Mongrel is the third studio album by Americanrockbandthe 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,[3] then rose to number 171 two weeks later.[4]
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,[5] but his review may have had a dampening effect on sales.[citation needed]
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