Bob Seger

Very under-the-radar artist, often gets overlooked in favor of Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Mellencamp among American singer-songwriters. Truth is, Seger sings rings around all of them, he's up there with John Fogerty. Night Moves is in my top 20 all time- great CD. Plays a pretty conservative type of music, but does it very well. Long time ago, when my radio station in NY did a Top 500 rock songs of all time, everyone was very surprised that Seger had the 4th most number of songs after Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Stones- yep, more than The Who, Floyd, Skynyrd, Aerosmith, and others.

 

Either music today sucks, is extremely fragmented (which is a good thing), or middle-agers and senior citizens just weren't buying albums in the 70s and 80s.

 

Count me as someone appalled at the list. I'm very much a Classic Rock creature, but surely there could be some more recent worthy fare. Am I missing something? Why are they all compilations?

 

this is the catalog album charts. it's not the top ten best selling albums of the past ten years, it's essentially the top ten "old" albums. I think an album qualifies for the catalog chart after it has been on the billboard charts for over 100 weeks and drops below the top 100 overall albums.

 

Then the chart sucks!

 

Yeah I would be curious what the criteria was even though many of those are some great compilations. This list seems a bit dubious at best.

 

Its a catalog album list, not the regular album list. Though it looks like all albums will be included in the list now. Some stuff about catalog albums I looked up

 

I guess you could argue that the people who actually BUY albums are going to buy stuff like that whereas people who like newer stuff are just going to download it from P2P sites.

 

Seger rocks.

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The majority of the people are not listening to Bob Seger. Younger people are not as apt to buy albums, which is why Bob Seger albums are generating more revenue.

People in the 40’s and 50’s are not as computer savvy as younger people. While younger people are getting their music for free (torrents, lime wire, last.fm, rhapsody), older people are still more apt to buy their albums.

Older people are also more apt to buy the full album because that is what they are accustomed to, while younger people have realized that you can purchase just the songs that you like.

 

Buying a "Best Of" album is like downloading singles in that you get all the top notch stuff and pass over the filler songs. I know for a lot of old bands that I want to get fresher, easier to use, 320 kbps copies, I just download the best of collections and throw them in the shuffle.

 

C'mon, talk to anyone who works in a record store- most people these days ask for and buy the Greatest Hits from the classic artists- this is why The Eagles, Tom Petty, Journey, Queen, Steve Miller, Aerosmith, The Doors, The Rolling Stones (Hot Rocks), The Cars, Billy Joel, The Doobie Brothers, Heart, Elton John, Santana, and numerous others have their Greatest Hits CD as their all-time best selling recordings. Those are the ones that are most heavily promoted, as well, which doesn't help. I personally enjoy buying the original studio recordings because you miss out on a lot of gems when you only buy the compilations. But most people ain't that way.

 

Bob Seger is an exclusive member of the "sounds-like-an-old-man-trying-to-squeeze-out-a-gargantuan-turd" singers' club which also includes Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and other illustrious members of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

 

I used to have a gf who loved Seger. He's a tool and so then was she.