He's drifting back in time and recollecting his memories of her on Main St when he's feeling lonely and bored. A better question would be what songs of Bob Seger weren't hits.
I had your thoughts too, he never talked to her but comes back just to feel that same great feeling seeing her beauty but she isn't there. He blew his opportunity
He's not saying that he literally goes back to Main Street. He says "When I'm feeling lonely and beat, I drift back in time and I find my feet, back on Main Street!" He's remembering her. He goes back in time in his mind to remember her walking down Main Street.
I always viewed this as him in his youth not old enough to enter the clubs and she was just old enough. The song is about him reminiscing his younger years desire to meet the girl.
Bob Seger is a great rock singer, songwriter & musician known for his raspy powerful voice. He wrote & recorded songs that dealt with love, women & blue-collar themes. "Turn The Page" is my favorite by him. But he had so many great songs especially in the 70's-80's such as "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man", "Night Moves", "Still The Same", "Hollywood Nights", "Against The Wind", "You'll Accomp'ny Me", "Shame On The Moon", "Roll Me Away", "Like A Rock", "Shakedown", "We've Got Tonight", "Old Time Rock & Roll" etc.
I heard Seger on a radio program in 1998 where he was promoting a greatest hits collection CD or something. He said this song was about when he was still an underaged boy in Ann Arbor Michigan and what he remembers doing or experiencing
Insight back in the days before clubs where you could go watch girls dance live, you had to watch behind glass they were in a room with a glass front. He goes back in his mind and thinks of her
Yep! One of the many, many hits that Bob had through his long career. "Roll Me Away", " Like A Rock", "Nutbush City" and "Night Moves" are some of my favorites. BTW, he goes back to Main Street in his thoughts. He's reminiscing.
As someone said above, this is all melancholy and nostalgia. About 95% of Seger’s stuff is nostalgic. There’s one you’ve probably heard: Like a Rock? 👍
Very very early Seger was a song called East Side Story. You could see he was headed fore superstardom then. 1964 I believe. Confirmed stardom was his hit "Ramblin Gamblin Man" in the late sixties. He was a Detroit boy by the way. Many many hits followed. "Her Strut" is one of my favorites.
Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band - Turn the Page (live) is one of my favorite songs. Also, Against The Wind Oh, and Night Moves is a good one and Mainstreet also Still the Same
Love this song. Have for many, many yrs. Bob Seger is a true legend. A superb story teller in many of his songs. One of the greatest artists of all time, imho. He has many great songs and, a lot of them will touch you. Many will also rock you! So, enjoy the Bob Seger library my Man. I guarantee, he won't let you down. Great job Bro. PS. Listen again, he says, "I drift back in time and I find my feet, down on Mainstreet" He is re-living old memories of his younger yrs my Man. Listen again and you'll catch it.
So many good songs. Roll Me Away, Horizontal Bop, Betty Lou, Feel Like a Number, The Famous Final Scene, and Hollywood Nights. Just a few. So many more as well.
I’m sorry but you are way off base. First, Bob Seger is all Rock and Roll. Stalker? No, listen to the song again without the purpose of “analyzing”. It’s a beautifully iconic song of a man admiring a “lovely dancer”… Bob’s music is of and for the “common” people. Main Street is a statement of: no matter what you must do to make money, it’s okay, and you’re beautiful (my interpretation). I feel … so much of “getting lost” in the beauty of the music - for what it is and the musicianship, is being lost; for the purpose of analyzing and labeling. Just enjoy it.
His reference to the pool hall makes me think he was too young to go in because you had to be 21. So I think he was a teenager with a crush on this dancer, but too young to really approach her. And now he's much older but just likes to remember her as she was.
I think that he knew it wasn't meant to be , he went home and got on with his life . But when he's feeling lonely and beat , he drifts back in time and he finds his feet down on main street ( Reminiscing)
Them dudes falling for the lure and magic of them beautiful young dancers (strippers). Kenny Rogers does a song with a similar theme. Called “Scarlett Fever”.
As deep as his music was this was my favorite. I finally got to see him on his Final Tour, and it was 3 1/2 hours of AWESOME😎 He had the biggest bass saxophone I've ever seen😲 Not on this song though. This is what music sounded like before everything turned into plastic.
No stalking,since the beginning of time young men and women have conveniently just happened to be around when a crush walks on by. Stalking is a different animal. When I was young I had both kinds of attention,you feel the difference hard.😊
