Three Time Loser/Alright For An Hour/All In The Name Of Rock & Roll/Drift Away/Stone Cold Sober/I Don't Want To Talk About It/Its Not The Spotlight/This Old Heart Of Mine/Still Love You/Sailing
Atlantic Crossing is where Rod Stewart started to put aside the good time rocking image of The Faces, replaced instead by a more polished ballad dominated sound. Features the UK No. 1 hit single Sailing. (US:9 UK:1)
“With this album, he seems to turn his back on his rock roots and Faces sound for one more polished sound. This is still a good collection of songs, and let's not forget that amazing voice that turned everyone on in the first place.”
“Atlantic Crossing is a good but not great LP, patchily inconsistent like so many of his albums, but with an intuitive and sympathetic production, it helped pave the way for future success and excess, much of which is inferior to what he achieved here.”
“All the soul is gone. All the rock is gone. But yet it still isn't totally cheese soaked in the way that his following albums would be. It's quite an oddball, or transitional piece.”
“The first half is pretty much straight out rock ‘n’ roll, not much different from what he was doing with The Faces, but perhaps with lengthier guitar solos. Its foot-tapping stuff but hardly essential listening. But its on the ballads that Stewart shines showing what a great interpretive singer he is.”
“Only somebody as crass as Rod would have a fast side and a slow side and name them such. But then he goes and writes something like Still Love You and you have to forgive him everything.”
“The title refers to Stewart's abandonment of England for the USA, and the music followed suit. Produced by Tom Dowd and backed by a number of Muscle Shoals musicians, he moved to a more polished pop sound, yet maintained much of the energy found in his earlier recordings. The song selection is well matched to Stewart's emotional, raspy voice, including several bluesy originals.”
“When taken as a whole, this probably is the best recording that Rod did for Warner. Personally, I think all of the albums have their moments, but this one stands out a bit more as a completely solid effort
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