Night Moves - Bob Seger | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION!

Finally hitting some more Bob Seger!!! 'Night Moves' was easily the most suggested song we saw from you guys, we put it as an option on the poll a few weeks back and you all knocked it out of the park!! Make sure to vote in this week's poll! What's the next song we gotta hit from Seger!? Have a great weekend guys! :)

SEGER IS THE MAN!

When this song came out in 1977, I was just 13. That said, I didn’t appreciate the subject matter. Then one day you wake up and you’re 40+ and even 50+, and you think back to those teen years, the fumbling, tumbling times of awkward passion, and you become weak in the knees and your heart bleeds. If you only knew then what you know now and if you only knew then that those times would be so fleeting yet so ingrained in your very soul. To the point when he says “started singing a song from 1962”, you change the year to 1982 (senior year in HS) and, every single time you hear it to this very day, you fight back tears. THAT, gents, is powerful stuff and THAT takes talent. And he does it with so many songs. Listen to Against the Wind and We’ve Got Tonight just to name two more heart-tugging Seger gems.

It's ironic how we're reminiscing about a song that is about reminiscing.

Boys, all I can tell you is that I've heard this song a thousand times since I was a kid and never thought too much about it. Last night when I first watched your vid, I really listened to it for the first time - and now at age 50 - it hit me like a ton of bricks. Don't know that a young person can fully appreciate what it feels like to look back on the glory of your youth across the years. It is a truly bittersweet feeling. After hearing it, I downloaded his greatest hits and have spent today listening. Now these are songs I've heard all by life, but now - Holy Sh#t - the lyrics. So many of them have these same nostalgic undertones - Like a Rock, Against the Wind, Hollywood Nights, just to name a few. You boys have shown me something that has been right under my nose for years. Thank you!

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder" - I was waiting for the guys to get to this at 3:59, one of the all time moments in music history, when Seger shifts the entire meaning of the phrase "Night Moves," and changes the song from a young-lust anthem to everything we lose along the way, yet always long for.... one day you have the world in the freaking palm of your hand, the next day you are humming a song from 1962. Ain't it funny how the night moves. Priceless reaction thanks guys.

I'm 57, and it feels like I've loved this song my whole life. Nostalgia, melancholy, gratitude, joy . . . all at once.

"With autumn closin' in". Gets me every time, esp. now that the end is closer than the beginning in my life.

This is literally - the song of my life. I was a senior in high school when this came out - and Susanne and I would steal away any chance we could - and enjoy naked teenage romance in the back of a car. We even got caught by the cops once - fully nude doing it - when a tap on the window happened. We even did it to this very song playing on the radio during those summer nights. When I was in my 30's - I'd wake at night and listen to the thunder - and I would think of her and wonder how she was doing as my wife laid beside me asleep and the kids in the other room. Now I'm in my 60's - and this yearning for that time has never left me - sure I have a good life - but part of living good is keeping a small ember in a corner of your heart of a memory from long ago. This song can evoke a tear - and a melancholy longing that burns so good. Ah - I remember those night moves.

Hey guys, you really need to do an analysis of the lyrics here. The early part of the song is him as a young man; hooking up, care free. The mid/late part is him remembering his earlier life, and missing it. The killer line is “...with autumn closing in”. It’s a metaphor for aging and getting closer to death. Such a powerful song that only gets stronger as you age and see yourself as the subject.

it’s interesting....Andy, you were talking about wanting to cry...and Alex, you spoke of goosebumps. What that feeling is that he evoked so well was nostalgia.....looking back from being older to the days of youth and awakening. Seger’s brilliance is that he can make young guys like you two FEEL the emotions of a middle-aged or older guy looking back. Now, THAT’S brilliant writing......and emotive singing....

This is such a deeper song than they realize. Seger's looking back on his teenage years wistfully, realizing how far he's come and also how much he's lost over the years. Lost childhood innocence - even the sexual awakening is something that everyone can relate to. This is a classic for a reason - it resonates with everyone who hears it. Listen a few more times and the meaning gets deeper.

“I awoke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off I sat and wondered”? My favorite line from any song, anywhere. Especially the pauses.

Hollywood Nights. The drive of that song is incredible.

"I used her, she used me, but neither one cared. We were gettin' our share." Ah, to be young again. "With autumn closin' in. . ."

When you grow up in the upper midwest you know to count the seconds from the lightning to the thunder. 5 seconds per mile. This just reminds me of summer so much. Parking in the woods and practicing, and then becoming drive-in news.

This song brings a tear to my eyes, reminds everyone of being a teen, summer time and learning night moves

“Woke last night to the sound of thunder, how far off, I sat and wondered.” For anyone who grew up in the midwest, this absolutely evokes the feeling of summer nights. You can picture the lightning bugs flitting around.

I'll never listen to today's music and regret having grown up in the 70s. Welcome to my high school days. I can literally see myself and my friends standing around by our cars at night somewhere, drinking beer, talking shit about people who weren't there, wishing there were more girls around and listening to music like this blasting from someone's car stereo. Rock on, dudes. 😎🔥🤘

The best Seger song he ever wrote and recorded....”Roll Me Away”....