I Can't Stand It

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"I Can't Stand It"
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Single by Eric Clapton
from the album Another Ticket
B-side "Black Rose"
Released February 11, 1981
Format 7"
Recorded 1980
Genre Rock
Length 4:08
Label RSO
Writer(s) Eric Clapton
Producer(s) Tom Dowd
Eric Clapton singles chronology
"Blues Power (Live)"
(1980)
"I Can't Stand It"
(1981)
"Another Ticket"
(1981)

"I Can't Stand It" was the first single from Eric Clapton's 1981 album Another Ticket. Besides becoming a pop hit in its own right, reaching No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was also the first No. 1 song on Billboard's Top Tracks chart for rock songs, which debuted in March 1981. It stayed at the summit for two weeks.[1] The song reached #15 in Canada. It was also used for interludes on Bill O'Reilly's radio show, The Radio Factor.

Critical reception

AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald recalls the song as "one of Eric Clapton's biggest hits from the early '80s" and found "this song found him continuing, in his words, to be as much a musicologist as a musician." Greenwald goes on to saying that the songs "lyrics have a venomous jealousy, and they are some of Clapton's most literate of the period". He rounded his review up by saying that "musically, some classic, almost Booker T. & the M.G.'s-styled chord changes highlight the driving tempo, providing Clapton with a huge hit".[2] William Ruhlman of AllMusic recalls that I Can't Stand It "held up well".[3]

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Canada (CHUM)[4] 7
Canada (RPM)[5] 15
France (IFOP)[6] 62
Israel (IBA)[7] 1
Italy (AFI)[8] 99
Japan (Oricon)[9] 84
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 10
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[11] 1

See also

References

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