I Can't Stand It (Eric Clapton song)

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"I Can't Stand It"
Vinyl cover of "I Can't Stand It" (1981) by Eric Clapton.png
Single by Eric Clapton
from the album Another Ticket
B-side "Black Rose"
Released13 February 1981 [1]
Recorded1980
Genre Rock
Length4:08
Label RSO
Songwriter(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 . On the record label for the vinyl 45, its credited as Eric Clapton and His Band. It was also used for interludes on Bill O'Reilly's radio show, The Radio Factor .

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Reception

Record World called it a "dark, driving rocker with Clapton's vocal lurking ominously around drum spanks & keyboard textures." [2]

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 song's "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". [3] William Ruhlman of AllMusic recalls that I Can't Stand It "held up well". [4]

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. [5] The song reached No. 15 in Canada. By 1981, Broadcast Music, Inc. measured more than one million broadcasts of the song, earning Clapton a special recognition certificate. [6]

Personnel

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Canada (CHUM) [7] 7
Canada (RPM) [8] 15
France (IFOP) [9] 62
Israel (IBA) [10] 1
Italy (AFI) [11] 99
Japan ( Oricon ) [12] 84
US Billboard Hot 100 [13] 10
US Top Rock Tracks (Billboard) [14] 1
Year-end chart (1981)Rank
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard) [15] 67

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  2. ↑ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. February 21, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
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  4. ↑ Ruhlmann, William. "Another Ticket – Eric Clapton | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
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  14. ↑ "Eric Clapton Chart History (Mainstream Rock Songs)". Billboard. March 20, 1981. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Number One Awards – Billboard's 1981 Year-End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 51. December 26, 1981. p. YE-9. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
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