Bob Seger & His Silver Bullet Band - Stranger In Town

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:43
Size: 90.9 MB
Styles: Album rock
Year: 1978
Art: Front

[5:01] 1. Hollywood Nights
[3:22] 2. Still The Same
[3:13] 3. Old Time Rock & Roll
[3:54] 4. Till It Shines
[3:43] 5. Feel Like A Number
[4:13] 6. Ain't Got No Money
[4:40] 7. We've Got Tonight
[6:22] 8. Brave Strangers
[5:11] 9. The Famous Final Scene

Night Moves was in the pipeline when Live Bullet hit, and 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. Musically, it's as lively as Night Moves, rocking even harder in some places and being equally as introspective in the acoustic numbers. If it doesn't feel as revelatory as that record, in many ways it does feel like a stronger set of songs. Yes, musically, it doesn't offer any revelations, but it still feels impassioned, both in its performances and songs, and it's still one of the great rock records of its era. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stranger In Town

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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:18
Size: 92.3 MB
Styles: Album Rock
Year: 1980/2016
Art: Front

[4:02] 1. The Horizontal Bop
[3:59] 2. You'll Accomp'ny Me
[3:51] 3. Her Strut
[3:42] 4. No Man's Land
[4:16] 5. Long Twin Silver Line
[5:32] 6. Against The Wind
[4:02] 7. Good For Me
[2:51] 8. Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
[3:31] 9. Fire Lake
[4:26] 10. Shinin' Brightly

Though there are still some traces of the confessionals that underpinned Beautiful Loser through Stranger in Town, Against the Wind finds Bob Seger turning toward craft. Perhaps he had to, since Against the Wind arrived after three blockbuster albums and never-ending tours. Even so, this record winds up not feeling as immediate or soulful as its predecessors, especially since it begins with a tossed-off rocker called "The Horizontal Bop," possibly his most careless tune since "Noah." It's fun, but once it's done, the record really starts to kick into high gear with "You'll Accomp'ny Me," a ballad the equal of anything on its two predecessors. 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. ~Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Against The Wind

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