“Heavy Music” by Bob Seger

"Heavy Music" first surfaced on a Bob Seger & the Last Heard single, and a peculiar one: two different vocal takes over one backing track, "Heavy Music Part 1" on one side and "Part 2" on the other. It went all the way to number one in Detroit, the biggest thing Seger had managed so far, and got his name heard a little way past the city limits. It also turns up on Smokin' O.P.'s, from 1972.

Seger wrote it alone and sings lead; Punch is credited as producer, with Jim Bruzzese engineering and Gregg Miller assisting. Seger said it is about what music does to you when you really listen, but plenty of radio program directors heard sex in it, a reading he flatly denied. Live Bullet, cut with the Silver Bullet Band, stretches it past eight minutes.

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