Bob Seger’s classic and iconic album Night Moves will make its debut on 180-gram vinyl on June 16, 2015. Seger’s album is the newest vinyl reissue addition to the Grammy Award-winning rocker’s catalogue.
Night Moves was originally released in 1976. It was Seger’s first studio album with the Silver Bullet Band. Most of the album was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with the help of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Lincoln Park native Bob Seger is beloved by many Detroiters near and far.
The album and its hit singles “Night Moves,” “Mainstreet,” and “Rock and Roll Never Forgets” earned overwhelming critical praise.
Take a trip down memory lane and prepare for the album’s release by reading some of the colorful reviews of Bob Seger’s Night Moves below.
There was Steve Weitzman, who set the record straight in regards to Seger’s musical career.
“The word is that rock singer Bob Seger has arrived. Arrived? For chrissakes, the man has been playing professionally for half his life already since his first gigs as a sixteen year old in 1960. If anything, he’s been a local legend in his hometown of Detroit and most of the Midwest for almost a decade, amazingly having three of the four biggest selling albums in the history of the Detroit market, ‘Live Bullet’ is the biggest selling album of all time there, ‘Night Moves’, Seger’s new album has shot to number two and ‘Beautiful Loser’, his 1974 album, is number four. What’s number three? ‘Abbey Road’. Bob Seger hasn’t arrived. The rest of the country is just waking up.”
– Steve Weitzman, Circus, May 26, 1977
The Toronto Globe & Mail tried to hold Elton John accountable for his words. Alas, nothing ever came of it.
“Look for a naked Elton John sometime in the near future. Elton claimed he would hire Wembley Stadium outside London and would dance naked on the stage if Bob Seger’s Toronto-produced single, Night Moves, made it to the top of the charts in Britain. Although the single has yet to show anywhere close to the Top 10 in Canada, according to Capitol Records it’s firmly entrenched in the top five in Britain. Firm up there, Elton, your time is nigh.”
– Toronto Globe & Mail, April 9, 1977
Night Moves stood out from its contemporaries, and it hasn’t faded into the background since.
“At an age when most rock artists hit their creative peak and start fading, Bob Seger is just now coming into his own. Seger may have been the last of the regional rock stars…In short, this looks like Seger’s year – and “Night Moves,” a success critically as well as commercially, is one of the few albums in recent memory with both intelligent lyrics and visceral music.”
– John Morthland, Newsday, April 3, 1977
The album promises to be a great listen every time, especially in its debut 180-gram vinyl.
“This album is knock down drag out exciting. So exciting that our Art & Photo director had to be peeled off the [expletive] ceiling after one listening.”
– Air-Wreck Genheimer, Creem Magazine
