I agree. Also a completely inapplicable Bob Seger metaphor. (Off-Topic)

by Funkmon , Saturday, January 02, 2016, 05:29 (3238 days ago) @ Ragashingo

This guy hates fun. I agree with all his points, but I maintain that this movie is a good movie. The reviewer is doing the very thing he claims others are doing to their detriment, and can't separate the massive box office success from the movie itself. He's wrong about it being a bad movie just because it was the same stuff.

When Bob Seger released his second live album, Nine Tonight, I don't think people thought it was a bad album because it had a lot of his hits virtually unchanged from the studio recordings. In fact, people thought it was great. Bob live is fantastic. However, on the radio, what versions of Night Moves, Hollywood Nights, and Old Time Rock & Roll do you hear? That's right, the studio versions. The original. But if you only have one album, Nine Tonight is a great one to have.

When you look at Live Bullet, his first record, and see how Bob took the studio versions of his old songs and changed Travelin' Man and Beautiful Loser, good songs, to be one of the single greatest pieces of rock and roll ever created, you realize the creativity was gone in Nine Tonight. Live Bullet has a Bob Seger young and desperate for international attention who's been languishing in obscurity (outside of Michigan, where he had been popular for 10 years) reworking his songs to rock as hard as anything coming out of the 1970s. In doing so, he created a masterpiece. When you hear Turn The Page, Travelin' Man, Beautiful Loser, Katmandu, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man or his cover of Nutbush City Limits on the radio, it's the Live Bullet versions. These are wonderful, creative reworkings of his originals.

In Star Wars, I want to see less Nine Tonight, still a good album, and more Live Bullet, a top album of all time.