BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND : GREATEST HITS

 

  1. Roll Me Away
  2. Night Moves
  3. Turn The Page
  4. You'll Accomp'ny Me
  5. Hollywood Nights
  6. Still The Same
  7. Old Time Rock & Roll
  8. We've Got Tonight
  9. Against The Wind
  10. Mainstreet
  11. The Fire Inside
  12. Like A Rock
  13. C'est La Vie
  14. In Your Time

Label : Capitol

Length : 62:41

Released : 1994

Review (AllMusic) : For over 20 years, Bob Seger was one of the best mainstream rock & rollers in America, developing a distinctive body of honest, hard-rocking songs. More songs than can be put on this single-disc set, unfortunately. While many of Seger's trademarks are here -"Turn the Page," "Old Time Rock & Roll," "Night Moves" - there is no "Rock and Roll Never Forgets," "Katmandu," "Shame on the Moon," or any of his pulverizing early records, when he was as tough as fellow Michigan rockers the MC5 and the Stooges; this is one time when a double-disc set would have held enough quality material. Nevertheless, what is here is fine and contains enough first-rate material to satisfy most fans.

Review (Wikipedia) : Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, released in 1994. Certified 8 times platinum, it is Seger's most successful album to date. In December 2009 Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan confirmed that with nearly nine million copies sold. Californian photographer, Karen Miller, took photos of the band as part of two photoshoots for the album. The most popular pictures out of the first photoshoot were the railroad track scenes taken on the Southern Pacific Railroad Tracks north of Mojave, California. The single picture of Seger holding his guitar became the cover photo as well as the most recognized photograph of Seger to date. Another photograph of the entire band on the same tracks was used for the centerfold of the booklet that came with the It's A Mystery CD, released the following year in 1995. Other photos on the album include pictures of Seger's newborn son, Cole Seger. The back cover of Seger's son at a water pump was taken at Seger's home at the time in Miami, Florida. Cole was 17 months old at the time. The inside of the booklet includes photos of Silver Bullet Band members Craig Frost, Chris Campbell, and Alto Reed with their kids as well. Seger's manager, Punch Andrews, was skeptical about the idea of using the band's children as album art at first. However, Seger had seen it done before with other artists and insisted on the photographs being used on the final copy of the CD's insert.

Review (Amazon) : Bob Seger has racked up a lot of worthy tracks over the years, but it took until 1994 for a greatest hits package to appear. Voilą. The bad news: We're missing an awful lot of songs here. Night Moves is Seger's crit-pick album, and a great place to start if you don't have any Seger at all. Next in the rankings is Stranger in Town. Otherwise, his highs are pretty scattered, which would make any best-of package a worthy investment. But if you want to get comprehensive, "Rock & Roll Never Forgets," "Fire Down Below," "Horizontal Bop," "Her Strut," "Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight," and "Katmandu" aren't on this CD--and you'll have to go to the original albums to secure them.