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词条 Fire Lake
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  1. Background and writing

  2. Production

  3. Chart performance

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  4. References

{{Infobox song
| name = Fire Lake
| cover = Bob Seger Fire Lake single.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
| album = Against the Wind
| B-side = Long Twin Silver Line
| released = January 1980
| format = 7" vinyl
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Rock, heartland rock
| length = 3:30
| label = Capitol
| writer = Bob Seger
| producer = Bob Seger and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
| prev_title = Old Time Rock and Roll
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Against the Wind
| next_year = 1980
}}

"Fire Lake" is a song written and recorded by the American musical artist Bob Seger. He had planned to record "Fire Lake" for his 1975 album Beautiful Loser, but the track was not finished. The song had been partly written years before, in 1971{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}, and was finally finished in 1979 and released in 1980 on Seger's album Against the Wind. The single reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] A live version of the song appeared on the album Nine Tonight, released in 1981.

Background and writing

Seger and colleagues decided to make "Fire Lake" the first single from Against the Wind because it was "totally and unequivocally unlike anything I'd ever done before."{{fact|date=October 2018}}

  • "The lyric is very ... different ... and very kind of unique. It's about taking risks. About risking love, chucking it all and just heading off with a bunch of wild people, whatever.{{fact|date=October 2018}}
  • "It is one of my favorite lyrics down through the years, and the track is very unusual. It's sort of an R&B meets country kind of thing.{{fact|date=October 2018}}
  • "I really wanted it to be the first single but I never thought Capitol would agree to it, and I believe it was Punch (Andrews, Seger's manager and often co-producer) who talked them into it. What I liked about it was that it broke new ground for us. It really showed that we were unafraid to push the envelope of what we were doing before, which was basically pretty hot rock and roll, you know, with a few ballads thrown in."{{fact|date=October 2018}}

Music critic Maury Dean describes the song as an "ominous ballad" about "4th of July fireworks."[2] Dean praises the song's intensity, Seger's vocal and the "nifty" minor chords the song uses.[2] Dean speculates that the title may not be entirely figurative, as there may be a hidden reference to a midwestern body of water which literally caught fire, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio.[2]

Production

Three of the Eagles provided the backing vocals for this track: Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit. Seger's recording engineer David Cole makes reference to the song on his website when he talks of his history with Seger: "I was there when the Eagles sang 'Who wants to go to Fire Lake?' and many other great moments during the Stranger in Town album".[3]

Chart performance

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Weekly charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[4]57
Belgian VRT Top 3021
Canadian RPM Top 1003
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks4
Dutch Singles Chart26
New Zealand Singles Chart18
U.S. Billboard Hot 1006
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks31
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Year-end charts

Chart (1980)Rank
Canada RPM Top 100[5]22
US Billboard Hot 10068
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References

1. ^{{cite book |title= Top Pop Songs: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=218}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=Rock 'n' Roll Gold Rush|author=Dean, Maury|page=359|year=2003|publisher=Algora Publishing|isbn=087586208X}}
3. ^{{cite web|accessdate=24 May 2014 |url=http://www.davidcolemusic.com/ |title=David Cole homepage |publisher=Davidcolemusic.com}}
4. ^{{cite book |last=Kent |first=David |authorlink=David Kent (historian) |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |year=1993 |publisher=Australian Chart Book |isbn=0-646-11917-6}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.0272&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 |title=Top 100 Singles (1980)|publisher=RPM |accessdate=21 July 2017}}
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