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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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Sam Atkin

I love Old time rock-n-roll, I love anything Mr Seger recorded. I don't believe he recorded a bad record of course bieng a Michigan native and living a short distance from his home base helps. Any rock star who sells out before they go out on tour is pretty darn talented

April 09 2010 at 5:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hayley

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

June 04 2008 at 10:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mary

Love the song!

May 19 2008 at 12:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Suzana

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".

January 19 2008 at 6:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MikeM



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.

October 28 2007 at 1:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hayley

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.

October 26 2007 at 10:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
artofheart

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.

October 01 2007 at 2:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Linda

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.

September 30 2007 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Friarmac

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."

September 30 2007 at 4:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
benny jet

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 ...

August 28 2007 at 6:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply