Bluesbreakers

This album was fairly basic, but an enjoyable listen. Fav track: Another Man

Other than the "new" guitar tone that this album inspired, I never got this record. zzzzzzzz.

нормально, хоть и не мой жанр

White Men Play Blues That's it. Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom duh-duh-duuuuuuh

It's a cool album, the feeling and the vibes are there. However, it's also kind of generic, they sound like The Yardbirds without any distinctive songs or touch.

Why is almost every blues album on this list made by a bunch of white guys

Nice but I don’t like guitar led blues.

whitest blues music ever

Tasokas albumi, vaikkei mitenkään erikoisesti potkinut tunteisiin.

Much blues

Love when white British people (the white people of white people) play black american music. It definitely sounds whiter.

I find this interesting from a historical perspective. There was so much happening in 66: pop and psychedelic rock were coming on strong, as was folk-rock; prog was just around the corner. And then there was blues rock from the UK which featured a heavier version of what Muddy Waters & John Lee Hooker were doing at the time. John Mayall's voice is a bit thin for me, but the guitar playing is great.

Its the blues. it's fine - but honestly, people who listen to the blues - don't you get bored of the I – IV – V chord progression eventually? If you think about it - blues is one of the LEAST creative or imaginative genres out there. I was somewhat weirded out by the 'Little Girl' song - "You're gonna be mine, little girl You've been through 18 years of pain You're gonna be mine, little girl You've been through 18 years of pain I'm gonna give you a love, child You won't feel bad again" Yeah - nope. Musically, it's fine.

Not bad, but not my thing. Lots of Beatles riffs like Daytripper and paperback writer.

Pretty catchy early blues rock. 3.5/5

Some good blues, I like Clapton's playing, but for some reason it wore thin quickly, and started to feel really self indulgent. And then it just kept going.

Clearly talented but gets into virtuoso wankery territory and just becomes exhausting.

This album is something that finally breaks out of the classic rock mold I've been in for the last week. Blues/psych rock is definitely more my speed. While this album is a little samey and doesn't have some of the same nostalgic highs that Queen or Lynard Skynard may have it also doesn't have their lows. Some songs may outstay their welcome as well (looking at you What'd I Say), but this album still deserves a listen. Best Songs: Have You Heard Worst Songs: What'd I Say

I like blues but the album got a bit repetitive, excellent drum solo though

23/8

The guitars are screaming

This was fine.

The playing is on point, the singing is fine, but a little bit of the whole Blues by way of jolly old England schtick goes a long way for me.

Du bon blues rock, musique respectable, mais pas trop mon genre

Not heard it before, but glad I have. It was ok. But to quote Plan B…..it’s hard to separate the man from the music.

Didn't really have anything against it, always love that bluesy sound, but also wasn't the one I would come running back to.

Clapton and some other white British guys can technically play the blues here, but there’s no emotion in it.

For my ear, a generic blues album. Nothing hugely exciting or ground breaking but decent housework music or something to have a few drinks and a chat over.

Standard blues-y fare, but Clapton on guitar. It's hard to believe that it's close to 60 years ago now. But the simplicity of the songs for the most part does date it. Cream did "Steppin' Out" a lot better than this version, I thought. It's interesting to hear the beginnings of what became some of the biggest acts in the world. But as a musical piece of history, it just sounds like that. I never got the whole "Clapton is God" thing. Don't get me wrong, I always thought he was great, but deifying him seemed a bit much. Particularly listening to what he was doing here. So it's of musical significance for history, but I don't see myself coming back to this.

Yawn. Clapton is one of the greatest guitar players of all time and make no mistake he is good on this album. The harmonica is lively on Parchman Farm and It Ain't Right. But the rest of it didn't really grab me. It mostly just blended into the background. Hideaway was kind of cool. Notable drum solo on What'd I Say but more long (and capable) than knock your socks off. Found myself waiting for the album to end on a second listen.

I used to poke fun at the boy bands that use the word baby a lot but now I see where it originated. I was trying to count how many times it was used in the opening track. I think I counted 14. I’ve heard a lot of great things about this album, but I have to say that it was a little underwhelming compared to expectations. I liked the first harmonica track, “Another Man.” “What’d I Say” had a pretty good groove going with a nice drum solo and a riff stolen from Day Tripper. I thought the horns in “Key to Love” were a bit tacky but the guitar solo was pretty killer. “Have You Heard” which has another great solo begins with the question “Have you heard about my baby?” Well yes, quite a bit actually on side 1, Track 1. All joking aside, there are some moments of great blues on here but I don’t think it’s a solid album all the way through and doesn’t really make me want to check out the rest of the John Mayall Blues Breakers albums.

Good musicianship all around, but I find straight blues kind of boring. I don't dislike hearing tracks like these here or there, but a whole album of them is a little much for me.

fun listen. 3.5/5

Too much harmonica and the solos are too long for my taste...

Some pretty questionable lyrics, which would probably be changed nowadays, but good music and very interesting to hear such early Clapton work.

Not bad, very Clapton-esque thanks to his involvement.

Interesting album, like the blues feel. Much better than the last Eric Clapton album.

Not bad, not exceptional. Worse than #99 but not 2/5 worse.

nice guitars guys keep on

Det är bra bra album

Blues standards with the legend himself. Good sounds and great guitar and harmonica work. A tad too long though with no major song standing out.

Sure

Good album

Notable for it's inclusion of Eric Clapton on Guitar, this offers plenty of fun blues tunes, but not all of it sticks. Favourites: "All Your Love", "Hideaway", "Little Girl"

And a good time was had by all. Will stick it as a 3 because I didn't think enough tracks had the quality of All Your Love but I'd happily stick this album in my collection and have stuff come on shuffle without objection, even if I didn't actively return to listen to it on its own.

I like this - 3/5, pushing a 4. Feels quite ahead of its time. Wouldn't complain if this came on, have listened to it a few times now ahead of moving on to the next one. Good energy, nice mix of songs and sounds, a couple of more ballad-like songs, some cracking guitar (Steppin' Out in particular). Folksy Beatles, very pleasant.

I dig it. Great performances all around. Listening to Clapton feels kind of gross at this point but if I set that aside this is a great blues rock album.

bara fínt

Meh.

Solid blues licks. Won't return to it but I enjoyed it.

Nothing special but a few good tunes.

Competent blues played by a bunch of white British dudes

very white people blues Eric Clapton is cool tho 3.5

Decent but not essential.

Yeah

Pretty tasty

Straight vibes I liked some of the solo stuff

Pretty generic blues album, nothing really stood out to me here. The guitar work is good throughout (featuring Clapton in places). The cover of What'd I Say had a bit of a strange extended drum solo in the middle that dragged on for a bit. Overall solid, but not overly memorable.

Decent blues album

Bom blues

neke pisme cu vjerojatno opet slusan, ali album sveukupno me malo izmorio, postalo monotono

White men's blues with notable nobhead and wife pincher Eric Clapton. Does what it says on the tin. Best Tracks: Key To Love; Have You Heard Steppin' Out

Ok

Pretty standard blues album. Not bad actually. Not my most favourite genre however. Good tunes and nice lyrics

It's hot! It serves sexyness! Liked it.

It's fine, it's a bunch of British white guys playing blues rock. Maybe it was a stepping stone in rock's evolution, but now it's a culturally irrelevant relic. It might be noteworthy for huge Clapton fans, but as someone who feels like he didn't become relevant until Cream and had rapidly diminishing returns afterwards, it doesn't wow me.

Great blues my album. Some songs a bit timid and not up to the the level of the classics but on the whole an ok album

Rating: 6/10

I think the guitar playing was very impressive and also advanced for this time. However other than that nothing really shined out to me and I thought it was alright.

Like Jack Black of Tenacious D said: "don't confuse the art..with the artist!" - although that's often difficult - referring to Clapton the racist anti-science lunatic, to be clear. Looking at this objectively (even before learning more than i ever wanted to about that idiot) - even as a guitar player since forever i've never been in the Clapton-is-God camp. Probably a taste thing, but for me his songwriting was almost always crap, even if he could lay down a blues riff (which goes only so far ....zzzz). But so here it's mostly covers so I need a new excuse here. Some 50+ years later it's probably hard to understand the impact this might have had - I know this album was a huge influence on a ton of musicians that I love and guitar players in particular; this type of heavy rock+blues had never been done or at least on a popular scale before. Clapton's solos are definitely the reason this is on the list; 1966 probably didn't find many solos like this so I'll give full credit for being a forerunner. Overall it just gets a little ... same-ish after a while but being fair, it's a fine album, just not one that i need to play over and over. 7/10 3 stars on a personal level. probably worthy of 4+ for historic purposes.

Le blues c'est toujours la même chose lol

Clapton surcoté mais c'est pas sa pire période Prefs: All Your Love, What I'd Say, Parchman Farm, Steppin' Out, It Ain't Right Moins pref: Another Man, Clapton

1966. All Your Love, Key To Love

I don't want to focus too much on the fact that this is another attempt by a bunch of white people to do blues music, but as I listen on this seemingly soulless version of blues (a quality that I also observed in Elvis Presley's self-titled cover album), I think I might want to change my mind. But ultimately, I just listened to it. It still has the immediate catchy-ness of blues songs. It's an ok album overall, not that offensive. I guess Eric Clapton's guitar works had a huge impact in this album as a whole. I enjoyed his riffs and solos. I guess I know now why he is one of those big names when it comes to guitarists. Again, an ok album. Not coming back to it, but maybe I'll give myself a spin of the first two tracks (my personal highlights) sometimes. Both "All Your Love" and "Hideaway" are covers though, but Clapton's guitar works here are awesome.

Not familiar with John Mayall & the Blues Breakers, but they sounded like what I would expect from the look and name, I suppose. It was a decent listening experience and I found some moments of joy and some moments of boredom. Overall, not particularly special for me. I could see enjoying listening to a live band in a bar playing this style music, but I don't think I have enough fondness to keep in my library.

I decent blues album with a variety of styles. Much more a John Mayall album than an Eric Clapton album.

Ideal treehouse listening

Quite neutral on this one

Docking a point cuz Clapton’s a racist POS. But overall this was one of the better blues albums I’ve heard in a while.

Pitkästä aikaa oikein perinteistä bluesia, tai ainakin sellaista miksi itse bluesin miellän. Tidalista löytynyt levyn versio olikin projektin kannalta kätevä, kun siinä oli ensin koko levy monona ja perään stereona, meni mukavasti ilman nauhan alkuun kelaamista! Kun huomasin levyn tekijöissä Eric Claptonin, koitin kuunnella kitarointia vähän sillä korvalla, mutta en minä siitä nyt mitään sen erikoisempaa fiilistä saanut. Kolme plus

Blah

Despite having many great moments musically, this album feels empty. The style is interesting, but there is no substance: it doesn't convey a message, tell a story, or put the listener in a different mood.

Old blues album but not really my thing. Not a huge Clapton fan since he's a mediocre singer. Has Ray Charles cover in it too. 6/10.

I like it when it's not too self-indulgent. A stripped down version would score higher.

a little too bluesy and old fashioned for my tastes. Definitely good though. 3

The Blues just ain't my thing. 3 stars

Not a bad listen

Kann man dich mal anhören, ganz nett. 3,5 Sterne

It was okay, but I don't think I'll be revisiting this one.

12/01/2021 Today's Album: "Bluesbreakers" by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - I had this album on in the background and I think that was a great way to listen to it. Lots of classic blues chord progressions with expert music playing over them and insane solos, many of which are from the GOD Eric Clapton. There's a funky organ the whole thing just sounds like classic blues. This album is great road-trip music or an album to have playing while you do chores or something. That being said, I was bobbing my head in agreement to a lot of the solos which must mean I liked it. Score: 6/10 decent Highlights: None in particular. I'd put all of the songs in the 'decent' category equally

Some white British blues performing blues standards. Some quality playing from Mayall, Clapton, McVie and Flint, but I don't think it lives up to the hype about how influential and important this album is. It's a fine recording, but I wouldn't deem it essential, though that is debatable.

Meh

Just alright. Not really noteworthy.

A bit uneven, both by quality and by genre. Would have preferred more blues.

È il sound degli anni '60 se ne hanno uno. Godibilissimo, senza che emergano particolari canzoni. "It Ain't Right" mi è particolarmente piaciuta.

Clapton doing what he does best, shutting up and playing.

This has all the hallmarks of outdated 60s shit (nothing but cover songs, musicians I'm sick of hearing about, etc) but it IS pretty bluesy in a good way, and Clapton can play for sure. That's a nice tone and they clearly all knew what they were doing. Got a bit boring after a while though, pretty jammy and at the end of the day not much variation between songs. Would have been a 2/5 but I feel a need to offset all the idiots going "omg white people playing the blues how typically racist" as if different cultures haven't been ripping each other off for millenia. 3/5.

Solid tunes, nothing to write home about.

3/5

The Blues just ain't my thing. 3 stars

like blues?

I really enjoyed aspects of this album, some of the songs were really fun but I have to say 40 mins of unrelenting 12 bar blues is a bit much. Also, I just feel like its cheating in song writing, the SAME chord sequence over and over again but in just a different key and about a different woman who wronged you. But really enjoyed the first 2-3 songs. Hmm. Confusing

I can tell it was influenced by black people. Didn’t like the first song but the middle of the album made up for it. Kinda got bored at the end

011021 18:46 3

Decent blues. Good drumming.

Bah, normal 3.

Not bad. But I sold an inherited copy of the record recently, ergo not that good either

It’s hard to disagree with the talent on display and the toes sure do tap but boy does it feel awkward hearing these art school white boys singing the blues.

Vary nais.. Very chill... Sounds like a 3/5

A fairly entertaining listen. The guitar work is obviously top notch. But most of the album is standards and I've heard better versions elsewhere. The non-standards are ok.

Я не успел

Creo que está entre bien y muy bien el disco pero no me atrapo Le pondría 3.5

The first album to master blues rock which would dominate hard rock for decades to come. Establishes Eric Clapton as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, even before his Cream and solo careers. Great vocals that match the blues genre, and excellent drums, but again the guitar is the star here. Being such an early 60s album, it's full of filler (my pleasure derived from just Clapton showing off), but even those are worth studying for Blues Rock 101.

Pretty good blues actually, I enjoyed! Very easy listen.

Bluesy!

It’s a fine album, some tracks are amazing and others are decent

Loved it.

Did not know of this band, but sounds like they were a supergroup that split into several leading bands of the next few decades. Hideaway is a great song. Little Girl - Obligatory 18 years old if you know what I mean reference/vibe, very of its time but great music. Album picked up from here on out here big time. Another Man is a great song, very blues Double Crossing Time - piano is beautiful here and great guitar and vocals What’d I Say - "Tell your momma, tell your pa / Gonna move you back to Arkansas" love this style of song Parchman Farm - love harmonica and these american blues/folk songs about "random" places and events Ramblin’ on My Mind - really like this song love the instrumental songs they are all great. It Ain’t Right like a lot of these songs are very trope blues lyrics wise but then again it is 1966 but I love it. Mid to high 3, possibly a 4 but would need to listen again but I think 3 is fair considering it is not my usual type of music but I really really enjoyed it

Generic blues. Good album. Nothing stand out. Heard and played this style a million times before and it’s nothing new.

Perfectly solid work

3.9

Decent standard blues record

A decent blues album. Unfortunately I don’t particularly care for Eric Clapton’s guitar playing.

Very guitar heavy blues album from the mid 60s. The word jangly kept coming to mind when listening to the group jump back and forth between takes on Blues standards of the time and their own original work. A young Clapton killing it as the lead guitarist is definitely the standout on the album for me. Very fun album but never felt incredibly essential or meaningful which is why I kept it at a 3 instead of maybe giving it a 4.

Bluesy. With Eric Clapton. Lots of sax

Not suprisingly, some really good blues tracks.

Good sounds. Just edgy enough for the times.

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton's first fully realized album as a blues guitarist -- more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

A fun blues-rock romp, and a nice look at some the earliest musings of the genre, but it isn't an album that Ill be coming back to in full very often.

3/5 chillish blues, but ultimately not that good.

Some funky blues. Some of it reminded me of The Black Keys

It wasn't bad, but I guess I wasn't drawn to it.

Love a bit of blues. Not something I’d return to that much, but enjoyed the guitar skills.

A good old, classic blues rock album.

Mad skills.

This is blues through and through. Great guitar and electric organ. Blues is great in person, but just is not my bag for headphones listening. I did enjoy the presence of Clapton.

I'm sure this is a great example of blues but I just find it a bit forgettable. It ain't right is a banger though

very unobtrusive

3.3 - Is this British dudes ripping off electrified American blues music and amping up the lead guitar? Hey, I know this sound! Some masterful playing on here; however, if you duck into any dive bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans on a Wednesday night, you can hear this music played live while you drink a $3 Budweiser.

Perfectly inoffensive, some good sounds, and great playing from the band. I probably won't revisit it, but I am sure it belongs on the list for being some earlier Bluesy classic rock.

“Blues Breakers” by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers (1966) This album is an essential piece of the history of recorded music. Featuring guitar work by Eric Clapton and bass performance by John McVie (later the “Mac” of Fleetwood Mac), “Blues Breakers” helped carry African American blues through England, and then into the cultural consciousness of the late twentieth century musical world. And it arrived just in time to serve as a cultural corrective to the Anglo-American ‘victory years’. What is “blues” and why is it important? The blues style is a feature of melodic composition which colors the major chord progression by lowering the expected pitch of the third, fifth, or seventh note by half a tone, giving the song a ‘mournful’ mood, or an ironic accent. Ask a musician to play “Three Blind Mice” with a few “blue” notes thrown in, and it will change forever the way you hear contemporary music. This compositional innovation come through the American South in the 19th century (likely originating in Africa). Slaves and their descendants popularized the style in spirituals, love songs, laments, and ballads. It’s very timely that this album came up for me on a June 19th. Nazis hated the blues, for very good reason. The music here deliberately incorporates blues stylings (frequently including another blues feature, the AAB verse structure—can you identify it?) into songs arranged for rock and roll instrument combinations (drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards). John Mayall’s voice has significant flaws (e.g., he frequently hits the non-blue notes with a flat pitch, seriously diminishing the blues effect). But the keyboard, guitar, and bass consistently deliver classic blues rock. Clapton provides lead blues licks (rapid scales, artful bends and superhuman sustain) with unsurpassed mastery. The drum solo work on “What’d I Say” is very weak, and indicative of the fact that blues rock drumming (think John Bonham of Led Zeppelin) developed later than keyboards and guitars. This is probably not music that you’ll want to play in the background while you work, nor is it catchy or danceable. But it is part of the foundation of much of the music we love. Makes you want to shrug off the temptation to world domination. These guys were pioneers. Good music for when I’m too tight (and too white). 3/5

Sssssokay? Better than some of these albums. The blues aren't my jam, but this was fine? The drum solos were terrible.

it's alright i suppose

Good background blues

This is a fine album, but I'm not sure when I'd want to listen to it. I like Cream better, and if I wanted to listen to blues, I'd rather listen to the original artists.

Yeah good blues

3.5 | Clapton que obviamente es la única razón por la que se recuerda el disco (porque seamos honestos ni sus nietos han de recordar a John Mayall) es un virtuoso, eso lo sabemos, es innegable y sus solos son inventivos, adornados y con amplia habilidad. El disco es muy disfrutable como disco de blues, el pero que le pondría es que hasta ahí llega. Todas las canciones básicamente son estándares de blues viejos tocados de manera competente con un guitarrista excelente; pero guitarristas de blues excelentes hay chingos, hay muchísimas maneras de escuchar estas canciones y si bien este disco es una muy buena no creo ni siquiera que sea la mejor. Recopilación muy buena de blues pero realmente de aquí todavía no se acerca a lo que haría después haciendo sus propias canciones; una cosa es ser virtuoso pero aquí no hay lo inventivo de Layla, ni el impacto de Cocaine, ni el sentimiento de Tears in Heaven ni tantas otras que aparte de lucir su técnica de guitarrista muestran calidad creativa más allá de qué tanto puede torcer los dedos.

Pretty diverse blues sound. Enjoyable.

lots of blues, didn't finish

Love clapton, like classic blues. Feels like a transitional record between stripped down basement blues and rock and roll. Almost happens throughout the records. Is that the Daytripper riff!?

Cool

Feel like this album is only here because of where the members ended up after. Which is significant for sure. So that's blues, eh?

Alright. Songs don't sound that good

Decent old blues/rock big-band album. Solid harmonica jams.

very interesting

Fun bluesy guitar. Not quite a complete package though, feels more like a jam session than an album.

Maybe it’s just blues fatigue, but this record wasn’t one I would put on the “1001 albums you NEED to listen to”... it’s, well, fine? Surely sound like the blues, and that music is so influential on all modern music, but just sounds like a bunch of white dudes cosplaying as Delta musicians

Fun

I think this album is really well done — I've never really listened to blues before, and while it's certainly white people music, it's pretty funky and the harmonica + the beat create a really nice little sound. Again, it's not really my thing, but definitely deserves a 3.

Just found this one kind of boring.

Ég hefði gefið þessu hærri einkunn einhvern tímann, en mér eiginlega leiddist þetta oftar en ekki. Sorrý blúsarar, en ég hendi tvisti á þetta.

Listening session: july 8th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: no Thoughts: a fun percussion solo but otherwise quite boring and not my cup of tea Favourite track: What’d I Say

bluesy guitars that didn't really have the anguish of the blues, so it ended up being kind of dull and just some guys compensating with guitars. Songs about 18 year old girls also put me off. 2 stars

Føles som en man-sku-nok-ha-været-der situation, men altså, jeg gad rigtig godt have set dem spille på en lille pub i midt-60erne!

Sure it's the blues, but it's boring and bland. No soul - just going through the motions.

Clapton has made a lot of good music (Cream, Blind Faith, stuff on Abbey Road, Derek and the Dominoes) but this is not it. I read this was groundbreaking blues guitar work but I kind of have a hard time believing it. It sounds like every other blues song but with distortion.

Sigh. Not my cup of white man tea.

Haven't heard of them except for the elephant in the room. Clapton's side project number 2137 that didn't make a difference in rock history, just like all else he did. The album itself isn't that bad, just your standard blues. And that's the problem, it doesn't do anything interesting or revolutionary. Boring 2/5

I didn't know this band. Not hard to listen to. An OK album.

#F0FFFF

nothing burger

Not really naw

Negative points for Eric Clapton. Fuck that guy. Additional negative points because this is John Mayall, which makes me think of the amazing Rik Mayall. I digress. This is boring boomer music.

Not sure if I was just in a bad mood today, but this album did nothing for me. Sure, some of the harmonica parts were kinda cool, but overall I have already forgotten all of these songs.

British guys singing about Parchman Farm is kind of hilarious. The technical skill/virtuosity here is undeniable. It just feels kind of ... soulless? I know the lines between homage/tribute and appropriation/affectation are much blurrier than they once were, but listening to this in 2026 it just seems... I don't know... exploitative? And that's without even getting into the whole Clapton thing. This is definitely listenable, but pay too close attention and you feel bad for listening to it.

There's nothing wrong with this, per se. I just don't really get the unending appeal of blues. My dad used to talk about how he didn't like The Rolling Stones, "except for some of their early stuff, which was kind of bluesy." He also talked about how he didn't like Sting, "except some of his stuff with The Police, which was kind of bluesy" (which... was it?). He'd play Stevie Ray Vaughan, and I'd listen and think, "Okay." I think that's kind of my position with blues. It's okay, but it's so formulaic that I find it rather droll. In a way, it makes me think of Bach: foundational music that follows too many rules and conventions to really spark my excitement. It irritates me to read that Eric Clapton was sick of the "bubblegum" pop he was making with Yardbirds (!?), and jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with The Bluesbreakers on a true blues album. If ever there was an artist guilty of appropriating Black culture, it's probably Eric "Keep Britain White" Clapton. Fuck that guy.

It's a bit disappointing

I don't care

Basic blues. Nothing special. I would have rather included a B.B. King record, as there is only one album by him on this list and I find that repulsing.

Sounds like pretty standard blues-rock to me. I wouldn't have included this album on this list.

Fucking blues. Apparently in 1966 the genre was already bereft of any original ideas. I’ll begrudgingly give it a point because I really enjoyed the guitar tones if not the performances.

Another one of the many meh albums on this list. I'm sure this was the shit in the 60's, but it isn't as good today. 3stars

If I heard this being played by a band in a pub I would: a) not be surprised b) not go in Almost went for one star because of a horrible drum solo.

Maybe I should like this but it does not move me, and Clapton in particular I have always found a trial. There, I said it.

I like Parchman Farm. The rest is forgettable.

I'm pretty picky when it comes to blues music. This didn't really hit the mark for me. Combine that with the fact that I don't really love Eric Clapton.

Did I need to hear these fuckers play "What'd I say?"? The answer is no. There is only one version of this song that needs to be heard.

men stop writing songs about 18 year olds challenge

huh? the site has the artist listed as john mayall & the bluesbreakers but on the album art it's john mayall with...... hatsune miku??? i didn't know she was that old...... yeah idk what to make of this one really, its a fun blues sound but it doesn't seem that special and generally just passes me by. "parchman farm" stood out the most to me but i think it's cos i paused halfway thru and when i resumed i misheard the drums as a chopped break and thought i'd unpaused the wrong thing. i guess there's some pretty solid guitar work in there too, presumably by the unnamed individual reading the beano on the cover. sure hope he didn't have any massive racist outbursts in the decade following the release of this album..... ok im gonna be real the main thing i got from this album was finding out clapton is an all-time dipshit and apparently also a biffo the bear liking ass bitch. and its been very hard not to think about while listening. so while this feels like it should be an "ascended 2" situation based on my enjoyment of the sound i am just not realistically gonna ever put this one on again cos im just gonna be thinking about how much of a shithead clapton is the whole time it's playing. sorry to the rest of the band i guess,

English blues rock. I guess this is an early example. Same same same and more songs about little girls. 2 .5 rounded down Heard before? Some Owned: No: 71/286 (25%) Will I get: No

Again, everything sounds the same, not a memorable song in sight. Sounds okay.

Siento que ya lo había escuchado como 20 veces:(

More Eric Clapton waaahhnnngaalalalgngnging

Heck, this is so culturally appropriated that they even changed their accents too.

This was a good album. I liked it.

White man blues but England

J'ai trouvé ça pas bien

I'm no fan of the instrumentals for most of the songs, and "Little Girl" really creeped me out. No thanks, it all felt like noise.

Felt very minimal and I liked the blues I wasn’t paying the most attention to it but not too bad

Boring

Complicated. I've written essays on this already (literally, for musicology I wrote this). Competent music, goes really well if you forget Eric Clapton's prejudices etc. Adding a star because I think any chance for people to hear of Robert Johnson is a good thing, and Rambling was the first song I played in a band at the start of a college term. Minus a star for a song called "little girl" - icky

Not my jam

Эрик Клэптон начинал с базы

Serviceable, well-performed blues. Just not something I’m really interested in.

Yawn. This album has all the soul and innovation of a paper towel.

Wasn't great. Heard the guy is racist too, so I didn't finish the album because it wasn't good and I didn't want to support him in any way.

I actually had never listened to John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers before today, but honestly, I can hear Eric Clapton's sound all over this. Still, this often leaned too bluesy and not rock enough for my liking. While Eric Clapton is a total piece of shit, I found myself mostly thinking about him during this album. This seemed to have served as a jumping off point for his transition from Yardbirds sound to Eric Clapton blues-rock sound. I feel like he took what he learned here and improved on it. But back to this album, the blues work here is definitely good, it just didn't wow me, unfortunately. Another 2.-something that just didn't make the cut for rounding up.

Overall: 3/10 The best thing I can day about this album is that it didn't piss me off! Still wasn't good at all though, the mix is terrible, the vocals are annoying and there wasn't anything that stood out about it. John McVie plays bass on it though! Fav Song: What'd I Say

⭐⭐ Skickliga musiker och jag kan uppskatta blues men för mig är detta blues av som saknar den känsla. Det finns ingen grit och jag känner mig oengagerad när jag lyssnar på det, så ska int blues kännas. Bäst är What'd I say men här blir det också tydligt vad som saknas, om man lyssnar på Ray Charles version så hör man känslan som saknas på det här albumet. Tror inte jag kommer ha någon anledning att lyssna på det igen.

Well this got samesy awful quick, didn't it? Also, and I've said this before but it bears repeating, fuck Eric Clapton....

I'm not so into blues, so it's hard for me to objectively evaluate an album like this. Of course Clapton is a monster player, and anyone can appreciate that.

These guys look like the definition of "Bloke". I'm not from the UK, so some other bloke can correct me, but I think the inventor of the word had these guys in mind

Did you know that Britain had a white blues rock scene that Eric Clapton came out of? Cool, 1001 Albums has your back, but not if you want to hear any American blues music that this is a direct and poor copy of because they aren't going to let you hear any of that.

4eme album proposé avec Clapton après un de Cream, un de Derek & the Dominos puis '461 Ocean Boulevard' que j'avais peu appréciés (tous 3 notés 2/5). Cet album est 100 % blues (pas entendu une touche de rock), donc par définition 100 % pas original. En plus une bonne partie de l'album est constitué de reprises ... Aucune chance que je l'écoute une seconde fois, même s'il n'est pas désagréable à écouter. =>2/5

Capable but thoroughly derivative electric blues rock - some nice fuzz tones and generic pentatonic noodling over the classic repertoire of 12 bar blues progressions. You can see how in London in 1966 this was fun for all involved, but it set a dangerous train in motion that's the curse of jam sessions and guitar stores everywhere.

Bland blues with some Clapton genius sparsely sprinkled in. And I like the blues. And Clapton. Dunno....this just didnt hit.

with eric clapton….hmmm, first time listening and blues is just not my cup of tea. Pretty one note, listened to it twice through bc I couldnt find my phone

Yawn.

2.5

Blues isn’t my usual thing but I enjoyed it for what it is

Ladies and gentlemen I don't play no blues I play rock 'n' roll

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So much blues

Didn’t care for this, sounded like a cheap muddy waters rip-off. Plus I can’t stand Eric Clapton so that certainly didn’t help.

I don't enjoy a lot of music from this era, generally. Good for its time, probably. I also don't enjoy anything Eric Clapton has touched. I get the feeling from reading other reviews that he's controversial, and idk why but I just haven't liked any of his work. Didn't enjoy anything by Cream either.

Competent blues, but not outstanding compared to other blues music in the same era.

Good guitar I guess

Blues, nothing special. 4/10

They’re talented but this was a drag

Am I done/over with Clapton? Maybe. I did not finish this album.

Bleh. Some so-so songs, and yeah I guess they’re well-played but it’s done by at least one sack of shit and also just boring.

Minus one because Clapton is an overrated, racist, anti-vaxer.

Yes, Clapton has trashed his own legacy by being such a cretinous arse, but it’s hard to ignore his talent and influence. And yes, this is 'privileged white boy blues', but it’s directly influenced by the original blues players who were (and still to this day, are) openly cited and revered. And there's no escaping the fact that records like this one make up a significant part of the foundations for all the music that defined western popular culture over the last 60+ years. But, while I think this record deserves its place in the list, it makes for inescapably dull listening these days.

No private session used for Spotify. During this 1001 experiment, I have learned that I am not really into the blues..at least white boy blues. It does nothing for me. Also, Clapton can FO.

It's listenable enough but stuck in a weird middle ground. Other than a handful of songs (Steppin' Out, It Ain't Right) it completely loses the vim of the old blues masters and doesn't offer any interesting new interpretations of the blues like Cream or Led Zeppelin would later. I see it's a historically important album. Thank God history progressed fast enough to leave this behind. Leave it to a British band to turn our SACRED American blues into dry toast on beans or whatever these people call food. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2.5

Whatever your feelings are in Clapton, there are two things that are hard to deny about this album. 1. It was incredibly influential 2. It's white boys singing about little girls and picking cotton...so it sucks

Goofy ass music

That sure was 45 minutes of white British men trying to sound like black guys from the American south. I’d rather listen to the real thing… obviously talented musicians but a bunch of nothing for me. 3/10

A slog for me. I just don't have it in me to appreciate this kind of blues rock.

The band is grooving and it's a great sounding record, but it should have been a priority for everyone involved in this project to get someone else to sing. And here's a message to all you politically motivated one-starrers: Go tell Yo-yo Ma he's appropriating white music you RACIST fucking dunces

Was nice enough background For driving.

It was blues alright. Ok listening experience. Best track was Parchman Farm.

Mehhhhhhh. Nothing bad about the production or playing but it’s missing an oomph factor for me

ehhh

Boring cover album

Fairly standard blues rock. Didn't hear anything ground breaking or amazing. It did have one of the most boring drum solos of all times though.

When I compare something like this to CCR, it honestly doesn’t compare. This is a jam band, an excuse to throw shit together with a particular progression and call it blues.

mmm

Give us some real blues please

Only listened to a couple of songs. Straight blues, not that interesting to me.

All your love hits you right out of the gate, good song. I hear so many instrumentals, this was definitely on purpose and well executed

Was not impressed by anything on this record. Felt soulless. The guitar/bass was fine but nothing that has me wanting to revisit it.

I do love some Blue-eyed Soul, but Blue-eyed Blues? Clapton is good, of course, but this album seriously lacks the proper depth and feeling for blues.

Grew tiresome by about the halfway point

White British guys playing and singing the blues has always been a thing. I can tolerate it when it's only one part of a musician's or band's output, like with Led Zeppelin or the Rolling Stones. With these guys, that's all it is. It feels like they are parotting the authentic blues guys. Even if they're very good at it, it's still a facsimile of the real thing. I'd rather listen to Muddy Waters or Howling Wolf, not a bunch of posers. Plus, it's really boring and one dimensional.

Clapton's shredding still does not make this anything more than a snoozefest. Bluesbreakers is right if they mean theyre breaking everything that makes the blues good. British whiteboy blues almost always lacks any real soul, and that's the case here. And Little Girl, yikes. Not an old blues standard, just Mayall being a fucking creep. Steppin Out is fun, the rest of it was a slog

Probably not different enough from real blues to be good.

Tricky one to rate after learning about some context. I enjoyed the album overall, but they were all covers of blues music that ended up feeling distilled. I also found it odd to hear the riff from Day Tripper (a song that had just been released) be just casually dropped in What'd I Say. That cover just made me want to listen to Ray Charles and The Beatles. (doesn't help that these were covers of songs by black artists and that Eric Clapton is a racist)

Kinda average blues rock. I wish I had more to say about it, but not much about it grabbed my attention. The sound is a bit dated, the guitar work could have been way more interesting and the songs just don't pack much interesting writing or anything. There's a couple interesting moments but most of it is in one ear out the other. What'd I Say was building up to be a good song but then it has this terrible drum solo in the middle that ruins its momentum. I liked Hideaway and Steppin Out because they offer some quite passionate performances, but that's about it. Maybe I could even find more arguments to defend it, but Clapton is also a racist douchebag so I don't really feel like doing it.

If you're into blues, it's good stuff. I'm not so into blues as I was before we cancelled Eric Clapton, so while I recognize the tremendous raw talent on this album it's not for me.

brit blues

Eric Clapton: late term abortionist. Good harp honking though.

Eh…

All Your Love

Eh. It was alright.

Unspektakulären und ziemlich durchschnittlichen Album ohne Spirit.

Best Track - "All Your Love"

I understand this man is supposedly one of the greatest guitarists of all time but I just don’t get it. It sounds dated.

Good album but it is difficult to separate the art from the artist with Eric Clapton.

I didn't really like this one. Now I generally do like blues, and the talent is here, with the instrumentals in the earlier songs really standing out. Despite this the songs just aren't very good, Little Girl is particularly creepy.

I don't like blues, so this is hard for me. Ugh, and at least one with saxophone.

Day 73 Didn’t do a great deal for me this 3/10 Highlights Little Girl Another Man

This was painfully generic and mostly covers.

Much like Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, early Rolling Stones, and future Clapton work, the cloud of "white man popularising the black man's music" hangs heavy here. Classic rock & roll, albeit distilled.

I have never liked this stuff.

this was okay, i didn’t give it enough attention probably but it didn’t deeply strike me either

This album… is unfortunately everything I dislike about white blues rock. It’s okay, but it’s terribly overrated and only a couple of degrees above the weekend warriors slopping through easy songs in a corner bar for gas money and free beer.

Bluesalbum verkar det gå 13 på dussinet av på den här listan. Inget som sticker ut i mängden förutom en riktigt lam version av What'd I say, med ett omotiverat trumsolo. Jag lyssande på Ray Charles inspelning direkt efter John Mayall. Det var som att höra Elvis efter att ha lyssnat på Eilert Pilarm.

Bland and a dishonourably discount version of blues

Eric Crapton.

Just ok

Just not a huge blues guitar fan.

Oh great, Eric Clapton. Boring. I don't hate it, it just doesn't have much emotion in it.

I'll give this a 2 for John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers' sake, but any time Eric Clapton was front and center my balls crawled up into my throat. 2/5

nah, 24 tracks all kinda samey...

an okay listen but a bit to lo fi for me

I liked the blues aspects of several tracks. Clapton is one of my fave guitarists, in spite of his politics. I did like the instrumental track HIDEAWAY. Some of the tracks with their 1966 era lyrics were cringe when listened to with a 2025 sensibility. Previous listened: N Saved to library: N Favorite track(s): Hideaway ⭐⭐: Didn't love but didn't totally hate it. Don't have to hear it again. Didn't save any of it.

Little Girl is cringe. Eww. And now I'm bored. I did clean my toilet, so at least this wasn't a complete waste of time. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐⭐: Didn't like it, didn't hate it. Saved no tracks.

Quando o vocalista não esta presente, a musica cresce, e se torna incrível, pontos extras ao baterista.

As much as I have heard about Eric Clapton and his contributions to music, never have I ever heard an Eric Clapton album before. So when I was recommended Blues Breaker to hear by the 1001 albums to hear challenge all I really expected was some great guitar parts, and it definitely delivered, just not to the extent I had initially hoped. Other than this having the collaboration between Eric Clapton and John Mayall, I really don't see why this album is deemed as significant by the author of the book. Yes the guitar playing here is nice and dandy, but without that this project has nothing to stand on and falls apart more than a house of cards. I can appreciate the technical elements on display here thanks to Clapton's signature guitar playing, but I don't find this album to be impressive or all that essential even with its' inclusion here. It is an album with a lot of lost potential that really isn't made up with anything else here. Honestly feel like this was picked for the artists alone and not for any other reason because this is decent at best.

meh.

The Beano eh? One of those records I was told to buy when I was 18. I kind of get why it is here, as opposed to 137 Sonic Youth records. So many good things came out of that 60's white boy blues scene it is hard to be critical. John Mayall's talent was to have the chutzpah to create this band in the first place, but he was otherwise a mediocre talent. This combo is important for what the three big name went on to do, just Eric finding out he could sing was important, as well as Pete Green's rhythm section learning their chops. You could hear any bar band in any gin joint in any town play these arrangements today and play them so much better than this. But that's ok too, this record was a good solid stepping stone in the evolution of rock and roll and pop music and for that it is worthy. A curio.

Forgettable

I heard you like 12 bar blues.

Competent, even highly skilled, but doesn't move me.

Basic

For the second day in a row I've gotten a pretty meh album. Maybe it's your thing, I won't yuck yr yum but also don't think this is a good album let alone one I must listen to before I die.

I can understand now impressive the musicianship is on this but if just never does anything for me emotionally. 2.5/5

Average blues album, but Clapton's stuff was great