Greatest Hits (Bob Seger album) – 1994
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, released in 1994. Certified 9 times platinum, it is Seger’s most successful album to date. In December 2009, Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan confirmed that with nearly nine million copies sold, 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. By September 2011, the album had sold a total of 9,062,000 copies in the United States.
Californian photographer, Karen Miller, took photos of the band as part of two photoshoots for the album. The most popular pictures out of the first photoshoot were the railroad track scenes taken on the Southern Pacific Railroad Tracks north of Mojave, California. The single picture of Seger holding his guitar became the cover photo as well as the most recognized photograph of Seger to date. Another photograph of the entire band on the same tracks was used for the centerfold of the booklet that came with the It’s A Mystery CD, released the following year.
Other photos on the album include pictures of Seger’s newborn son, Cole. The back cover of Seger’s son at a water pump was taken at Seger’s then home at the time in Miami, Florida. Cole was 17 months old at the time. The inside of the booklet includes photos of Silver Bullet Band members Craig Frost, Chris Campbell, and Alto Reed with their kids as well. Seger’s manager, Punch Andrews, was skeptical about the idea of using the band’s children as album art at first. However, Seger had seen it done before with other artists and insisted on the photographs being used on the final copy of the CD’s insert.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Bob Seger, except where noted.
No. Title Original Album Length
1. “Roll Me Away” The Distance 4:36
2. “Night Moves” Night Moves 5:25
3. “Turn the Page” Live Bullet 5:01
4. “You’ll Accomp’ny Me” Against the Wind 3:59
5. “Hollywood Nights” Stranger in Town 4:59
6. “Still the Same” Stranger in Town 3:19
7. “Old Time Rock and Roll” (George Jackson, Thomas Earl Jones III) Stranger in Town 3:12
8. “We’ve Got Tonight” Stranger in Town 4:38
9. “Against the Wind” Against the Wind 5:32
10. “Mainstreet” Night Moves 3:42
11. “The Fire Inside” The Fire Inside 5:53
12. “Like a Rock” Like a Rock 5:53
13. “C’est la Vie”” (Chuck Berry) previously unreleased 2:58
14. “In Your Time”