yearnings of adolescence" and saying that Seger matched Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart in vocal expressiveness. Cash Box said that the song is "based on standard, emotive rock ’n’ roll chords played on acoustic guitar, dressed up with keyboards, a soulful backing chorus and of course Seger’s throaty voice." Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn said that "this Van Morrison-influenced slice back-seat sensuality" may be the song to return Seger to the Top 10 after an 8 year absence. In his 1979 volume Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, famed rock critic Greil Marcus selected the single "Night Moves" for inclusion on same, writing simply: "The mystic chords of memory." Paul Evans, in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, writes: "[It] is not only Seger's best song, but one of rock's most moving exercises in elegy." Seger, for his part, has claimed that "Night Moves" is his favorite song he ever wrote, and that he continued to try and replicate it years afterward. Accolades "Night Moves" was named by Rolling Stone as Best Single of the Year for 1977 and was included in their list of the Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No. 301. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Seger's only such selection. Music video Filmmaker Gary Weis produced an unofficial music video for "Night Moves" that aired on Saturday Night Live in January 1977. In 1994, nearly 20 years after the original song was released, an official accompanying music video was released. Directed by Wayne Isham, it was set in a drive-in movie theater in the early 1960s; it interspersed footage of Seger performing in a present-day version of the drive-in (seemingly, now abandoned) with various vignettes featuring characters described in the song. Matt LeBlanc, a friend of Isham's, was in the starring role, prior to his debut in Friends; he later claimed that he was drunk through the whole video, having shared a bottle of tequila with Seger in the musician's motorhome immediately before the shoot. Also featured in the video was Daphne Zuniga of Melrose Place. In the video, Zuniga's dark, edgy young woman becomes an object of visual fascination for LeBlanc's clean-cut young man. Johnny Galecki and Natasha Gregson Wagner also appear in the video as a young couple. Personnel Credits are adapted from Mix Magazine and