Face The Promise - Bob Seger
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66 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

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  • Summary: The 61-year-old rocker returns with his first new album in 11 years.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. All Music Guide
    80
    While Face the Promise isn't quite Night Moves or Stranger in Town, it stands proudly next to those albums and is most assuredly the work of the same singer.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    This is satisfying meat-and-potatoes rock. [15 Sep 2006, p.77]
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  3. Uncut
    60
    The songwriting largely delivers. [Dec 2006, p.127]
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  4. Blender
    30
    Blame Seger for aiming no higher than to be the soundtrack for the next Larry the Cable Guy feature. [Oct 2006, p.142]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. kenc
    10
    the best show i have ever seen and love the the new one big 10 hear
  2. BillM
    8
    I am an old Seger fan. The album starts off great with classic Seger michigan rock n roll, it soon slows down to a much more reflective and contemplative set of tunes that seem to be testimonials to a hard life and the struggles that come with life under a spotlight. In the end he seems tired, but none the less this IS Bob at his finest, just eleven years later.… Expand
  3. ToddW
    6
    It's good to hear one of the most distinctive voices in rock after too long a period of self-imposed exile. That being said, what he9;s doing colloborating with the drowning man at the bottom of the talent pool is beyond me. I guess he felt he owed him after he crashed the gate at the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and inducted Seger. Their duet must have made Vince Gill wish he had never written the song. Promise me, Bob, we won't have to face that horror again.… Expand
  4. JacobS
    3
    While Blender seemed a bit off with their review (I think that he probably tried, but has simply lost his sense of songwriting), I have to agree with them for once. It just seems stale. Everything feels like I've heard it a million times before. Like someone else said, it's severely lacking urgency.… Collapse

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