Out of Order (Rod Stewart album)

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Out of Order

Studio album by Rod Stewart

Released

May 1988

Genre

Rock

Length

96:51

Label

Warner Brothers / WEA

Producer

Rod Stewart, Andy Taylor

Professional reviews

Rod Stewart chronology

Every Beat of My Heart
(1986)

Out of Order
(1988)

The Best of Rod Stewart
(1989)

Out of Order is the 15th album by Rod Stewart, released in 1988. It features the hit singles Lost In You, Forever Young, My Heart Can't Tell You No and Crazy About Her. The album was produced by guitarist Andy Taylor, bassist Bernard Edwards, and drummer Tony Thompson (though only Taylor was credited as a producer besides Rod) [1].

1 Critical Reception
2 Chart Success
3 Track listing
4 External links

[edit] Critical Reception

The album was considered by many critics a return to form after a series of less successful albums. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music Guide called it "well-constructed" and, Rolling Stone magazine called it a "confident, well-written, high-voltage work".

[edit] Chart Success

The album reached #20 on The Billboard 200, eventually going 2x Platinum, which made the album Stewart's best-selling album of the 80s.

Each single released from the album went to the Top 20 of either the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the Adult Contemporary chart, or the Billboard Hot 100. The most successful single was "My Heart Can't Tell You No", which reached the Top 5 of both the Adult Contemporary and Billboard Hot 100.[2] The album had four charting hits in the U.S., and the two biggest were "My Heart Can't Tell You No" at #4 and "Crazy About Her" at #11.