The Bob Seger System : Mongrel

 

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BOB SEGER 

Mongrel 

is the third 

studio album 

by American

 rock band 

The Bob Seger System 

released in 1970. 

During its

 four-week run

 on the 

Billboard 200 chart, 

The album entered 

the chart

 at the end

 of October 1970,

 then rose to

 number 171 

two weeks later.

Critical Reception

Rolling Stone 

reviewed

 Mongrel 

on

 January 7, 1971.

 Ben Edmonds

 called the album 

"...easily Seger's best work to date,

 but there are still some 

crucial musical problems 

he must come to grips with

 if he is to realize

 the tremendous potential 

he displayed on 

his earlier 

Cameo-Parkway singles

 most notably

 'Heavy Music' 

and

 'Persecution Smith'

 Edmonds continued: 

"Seger writes marvelous

 rock and roll songs

 in the virile

 1965 mold, 

somewhat of a

 lost art these days." 

The band itself,

 however, 

he said, is

 "like Mountain"

 and "often 

degenerates into

 'heavy' overstatements 

of the most clichéd sort."

 Edmonds called

 "Lucifer"

 the strongest cut 

on the album,

but his review

 may have had a 

dampening effect

 on sales

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