Bluesbreakers

Some taught a pair of denim jeans to sing

Some of this was alright but it was also just quite boring and the solos were far too noodly a lot of the time

Okej, but not for me.

ehh

ALBUM RATING: 3.5 ALBUM GRADE: B- TRACK RATINGS: 1. All Your Love - 5.0 2. Hideaway - 4.5 3. Little Girl - 3.5 4. Another Man - 3.0 5. Double Crossing Time - 4.0 6. What’d I Say? - 3.5 7. Key to Love - 3.5 8. Parchment Farm - 3.0 9. Have Your Heard? - 3.5 10. Ramblin’ on My Mind - 3.0 11. Steppin’ Out - 4.0 12. It Ain’t Right - 3.0

Great guitar playing on this British interpretation of American Blues that was a part of a movement in the 60s that went on to become a heavy influence on guitar playing at the time and to this day. Very listenable album that will be a big part of my rotation going forward, this album is a keeper for sure. I don’t know Clapton as well as I should, but this has some early Zep vibes for me for sure.

Excellent UK blues

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.

Decent guitar sounds

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

repetitive, no new inspiration

Pretty catchy early blues rock. 3.5/5

Olde School AF

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.

I find this pale wank showcase rather grating. Ground zero for so much mediocrity.

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

Cliche but good

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

Wasn't the biggest fan of the album. Had a hard time getting through it

Bão dms, não esperava

Awesome

23/8

found it boring

I'm tough on the Clapton records on this list; a lot of his solo records on this list border on his yuppie 80s rock. This, however, is just a solid blues record. Love the horns, love the organ, and Clapton is absolutely ripping through this album. If I had one minor complaint, it's that John Mayall's voice is a little weaker than needed for some of the notes, but it's never so bad it's offensive. Favorite tracks: "Hideaway", "What'd I Say", "Have You Heard"

Jazzy, I like

Meh.

Definitely worth a listen.

Eh

This is another one I had on in the background but I like this vibe of music and it was really nice to listen to even if I didn’t listen totally in depth

Not super exciting, a bit like the janis joplin album but less interesting

Never heard of Mayall, but cool stuff.

The guitars are screaming

Not good.

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.

Bluesy, felt a bit paint by numbers but still really enjoyed

Album felt pretty mid. Didn't really like or hate most of the songs. 1. Steppin' Out 2. All Your Love 3. It Ain't Right

It's hard for me to evaluate this album. The lack of production is probably a cool part of the sound. It may have been a break through at the time this album was made. I compare this to the really good Blues albums and this is average. Don't mean to offend anyone, it just didn't do it for me.

One of Clayton’s best. I’ve always loved his tone on this record. You can see where it developed into his Cream tone.

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.

Boring. Clapton is overrated.

4.0

Okay

This album - informally referred to as The Beano Album, because of the artwork showing Eric Clapton reading comics - is from the English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. This commercially and critically successful album is seen as the pioneer of guitar centered blues-rock, as well as influential to the artistic development of rock'n'roll guitar playing. Eric Clapton - an amazingly talented guitarist - is prominently featured on this album, and is the spark that started a new version of rock styled guitar playing. The music was upbeat and fun - definitely a great album for blues or rock fans. I liked the album and I'm glad that I can appreciate music from 55 years ago.

really, really well done album it really feels like it made the most out of the blues genre there’s so much creativity and diversity, I love it - 10/10

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...

was ok

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.

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It is a very good Blues Album. A few questionable lyrics even for then maybe.

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

p97. 1966. 4.5 stars. Classic 60s Brit blues. This is where Clapton made his reputation, and he still sounds light years of most of the competition. There a couple of filler tracks - the cover of What I Say outstays its welcome - but other than that it doesn't get much better than this.

Groovy bluesy vibes. Very enjoyable listen!

I get that this was supposed to be an influential blues album for the British, but the British are stinky poopy people and I'm not into this one like I was with the last few blues listens.

I mean, it's hard to argue with this blues album. It's so solid. Just a really great representation of the genre. There WAS a saxophone solo which would usually be an automatic 1-star deduction from me but it was actually a really GOOD saxophone solo so I was going to let it pass... but then I hit the drum solo on "What'd I Say" which is 2 solid minutes of pointless flailing. THAT was enough to do what a saxophone solo couldn't do and take the album down to a 4-star rating. It's still a solid 4 stars, though. Just skip track 6 and you're in for a good time.

Can see why its in the list with is apparent influence on blues, and the fact it shows an early Eric Clapton and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. If you're a blues fan, its an essential listen. I however am not, and found it a bit of a drag. Has some decent guitar and harmonica solos though. If i was reviewing Bluesbreakers on legacy it would be higher than Legacy my actual enjoyment of the album.

This is really good. Songs are concise and impactful, with a sense of economy that is missing from a lot of English blues. Everything is just spot on, no filler, no unnecessary jams. Musically, it's energetic, playful, such a fun listen. Fave Songs: It Ain't Right, All Your Love, Parchman Farm, Hideaway, Steppin' Out, What'd I Say

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.

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

Blues rock heaven to be fair. 4 stars -2 stars for Clapton, the dick

What a fricken tone

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

A key release during the mid-sixties and set the stage for almost all blues-based rock albums for the next decade. Amazing in its simplicity. Ramblin’ On My Mind is the first ever Clapton vocal and provides a blueprint for what he has been mining ever since. The overall musicianship is very high quality. John McVie bass is solid and, along with Hughie Flint, provides the requisite support for Clapton's guitar and Mayall's keys. To me this is ageless.

Eric Clapton playing the blues at his best. Searing guitar work on both the covers and original songs. Didn't know that John McVie played bass in this band. I'd like to give it a 4.5 as I'm trying to save the 5's for things I absolutely love, but since that's not an option, this is strong enough for me to round up!

Classic British blues that was probably more exciting at the time than it is now. Clapton’s soloing is excellent years before he would peak artistically with cream, Derek and the Dominoes and Blind Faith. The rest of it is good but not great.

nice guitars guys keep on

Strictly irrelevant, but still...Motown Records? Possibly a licensing issue... Anyways. Dull.

Ugh

Det är bra bra album

-Strong jam in "Hideaway" -very cool bluesy-rocky album with lots of cool riffs from lots of instruments (guitar, harmonica, drums, etc.) -Tracks build enough to keep everything interesting, no total lulls where the song is just slow and boring for an extended period of time

Meh, Not awful but hard to really give it a rating higher than 2*. It kind of just sat in the Background and never really got my interest enough to listen thoroughly through a song, but I listened the whole way through so it's not a 1*

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.

Very solid Blues Rock album with a Nonplusultra guitar play by Eric Clapton which deserves the 4 stars by itself already

Rubber soul. No duende or danger

Classic

Really good album. Will explore more from them.

Sure

Really good 60's brits covering and expanding on American blues. Mayall has a good voice, but Clapton's guitar is doing a lot of the heavy lifting to get this album to a 4.5.

Guitar work and tone are immaculate.

It's got all the hallmarks of other bands and guitarists. I like Peter Green and Cream so this sounds like a pale imitation- but then Mayall seems to have been there first! It just doesn't do it for me though- the production seems tinny, Mayall's vocals are poor ('What'd I say') and the songs written by him are embarassing- ('Little Girl'). The rest are covers and it's only 'Ramblin' on my mind' (sung by Clapton) that lifts it above the mediocre. It begs the question - should we venerate an album because it came first but was eclipsed by later music? The same applies to other genres too I'd say. The guitar work obviously is wonderful and there are some nice touches in there with John McVie on bass and even Mayall on harmonica but ultimately I'll stick to Cream and Green.

Middling white man blues. Mean musicianship though.

Good album

its okay I think the fact that it has so many people that went on to make a ton of hits really makes people overrate this album

This album was delightful. MY use case is work jamz though. so i am bias.

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"

Ah, The "Beano" album, classic British Blues, is this the point that Clapton became a guitar god? Wonderful blues tunes on this, Clapton's guitar is superb but so ably supported by John Mcvie (Fleetwood Mac) on Bass, Hughie Flint (McGuinness-Flint & The Blues Band) on Drums. This with Mayall on Keyboards and Mouth Iron makes one of the Definitive British Blues Revival line ups. Love love there version of Ray Charles "What I'd Say", "Hideaway" and Clapton on lead vocals on "Ramblin' on My Mind" Super Album Rightfully on the list in my opinion.

some great blues instrumentals

That sure is The Blues. It’s good for me to finally figure out who John Mayall is - heard the name a lot, interesting to put Clapton into a bit more context and cool to see John McVie on bass. Not what I’m in to but a perfectly pleasant listen.

enjoyable, though drum solos are infinitely fucking dull. Album version on Spotify is fucking long though.

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.

No soy muy de Blues y esto me ha sonado todo igual. Lo siento no es para mí y no creo que sea algo destacar como imprescindble.

Surely someone blares rebukes for recycling the 12-bar blues over a whole album.

Listening to this album feels like I'm intruding on the musicians' private time. I don't think they're playing this for us to hear, I think they're playing it for themselves to enjoy playing. This isn't always a bad thing, I love to hear people enjoying their craft, but this album does leave me a bit cold because of it.

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I will never understand the appeal of 60s/70s blues rock . It's all-the-same, all the time. 1.5/5

Meh.

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

Heavy metal is the first style of music I fell for, and it’s the one I always come back to. It’s the reason I followed this group. I have also used the term Selloutica unironically in the past. But seriously, why are there FOUR Metallica albums featured here? That’s more than Maiden, Priest, or even fucking Sabbath (all of which were my first loves before I discovered ‘tallica). Justice, with its sterile production and boneheaded progressive elements, is no essential as far as I’m concerned. The songs are overlong and half baked at the same time. I give it points for solid riffs throughout, but meh. D

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

Early Clapton < The other Claptons.

I am so bored of these eric clapton albums

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

This album came off the heels of Eric Clapton's departure from the Yardbirds due to his disatisfaction with their pop heavy sound. This band and album acted as an incubator for Clapton before he went on to have a hugely successful career with Cream, Blind Faith, and as a solo act. The music is standard and Clapton is clearly the stand out, especially with his vocal debut on a cover of Robert Johnson's Ramblin' on My Mind.

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.

bad, made me angry, lame.

Different kind of music which was a nice change but nothing inspirational

Awesome

Best Song: Parchman Farm. Nice and high tempo. Harmonica is the star here. Worst Song: What'd I Say. Not terrible, but just a needlessly lengthy drum solo. Also weirdly positioned within the album. I feel like a solo like this is best placed near the album's finale, not a third of the way in. Overall: This kind of blues is not my genre, although I could see how some would like it.

Decent blues album

Ah, Eric. Another chance to separate the man from the music. Better blues that I expected to be honest, but still rather generic sounding. Reading the wiki entry, that might be because it was a huge influence on all blues rock that came afterwards. I doubt I'll play this record again.

Pretty good for a blues album, not a fan of blues typically

(A Guitar) Stroke of genius

Peak Clapton

BIG BIG BIG Fan of this one. Such a great and varied album.

Bom blues

5/5

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

first listen timeless blues

Sounds almost generic due to how many tried to sound like it after but also because they were really just ripping of someone who came before them. Such is life and art, I reckon. Love Clapton's fuzzed out guitar tone.

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

Great Bluesrock

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

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.

Basically unlistenable

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.

An excellent blues album, even if you don't care about the groundbreaking sound design.

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

The legendary "Beano" album. Mostly known for Clapton's guitar tone - he allegedly refused to turn down his amp in the studio and played it cranked at basically live concert volume - driving the sound engineer crazy. Apparently his crazy-loud guitar even bled over into the mics of the other players as well. Still, it created an all-time classic sound that guitarists are still chasing today (for those non-guitarists, there is an endless series of "bluesbreaker" or "beano" guitar pedals attempting to recreate Clapton's guitar tone from this record). Also interesting, when Clapton recorded this record the Gibson Les Paul was seriously unpopular. They actually stopped making them entirely in 1961 but Clapton's usage on this record helped create a resurgence in popularity (along with other British blues artists like Keith Richards and Jimmy Page using them). So much so that Fender Stratocasters were considered uncool until Hendrix made those popular again (even influencing Clapton to switch primarily to a Strat himself). A classic record of the 60's British blues scene.

Genre: Blues Rock 2/5 Hm. Wikipedia says this album helped pioneer a guitar-dominated, blues-rock sound. Somebody needs to tell Wikipedia that black Americans were doing that 10 years prior to this, and that what we hear here is a cheap knockoff of one of the most important American musical innovations the country has generated. A few decent licks from Clapton here, and a couple decent heavy blues jams there, do very little to make this any more palatable than it could’ve been. John Mayall sounds like 300 different singers who’ve preceded him, and the mixture of covers and wannabe-originals in the tracklist left me wanting much more.

Not too bad...

Rating: 6/10

From the two songs I could stand to hear, not bad!!! That Eric Clapton touch is obvious. Just not my thing. My dad would go apeshit if I gifted him this rec as a vinyl

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.

No thanks.

Meh

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

It's hard to come down off the Rush high from yesterday, and this album is not a cushy landing. It's too homogeneous throughout. I just don't care about it. And fuck Eric Clapton! He's an enormous ass. I know he's talented, but he's also such a dick. I'm going back to Rush.

Þokkalegur blús, ekkert mega.

A good album overall. The record opener was my favorite. At some point I had the feeling that everything sounded pretty much the same, but still a good record.

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.

Incredible blues. Album, enjoyed every track on here. Guitar, organs, drums all phenomenal.

I quite liked this venture into 60s British blues rock. The singing isn't spectacular and a couple of numbers miss the mark ("What'd I Say"), but overall I really enjoyed their playing.

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.

Clapton's recent and not-so-recent shenanigans render this pretty unpalatable for me. I get why your dad likes it but it's not for me today.

Wow this is some really great stuff. Thanks to a college friend who was deeply into the blues and Eric Clapton so I’m pretty certain I have heard this album before. But I haven’t sat down and attentively listened in a non-social setting. There’s no doubt this album earns its place on this list. The band is incredibly talented and throwing in Eric Clapton adds some pretty substantive icing to that cake. Great stuff!

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

Was heading straight for a five stars, and then they had a drum solo.

Ideal treehouse listening

Some really cool blues. really enjoyed this.

Ok tbink i get it now

Very enjoyable blues album. Very cool how many legends played with Maytall. His vocals are so so but still a good album overall

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

Pretty good despite the presence of a racist, anti-science shitbird.

Even with Eric Clapton playing solos, a whole album of 12 bar blues is too much for me.

A mostly forgettable rock album filled with gratuitous lead guitar and not much melodic substance.

Enjoyable throughout. Great vocals and guitar work. Fun energy. Laid the foundation for much rock music to come, i bet. A lot of the songs use the simple 1-4-5 blues chord progression

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.

Unremarkable white boy blues

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

nice blues rock album

The Blues just ain't my thing. 3 stars

Not a bad listen

Meh. Not especially good blues.

Didn't know what to expect and this one blew me away. Stellar Favorite Track: Hideaway Relisten: Yes

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

Not really my kind of music, but well done.

Good blues.

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

8/10

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

8/10

The first track sounds like Santana, but trying to play without passion. Like a divorced man in his 40s who has just got his first band together and is playing at the next thing up from a Wetherspoon's to three alcoholics and two teenaged barstaff who are laughing behind his back as he makes sexfaces during the solos. I mean, it's 55 years old. I'm sure that people in 1966 didn't bother with much music from 1911. Music has moved on so far from people being impressed by somebody going 'widdle widdle' on an electrified guitar with some distortion that it's almost unfair to be this damning to it. But then, Revolver, Blonde On Blonde and Pet Sounds came out in 1966, all of which still sound great today. Also, white blues is generally meh, and Eric Clapton is a racist and a terrible parent. I made it halfway through. If the second half is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, I'm sorry, and also very surprised.

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.

This where “Clapton is God” originated from. “All Your Love” my favorite track.

Really enjoyed this album and will add to my usual rotation. Early Clapton sounds amazing.

3.2 - solid blues album. Nice guitar licks from Clapton. Not something I’ll be coming back to a lot when I want to hear the genre.

8/10

Meh

Nice blues-rock with mono&stereo tracks

Just alright. Not really noteworthy.

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

First time listening, classic blues album.

A high water mark for British Blues - Clapton channelling Otis Rush, Freddie King and Albert King - using the genre-defining combination of a vintage Les Paul and a Marshall amp. Great rhythm section - Hughie Flint and John McVie really swing.

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.

Eric Clapton's 'on-the-rise' guitar chops coupled with John Mayall's versatile vocals make this an essential blues record. The entirety of the album comprises of CHBs, earned through its infectious blues bars and concise lyricism - a prodigious achievement especially for a 1966 release. 'Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton' is influential in both the genre and equipment - trademarking the Gibson Les Paul wired into an overdrive amp sound, which is apparent in the whole album.

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.

Pretty rad album. Enjoy the blues rock. Can hear the influence this album had just by listening (black magic woman basically coming from All Your Love)

Poor cover album.

Solid tunes, nothing to write home about.

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

7/10

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

Blues rock with guitars. Wikipedia says they were some of the first to do it, but I think they suffer from the Seinfeld effect - everybody else does it too, so the original doesn't feel as groundbreaking (or bluesbreaking, I suppose). Well worth a listen, but not a new favorite album of mine.

Pretty heavy blues centered album. Nothing really bad but sometimes blues songs have similar sounds and don’t differentiate much. This one wasn’t bad but it ran into that same problem. 4.7/10

one song

A la mierda, Clapton. Me caga.

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

Lovely stuff, drink it in.

Liked this, although maybe a bit too much harmonica

A classic blues-rock album I'd never heard before - will definitely be worth more listens.

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

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A quintessential blues album which gained Clapton his “God” nickname. This influenced very popular guitar sounds in the years and decades which followed and is an album which many many successful artists will point to as inspiring. I see there’s a lot of haters for this one. Like it or not, it’s had a massive impact. It’s not just “another blues album”, it’s one that helped bring the blues into the limelight for decades to come. It’s fine to dislike it or hate on Clapton out of context, I don’t even disagree with some of that sentiment, but in context, this simply is a transformative record for rock n roll, blues, the British Invasion, and guitar playing. Fuck the haters, 1966 Clapton is God.

Pretty outstanding white boy blues. Great for shining a light back on the blues, now go back and listen to the Chess Records roster instead.

Second listen. First was a 2/5 the first time and stays a 2/5 for me this time. It is fine, it's really good music. Just not exciting for me.

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.

Great album

It was okay. Not really memorable, though. 2/5 stars.

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.

Meh - A bunch of privileged white dudes signing about how they want to get over on girls while they misappropriate blues music. Hows about putting some actual blues artists in the list.

Я не успел

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

men in stonewashed jeans at a pub jam night. played by talented musicians but bland and having the impressive ability of sucking all of the soul out of the blues and turning it into an egotistical self important thing. its painting by numbers. its probably the whitest version of the blues i've ever had to listen to. utter dross.

Uber blues. Couldn't be arsed with the whole thing. It's probably unfair to judge this because everyone has heard the blues been done so, so, so many times that it all just sounds the same. Maybe this was pioneering at the time...but who gives a fuck? If it was a footballer, it'd be Michael Ballack. Not due to ability, but because he played for Chelsea, a team in blue and also, more importantly because like Eric Clapton, who features in this, his son died. Yeah, sue me.

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.

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.

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

Another one that I can appreciate but just didn't like. Yeah Clapton can play guitar and some of the piano and keyboard is nice but it's all just one long jam session with boring and repetitive blues lyrics.

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

I don’t like blues

A fantastic album. Really pushing british blues forward

Bluesy!

Very good, nice solos and an overall decent flow.

Puro blues.

Wate ja ganz gern im Blues Fluss, aber das hier ist dann doch ein eher flacher Tümpel. Seichte 1.6

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

Loved it.

Onvervalste blues. Ik ben niet zo'n grote fan van deze muziekstijl. Ook hebben sommige nummers irritante tempowisselingen die me er van weerhouden om echt lekker te genieten. Verder is het een prima album voor de liefhebber. Leukste nummer vind ik "Little Girl" over zijn kleine meid die al 18 jaar een lastpost is.

Fijn album. Gewoon erg fijn!

Hey John McVie is on this album, too. Gave it a second listen, and it's really, really good. Teetering between 3 and 4 stars. Absolutely deserves to be on the list.

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.

Love it. Some absolute belters in here - all your love, what I'd say (ridiculous solos). Even the songs that are not very original are great. Granted, I've heard this album a few times growing up so nostalgia could be a factor but ive added it to my rotation.

meh

3.5

A very pleasant surprise.

Perfectly solid work

nothing special

4.5*

3.9

Decent standard blues record

Discazo. Blues a punto de derivar en psicodelia. Clapton hace magia y no se le da el suficiente credito pese a la fama que tiene. Otro disco que parece sacado de Louisiana, no se por que no habian temas en True Detective. Ideal para escucharlo con las luces bajas y tomar el whiskey mas barato que puedas digerir.

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

Trash

Great guitar playing. Great late 20th century blues.

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.

Blues the way it should be

Bluesy. With Eric Clapton. Lots of sax

tá linde crl

Not suprisingly, some really good blues tracks.

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.

Good sounds. Just edgy enough for the times.

Not bad for white guys.

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

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???

excelente

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.

Great old school, raw rock album