#749 Bob Seger - Night Moves

Night Moves has one of those sounds, overpolished but with a deep-set, dead-buried mournful heart that gets you to listen closer, an early Bruce record made by Steely Dan. It's soulless-sounding music made by someone with a soul. Tantalizing, Meat Loaf big, swinging for the fences with a desperate reaching to the night, and yet couched in chooaloo, trashy bluesy riffage. Aggravating. Full of surprising moments, like Sunburst's little flute solo, that actually brings a heady pathos to the song's final act. Confounding. I can't see picking it to put on, but I'd not be sorry to hear it on just the right kind of open-eyed beerlit night 3.5/5