- rock, soft rock
- 38 min
- 8 tracks
- Arista
Boats Against the Current is a 1977 album by Eric Carmen. The title is taken from a line in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” It was Carmen's second solo LP, after the Raspberries disbanded. It peaked at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 for the week ending October 8, 1977.
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Spare, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- A1Boats Against the Current4:28
- A2Marathon Man3:59
- A3Nowhere to Hide5:03
- A4Take It or Leave It4:01
- B1Love Is All That Matters4:20
- B2She Did It3:50
- B3I Think I Found Myself4:24
- B4Run Away8:02
8 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Eric Carmen
- Label
- Arista
- Released
- 1977
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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