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Readers' Best Opening Lyrics: No. 17

"Just take those old records off the shelf"
--Bob Seger's 'Old Time Rock 'n' Roll'

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Brandon Gentryat 8-27-2007

I hear song everytime I go to a wedding reception.

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Pixieat 8-27-2007

i agree with every word in that song but i'm too young for the 50's rock and roll stuff, not my era. i like rock from the late 70's, early 80's and detest the crap hip hop and rap that's out nowadays. the modern bands just seem to scream, not sing, and shake their heads nonstop. wonder how many get whiplash. hah.

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Dawnat 8-27-2007

Hate to tell ya, but Segar is from the late 70's early 80's, I wore out that tape 3 times when I was 16.

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Debat 8-28-2007

"No,no Mama now don't cha cry, doe-see-doe.... two young boys lying dead by the side of the road, the coins in their eyes represent the money they owed, No Judge or jury ever gonna hear the story told down by the Bayou" DMB/LA Bayou

"Amazing Grace how sweet the sound"
This is bad, I have no idea who wrote this beautiful song...

"Put your right hand out, give it a firm hand shake" Billy Squire/Stroke It

"Here's the mail it never fails... makes me wanna wag my tail, when it comes I wanna yell MAIL" Steve on Blues Clues/Mail... it's scary how your children's habits scar you for life :)

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Allisonat 8-28-2007

I can't lie...I was a dj in college and though I once liked this song, it now makes me want to run

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Kyeat 8-28-2007

First off...i Friggin LOVE this song! As a dancer/local choreographer i love jivin and just gettin down to the rhthym...secondly to Pixie...yea get ur facts straight, its not from the 50's child. And thirdly, u probably don't appreciate hip-hop becuz u have no idea of its origins, what the true 5 elements of hip hop are, have NO rhthym (its ok, many people who cant dance hate hip hop, which seems to be a prerequisite for most in order to like it) or u just listen to the 50 cent crap they play on the radio and not the real stuff the culture is bred from. Why u even bothered to comment on that subject is beyond me...next time stick to ur lil boy-bands and pop ballads from the 80's/90's. When u learn to appreciate the true artistry and poetry of the likes of Hendrix, Marley, Tupac, Left Eye, Run DMC, the Doors, A Tribe Called Quest, the Eagles...then maybe u'll be allowed an opinion...only after its been thoroughly screend by professionals of course...Thanks! :)

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benny speerat 8-28-2007

I have a detroit rock and roll band
(Benny and the Jets) we play the song everynight
and it always goes over great. the thing to rememember here is Seger a singer song writer didn't write this song ...

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nicknmemphisat 8-28-2007

DEB: Amazing Grace was written by John Newton by the way just so you know for future reference. I do love this Seger song but he didn't write this one. It was sent by to college students and he says he made a few changes to make it fit better but didn't take any credit for it but he wishes he knew then that it would one of the most played jukebox songs. and I definately agree about your statement no Hiphop KYE. But how could you leave out KRS-ONE

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sharonat 8-28-2007

my favorite all-time rock and roll song. Yes, I requested it for my son's wedding reception. It always fills the dance floor.

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Friarmacat 9-30-2007

Bob Seger recorded this, and other gems, in our town, Sheffield, Alabama. Song took on a second, if not frist, life in the Tom Cruise movie "Risky Business." As for "Amazing Grace," give the nic in nearby Memphis a cigar. What's really interesting about "Amazing Grace," at least to me, is that the original music for it is the same as the Animal's "House of the Rising Sun." (It fits, just barely.) BTW, I once had to endure hearing an ambitious choirmaster at a nearby church have her choir sing "Amazing Grace" to Pachebel's "Canon." After hearing it, I told another choirmaster that next week she was going to do Ravel's "Bolero" to the music of "Oh, Come All Ye Faithful."

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nvbobsegerfanat 9-30-2007

Yeah, gotta say this is one of my favorite Bob Seger songs. But for favorite opening song lyrics I might have chosen, "He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of an old man" from Beautiful Loser. or "I know it's late, I know you're weary. I know your plans don't include me" from We've Got Tonight.

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artofheartat 10-01-2007

To Kye and others bashing pixie... I think you misinterpreted what she was saying about this song... This song being written in the 70's means, from the perspective of the songwriter, that the "old time rock and roll" to which they're referring would have been from around the 50's or 60's which apparently she wasn't around to appreciate, so instead she was relating it to her own experience.... which means 70's/80's stuff is what's nostalgic to her. Jesus, get a clue already.

And frankly, it's just rude to tell her she's not allowed an opinion just because you don't understand or agree with it.

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Hayleyat 10-26-2007

This song describes me perfectly! I love everything written in the style of old rock. I can't say everything pre-2000 because I love U2 and REM.
And yes, I am thirteen.

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MikeMat 10-28-2007



Hate to tell ya, but his name is spelled Seger, and while he had hits in the late 70s and early 80s, he's "from" the mid-60s, when he made his first (and by far BEST) records on the Hideout label, later picked up by Cameo.

As for "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll," while I agree with the sentiments of the song, I hate it with a passion. I wasin a band for many years that played REAL old-time rock 'n' roll, as authentically as possible.

When people would come up to the stage and say "Can you play 'Old Time Rock 'n' Roll'? I said "What in the hell do you think we've been doing for the past two hours?" It proves the point that most people would rather hear a pastiche than the real thing.

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Suzanaat 1-19-2008

Every time I hear this song, I think of that scene in Risky Business, Tom Cruise dancing in his Fruit of the Looms, in his days before Scientology when he was "just like us".

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maryat 5-20-2008

Love the song!

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Hailsat 6-04-2008

This is one of my favorite songs! As a fourteen year old living in a rap obsessed world, this song represents my music. Anything rock from 50s through now, if the bands were from pre-2000

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