Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser
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Artist: Bob SegerEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-06-16
Music Label: EMI Special Products
Soundtracks:
- Beautiful Loser
- Black Night
- Katmandu
- Jody Girl
- Travelin' Man
- Momma
- Nutbush City Limits
- Sailing Nights
- Fine Memory
Music reviews of Beautiful Loser
Music Review: A LOST "CLASSIC" AND A "FINE MEMORY"
Rating: 4 Stars
Late last November, my Bro and I drove down to Tombstone ("The Town Too Tough To Die") to get out of Phoenix for the weekend. Bro doesn't have a CD or tape player in his car, and since Airheadzona is too uncultured to have a real Jazz radio station, we had to settle for "Classic" Rock. (There's nothing like seeing the rebellious Rock of a man's youth labeled "CLASSIC" and played in grocery stores to make him feel geriatric!)
Driving out of the uncultured metropolis and into the unyielding desert wasteland, our talk turned to tunes of our ancient personal history. While Bob Seger's 'Turn The Page' played (thanks to "The Real Deal, Rockin' Steele" at KDOG), Bro mentioned how much he used to like Seger, a rocker I had turned him onto back in '75. Before we even reached Tombstone's Boot Hill (final resting place of Billy Clanton and the McLaury Bros. after that nasty little bit of business near the OK Corral), I had decided that I was gonna get Bro a copy of Seger's 1975, BEAUTIFUL LOSER for Christmas. You know, exhume that body from the graveyard of his buried past for him.
So, on Christmas morning, while y'all were in slippers and knotting those new ties around the collars of your pajama tops, Bro and I - two Beautiful Losers - were reexperiencing our Black Nights, discussing Momma, and sharing a Fine Memory or two. It was astounding to me - a Rock 'N' Roll deserter who took up arms for the Jazz camp about 20 years ago - to find just how good this album sounds today. BEAUTIFUL LOSER was released at the time Bob Seger was just starting to get national recognition. Some might call this a minor breakout album, but I'd call it the "Lost Classic Rock" recording. My Bro also got Mr. Seger's 'Greatest Hits' from me last Christmas, but BEAUTIFUL LOSER was the winner.
Bob sings like a REAL man (a rare occurrence in those androgynous days and an even greater rarity in this era of wimpy, pseudo-tough poseurs trying to convince every hormone-overdosed, pimply suburbanite that they've seen bad times). Seger strikes an ideal balance between catchy hard rockers and sensitive (but most certainly not saccharine) ballads, perfectly expressed through that Jim Beam and barbed wire-raked voice of his. The man sure knew how to write an intelligent Rock song. (Yeah, I know that's nearly an oxymoron. And was this really the same guy who 5 years LATER would pen the sophomoric and regrettable 'Horizontal Bop'?)
The song BEAUTIFUL LOSER always did (and still does) remind me of a beautiful friend who one night decided to voluntarily find out what's on "the other side." KATMANDU is driven by Bob's Motor City mania. JODY GIRL is not just one of the most tender ballads ever written, it's one of the saddest. Damn near activates my tear ducts! MOMMA brings to my mind that tortured and misunderstood, yet loving relationship between my Ma and my Bro back in those days contemporaneous to this album. The biggest surprise was NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS, which I never much cared for back "in the day." Don't know what I was thinkin' - this bad boy REALLY ROCKS; it nearly blows the grey hair right off of my head! And this collection closes with a beautiful and introspective ballad about a FINE MEMORY, which the entire album is for me.
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