Word: seger
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...relation to car culture tends to be more wistful. After the Motown era, which more or less coincided with the end of Detroit's glory days as a city and an industry, you have to look hard to find songs by Michigan musicians about driving. Instead, Bob Seger--Michigan's Springsteen, who gave Chevrolet its "Like a Rock" slogan--reminisced about the backseat of his '60 Chevy in "Night Moves" and sang "Makin' Thunderbirds" about workers building Ford muscle cars in 1955: "They were long and low and sleek and fast/ They were classic in a word...
...line from Holland, Ohio, where lives Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, campaign 2008's latest shorthand for Real America. My dad--also named Joe--drove a beer and wine delivery truck and hunted deer. We went ice fishing and bowling. The first album I ever bought was Bob Seger's Live Bullet...
Today my core beliefs are pretty much the same as then. (Well, the Bob Seger ... only in moderation.) But now I am unreal because I work in the media and live in Brooklyn, which is presumably not among Sarah Palin's "pro-American" parts of America. This is what campaign coverage tells me. If a candidate appeals to my kind, it is a liability. My artificiality will stain him with a mark that can be washed off only by a shot, a beer and a pilgrimage to Scranton...
...Metallica (The Black Album),” and “Load” helped spread their proggish brand of thrash throughout American suburbia and beyond. After putzing around with old garage tracks—some great covers of Blue Oyster Cult and Bob Seger are mixed in there—they took a downward spiral into Napster-hating, rehab, and the unforgivably abysmal “St. Anger”. (Remember that movie about the making of “St. Anger,” “Some Kind of Monster?” It?...
...Seger's Roll Me Away Key lyric: "I'm sick of what's wrong and what's right...