Bob Seger’s beautiful losers climb into empty beds nd struggle against the wind, relying on that old time rock ‘n’ roll for the kicks that life will no longer offer. For a decade he was second only to Springsteen in mainstream outreach, a fact borne out by bar jukebox Greatest Hits (1994); “Bob Seger’s Greatest Hits was the decade’s best-selling catalog album in the United States, even out-selling The Beatles’ 1 and Michael Jackson’s Number Ones,” according to Wiki. Given to picking the scabs of an adolescence to whom they owe received notions about wimmen and fidelity, his characters can be as loutish as barflies, which is why I don’t visit them often.
A pity only “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” from the late sixties as The Bob Seger System scraped the top forty. “2 + 2 = ?” is a marvel, among others.
The Hague
Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll
Shakedown
Meh
Like a Rock
American Storm
The Real Love
Sound, Solid Entertainment
Shame on the Moon
You’ll Accomp’ny Me
Hollywood Nights
We’ve Got Tonight
Tryin’ To Live My Life Without You
Good to Great
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man
Fire Lake
Night Moves
Against the Wind
Still the Same
Mainstreet
Roll Me Away
Humanizing The Vacuum 
Too bad “Turn the Page” didn’t qualify for this.
When you make a list of his top 40’s best songs, that is completely different from his 40 best songs. His best songs would not start with shake down, that only went higher on the list because it was in that movie.
He has so many great songs it’s hard to decide what his best song of all time would be. My list, just off the top of my head, and not in order would include:
Turn The Page, Against the Wind, Down on Main Street, The Famous Final Scene, Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, I feel like a number, You’ll Accomp’ny Me, Shining Brightly, Good For Me, No Man’s Land, Rock n Roll Never Forgets, Ship Of Fools, Sunspot Baby, the fire Down Below, almost the entire Stranger in Town album, all those are better than Shake Down, and it made it to #1? That stupid list doesn’t mean his best songs….
“That stupid list doesn’t mean his best songs….”
Never said so!