Product Reviews
Take note that this 2011 double-disc collection is billed not as the best of Bob Seger, it s the best of Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band -- a rule the compilers immediately bend in two directions by including the Bob Seger System s 1968 debut single Ramblin Gamblin Man (in its mono mix, collectors note) and Wait for Me from Seger s 2006 comeback Face the Promise. Along with two unreleased cuts -- a reworking of Little Richard s Hey Hey Hey Hey subtitled Going Back to Birmingham and originally cut in 1989, a perfectly fine cover that s overshadowed by the first release of Seger s version of Tom Waits Downtown Train, which he scrapped after Rod Stewart had a hit with a suspiciously similar arrangement -- and Katmandu, a cut from 1975 s Beautiful Loser that rightly gets grandfathered into the prime of the Silver Bullet Band, those are the only songs cut outside of Seger s golden decade of 1976-1987. Much of Seger s previous two hits collections is repeated here -- all but three of the 14 songs from 1994 s Greatest Hits (two of the absent numbers are naturally the comp s newly recorded bonus cuts) and half of the 16 tunes from 2003 s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 are here -- and while there are certainly strong songs missing, whether it s Sunspot Baby or Understanding, this has all the giant hits in a tidy, thoroughly entertaining package. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
Product Notes
2011 two CD compilation from the Rock singer, songwriter and icon. For the first time, all of Bob Seger's top hits have been gathered for a career-spanning double disc set. The 26-track collection includes "Night Moves," "Turn The Page," "Hollywood Nights," "Mainstreet," "Old Time Rock And Roll," "Like A Rock," "Her Strut," "We've Got Tonight," "Against The Wind," "Still The Same," and many other classics, as well as the Detroit rocker's two #1 radio singles from this year, "Downtown Train" and his current #1 Classic Rock hit, "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back To Birmingham)." All songs on the album have been meticulously remastered from the original master tapes, including the original mono version of Seger's first hit "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" and Seger's timeless rendition of the holiday classic "Little Drummer Boy."