American music.Many consider The Distance to be his final album in that vein, and what a heck of an album it is.This is one to pop in the CD player when you first get in the car and just drive, drive, drive.This album demonstrates all of the musical categories Seger created for himself and went on to dominate.The pure, guitar-driven rockers "Even Now" and "Makin' Thunderbirds," two of Seger's most compelling tunes, start out the album; the latter hearkens back to the Chuck Berry sound he so assiduously assimilated in his earlier days, while the former represents the apex of the Bob Seger sound he went on to create."Boomtown Blues" powers on in a similar vein, although it slows things down slightly to create (true to its name) a more bluesy feel."Shame on the Moon," "Love's the Last to Know" and "Comin' Home" showcase another famous side of Seger's talent:the simple, soulful, almost country ballad in the style of "We've Got Tonight.""Roll Me Away," on the other hand, foreshadows a genre Seger would turn to with increasing frequency later in his career:the "rock tale."Here it's a story of a love that died as abruptly as it began, couched within the larger framework of one man's journey to find himself.Lyrically, it's an irresistibly compelling song--although it's admittedly pretty easy to miss the lyrics if you're focusing on the great beat (as I've been guilty of doing).This album has everything that makes Seger great:the simplicity and easy accessibility, the inspired lyrics, and--above all--that great Heart of America sound.It's one of his best efforts and a worthy addition to your collection.

Seger's Best
"Shame On The Moon" is Seger's best song and this is his best CD.It belongs in any collection of American Music.

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Do yourself a favor
I collect live music and I normally don't spend the time writing reviews for things like this but I guess I feel it's necessary to mention that this is a fabulous no nonsense American rock'n roll album/cd.
Bob Segar will make you tap your shoes.
Buy it.

I LOVE CLASSIC ROCK!!!!!!!
This CD is older than me, but I love this CD, all the music I like is older than me if you don't mind I am going to list all the music I like: Bob Seger Rolling Stones ACDC KISS Blue Oyster Cult Led Zepplin Dire Straits Fleetwood Mac Van Halen Def Lepard The Who ... In a few hours I just know I will be kicking myself b/c I forgot someone....

LIVE
I have had the vinyl since it originally came out, but have not listened to it for probably 15 -20 years or more.Bought the remastered CD right after he was inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame and YES, it stands the test of time quite well.

Very satisifying ROCK N' ROLL!!!

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Take a closer look
Many people condemn this album as being Seger's attempt to reinvent himself as an '80s rocker.It's true that the omnipresent synthesizers sound a little dated today, but if you're willing to overlook them, you'll discover a treasure trove of music that got surprisingly little recognition for its inventiveness and power."American Storm" is essentially an update of Seger's earlier song "Even Now," displaying all the glorious driving beats and hard-sung lyrics that made that song such a hit."The Aftermath" and "Sometimes" follow up in that vein, with a relentless rhythmic pulse--driving music if ever there was any."Miami" is something of a departure for Seger, a smooth, almost soft-rock song that casually tells a compelling tale--a notable foreshadowing of the style he would explore in depth with his album "The Fire Inside."The other work is less notable, although "The Ring" is one of the most lyrically brilliant stories Seger's told."Like a Rock" sounds the most like the "original" Bob Seger, and would easily be the best song on the album if we hadn't all heard the chorus so darn much (and I agree... someone at Chevy should be fired for that).Overall, this CD represents Seger's first real departure from his classic-rock roots, and that might initially turn people away from buying it.If you take it on its own terms, however, there's a lot to like about this album--and a surprising amount of the original Bob Seger sound to boot.

The music is hard like a rock!
At this point in Bob Seger's life,he had begun to slow down writing and recording. Here is where the long gaps between albums begin. Well,Seger's previous album THE DISTANCE was released a little over 3 years earlier than when LIKE A ROCK was released(spring 1986). Seger,since the time of THE DISTANCE,has had 3 Silver Bullet Band members,keyboardist Craig Frost and remaining original members bassist Chris Campbell and saxophonist Alto Reed. AMERICAN STORM was on hit parade in spring 1986 but does not appear on 1994's GREATEST HITS or the newly released sequel,GREATEST HITS 2. LIKE A ROCK was a bigger hit and became a signature song for Chevy truck commercials. MIAMI has ex-Eagle Don Henley singing background vocals. THE RING tells about "when he met her" and the marriage that followed. TIGHTROPE,THE AFTERMATH,IT'S YOU,SOMEWHERE TONIGHT and SOMETIMES are pretty cool. Also,there's the cover of FORTUNATE SON,written by John Fogerty of the Creedence Clearwater Revival. That song did not appear on the defunct LP. That track was recorded live.

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Some of his most emotionally engaging work
This one doesn't reach out and grab you right away, but this is the Bob Segar album I keep coming back to. His voice has never sounded better, and the superficially hokey "Long Way Home" (with strings, yet!) and "Blind Love" cause me to do something I seldom do: sing along. Other highlights: the chorus harmony on "Sightseeing" and some GREAT piano work by Bruce Hornsby ("Always in my Heart"), Ray Bittan ("The Fire Inside"), and Little Feat's Billy Payne ("New Coat of Paint" and "Stone Blind Love"). Mature work from one of rock's most underappreciated talents.

Up and down
Wow, some really passionate Bob Seger fans reviewing this album.
And, hm, well...ehm, it does have its moments. The title track is very good, one of Seger's best latter-day songs, and it benefits mightily from the rock-solid drumming of Russ Kunkel and the bright, melodic piano figures played by Bruce Springsteen's longtime sideman "Professor" Roy Bittan.
And then there's the nice ballad "The Real Love", the Springsteen-like rocker "Real At The Time", and the delightfully retro musical hall piece "New Coat Of Paint".

And that's it, really. The rest is from the cookie-cutter.
It's not bad...songs like "Take A Chance", "Sightseeing", and the ballads "Blind Love" and "The Long Way Home" are nice enough, a pleasant listen while it lasts. But it sure is hard to recall any of them once the disc has stopped playing, and there are just too many predictable light-weight numbers here for "The Fire Inside" to offer anything resembling a cohesive listen.

Critics generally regarded this as Bob Seger's weakest album, and once you've listened to "Nine Tonight" or "Live Bullet" this one really is a disappointment, a bland piecemeal effort with little passion and fewer hooks.
2½ stars. Diehards only.

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Seger's first album - and arguably his finest hour
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (1968.) Bob Seger's first album.

Although it was in the seventies that Bob Seget would achieve his true rise to fame with his classic Silver Bullet Band, the fact of the matter is that he had actually been making music for well over a decade prior to his Bullet days. In the sixties, Seger had played with a number of bands, none of whom were ever commercially successful. The main part of Seger's career, though, began when he formed a group called the Bob Seger System. It was with this group that seger would record and release his first albums. And his debut album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, got released in 1968. Read on for my review of this album.

The Bob Seger System of the sixties really is nothing like his classic Silver Bullet Band of the seventies. They sound like two completely different groups, with Seger's voice being the only real linkage between the two (and this younger incarnation of Seger is certainly distinctive enough from the "popular" one.) On this album, Seger delivers the classic sixties hard rock you've come to expect from many other bands of that long lost era, complete with distorted guitar riffs and organ playing in the background. Seger's take on this style of music is great! The only really popular song on this album is the title track, and sadly, it wouldn't become popular for another eight years, and that was only because Seger revived it for his Live Bullet album (I still think this, the original version of the song, is the best.) Another noteworthy track is 2 + 2 = ?, Seger's protest against the Vietnam war. This was a pretty common theme in sixties pop/rock songs, and Seger's take on this theme is pretty damn good. There are plenty of excellent songs on this album - in my opinion, not one of them is weak. It's certainly a transition from the man you know and love, but any true fan of Seger's will be able to appreciate this record.

Unfortunately, all of Seger's pre-Beautiful Loser material is currently not readily available on CD. This is a crying shame, because it's some of his best material! If any record company executives are reading this - YOU DESPERATELY NEED TO MAKE THIS RECORDINGS MORE READILY AVAILABLE ON CD! Take a look at the prices the CD versions have been fetching in eBay auctions to see what I mean. Having them available on CD as imports only just isn't good enough! Who wants to pay upwards of fifty bucks for one album!

Ramblin' Gamblin' Man is a tough album to find (as are all of Seger's pre-Beautiful Loser recordings), but they (this one in particular) are well worth hunting down. With this materpiece, you will explore a side of Bob Seger you likely knew never existed - a side I like even more than his popular stuff! If you're a Seger die-hard, it's worth getting. Just be warned - you're gonna have to search for it.

the Bob Seger you never knew
Bob Seger recorded 'The Bob Seger System', also known as 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' in 1968.The album scaled the charts to number 62, and two 45's, 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man'/'Tales of Lucy Blue' and 'Ivory'/'Love Needs To Be Loved' charted out at numbers 17 and 97 respectively (the songs predictably did considerably better in Bob's hometown of Detroit, Michigan, where he has been an icon since the late 1960's).Despite this promising debut, it would be another long eight years before Bob would achieve national prominence.

The sound and look of 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' reflect the psychedelic persuasions of the era it was produced in.While that adds some interesting twists to the disc, it didn't turn out to be Seger's favored genre.Bob did much better as a flat-out rocker, as several songs on this disc attest to, or in the more mainstream persona he adopted in the mid-1970's, primarily pushing romantic ballads.Every time Bob cuts loose on this disc it's a raging success, but the remainder of the tracks meet with mixed results.

Three songs are hands-down winners, beginning with the churning title track, and continuing with one of the first and most stinging Vietnam protest songs, '2 + 2 = ?' ("...you say he died for freedom, if he died to save your lies, go ahead and call me yellow, 2 + 2 is on my mind..."), through 'Ivory' with its fuzzy yet slick lead guitar, and heavy, hand-clap beat.'Down Home' is another good rock number focused on a dysfunctional family.It's harmonica, bass, and drum driven melody supports the tale of Chicago Green, Aunt Mary, Little Willy, and Eddie.'Tales of Lucy Blue', despite it's decided psychedelic leanings, manages to deliver a haunting and just a bit sinister lead guitar, and engaging lyrics ("...empty words falling on ears which have never heard, hollow lies comin' from lost, hung up and lonely guys...").Perhaps 'Lucy Blue' is the lady portrayed on the front insert art, covering her heart and unmentionables, and standing on an icy peninisula that is the mirror-image of Bob's home state of Michigan.

Let's also give a nod to 'Black-Eyed Girl' (Seger's homage to Van Morrison's 'Brown-Eyed Girl'?Hardly.)It is a gutsy blues song that takes off about mid-way through with an elastic slide guitar solo.But the remainder of the songs are a one-time listen.'Doctor Fine' is an uninteresting one-minute instrumental; 'White Wall', while interesting, can't decide between funky blues, full-fledged power rock, heaven-sent vocal harmonies, or mind-bending psychedelia, all fueled by a torrid-paced percussion, and capped with an appropriate, "Wow!"; 'Gone' seems to be an ode to a drug overdose, a soft, acoustic, flower-power textured ballad with an echo-chambered vocal; 'Love Needs To Be Loved' is the most obvious tribute to psychedelia, an uninspiring knock-off of 'All You Need Is Love' or 'Get Together' ("...women were sent from heaven above, and love needs to be loved..."); and 'Train Man' is an undistinguished acoustic ballad that does manage to break into some funky, distorted guitar to finish up the disc.

While there are some great moments to be cherished on 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man', it's easy to see why Seger has chosen not to reissue this disc.While fans rightly savor the title track, '2 + 2' and 'Ivory', the remainder of the songs probably detract more than add to the legacy Seger has promoted of himself.You won't even find most of the quality tracks on Seger compilations or live performances.But I believe Bob's being a bit too sensitive about the image thing.There are plenty of people who appreciate his early work every bit as much, or even more, than the tracks that eventually won him critical acclaim.Those people may, in fact, be Bob's most stalwart fans, and it would seem they have earned access to his formative works.Hopefully Bob will recognize that someday, and acquiesce to reissuing his first six albums ('Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' through 'Back In '72').

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An excellent pre-Bullet Seger recording
Beautiful Loser (1975.) Bob Seger's eighth album.

Bob Seger had played in a number of bands in the late sixties, and in the late sixties and early seventies he released a number of albums. Unfortunately, he didn't really get the proper recognition until nearly ten years after he started making music, and joined up with his Silver Bullet Band. Seger's final album that he released before joining up with the Bullets was the 1975 effort, Beautiful Loser. Read on for my review.

The album may be called Beautiful Loser, but Seger proves he's certainly no loser throughout the course of this album. Seger's blend of rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and pop-rock is demonstrated beautifully on every track of this album. Although the next album, Night Moves, would be Bob Seger's breakthrough, this one gave him his first big hit - Katmandu. This song is the only one from the album that will be known to casual fans, and any Seger die-hard won't deny its place as a classic. Many of the songs on the album, Katmandu included, have often been compared to the stylings of Chuck Berry, and that's a good thing. Essentially, the album uses simplistic stylings that aren't too complex at all, but simplicity is really this album's greatest strength. Trying complex new things often ruins an artist's musical career, and Seger obviously knows his limits. Beautiful Loser is simple, excellent seventies rock.

Bob Seger's catalogue is a big mystery. All of his pre-Silver Bullet Band albums (with the exception of this one) are out of print (I'm not even sure all of them were released on CD!) All of the Bullet albums are available on CD, and are fairly common. However, many of their later albums (nineties-era) are out of print. Also, Beautiful Loser, for reasons unknown, is usually sold for extremely cheap in most stores (I'm not complaining, though!) If record company executives are reading this - put the pre-Bullet stuff back into production!

Beautiful Loser scored Bob Seger his first big hit, and rightfully so - the album is an excellent one, through and through. It's not surprising that so many fans of Seger praise this album. If you're new to Seger, you should probably start with one of the three albums that followed this one (Night Moves, Stranger In Town, Against The Wind.) But if you're a tried and true Seger fan, don't hesitate to add Beautiful Loser to your collection.

Great Bob Seger CD But One Flaw!
The songs on this cd are great, but there is one problem! Very few of these song are with"The Silver Bullet Band"! Just ain't the same without them! The cover of Ike & Tina Turner "Nutbush City Limits" Kicks ass!It is much better than the original! Don't be a beautiful loser go get this cd!

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4.5 stars - Severely underrated early Seger
Mongrel (1970.) Bob Seger's third album.

In the late sixties/early seventies, Bob Seger was a far cry from being the rock and roll legend he would become later on. At this young age, Seger was still an up and coming musician. His first album, 1968's Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, was one of the most underrated rock albums of all time. Its follow-up, 1969's Noah (which Amazon doesn't carry for some odd reason), was good but not in the same league as the debut, mostly due to some subpar songwriting on the part of guitarist Tom Neme (the guy was a great guitarist but not the best songwriter.) The young, up-and-coming Bob Seger released his third album in 1970. How does Mongrel measure up? Read on for my review of the album.

This is one of the underrated gems of the early phase of Bob Seger's career. It seems like all of Seger's pre-Silver Bullet Band albums never got the proper credit, and it's a shame an album as good as Mongrel ends up being no exception. This album features Seger and his band (then called the Bob Seger System) doing the late sixties/early seventies transitional rock that many bands of the day were doing across America. The styings sound like a mix of the two decades, making for a rather interesting listen. There's plenty of excellent organ playing and bass lines keeping things interesting, as well as the fantastic guitar playing you'd expect from a band of Seger's. Some of Seger's best songs of all came from this album, including the classics Lucifer and River Deep Mountain High - both wrongfully underrated gems that should have been bigger hits. In many places the backing organ tracks resemble those of Rod Evans-era deep purple, but the bluesy rock stylings are distinctly Seger. From start to finish, Mongrel is an album that will keep you entertained. An old ad for the album used the phrase "Mongrel is a bitch." I wouldn't say the album is "a bitch" by any means, but it sure is bitchin'! If you're a Seger fan who wants to discover what the musical genius was up to before his glory days, Mongrel is a worthwhile purchase.

Sadly, Bob Seger's albums that preceeded Beautiful Loser are now out of print, and they fetch extremely high prices on the black market. There are imports of the albums still being produced abroad, but if you want to get them, be prepared to shell out the big bucks. Hopefully the albums will get a domestic CD release someday, but until then, there aren't a lot of options outside of importing.

Mongrel rocks. There's no need for me to say any more; I feel I've established my point pretty well. In his pre-popularity days, Seger was already making excellent music, and Mongrel is perhaps one of the strongest examples of this. No, it's not Seger's best album by any means, but it's one of my favorites. If you're a Seger die-hard and you haven't heard this album yet, you're missing out.

on the growl
Just as the Buffalo Bills were unable to secure a Super Bowl despite four appearances in the early 1990's, 'Mongrel' is the third in the Bob Seger System's series of failures to stick an album in the upper echelons of Billboard's charts during the psychedelic era.The album was hardly visible at number 171 in August of 1970, but that is more of a testimony to the savage competition that existed at the time, as well as an indictment of a serious omission by the public to recognize Seger's talent.While it's easy to knock the album, what explanation is there for a song like 'Lucifer', one of Bob's most tasty compositions, being unable to break into the Top 40?

This third release by Seger under the moniker of the Bob Seger System is one of the artists most politicized, hard-rock statements.It catches Seger indulging plentifully in his trademark raspy growl, even preaching to the choir in the title track, "spread my freedom and scream for my rights".Seger's reluctance to re-issue 'Mongrel' may in part be due to his strong anti-drug stance, which wasn't always reflected early in his career with lyrics such as "I'm a junk runner honey, hotter than the noonday sun" from the hard-rock opener 'Song To Rufus'.The songs also include frequent signs of the times, with lyrics such as "if you've got love, you're gonna get through" from 'Big River' and the anti-draft statement that is 'Leanin' On My Dream'.The highly politicized blues track 'Highway Child' reflects the eco-consciousness of the era, and serves up the highly plaintive "I'm so apathetic, I can't believe I'm free" lyric.

Aside from 'Lucifer' which is probably Seger's funkiest rock number, featuring lyrics that take us back to Ramblin' Gamblin' Man and Lucy Blue, the best track is the System's cover of Ike and Tina Turner's 'River Deep - Mountain High'.The song was penned by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry ('Hanky Panky') together with Phil Spector in 1966.Renditions have been added by The Animals and Deep Purple, and Seger manages to match their raw energy and then some.His version starts out hot, and barrels into a firry coda with a great lead guitar flourish.

While the rest of the songs are all good, few demand frequent listening.'Evil Edna' and 'Mongrel' are undistinguished rockers, while 'Big River', a tight ballad of the type Seger would become best known by in the mid-1970's, and 'Mongrel Too' offer the acoustic slow-tempo diversions.'Mongrel Too' features the same lyrics as 'Mongrel', but really isn't worthy of the revisit.'Leanin' On My Dream', though less confrontational than Seger's classic anti-war track '2+2=?', features a taut basic rhythm guitar riff and a nice lead guitar meandering all around it.

'Mongrel' is sandwiched between two even less distinguished Seger discs, 'Noah' and 'Brand New Morning', and more than anything else represents the anguish Bob endured honing his sound.It definitely has its moments, but the best of Bob was soon to come in efforts such as 'Smokin' O.P.'s' and 'Back In '72'.'Mongrel' is necessary for Seger completists, and worth a listen for casual fans interested in Bob's formative works, though 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' stands as his best early effort.

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Still Burning
Seeger's covers album was my favourite Seeger for no other reason than the awesome power he delivers on those three opening tracks;McDaniel's 'Bo Didley/ Who Do You Love', the Stephen Still's anthem,'Love The One Your With'and a yearning, mournful rendition of Tim Hardin's,'If I were A Carpenter'. He got smoother as he 'progressed'into acceptability. Give me this raw passion any day! Using a cobra snake as a necktie, honey. Tell me. Who do you love? Bo never said it better. This is pretty seductive rhetoric, Bobby. I believed you back then.

the Dee-troit sound
Detroit music in the 1960's and early 1970's was more than just Motown.The area also produced cult favorites and proto-heavy rockers like The Stooges and the MC5.Unless you're from Detroit, however, you may be unaware that Detroiter Bob Seger released a series of albums before he arrived on the national stage in the mid-1970's with break-out hits such as 'Night Moves" and 'Beautiful Loser'.In fact, for quite a few years, both Seger and his fans bemoaned the lack of national attention his work received.Looking back on some of his work reveals why his local fans were perplexed at his delayed ascent, and also why a national audience eluded Seger.

'Smokin' O.P.'s' (meaning smoking other people's... in this case other people's hits rather than cigarettes, although the front insert is a wonderfully simplistic play on a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes) is a great collection of cover songs.In his early incarnations Seger sounded much more like the sharp-edged J. Geils Band (who first gained acclaim with their 'Full House' LP, recorded at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit) than the more middle-of-the-road rocker he became in the mid-'70's.'Smokin' O.P.'s' was Bob's fifth album, released in 1972, and for the most part was a collection of excellent cover songs.Most are standard hard-rock offerings (the sound that went down best in local Detroit venues) including an impressive opening trio of Ellis McDaniel's 'Bo Diddley/Who Do You Love', Stephen Stills' 'Love the One You're With', and Tim Hardin's 'If I Were a Carpenter'.The first two songs feature slick lead guitar solo's from Monk Bruce, while 'If I Were a Carpenter' owes it's foundation and some great solo work to organist Skip Knape (aka 'Van Winkle' from 'Teegarden & Van Winkle'; David Teegarden provides percussion on this disc as well).

On the original vinyl release side one mellowed out a bit at the end with a cover of Leon Russell's 'Hummin' Bird' ("don't fly away").Seger is really showing some grit by covering these four classic hits, and while it's hard to say that any of them surpass the original versions, they are sung with an obvious joy and excitement that make them a thrill to experience.It's probably the best single album side Seger put together before his more acclaimed persona emerged.

The remaining five tracks offer a couple gems as well.Seger offers a sweet version of 'Turn On Your Love Light', feeding off a funky rhythm guitar foundation, and the closer, a remake of Seger's 1966 hit with The Heard, 'Heavy Music'.'Heavy Music' seems misplaced on the disc, as does it's predecessor, 'Someday'.Both are Seger compositions (which doesn't fit with the theme of the album), 'Someday' is a misfit as a quiet, piano-based ballad, and 'Heavy Music' would serve much better as an opener than the closer.'Let It Rock', the opener of side two, comes across as a generic bar-hall stomper, and 'Jesse James', while less distinguished than some of the other tracks, has a beat like a churning locomotive that blends in well with the albums other tracks.

While there's a lot to like on 'Smokin' O.P.'s' including some excellent musicianship, quality composing ('Heavy Music'), and an audibly resounding desire to deliver "the goods", clearly Seger needed to develop more consistency, and broaden his range of music to become an elite performer, a mystery he solved as the '70's progressed.It's a shame that Bob has not seen fit to reissue some of his earlier work, such as this disc, his original 'Bob Seger System' album, as well as 'Noah' and 'Mongrel'.On a smaller scale, for fans of Seger, not having access to these tracks is akin to only experiencing The Beatles from 'Rubber Soul' on.While these discs may not reveal the mature talent Seger would eventually develop, their raw energy and gritty late 60's/early 70's sound has its own vintage appeal.If you release them, Bob, the fans will come.

Old Time Rock And Roll
I used to see Bob Seger at several venues back in Michigan around 1969 and later.I truely enjoyed him then as well as now.

The version of Bo-Diddley on here is the best I have heard.Bob Seger never sang a song without pure unadulterated passion and this CD is no exception.This CD is full of old hits, I bought my copy at a used CD store in Oak Ridge Tn and drove home with the windows down and thinking I was young again.

Bo Diddley, If I was a Carpenter, Heavy Music and Turn on your love light will turn on some old memories for sure.

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