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Against the Wind (album)

Against the Wind
Bob Seger - Against the Wind.jpg
Studio album by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Released February 25, 1980 (1980-02-25)
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock
Length 40:24
Label Capitol
Producer Bob Seger, Punch Andrews, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Bill Szymczyk
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band chronology
Stranger in Town
(1978)
Against the Wind
(1980)
Nine Tonight
(1981)
Singles from Against the Wind
  1. "Fire Lake"
    Released: February 1980
  2. "Against the Wind"
    Released: April 1980
  3. "You'll Accomp'ny Me"
    Released: July 1980
  4. "The Horizontal Bop"
    Released: October 1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
The Boston Phoenix Unfavorable
Robert Christgau C+
Los Angeles Times Favorable
The New York Times Favorable
Rolling Stone Unfavorable
Smash Hits 5/10

Against the Wind is the eleventh album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his fourth with the Silver Bullet Band. It was released in February 1980. It is Seger's only number-one album to date, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top LPs chart, knocking Pink Floyd's The Wall from the top spot.

Against the Wind was an immediate commercial success, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in its third week and remaining there for five weeks behind Pink Floyd's The Wall before reaching No. 1 and holding the top position for six weeks. By late 1981 the album sold 3.7 million copies in the United States and was certified 5x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2003.

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the album Against the Wind and Capitol Records art director Roy Kohara won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.

Rock critic Dave Marsh, writing for Rolling Stone, strongly criticized the album as a betrayal of Seger's longtime fans: "I'd like to say that this is not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well" saying that Seger had crafted "failureproof songs that are utterly listenable and quite meaningless." Marsh had followed Seger since before Night Moves, when Seger finally gained national fame, and said in his review that Seger's long, tireless struggle to stardom is trivialized by this record. "He had to fight hard to prove there was still a place in rock & roll for a guy like him, and, with Night Moves, he won. This is the LP that makes such a victory meaningless ... It makes me sad, and it makes me angry (another emotion that's disappeared here, though it's often fueled Seger's finest work)."


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