Bluesbreakers

meh

nothing special

Blues-rock. Not a big fan of the remastering/reproduction available. Eric Clapton has a great blues voice. Another Man - that harmonica is unlisten-able. Unfortunate but the mix just destroyed it. What’d I Say - epic drum solo Have You Heard - some great instrumentals Overall, 4/10. Wouldn’t listen to all the way through again. Had a few good songs but a lot were largely forgettable. Unfortunate mixing too. I didn’t hate listening to it but it wasn’t good either.

Clapton is a god but this just isn't my cup of tee.

I’ve always found this kind of white man plays blues guitar vehicle, of which Eric Clapton is the chief architect, a little confusing. Boiling down music forged in oppression to little more than a technical exercise. But then, I guess that’s what we (white people) do, isn’t it? That said, there’s clearly a good deal of technical proficiency here, and I didn’t have a terrible time listening to it. Which is the other thing we’re good at - setting aside complex moral issues because we are having a fine time. Dammit.

Some ok blues, nothing too exciting for me

Definitely some great guitar skills and people with a strong legacy. Not hugely exciting for me though. Would have been a Howard fortunate 3 if it wasn't for the 70s racism and anti COVID lockdown nonsense. 5/10

Sounded exactly how I expected it to. By no means bad, just a decent blues rock album

Great guitar riffs but too jammy for my taste.

Meh. Eric's guitar is cool, but man is the blues boring. god damn. this album would be a good exercise to pick apart just the guitar parts and clapton's playing, but really I'm bored out of my mind

Such great bluesey music, takes me back to Lincoln Park... smokey, dingy, bars with $2 old style longnecks.

Meh, kinda wish I hadn't listened to the whole album. 1 or 2 ok songs with a decent drum solo but honestly this album isn't worth a second listen.

How many bands have Clapton been in? This one is not his best.

60s rock and roll

I don't want to "dislike" this album, but I just couldn't get into it.

Wanky. Ikke for mig

Yup, they broke the blues alright. Side note: Eric Clapton is a cunt

The guitar playing is fine but basic, and he sings like he has to poop.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING + the lead singer's voice was grating

Nonentities

Yeah, I'm not big on racists who steal musical genres from traditionally black communities.

Always admire Clapton’s playing and tone but this does very little for me except as a pre-Fleetwood Mac curio. I can’t differentiate between this and Blues Hammer.

An absolute wasteland of a record. And not once did they break the blues—perhaps if they had I might enjoy it more.

i had somewhat a little hope while listening to the first track on the album, then the lyrcisim and the notes got repetitive and very lazy so quickly. then these mfs started singing about wanting to make a "little girl" who went through "18 years of pain" theirs. weird and disturbing. the rest of the album was boring too. also, i'm not an expert on blues but this cannot be proper blues, right? 60's music never surprises.

Blues slop

The fact this is in the top 250 greatest albums list is a sin. There are 250 blues albums more interesting and original than this pile of crap. Also fuck Eric Clapton

It’s not the worst ever but Clapton.

Was going to give this album 5 stars and seeing all of the negative ratings I had to Google Eric Clapton and read that he's a racist POS.😭

I started feeling a bit sick and disgusted when it got to Little Girl. I couldn’t listen any more.

I've avoided listening to this my whole life because I don't love white-boy blues. Turns out, it was even more boring than I thought it would be. I find nothing compelling about this. The singer (John Mayall?) sounds like Econo-Brand vanilla ice cream.

When are rock critics ever going to realize that Clapton was only ever tolerable by way of Jack Bruce’s writing? I’d hazard to guess, never. Like, come on, I get that he’s a talented guitarist, but an album, he simply cannot make. And besides, by that logic, couldn’t you have taken out one of his dozen or so albums that are on this list, and given them to Buckethead or Dream Theater? At least their albums are more interesting displays of guitar-wankery.

Same old imitation blues from a bunch of white dudes. It’s all so boring. Nothing remotely original or inspiring here.

Fuck Eric Clapton

English white men doing blues. It’s terrible. Can Clapton play guitar. Sure. Is he one of the greats sure. Does it change that he can’t understand what country blues is. He can’t figure that out. You can play it and you may better at it but you will never feel it.

All the edges have been rounded. Horrible.

mah

Boring and uninspiring. Too many songs are about looking at girls half their age. 1/5.

Somewhat unbelievably, John Mayall singing about picking cotton makes the presence of Eric Clapton only the second most racist thing on this record.

This was mid as hell.

1+ Stars (3/15)

Urrgh... this kind of blues rock really gets on my nerves. I have no doubt that you are wonderful musicians but having nothing but how wonderful you are rammed in my face is so tedious. Unremittingly dull and probably highly influential on a whole world of unremittingly dull and nauseating other music.

Clapton has to be the most overrated guitarist of all time.

Fuck Erick Clapton !

There are some albums that are so influential you are able to overlook how horribly dated and boring they sound. This is not one of them.

"Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out,” exclaimed Clapton to his captive audience. “Get the w*gs out. Get the c**ns out. Keep Britain white,” he added

Now I know where all the blues lawyers get their three licks from

Found this pretty boring, ended up playing itself out in the background. Clapton can also get fucked

White boy blues

Didn't enjoy it.

Surprised that I did not like this at all.

Could have been LESS interested

Competent playing, but not for me. I hate this type of thing.

Oh boy more generic sounding blues and inferior covers. Well they did it, they broke me with blues.

No thanks

fuck off

Clapton... Bluesrock... En styggelse Talande är att den enda låt som är okej är den enda låt Clapton inte är med på. "Little girl" låter skramlig 60talspop och är fullt lyssningsbar. Det kan man inte säga om någon av de andra elva låtarna.

En omslagsskiva. Musiken kan man helt vara utan. Den tråkigaste sorten av bluesmusik.

Deeply unoriginal music which helped a British audience avoid having to buy music made by black American artists. Also features a special appearance by far-right racist Eric Clapton who, once racism had become less popular, claimed he regretted his public racist statements. Maybe later John Mayall is more original, but this sucks.

fills me with rage, your drum solo fills me with rage

I'm not listening to Eric Clapton, that POS.

75/1089 Blues was broken i guess… it just really does not resonate with me unfortunately, already as part of the 1001 albums project i’ve heard blues music that is better to me as a non-blues listener no stand out tracks for me either way sadly 13/100

Just a bit dull really. Never got going.

Good blues musician. Good music.

I thought this jumbled terrible type of singing was reserved mostly to the 80's. I guess these guys paved the way.

It's like if Jimi Hendrix ripped off Bob Dylan, and mamaged to sound really boring in the process.

This sounds like British people approximating what blues sounds like. They literally covered an actual blues song, Parchman Farm, and got rid of the second half of the song so they don't have to sing about a guy shooting his wife. It's pretty damn clear that nobody is feeling this as much as they should, considering the genre they're trying to recreate. That drum solo in What'd I Say especially screams "I think this is what a blues drum solo sounds like." I'm pretty carefully using every word except "playing" blues here, because this isn't blues. It's bordering on being a parody, and not even a funny one. Insert obligatory statement about Little Girl here.

Wow, twelve-bar blues over and over and over again. On top of that Clapton does his thang with not a memorable lick to be heard.

vsf tentativa de homicídio ao blues alguém chama a polícia por favor

se eu encontrar o eric clapton na rua, acho bom ele trocar de calçada se não o coro vai comer vai tomar no cu.

1/5 Eric Clapton.

For a few moments I was vibin', but that didn't last one single song. Bog standard 12 bar blues offerings after bog standard 12 bar blues offerings. I can hear musicians having fun - I'll give it that - but I don't. I've been told that this is, somehow, of significance but as other people have pointed out: it's from the year The Beatles made "Revolver". This here instead is just music for bar fights. 🗑, NEXT!

Whenever I walk into a guitar shop, there is a guy playing something almost exactly like this and I want to walk straight out. I just don’t get it. There’s a crossing point between blues and rock music that I struggle to engage with - people really getting into bending the guitar notes, closing their eyes, feeling the music. It’s just not for me. 10/10 for featuring a copy of The Beano on the cover though.

Bland

Offensively boring

I’ve had enough 12 bar blues for one lifetime now, thanks. All Your Love (6/10) Hideaway (5/10) Little Girl (6/10) Another Man (3/10) Double Crossing Time (3/10) What’d I Say (4/10) Key to Love (6/10) Parchman Farm (5/10) Have You Heard (4/10) Ramblin’ On My Mind (3/10) Steppin’ Out (4/10) It Ain’t Right (5/10) 4.5/10

Not a fan. It's fine but really just not my style. 1/5 stars.

i thought the worst crime of this would be a generic take on the blues, but then also come the vocals that get grating sometimes, and the lyrics about "little girls". I'm having a bad day today, so this gets my first 1.

I like blues but I would rather have it without being weirded out by the lyrics

White guy “blues”. And, Clapton… ugh.

Not for me

Blues has got to be the most boring musical style that exists

Does nothing for me. 1

When I was younger I would hang out at the Commercial Pub, where drunk baby boomers would go absolutely wild to local blues bands. This is in Central Alberta, which is roughly as connected to the idea of the blues as England is. Every weekend a guy could see a band that sounds literally indistinguishable from The Bluesbreakers. And it was better than the experience of listening to this album because at least there was a bit of fun and spirit behind it. I know this is an early enough white guy blues album to be pretty influential, but it still sucks and probably influenced a lot more bad music than good.

BORING. Also Eric Clapton is a dickhead

THIS ONE was hard going.

YEAHHHH. Not all white men rock is for me unfortunately, I mean they tried (normani voice)

okay as of this 1, private spotify session so i dont ruin my algorithm any more than i already have. okay this sucks i can already tell. theoretically i should like the tonality + crunchy guitar on this 1st track but--oh my god they switched jams and it sounds even MORE like ass--anyway but something feels offputting and unpleasant accoustically abt it. is this what u all mean when ur talking abt the mix?? this guy sucks at singing too! dude i think whatever you do in the recording studio + post recording is so notably poor quality that even i can discern it thats buck wild. hideaway is like abt what a 6th grade school jazz band could muster, absolute nothingburger track. WAIT? WHAT? THIS ONE HAS A SONG ABOUT HITTING ON AN 18YO GIRL AS A GROWN MAN MUSICIAN?? okay marking it DNC but by that i mean giving it a 1 so i can drag the global ratings down just like the stones YOU can go fuck yourselves TOO

Ok

Finally a band I know! I’ve seen them perform this same exact album. They only perform every Tuesday at the Blue Ball. Don’t know the Blue Ball? It’s the only bar in the city that still allows smoking, and where you have a 1/3 chance of food poisoning when you order a bowl of pretzels. I’d rather order 3 bowls of pretzels from the Blue Ball than listen to this again. I’d have a lesser chance of getting sick.

Pretty ok, kinda background music. Nothing really interesting

Talk all you want about how Clapton is God. I don't care. Sceeam about how the blues laid the groundwork for rock n roll. I get it. I just don't like music that sounds like this. Clapton sucks to me. He makes me yawn. Everything he did seems to sound the same. Whatever this is that I was just subjected to, is no different. Maybe all of these songs should have stayed dirty and with an acoustic guitar, then I'd like it more. All of this is way to polished, clean and without character, save Another Man.

Couldn't get through it, not a style of music I like.

If you’ve heard any blues song ever, you don’t need to listen to this. Verrrrry boring.

The birth of karaoke blues, learn the licks and then cough them out again, no originality, no real flair, no intensity, and none of the sex of the guys and gals they are copying. That’s before I mention the vocals, strained and toneless, beyond awful.

I was primed to hate this seeing Clapton's name, but I decided to give it a chance since Cream isn't the worst, so how bad could this be? Well it's really fucking bad. It's mostly boring white guy blues, and then the singing happens and it's absolutely atrocious. Not for nothing, but there's not a high bar to cross for blues singing. It's not known for virtuosic vocals. But, no really, this is like really fucking bad singing. Little Girl, to top it all off. Gross. Why was every rock god from the 60s and 70s a pedo?

Top 10 fun facts about Eric Clapton: 1. Eric Clapton steals candy from babies. 2. Eric Clapton stole a time machine disguised as a guitar case and used it to go back to the early 20th Century and claim to invent the blues. 3. He claims his famous "Layla" riff was inspired by a secret recipe for the world’s best nachos, which he stole off an unknown Mexican street food vendor. 4. There’s a comet named after him that only appears every time he releases a new album, and everyone who looks at it goes blind. 5. Eric Clapton regularly holds underwater concerts in a secret underwater venue, where he collaborates with dolphins who provide vocal harmonies before shooting them with a harpoon gun. 6. He reportedly recorded a song with an extraterrestrial being who visited Earth specifically to learn the blues. 7. Eric Clapton once participated in a reality show about rock stars living in a tiny house, where he won by boring the other contestants to death. 8. He holds the world record for the longest sustained D note played on a guitar (16,000 hours and 12 minutes), after which he burned down a retirement home. 9. Eric Clapton auditioned for the part of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films but was rejected as being too sinister. 10. His guitar once tried to bite him.

Bluuuues. And not even American Blues, just a bunch of brits in cosplay. Not really worth your time, and definitely not essential.

Racist white man steals all his best licks from black musicians and somehow makes it bland.

oh no 'blues' again, I can't stand blues and then it says Eric Clapton, I can't stand Clapton. Without even listening to the record I've already said "I can't stand it" twice, it starts off really well. Nope, I've heard it and it doesn't work, at least for me! The only song that I can stand is the first one on the first side "All Your Love". The rest is wasted time for me and nobody will give it back.

Fuck Clapton. Sounds boring anyway. Not going to sit through this.

Nix, jag gillar inte blues.

I've heard of John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers, but I've never listened to their music before. Back when I listened to a lot of classic rock, I had every intention of checking these guys out, but I never got around to it. Now that I vomit every time I hear the word "Clapton," I have had no desire to listen to this, but I guess there's no avoiding it now. Despite my distaste for Clapton, I'll try to give this a fair shake. I swear I tried to give this album a chance, but man, I really didn't care for this at all. This has to be the most uninspired blues album I've ever heard. Yes, the guitar playing on it is really great, but there's just no emotion in the singing, the lyrics on the songs that aren't covers are really bland, and the apart from the guitars, there's nothing much of interest happening musically (the saxophone playing on "Key To Love" is one small exception to this). The album did get a little better from "Have You Heard" through the last track, but the thing that made those last four songs a little bit better than the rest of the album was that they had some emotion to them, and they varied a little bit more in structure than the other songs. Still, the nicest thing I can say about the best songs on this album is that they weren't as bad as the rest of the songs. I swear that if I close my eyes while listening to this, I can just see the band standing on stage listlessly, while a small crowd of older dudes stand in the audience, politely applauding at the end of each song. This may have helped reacquaint people with the blues when it came out, but now, I think most people will listen to this and dream of hearing Muddy Waters instead.

Eric Clapton is a knob and this album did nothing to change my mind about that 1/5

Painfully boring blues

at least hangman’s daughter tried.

I get it, but I don't need to, you know?

classic case of white men turning black music to shit and abusing children

Listened Before? N Great blues. Eric Clapton is a douche. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: All Your Love

Kinda forgettable

Nope. Little girl eww

I’m sure this is a fine album if you’re a blues fan, but I’m not and pretty much all blues music sounds alike unless it’s something remarkable. This is not remarkable.

So so boring and bland

It may have been different in its day but I find this kinda thing so boring now. Like a weeknight open mic jam where every one playing thinks they’re amazing and the audience is asleep.

Before we go all reverend and respectful, let’s remember that the Beatles released revolver the same year. 1.4

I normally do try and give every album a full listen but I felt I had the full gist pretty early on and turned off. Racist got filthy rich off soulless take-offs of Black music.

Bluesbreakers stretched on for what felt like an eternity within its 44-minute runtime. Despite the standout track Hideaway, which paid homage to Jimmy McCracklin's style the rest of the album failed to maintain engagement. Each track seemed to drag on, leaving me longing for a more dynamic experience. While there were glimpses of technical brilliance throughout, the overall feeling was one of monotony and extended duration. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 2 STAND OUT TRACK - Hideaway

I just don't like blues music.

Shit sucks!!!!!

Not giving, ik krijg het idee dat ik mondharmonica’s gwn niet chill vind

No

Hey, let's steal the creative output of black people from 10-15 years ago, get really rich and then denigrate them. Cool idea, Eric! Fuck these guys. Good music though.

Helemaal niks, nerveus gerammel op de drums.

I knew when I saw the word "blues" and the name "Eric Clapton" I was going to not be a fan of this, and despite a somewhat strong opening, I was right. Every song reads as the same boring, repetitive, misappropriation of a genre I already don't care for, and every time I had a hint of joy stem from the music it was because the song happened to be short and ended. I mean, Clapton isn't as big of a part of this as I thought he was, but that doesn't mean I still don't find his guitar picking to be dull and the songs to all feel the same. It got to the point where I was pretty much numb to everything this album threw at me, and not even clocking in at forty minutes and still getting that feeling is mighty impressive. Was this a big part of the British blues scene and Clapton's career? Perhaps, but that doesn't instantly make it good, in fact I'd argue we're all worse off for it.

Found this very predictable and cliched. Sounds very old, and not in a good way. At one point my cat started joining in, and it might have actually improved it.

Not my thing

This album offends me to my core when it's propped up as something someone must hear. We do not need more bluesy rock like this. Less Clapton please. I'd give it a 0 out of 5 if I could.

Lame prehistoric music

Ballbreakers

Fuck clapton

je ne peux pas désentendre les paroles de little girl

Typical blues album where every song sounds the same, like death metal.

Blues, but waaay watered down. The cover of "What'd I Say" was the weakest, most limp dicked shit I've ever heard. Since they like blues so much, I award them one, much needed blue pill. 💊

Don’t bother listening to a bunch of white guys doing mediocre blues covers, just listen to compilations of the original source material. You’ll be much happier overall.

Shitty record. I was looking forward to the Ray Charles cover but its mostly a dumb ass drum solo. Eric Clapton Sucks

No

Shit blues by numbers

This brand of British Blues with the ultra squeaky clean strat guitar tones is just so.... nothing. Middle class English white guys who have heard the blues on the pub jukebox and gone 'I can noodle about on my guitar like that but take all the soul out of it'. I am not trying to slander John Mayall as I dont know anything about the guy (although Eric Clapton can get fucked), so I don't want to project my personal opinions specifically onto him. But to me its not just the fact that I feel nothing when I listen to this kind of music. It's also indicitive to me of a time in the 60's and 70's when it was accepted that it was ok for guys to be offensive, racist and sometimes more than a little creepy in their attitudes towards women (How anyone could write Little Girl and not once get the ick is beyond me.) I just cant endorse this one in any way.

Clapton is a racist

A total snoozefest.

Een blues nachtmerrie, sorry. vast heel knap en nog meer.

Blues met Clapton in de morgen klinkt voor mij als een ontbijt met naalden in de hel.

Nah.

it's really fuck eric clapton for life. that's it, that's all. i have ntn eloquent to say on his past statements on dark skinned immigrants whilst in the same vein making a name for himself in a genre pioneered by the same ppl he had vitriol for. i'm sure someone b4 me has already said more in an undoubtedly more sensible way and i rlly cba

ehh

Not good.

Gnarly guitar tone but this is not for me. Best track was just vocals, harmonica, and clapping.

Music for those who love guitar solos. as mentioned by another reviewer smacks of middle aged guys who think they're incredible playing a local pub night and butchering the original songs. English guys singing "tell ya mama, tell ya Pa" is just so inauthentic I can't listen.

Kolossal langweilig.

This really has not aged all that well. It's some middle of the road blues rock schlock. Clapton is also a shithead, so I don't feel any reason to give this much time.

First off, fuck Clapton. Second, this is some pretty generic-sounding blues rock… if I’m going to hear this, I’m most certainly going to a local hole in the wall to hear it live. 1

bad, made me angry, lame.

Niche blues album playing blues standards. Not one in my "before I die category. " Cover art 1/5 5mins effort. Redeemed slightly by the choice of the beano by Clapton

Basically unlistenable

Poor cover album.

60s guitar blues. Eck. Less than week in and already a Clapton album. Might need to rethink my commitment to this project.

Couldn't get into this. Sounded slick but uninspiring

Basically Clapton showing off on some Blues standards, so no.

Go listen to John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson or any one of hundreds of other blues artists instead. How this is an essential album is beyond me

one song

A la mierda, Clapton. Me caga.

I like that they look like a '90s Britpop band on the front cover. There's nothing else I like about it. More of notorious racist Eric Clapton ripping off music of black origin, goody. If this album was a famous footballer, it would be Sinisa Mihajlovic.

how is this on this list.. H O W...

Trash

Clapton's one of those artists I keep at arm's length unless he does something too good to ignore. This barely touches my fingernails when I haven't cut them for months. Soulless, hooksless, pointless. The worst kind of formalism.

How many blues rock albums are there on this list? And how many claim to be the influence for every band thereafter who dared make songs using the pentatonic scales? Give me a break! Unless you’re led zeppelin and actually used blues music to make incredible adaptations and improvisations, then I’ve heard you before and you bored me the first time. 1 Star!

Only got halfway thru

Egh

I'm just not a blues guy. It all sounds the same.

1966? Really? Because this sounds ageless! I like it. My only question is, why did you make me listen to the mono versions first? And you expect me to then listen to the stereo versions of the same songs???

Guitar is just awesome