Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen (1984) - €5,99

Eric Carmen is the fifth album by rock and roll musician Eric Carmen. It was also his second self-titled LP after the 1975 album of the same name.

The album spent ten weeks on the U.S. Billboard album charts and reached its peak position of #128 in early March 1985. 

It contained one Top 40 hit single, "I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips," which peaked at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same month. The song was also a medium adult contemporary hit in both the United States (#10) and Canada (#17). "Spotlight" was featured as the B side of the 45 RPM."I'm Through With Love" was a minor follow-up hit in the U.S., reaching #87 on Billboard.

Eric Carmen's second self-titled album (his first came in 1975 ) sinks deep into the love-song quagmire without any attempts at freeing itself. Scoring a Top 40 hit with the sultry, bedroom essence of "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips," Carmen took his lush romanticism to extremes, combing each track with gentle, tender lyrics that equal that of what Air Supply or Bread hold in their repertoire. 

Songs like "She Remembered" and "Come Back to My Love" are average relationship-gone-awry type of ballads best saved for a rainy night, while "American as Apple Pie" resuscitates the album for a brief moment with its sweetened rock charm. Although it was his first album after signing with Geffen, it only went as high as number 128 on the charts, with the second single, "I'm Through With Love," peaking at number 87. 

Three years after Eric Carmen was released, he showed that could bustle things up a bit with "Hungry Eyes" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, the song that gave him his first Top Ten single of the decade.

Side A

A1. I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips - 3:12  

A2. I'm Through With Love - 4:00  

A3. American As Apple Pie - 3:46  

A4. Living Without Your Love - 4:02  

A5. Come Back To My Love - 3:36  

Side B

B1. She Remembered - 4:28  

B2. You Took Me All The Way - 3:34  

B3. Maybe My Baby - 3:38  

B4. Spotlight - 4:10  

B5. The Way We Used To Be - 3:16  

Companies, etc.

• Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – The David Geffen Company
• Copyright (c) – The David Geffen Company
• Distributed By – CBS Records

Credits

• Arranged By – Eric Carmen
• Coordinator [Production] – Elaine Black, Roz Schrank
• Design – Tommy Steele
• Engineer – Arnie Rosenberg, Dale Peters, Don Gehman, Jim Bell, Tony D'Amico
• Mastered By [Originally] – Greg Fulginiti
• Photography By – Victoria Pearson
• Producer – Bob Gaudio (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B5), Don Gehman (tracks: A3, A4)
• Remix – Don Gehman (tracks: A1, A2, B2)
• Written-By – Dean Pitchford (tracks: A1, A3), Eric Carmen (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B5) 

Notes

Release:  1984

Format:  LP

Genre:  Soft Rock

Label:  Geffen Records

Catalog#  GEF 26056

Prijs:  €5,99

Vinyl:  VG

Hoes:  VG

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