Reviews (page 10 of 13)
It was alright for background music. Not something I'd ever really pic out to play.
Good dad rock
Some good tunes!
I‘ve been listening to „Layla“ for a while. 14 tracks of pure Rock‘n‘Roll are easy to love but even though I like every track, I‘m struggling to find anything that really excites me.
Pretty good, not my type of music, but I enjoyed listening to it
drags too much. great besides that
I wanted to hate this album - its dusty, jammy beginning and (to my modern ears) generic blue-eyed-soul was a huge disappointment to me after Queen's bombastic melodrama. But fuck me if Clapton, Allman, and the rest don't know how to write some catchy, impactful tunes, and of course the eponymous Layla is a classic rock anthem that will stand the test of time. Still, I don't feel compelled to give the same play-by-play as I did for Queen II, and ultimately the album registers as pretty mid to me. Maybe the next time I'm on a long road trip through the south/west, I'll revisit it.
Classic, yet professional, blues rock sound. Not my typical cup of tea, but a nice listen nonetheless.
Like the style.
2nd half of layla is so cunt
Do I even have to say that "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues" carried? I think that's a given under the circumstances. Honestly, was very whelmed by this album. It was definitely good but I found it to just be a very basic 70s rock album and not much stood out to me except for those particular songs. It has to be a strong 3 to a light 3.5 from me.
Fine rock album. Nothing exceptional.
Meh
I think the best song on the Album was Layla. I always thought that was by the Eagles learned something new. The rest was just there nothing nearly as catchy
Layla was really the only standout song--probably why it was in the title of the album. The rest of the album wasn't necessarily bad, it just didn't catch my attention. 3/5
It’s alright Didn’t need to be an hour and fifteen minutes though Very accurate title though. Besides Layla and a couple of others, a lot of songs on here are just your average blues schlock Favourite tracks: Bell Bottom Blues, Little Wing, Layla
I Looked Away - 7/10 Bell Bottom Blues - 8.5/10 Keep On Growing - 7.5/10 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out - 7.5/10 I Am Yours - 7.5/10 Anyday- 8/10 Key to the Highway -8/10 Tell the Truth - 7.5/10 Why Does Love Got to be So Sad - 7.5/10 Have You Ever Loved a Woman - 7.5/10 Little Wing - 7.5/10 It’s Too Late - 8/10 Layla - 8.5/10 Thorn Tree in the Garden - 7.5/10 TOTAL - 108/140
Some very solid songs here that I enjoyed. This guy is going somewhere with his guitar playing ;D
Thats a lotta soul
Never been a big fan of Eric Clapton, guitar solos, or overly-long jam music, especially if it doesn’t have an emotional core. This really wasn’t my cup of tea, but I appreciate the excellent abilities of the musicians. The drummer reminded me of peak Keith Moon on some tracks. Probably won’t listen again.
Eric Clapton is just a great guitarist, I was rocking out before I made the connection that this was one of his bands. Honestly this works better as background music for me. I enjoyed listening but its not something I would actively play, for one thing, it is far too long and I rather the band as individual songs on a playlist rather than a album listen. Standouts: I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, Layla
Blues rock is a genre that I enjoy quite a bit when it's playing and it's done well...for a period of time. After a while it gets really tiring, and when the album is 80 minutes long like this one, and every single song is pushing 6 minutes, I'm just wishing for it to end. It's a shame they couldn't edit themselves a little as there's some great songs and guitar playing on here. Though I will say it was a nice idea to leave the big single Layla until the very end of the album, kind of brought me back into it for 7 minutes. Really is a damn good song.
It's alright. Very typical Eric Clapton and I'm not the biggest fan. My fave was probably Key to the Highway, but not all 9 mins of it, geeze. 🤣
I think this is a classic case of a double album that has no business being a double album. There are lots of great tracks here, absolutely bogged down by boring ass boomer electric blues. Why did these guys feel the need to include so many covers? Why are all the covers so long? Idk it’s like they couldn’t let go of the white guy blues thing and just record the originals. Not surprising considering what a hack Eric Clapton is. Some tracks bowl me over, but largely I just couldn’t wait to be done listening.
Some great guitar work. Never really got in with Claptons voice though for some reason. Plus, I really don’t think anything should follow that Layla outro…
I was already aware of this album and several songs on it. Going in, I know its a classic for a reason. It's always nice to hear a Hendrix cover as well, thought it does not compare to the original at all. The titular song, Layla, is obviously a certified banger. However, I wasn't much of a fan of the rest of the album. 6/10.
If you like blues rock guitar solos then boy do I have an album for you… 5/10
Not bad
First time honestly giving Clapton a shot. These are some bluesy licks, and the guitars are tuned beautifully. It does get pretty same-y, though.
There was one song on the album worth listening to. I'm not sure if that warrants inclusion on the list.
Few belters but overall very 70s
Fácil de es escuchar, es lo que te imaginas, en cuanto a melodías, ritmo, tono de voz cuando te dicen rock/blues de los 70, hasta el punto de parecer un poco generico
I would have assumed I would like it, but it was too long and not very inspiring.
Bell Bottom Blues Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Key To The Highway Layla
Odd how tastes change over time. At one point I would have loved the more bluesy songs album. Today they sound a bit repetitive. This version of Layla is still my favourite by a long shot.
Longer than necessary, but not unpleasant
Middle of the road music you would put on in the background of a bar or on a road trip montage of a movie. It's smack dab in the middle between god awful and brilliant.
Some nice blues rock and some cool covers. The full version of Layla is a highlight. A bit over-long though.
Ok album with one great song
Decent enough. Enjoyed the blues guitars and the stand out track for me is ‘Anyday’. A strong 3 overall
Some great tunes here, absolutely blistering guitars in places! haven't listened to this since the 1980's when my dad used to play it. Standout tracks; Little Wing and obviously Layla. A high 3
The one with Layla. In all honesty, it's a rather so-so attempt at a Blues album overshadowed by a genuinely 10/10 song in the track list.
I'm gonna start with my grading for once. It's 3/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums, and it translates to a 8/10 grade for more general purposes. Let me elaborate a little about the peculiar rationale behind those grades. That 8/10 one actually amounts to the following equation: 6 + 3. It's 6/5 for the virtuosistic musicianship (yep, you read that correctly), and 2/5 for the artistry (yep, you read that correctly as well). I'm harsh about the artistry for a very specific reason: it's because Clapton and his bandmates' tiresome constant soloing is so damn self-indulgent. Even the Allman Brothers (including Duane Allman, invited to play with the Dominos here) knew how to make their overlong blues rock dirges fucking *breathe* once in a while. In comparison, most of *Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs* is stifling. So stifling that it's very easy to lose its thread after a couple of tracks or so. And since it's a loooooong album, the whole exercise of listening to it quickly becomes a chore. There's absolutely no sense of dynamics or overall build-up in the album's tracklisting. After the first three song (and apart from the title track--more on that later), it's basically just one jam after the next, with almost nothing in them to transcend or justify such self-indulgence. If I wanted to listen to musicians soloing on their instrument for long stretches of time, I would rather go to the lush textures of jazz, or to the angular, artful and hypnotic flourishes of King Crimson. Anything a little more leftfield or at least cinematic. Especially if it aged better than that white man's version of the blues--skillful, but often quite sterile and unimaginative as well. I still give two points out of five to Clapton's artistry because of a small bunch of tunes with actual *melodies* that managed to pass through this over-affected, overblown displaying of guitar chops. "Layla" is among those tunes, of course, its arrangements being one of the rares cases where the instrumentation is 100% effective (what a thrilling outro section by the way, as thrilling as the riff and orignal chord sequence in the rest of the song...). And I've suggested it earlier, but I would also add "I Looked Away", "Bell-Bottom Blues" and "Keep On Growing" in the list of keepers. The record starts on pretty great notes at least, I'll give that to Clapton and co. Yet four or five good songs can't fully save an album that long. Especially when it's filled to the brim with so many bad ideas as well. Take that cover of Hendrix's "Little Wing" for example. It is here butchered, and barely recognizable--and this, not in a good or artful way. The original says everything that needs to be said for 2+ minutes. Its instrumentation is subtle, groovy, and most importantly *dynamic*. The whole thing *breathes* life, lust, love and everything in between in a very short amount of time... In comparison, Derek & The Dominos' hamfisted version lasts for 5 minutes that don't add anything meaningful to the song, apart from a clumsy heavy riff that goes nowhere fast. A symptomatic example of what I consider wrong in a lot of other tracks in this clearly overrated album. Listen to the two versions and compare them for yourself. About Clapton as a person now... Did I mention that the man has been an ass quite a few times during his career, from that drunken racist tirade during the seventies up to that "old-man-yells-at-clouds" conspiracy-theory bullshit a couple of years ago? Nope, I didn't mention it up to now. It's better to let the music speak for the man anyway. Coincidence or not, said music all too often repeated other artists' takes without fully understanding what gave genuine soul to those. Sometimes, once in a while, such method allowed Clapton to write and perform good stuff nonetheless (some tracks in this LP, and a few others with Cream, for instance). But most of the time, the music just rambled on. Just like me, miffed hardcore fans might argue? Well, just like Clapton himself, then. It takes one to know one, I imagine. 😉 If Clapton is "God", I guess I'm an atheist. Or maybe an agnostic. So next, please. Number of albums left to review: 457 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 254. Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 129 (including this one) Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 162
Layla is cool
Layla stands out. Other tunes are pretty average
Layla is still a great song despite being overplayed. This was probably a good listening exercise to sit with the rest of the record for the first time. It starts out inconspicuous enough with a mild, mid-tempo blues. Unremarkable noodles and gentle singing did not invoke a Clapton is God response initially but the record shows occasional flashes of brilliance (if not always as urgent or intense as I think they should be). Clapton has a clarity of tone that is notable. I can understand him having some disciples and while he may be among the top players he is not the best of his generation to my ear. He's too tasteful, too restrained, and ultimately too backward-facing to be innovative and exciting. His playing is a supremely pleasant listen seemingly executed by a soulless technician.
Not my cup of tea but a good album!
still think it's weird you wrote a song about your friend's wife dude. best tracks: little wing, layla, nobody knows you when you're down and out
good eric clapton album and era
Ok. Layla is a banger though
Not bad. But probably won’t listen again
Expected way better.Not nearly as good as cream.Just kinda boring tbh.Layla is a masterpiece but even then when it’s surrounded by such mediocrity it makes it worse.Especially since the album is so long it made the long beautiful outro to Layla kinda annoying.Also the little wing cover kinda sucked which is surprising since I thought Clapton and Hendrix were friends.
Good
Better than Eric Clapton's solo stuff. Layla is such a corker it elevates the mediocre tracks in here by association. Would be a 4, but shame he's a cunt
Kunnon kikkelibluesia. Pelkäsin että rasauttaisi enemmän, kuten Claptonin laulamat biisit yleensä. Mut tää oli ihan jees.
Ihan toimivaa perusrokkia, mutta eipä nouse tämän haasteen keskiarvoa korkeammalle sijalle. 3/5
Good but also kinda forgettable. Except for Layla. That one's an ungodly banger.
7 songs in and this has been some very quality blues rock, as would be expected of Clapton. Key To the Highway is a very quintessential slow-burn Blues rock song that really doesn't even try to color outside of the lines. Just solid jam instrumental. Amazing how different of a take on Little Wing this is. I far prefer Jimi's original, but this is nice in its own way. Much more full-bodied and drawn out, with some internal riffs that remind me in a way of The Who. Surprising to me that they buried Layla so deep in the track list. Up there in two-contention for favorite Clapton songs with Cocaine. Such an iconic riff to open the song with soulful lyrics. Always think of Goodfellas when I hear it. Expansive jamming flips the song into a completely different at the midway point. All the stress of the first half melts away into a piano-led melody where the guitar takes a Garcia-esq tone that meanders away in the background in a blissful atmosphere. All around solid blues rock on display here -- this is what we call on Clapton for. Was it the most exciting record? No, but there are a few standouts (namely Layla and Key To The Highway). I would say for me this is a softish 3, because it was fine, but isn't something I see myself going back to anytime soon.
There's some good here, and there is a whole lot of guitar, but ultimately it's a long drawn out blues jam and that can get tiring.
Layla is a fantastic song. The rest of the album is OK.
Clearly a lot of skill, but it was a bit soulless.
Heard while walking through the park. Sometimes it paused or I listened to songs twice because there was no signal. But overall quite nice and energetic. + Bell Bottom Blues + Anyday + Layla
I'm usually not that into white-boy blues but found this album enjoyable. All about balance for me and this had a good mix of blues with pop sensibilities. It also didn't sound like I was trapped at a pub on a Tuesday night listening to a jam band
Yeah overall enjoyed this, had glimpses of sadness and no long guitar solos.
Not as bad as I thought but not something I'd really spend time with again, maybe the odd track or two.
Pretty good. Layla was a banger. When they go off and do some more typical blues style stuff I lose a bit of interest. The rest of it is great though. Very close to a 4. Score: 70 Art: 80
A couple of wise guys make a blues album for old white boomers. It's a long album and Layla is the standout, I wanted more songs like it. Butthole Clapton plays guitar very well, but still isn't a Goodfella.
I liked
Fine good ol rock BUT SICK of all the rock in this list lol
This is extremely mixed - some songs are really good (I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, and the overplayed Layla), but there is much too much of the usual White-Men-Playing-The-BLUES(tm) here. 2.5/5
There is nothing bad in this album but there is also nothing very good (despite layla) or distinctive. I forgot about this album the same day I was listening to it.
I dont know it as well as I thought
I enjoyed this album but it did overstay it's welcome. Bell Bottom Blues is the highlight big time. I would honestly of rated it higher if it was split into two.
This left me utterly cold on first listen (apart from the title track clicking into place as a tune I've heard dozens of times but never really knew who did it) but I did start to warm to it a little on the second play through - not enough to warrant a fourth star, mind. Fave track - "Layla", obvs - "I Am Yours" leading into "Anyday" was pretty nice too...
Beautiful guitar work. Layla is amazing. 3/5
Fine album. If not for “Layla,” this album may have been forgotten.
Fine, with a moment of greatness with Layla (which you can kinda tell by the title), it's not particularly exciting, blues-lite music. Someone else on the site described it as ramble-rock, and that seems pretty fair. Doesn't grab the attention other than the title track, which just manages to drag it up to a 3.
A great blues album by one of the great blues players, Eric Clapton's abilities are undeniable. The title track of this album is one of the greatest love songs ever written, and so it stands to be included on the list for that alone. Going through the rest of the album, while I did enjoy my listen, I felt that the sound became pretty repetitive as time went on. Had the album been a little shorter, that may have accounted for it, but at over 75 minutes, I could have used a bit more variety. It's a small complaint given his abilities, but in my mind keeps it from greatness. Fav Tracks: Bell Bottom Blues, Have You Ever Loved a Woman?, Layla
Did not listen.
Ramble rock, but the album went by quicker than I expected so I guess it didn't feel like a slog
Didn't upset my ears, but neither did it soothe my soul.
Nothing to shout about, but couple of bangers with Layla and Little Wing
Bill
Classic Clapton
3, more than one good song but I've already heard this and I'm tired of your boomer music stop recommending old boomer music PLEASE
Obviously the eponymous track is the main event here, and rightfully so as its one of the best classic rock songs ever and absolutely one of my favorites (that piano coda is just *chefs kiss*). But don't let it distract you from the rest of the album, comprising of some really great bluesy rock music from one of the best guitarists to ever do it (so good its hard to appreciate if you weren't there at the time, the Jerry Seinfeld of guitar playing if you will). The problem comes with just how bloated the album ends up being, the solo's are good and all but they extend these tracks well beyond the length they ideally should be. Which by extension, extends what should have been a great lean single record into an unfortunately bloated double record that just becomes exhausting by the end. No matter how good Clapton's guitar playing is, he just can't sustain these tracks for how long they meander on. It shouldn't stop you from checking this out however, its a decent album and worth a listen. Although Clapton can go fuck himself, just a terrible human being in nearly all the ways its possible to be one. Highlights: Keep on Growing, Anyday, Layla
Fine rock and roll music. Nothing so special. Layla is amazing, but nothing else stands out.
Certainly has its moments, but overstays its welcome. Even Layla, which is a banger, shouldn't have that second half imo
Could have been a very tight single album if they had culled some of the weaker songs. Not bad overall though.
C'est bon, du rock bluesy qui s'écoute bien, mais ce n'est pas impressionnant non plus et c'est un peu long.
vissa svänger bra men det är lite för blues ibland som inte är så smutt va
Always going to dock points for ECs politics
- love the guitars - hm don't really like i'm yours - layla is such a long song overall impressions: enjoyable, no specific songs stood out to me though. mostly liked the guitars and the tone of the singing (paid zero attention to lyrics today)
Some good songs but nothing special
Fine. I dig the guitar work. Didn't need 76 minutes of it. I'd listen to a bunch of these songs in a playlist but not as an album.
El disco parece por momentos una demostración de blues. Clapton toca pero suele caer en el exhibicionismo. Hay algunas excepciones de todos modos en las que la guitarra y la canción están en una misma sintonía y queda algo lindo, como en Have you ever loved a woman y Little wing. Son canciones en las que el blues aparece genuinamente y no como una reinterpretación de Clapton.
Estuvo bien pero es largo y me aburre ya al final, pero bueno los discos cortitos es algo de esta era. Siento que el dibujo de la tapa lo hubiera hecho en 2013 en el IVA durante mi época jipi.
me gusto bastante tiene su parte de zzzz pero sin conocer este disco me termino agradando mucho especialmmente key to the highway
estuvo bien, pero es larguisimo. clapton es un boludo pero toca muy bien. me gusto mas la mitad mas pop, la bluesera es un embole
Fine
I mean... It's passable, I think? Layla and Little Wing really drive the entire album. It's baffling why Layla was left so late in the tracklist.
3.5 Very good
I'm not a fan of Eric Clapton, and I guess by extension of his other projects, like Derek and The Domino's. After listening to this album nothing has changed in my mind. One obviously great song, as albums title suggest, and then more than one hour of fun solos, exciting riffs and bluesy vocals, but nothing that sticks to you even 5 minutes after listening. Absolute average with a one diamond.
This is pretty good. Not a lot of standout tunes, but I did love Anyday, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad and Little Wing. Layla just comes out of nowhere and is out of character with the rest of the album. Great song, but I like the others mentioned above better. Nice to hear a mix where no instruments are buried. Really enjoyed hearing the bass throughout. Only real criticism is the length. I could do with half the songs. Keep just the best and I’d rate this higher. 1 = bad 2 = average 3 = good 4 = great 5 = outstanding
Qua zang is het niet indrukwekkend, de bassdrum zijn ze per abuis vergeten in een aantal tracks en het duurt allemaal wat lang, maar verder is het prima aan te horen allemaal. Had met minimaal de helft tot 2/3e ingekort kunnen worden, maar wappie Clapton was teveel onder de indruk van zichzelf. Keurige, cultureel toegeëigende ouwelullenblues voor de tikkie racistische blanke boomer. Ohja en de coverart is spuuglelijk. Maar wel 3 sterren.
I'm pretty familiar with Eric Clapton's music; my dad listened to his unplugged album quite a bit when I was a kid, and when I was in college, I listened to his solo stuff and Cream a fair amount. I even read his autobiography at some point in my twenties, and I really enjoyed. Now, in the year of our Lord 2022, Eric Clapton has shown his ass to the whole world, and everyone knows what a xenophobic jerk he is. It seems like no one wants to listen to his music anymore, with the exception of people who say things like "my pronouns are meat/eater." I'd always meant to listen to this album back when I classic rock was pretty much the only thing I ever listened to, but somehow I never did. Due to Clapton's current reputation, I really didn't have high hopes for this album, but I have to begrudgingly admit that I thought it was okay. I don't know much about blues music (are the Black Keys blues?), but I thought this album was pretty good lyrically and instrumentally. I've always had a liking for 'Layla,' and I still think it's a great song, but I thought that 'Keep on Growing' and 'Bell Bottom Blues' are really good too. But even with 'Layla' and a couple of 'really good' songs, I don't think this album as a whole is anything noteworthy. If I look at some of my favorite albums from the seventies (Wish You Were Here, Rumors, Who's Next), this album doesn't even come close to those. Other than some talented folks who worked on it, it really doesn't have a lot to show off. In closing, I'll leave my favorite anecdote about Eric Clapton. I used to listed to a sports podcast, and on a particular episode, they were talking about Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay taking his music memorabilia collection on the road to showcase it to the public. The hosts joked that Irsay thinks that a guitar previously owned by Clapton still contained his notes in it. One of the hosts asked if the guitar also had Clapton's hatred for immigrants in it, and the other host replied that it did, along with his parenting skills. Fuck Eric Clapton with a Fender Stratocaster.
In my blues period many years ago Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out was one of my favourites. Jimi Hendrix' Little Wing is another brilliant song, but not in this version, I'm afraid. Layla is probably the best known song, and rightfully so. I also recognised the soul classic It's too late, but again I was not sure if I liked this version and definitely prefer Chuck Willis' original version from the late '50s. Anyway, the album was generally okay, but I only really liked a handful of songs.
Steady blues rock but I tend to fall asleep until the classics kick in.
I Looked Away - 4 stars Bell Bottom Blues - 3.5 stars Keep On Growing - 2.5 stars Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - 2.5 stars I Am Yours - 2 stars Anyday - 2 stars Key To The Highway - 2 stars Tell The Truth - 3 stars Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? - 3.5 stars Have You Ever Loved A Woman? - 2 stars Little Wing - 4 stars It's Too Late - 3 stars Layla - 5 stars Thorn Tree In The Garden - 5 stars
показалось, что всё кроме Лейлы блюз, не для меня
I used to be way into Clapton until I found out how much of a dick and racist he is. It is tough to separate the art from the artist. Like Michael Jackson hard.
Layla was the only song I recognized and easily my favorite. The whole album isn't too bad, bluesy and catchy, but not really my bag.
I enjoyed this as an archetypal 70s album
Layla and other blues songs. Some nice tracks in there, some fillers...
This was alright, kind of like a jam blues band. Nothing especially standout other than Layla but everything was enjoyable and would make for nice background music in a pub or something.
Good music and excecution but looong AF
I have had this album since the early 70s but only ever really played side 4. Seen no reason to change that now.
Good, but not as good as I thought it might be with that line-up.
Non ho una gran passione per il repertorio di Slowhand extra Cream, e Layla è abusatissima.
I've got exactly two problems with this record. The exhausting length and the amount of covers. Had they cut the covers to only include "Little Wing" the sole musical output from Derek and the Dominos would have stood that much sharper. Also... Taken into account that this is essentially a love letter to a friend's wife... Covers? Not really that romantic. Musically there's absolutely nothing wrong with anything though. Clapton is as good as he ever is when he's in his bluesy mood and Whitlock provides the backbone of it all. There are too few truly memorable songs but "Layla" almost makes up for anything problems I have with the album. Jesus Christ, is it possible to ever get tired of listening to Clapton crying his heart out and Duane Allman almost playing his guitar to shreds? I think not.
This is not just dad rock. This is advanced dad rock. This is father stone. It's not bad or anything, but I can feel my beer belly growing as I slowly morph into a British guy called Barry (age 63) while listening to this. "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues" are the clear winners here. A lot of this album is dedicated to Eric Clapton jerking himself off with a guitar, and while that can sound fantastic in short bursts, it kind of gets old after a while. And let's not even mention the backstory of this one. Imagine your best friend makes an hour long album about how much he wants to fuck your wife. Clapton's kind of a dickhead, isn't he?
This album just wasn’t for me
It was oK
Perfectly good background music for when you want to HEAR classic rock but you don't really want to LISTEN to classic rock. But also, obligatory fuck Eric Clapton.
Really love the album cover. The songs are pretty good too. Eric Clapton's best work IMO.
The production quality is just horrible. Highs are muted. Layla is worth 2 stars on its own.
Goed hor dit! Heb dit moeiteloos kunnen luisteren.
Niet alles is even boeiend maar het merendeel van dit album vond ik toch erg de moeite waard.
I liked what I listened to
This was a nice album. Didn’t realize Eric Clapton was in this band
That was fun, but grew tiresome by the end
Very nice. I like this better than most clapton solo junk. Solid
Layla propels this past good
Blues rock, some white funk. Not bad, not great. Doesn't hit any genre or style I hate.
Good blues, not enough "hits". Too long!
menettää ainakin yhden tähden pituuden takia, eihän tällaista tiluttelua ja show-offia näin kauan jaksa. nautin kuitenkin rakkauslauluista. vaikea arvostella.
Tässä on häiritsevän rouhea kitarasoundi, ja Eric Clapton on huonolla tavalla huono laulaja. Henkilökohtaisesti en myöskään ymmärrä Greg Allmanin (muistaakseni) slide-jammailuja. Ja ovathan nämä biisit nyt naurettavan pitkiä. Paljon miinuksia. Toisaalta melkein jokaisessa biisissä on taustalla hyvä idea, ja se yksi nostaa ihokarvat pystyyn. Uskon jopa, että pidemmällä tutustumisella pääsisin tähän paremmin sisälle. Harkitsen ostamista, mikä ei liene ihan merkityksetön asia.
I love Layla and there are some good covers, but the rest of the album is very samey and a bit lacking. I was enjoying the Duane Allman guitar playing so I turned this off and put Eat a Peach on instead.
Songs are fine, it’s just not something I see myself returning to
The back end of the album is sensational, Layla is one of the great songs. Too bad the general consensus around him is he's a piece of shit.
Really groovy guitars but the songs were really long and that’s not my style
A nice collection of songs. Layla is a classic track
Eric really did live Patti listening to this album. Some classic tracks but a bit meandering at times. Layla is a brilliant track.
So much bluesy goodness. Some songs seem to go on a little long and can be lost in a background listen. but there are some songs that can catch your attention with the lyrics or guitars solos; Is it really blues if you don’t get some gritty guitar solos? “Thorn Tree in the Garden” at the end throws off expectations though. Overall, this album was a decent way to get into the blues and the iconic Eric Clapton (if you look beyond all of his controversy). No regrets in listening to this album.
So and so....many covers...but not super
I'm not quite sure why nearly every song is so long - they drag. Layla is a proper banger though, even at the 7 minute run-length.
Nearly every song overstays its welcome. The album has some decent tracks though.
suitable for sunny afternoon
The whole premise of the titular song is about wanting to bone your best friend’s wife. I fucking hate Eric Clapton but I do think Layla is a decent song, the other assorted love songs are whatever.
i'll be clear there are parts of this record that surprised me and interesting songwriting moments that i wouldn't come to expect in a random 70s hard rock album, nevertheless one made by fucking eric clapton [rolls eyes] with that being said this is a double album clocking in at 77 minutes and while it's not the most boring thing in the world it is still considerably bloated; case isn't necessarily helped by each one of these "whatever songs" jumping into the same fucking generic 70s blues jam every time. some of these 5-7 minute songs go on for what feels like 15 minutes, and not in a good way! but hey nevertheless the good songs were pretty chill so i gotta say that if you like the vibe then you like the vibe man
Yeah, it's Eric Clapton. It's good. Just not exciting. Two absolute classics and the rest are fine. 3/5
Relaxed music.
Layla goated song
dad rock endurance challenge. liked a few select tracks, but i didn't vibe with the 40 minutes of blues shuffles between them.
The headline in the LA Times says all I can say about Clapton (including 'Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs' at this waning stage of his career.. "Vaccinated but anti-vaccine, Eric Clapton tests positive for COVID-19". Perhaps a 'Lost Sailor', his contributions are fading into the mists of time on this 42 year old album. Some of the backup vocals do stand the test of time. Thanks for the add to the group. -neurorocker
Who's Derek? "Dominos, motherf**ker! See about that!" ––––––– I really liked the bluesy songs on this album. Like REALLY liked those. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" are the real winners on this album. The Little Wing cover was an absolute travesty. That should've never happened! Jimi would've hated this (just guessing, he probably wouldn't have been able to hear it, so that's a good thing). The others were straight up 'meh'. Even the title track 'Layla' should've started about 3+ minutes into it and existed without lyrics. Clapton's guitar is great, voice and singing seems to be more of an acquired taste. Derek must've been stuck in the bathroom, this is all about the backup ...
Two artistic Brits have been prime targets for cancel culture of late. Cancel culture has its excesses, without a doubt. But it also represents a noble trend in attempting to hold our celebrities and icons to account for their words and actions, and their place in perpetuating bigotry and privilege. "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has been in the thick of it, due to her comments on trans issues. The International Quidditch Association has even changed the sport's name to Quadball in protest of the writer who created the magical game. (If you weren't aware, college students actually play a non-magical version of this game, with sticks-that-do-not-fly tucked between their legs.) Rowling's behavior has certainly changed my opinion of her as a person. However, it has only impacted my enjoyment of her literature slightly. Why is that? Eric Clapton, on the other hand, has perhaps been a racist and a bigot for a long time, but it is his recent anti-vaccine stance that has led to everyone dredging up all his cancellable ills. He is one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time, but in 2022 how much does that matter? It's pretty rich that the guy who once told a concert audience that he wanted to "stop Britain from becoming a black colony" has now said that he would "not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present," in response to Boris Johnson requiring vaccination for concerts. Maybe he's grown and would no longer say "I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism." But he's still a dumb@$$. Anyway, I can more easily separate authors from their art than musicians. I'm not sure why? Something about the level of immersion when reading? The fact that Clapton and other artists have written songs that express their idiocy (not on this album)? Its something I have considered for a long time, as Orson Scott Card has been my favorite author for a long time, despite his personal political beliefs. And it seems I'm no closer to an answer.
-1 star for Clapton aging into an insufferable douche bag.
There is a lead guitar master class or five within this album. Between Clapton and Duane Allman, soaring guitar riffs are a bound. For example, there is some great work on the slow paced blues number, Have You Ever Loved A Woman. I noted recently that The Cure’s Seventeen Second’s title track is last on the album while here we have Layla appearing second to last, which I find equally odd. Layla is of course a hell of a song. Kudos to Duane Allman coming up with the famous lead riff. The song is in two “movements,” the guitar driven first and the piano heavy second. I’ve always appreciated the second movement more than the first. I saw Clapton once in Philadelphia where he closed with Layla. When movement two kicked in, a significant portion of the audience walked to the exits. I was flabbergasted. The piano part is hard to describe, but it just hits home with the subtle squealing slide guitar laid over top. Also, I didn’t know until now that Duane Allman was playing the slide above the last fret at the end of the first movement. It’s so high pitched I think I’ve never really noticed it. At 77 minutes, these 14 tracks are too much too ask to keep my interest. There are several tracks I’d rather have been cut: I Am Yours (boring and way out of place here); Little Wing (Hendrix’s original is vastly superior); It’s Too Late; and Tell The Truth. If those were gone, another star would be given.
Better than expected. Thorn tree in the garden was beautiful
I had a lot of trepidation going in to this, just because of all the baggage that comes with Clapton. I'm certainly familiar with the title track--who isn't?--but the rest of the album, though nothing that stands out as an absolute recognizable song, it all sounds comfortingly familiar. I guess that's the spell that blues guitar based music casts on it's listeners. Clearly a tentpole in the long line of this style of music. I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting.
I was pretty damn bored through the first 6 songs, it was not hitting at all for me. Highkey i was dreading track 7 bc it was about 10 minutes long. That track smacked. Then i realized it was a blues-ish rock album and it made more sense. 2nd half of the album was damn good actually. Layla goes harder than everything obviously. Good album 6/10
Meh
Bell bottom blues, little wing, and Layla top 3
the guitar on this album... wow. WOW. WOW!!!! i truly understand now how great of a guitarist eric clapton is after listening to this album in full. in particular, the guitar on "key to the highway" and "i am yours" stood out to me, but the guitar was present and amazing on every single track. and of course the credit does go to duane allman as well. the guitar is what makes this album into what it is. of course i have to mention "layla." the piano halfway through is so exquisite, so beautiful, so perfect. all in all, it was too bluesy of an album for me. it wasn't bad, but just not for me. i couldn't get into more than a few songs. but derek and the dominos did know how to make their hits, that's for sure!
You can listen to it in the back ground the you raise the volume for Layla.
One good song
i actually quite enjoyed this album even though i’d never heard any song other than Layla. I thought it was quite enjoyable and interesting and I am kind of surprised that these songs aren’t as heard of.
Enjoyed it. Probably my favourite so far from Eric Clapton.
It is not surprising to see this album on the list, and I was going to be surprised if I loved it. Well, I didn’t love it, but there were some moments where I really enjoyed the groove.
Experienced a lot of push and pull with this one. Wanted to like it due to its reputation but I started out underwhelmed. Then found the right frame of mind and got into it. But by the time it was over, I sure was ready. Undeniable musicianship but not much here I’ll feel the need to revisit.
Good stuff most of the way through. Can't go wrong with Layla or Bell Bottom Blues. But it does linger on a bit much, as a whole.
Some good tunes but Eric Clapton is a dick so only 3 stars
In theory ‘Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs’ is right up my alley, but in reality, it just doesn’t do it for me. It’s not bad…it just falls flat. The production is tinny, and its 70-minute run time feels like 3 hours when you actually sit down and listen to the whole album in a single sitting. Frankly, it drags. As a prime example, in what universe do we need the last 4 and half minutes of ‘Layla’? Why was it ever padded out to 7 minutes to begin with?
I really like the overall sound of this album. You can hear the sweat in these tracks. Great energy. They're all strong performances, but you can see why Layla is far and away the most popular one. I would probably put this on in the background if I could get some of those Eric Clapton quotes out of my head.
Good singing, good playing - and, truly, a couple of moments of transcendence. Of course, the entirety of 'Layla' - but also the gliding 'Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad', and let's throw 'Bell Bottom Blues' into the mix - it's like a superior David Gates number. The rest can be hard work - do we really need over nine minutes of blues workout 'Key to the Highway', especially this rather pedestrian version? 'It's Too Late' is a real fucking snoozer, so I guess it's good that 'Layla' wakes you up directly afterwards. No, too much of this album reeks of the smug satisfaction of a bunch of musos 'getting in together', yet, with a few notable exceptions, failing to do anything fun, original or affecting. Where's the passion, the madness, the lifeforce that powers the very best music? It's barely hinted at here. The pipe and slippers, however, were surely not too far away...
Look yeah this album isn't exactly the peak of excitement, it goes too long tbh. But if you give it a 1 or 2 because of whatever Eric Clapton said in 2020, you're the problem in the world today. Not him. 3/5.
Solid
Mostly just bb king sounding blues
Not a fan of Clapton. To my mind this is average album with 2 great songs; one, Layla I really wouldn't care if I never heard it again, the other Bell Bottom Blues, gives the album a full star for its excellence. Overall 3.5 🌟
A decent, if overlong, classic rock LP. Definitely wears thin by the end, but the guitar tone is so good and the solos so bread-and-butter blues rock that I was able to find myself nodding along most of the time.
It bridges the gap between Rock (Good) and White Man's Blues (Not Good). Clearly lot of ability here but contains a lot of blues indulgence
Shame that Clapton is such a shitbird, otherwise this album is fine.
Not bad.
Good guitar and well orchestrated songs, nothing really stands out though. Nice background music.
Several great songs, a lot of bloat.
Normal
One really good song but the rest were just average
Very talented musicians, but honestly it gets a bit old for me. Didn't know this was something Clapton was in as well. Interestingly not the version of Layla I know as well, so that's kinda neat.
Perhaps I've heard a track or two from Derek and the Dominos, but I don't know much about the band or their music. As soon as I hear the music I remember that Eric Clapton is in the band, but I don't remember how any Derek or any of the Dominos fit into Clapton's overall career arc. I've heard versions of "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Layla" before, but I'm not sure if I've heard the versions from this album before. Let's say that "Key to the Highway '' was my favorite track because of the solid foundation of bluesy guitar. "It's Too Late" and "Any Day" could be next on the list for favorite tracks. I like "Little Wing" (e.g. Stevie Ray Vaughan, or Jimi Hendrix), but not this version of "Little Wing". The album was okay, but I'm not sure if I'd come back around for seconds.
02/11/2022 Some very looooonnnngggggg songs, that began to feel like a chore to get through. Layla is, of course, a classic. I also really dug the opening track, too.
Really good pieces in here, even though they all kinda feel the same. I had to restart the album a couple of times bc of its unnecessary noises. It would have been better if it wasn't too much...
coisa do eric clapton
Oh, wat een lekker relaxte muziek. Leuk album! Klinkt een beetje Bon Jovi, of in ieder geval lekker poppie en bluezy. Dit soort blues vind ik wel leuk. ***
In high school my friends and I poured over this encyclopedia of Beatles history. In it, there was a full page photo of Patti Boyd and we were obsessed. So I get it Eric Clapton. Shame this guy has some bad options on COVID and wrote a protest song about having to wear a mask. The 2020s has really done a number on older pop culture icons lol.
Classic songs
decent blues rock album
This album has some great songs...some classic songs, bit as stated previously; blues rock don't do it for me. I do luv Bell Bottom Blues though. 3.5 🌟
Not to say this album is bad but it’s very much a relic of its time, which is fine but I think the weaker parts of this project have shown more as its aged. Often I feel as if I’m just waiting through a simple song to see how Clapton going to save it with his guitar solo. Speaking of, Eric Clapton’s guitar work is fucking timeless! Layla For instance feature both of these qualities. I swear to god this song has the most drab introduction with the most epic payoff. Clapton’s guitar sings one of the most iconic ballads of its time but you have to wait through the obligatory, bland 2 minute intro that comes before every song and that summarizes a lot of the music on the album. Album’s aight though
This was great... but left me kind of uninterested. Clapton's guitar playing is incredible at times on this album, everything works together so brilliantly. It just didn't grab me as something that I would regularly seek out to put on the speakers. I am fully aware however, that this kind of thing isn't really a judgement at all and is dependent on mood time of day and all kinds of factors... so who knows. Maybe I'll come back to this one day and fall more in love with it.
Þrjú góð lög. Problematic gaur að svo mörgu leyti.
Not bad, interesting to listen to Clapton’s blues of the 70’s
mEh. Layla is the only song that's worth it. The others aren't bad, just kind of boring. First two songs were also good.
Bueno
Lots of classics on this album. I used to love this album. My appreciation has waned some as I learned more about Eric Clapton stealing George Harrison's wife - not cool. Still, Layla is a wonderful song. But Eric Clapton just kind of sucks as a person.
3.5/5 a pretty great album when it hits its strides. Starts strong and ends strong, the middle section had a few good tunes but mostly forgettable to me. Nice cover of Little Wing!
As stated in the title this album has ‘Layla’ and other songs
Solid
southern boogie rock. its fine if thats your thing. Layla is a perennial hit.
Classic.
Vähän tämmöistä nyyhkymusaa, ei kai nyt ihan blues-rockia, mutta sellaista kaipailevan alakuloista kevytrokkia kuitenkin. Välillä oli ihan mukavaakin fiilistelyä, mutta enimmäkseen ei niin innostanut. Ekan kierroksen aikana mietin jo kakkostakin, mutta tokalla kuuntelukerralla nousi kolmosen puolelle.
Tänään opin että Layla ei ole Eric Claptonin biisi. Hieman myöhemmin opin että Eric Clapton on Derek & The Dominosin laulaja ja biisintekijä. Oikein miellyttävää rallatteluahan tämä levy on, vaikka suuri osa biisestä ei herätä erityisen suuria tunteita. Uusista tuttavuuksista ehkä Bell Bottom Blues nousi muiden yläpuolelle. Vaikkei levyssä mitään vikaa olekaan, ei tämä genre kuitenkaan ole ihan oma juttuni. Lähempänä nelosta kuin kakkosta, mutta kolmosella mennään.
7/10
I tend to push back against Classic rock hits that have become over played monster hits, eg Layla, Stairway to Heaven, Freebird. But when I think about it, this isn’t the fault of the band, it’s the radio stations that are to blame for over playing a great song so much that it becomes a cliche. When I heard these songs for the first time I was blown away at their epicness. But decades later they’re considered washed up Dad Rock has beens, again it isn’t the fault of the songwriter, they did their job which was to craft a giant hit. This album seems disconnected from Layla, it’s mostly Blues Rock (as interpreted by some English blokes again) and then the aforementioned 800 lb gorilla. I found most of the Blues to be uninspired, Hendrix or even Blue Cheer did it way better IMO. So this gets 3 stars simply from the gorilla song
Enjoyed this!
231125 12:47 3.5
Is Layla the rock version of “and I fucked your bitch you fat motherfucker”, obviously George and Eric weren’t feuding like that though. Have you ever loved a woman is also pretty cold too. Anyways it’s alright, and was deservedly called so before people figured out it was Clapton’s newest outing.
Nice calming intro, looks like it's going to be a good 70s good time. I think if they can manage to introduce some variety into these jams at some point it could be pretty good. Some tempo changes, that sort of thing.
Layla is the best song on the album but is also long. The other songs are alright but a bit of a jam session which makes the song longer than necessary.
Look. Layla. Just, perfection. Didn't have a ton of time for the rest of the album though, so it won't make my top lists.
A good blues album
3.3 - Overly crowded with guitar showboating. Undeniably there are some jams here. The problem for me is the jams are too long and I get burnt out on 12-bar blues by the end. Also, I’ve never understood the fascination with “Layla” - the piano outro is boring and, again, it’s crowded with guitar noodling. Obviously Clapton is a skilled guitarist but to me he lacks subtlety, at best he’s able to hammer and bend on the strings.
Gode gamle Eric, solid rock, god guitar, Layla
Firstly, this is a blind review. I have zero up front knowledge of this band/album. Secondly, I will let you know when I do later in the review. This album reminds me of watching 80s television, Knight Rider, if you must know, with house bands singing generic sounding rock and roll that no one has ever heard, until it became cool to license songs directly from the popular culture and make it part of the show's track. Once I get over this, this album still does not make a big impression on me. The 70s were a confusing time, lots of peace and love leftover from the 60s, but also a lot of weirdness and flirtations with chaos showed up in this decade. While this album is from 1970, you can hear the precursor sounds that fully abandoned the more flowery aspects of the 60s, and the more grounded and gritty via a love letter kindly reminding us of the Blues particularly of note in "Key To The Highway". Until now, this album is not that exciting, but it is very familiar. Now we are at "Little Wing" and about halfway through that song, I mark it as my favorite. Not even one song later, a familiar riff hits me. "Layla", a song that is on constant rotation on my local classic rock station, but for some reason is always credited to Eric Clapton. At this point, I decided to see exactly who Derek & The Dominoes were and then it all starts to make sense. This album is basically a love child of several members of bands who would later rise to prominence and define the blues/rock of this particular decade. This album drops right in the middle of significant social change, to include an unpopular war, and perhaps the world wasn't quite ready for it. Granted, the contemporaries would find their footing and give us some of the best classic rock ever, songs that inform constantly what it is that people really love.
Blues and blues and rock. I enjoyed hearing the evolution of a great guitarist, as well as the softening of a voice. Whoever mic'd that drum kit needs a talking to. How many pillows were stuffed into that floor tom?
Good tracks, but fairly standard blues rock. Some tracks were a bit too drawn out for my taste, but over all fairly enjoyable.
Just give me the title track (and Bell Bottom Blues, that's a good song). The world has moved past the need for Eric Clapton and his weird pining for George Harrison's wife.
man...i just don't know about this one. i never actually cared for clapton all that much, is the thing. i do still love the ending of layla, but that's in part because it's NOTHING LIKE the rest of clapton's work. which, to me, has always kind of sounded like a white man ripping off the black bluesmen of the south - and that's unfortunate, because his talent is undeniable. i just...don't like him. and honestly, as of pandemic times, it's a lot harder to like him as a human than it ever has been. i guess maybe he actually did sell his soul to rock & roll.
It's a 2 without Layla. Too long without enough good stuff. That song is amazing though
damn this was long for how little variety it had. i'm not gonna say it was bad overall, there were a couple of really good songs, but it really got grating after hearing songs that sounded so similar over and over. 5/10
Bit forgettable. 6
6/10. Jeez, I'd never realized that Layla was 7 minutes long. I like Layla just fine, but this album is just 76 minutes that all sounds like Layla but a little worse. Not an unenjoyable experience by any means, but a little samey.
Sono combattuto perché è un album di qualità, suonato con gusto. Ma allo stesso sto facendo fatica a digerirlo. Mi spiego, è pieno di schitarrate blues classiche ma fatte bene, roba che sembra facile ma che non riuscirei mai a suonare allo stesso modo. Alcuni pezzi non sono nemmeno troppo scontati, anzi! Aggiornamento in diretta: Sto a 11. Little Wing, e mentre sto scrivendo questa recensione sto cambiando idea, mi sa che è un bell'album dopo tutto! Praticamente ho scoperto solo all'ultimo di aver ascoltato Eric Clapton e, non solo, che questo album sia tipo un classicone. Giuro che non lo conoscevo.. Un 3 pieno pieno!
Questo è il classico disco che s'è voluto spingere troppo oltre, un po' come i giochi AAA che vogliono massimizzare $/h di gioco. La band è forte, il blues è di qualità e c'è anche un tentativo apprezzabile di varietà, però 75 minuti so difficili da reggere pure quando sei un genio artistico, non li puoi reggere facendo rock blues, anche se di buona fattura. Comunque non li penalizzerò per il fatto che li ho dovuti sentire in due giri perché mediamente mi hanno intrattenuto. Io direi un 2.75 che promuovo a 3 perché l'ho trovato comunque di qualità superiore della maggior parte dei rock bluesettari ascoltati finora.
Feels like this was the precursor to a lot of 1970s studio-based albums. More like a 2.5
Being generous with the 3. I’m mostly indifferent, though “I Looked Away,” “Bell Bottom Blues” and “Anyday” were nice. Shame what they did to Little Wing.
Very 70s, fine not bad or anything.
pretty good blues
Layla is the stand out the rest is just ok
Too old time-y for my liking.
Alittle too long of an album
нда, всегда меня удивляла выдержка этих людей, конечно. Ладно уж, хуй с ними со слушателями, но самим играть десятки, а то и сотни песен на одном и том же блюзовом квадрате, с одной и той же соляговой дрочьбой - ну вызывает восхищение иногда, конечно. Струны бы из таких людей делать. Ну впрочем, первая группа Эрика Клептона в этом плане всё-таки не так плоха, как многие (многие!) другие в этом списке. Скажем так, если бы мне надо было выделить один ультимативный альбом блюзового батя-рока - я бы, вполне возможно, остановился как раз на этом. Ну а че - сыграно всё хорошо довольно, бодрость духа присутствует по большой части, а ещё пока слушал - уловил штуки 3 смутно знакомых мелодии, которые потом стопроцентно пиздили себе более попсовые рокеры. Слушали, значит, записывали. Ну и на здоровье. Ещё вспомнил, кстати, что когда я был мелким - я зачем-то попросил купить мне двд с акустическим концертом Клептона. Ну я Чижа тогда слушал, всякое такое, короче в тему как будто было. Хуй я что понял в то время, конечно, в Клептоне. Ну, и сейчас, собственно, вроде как и понятно всё, а всё равно ощущение, что чего-то не понимаю. Кому такое нравится - это наверное будет 10/10, на кончиках пальцев. А так могу посоветовать максимум разок для ознакомления прогнать и забыть. Лучшие песни (в которых есть какая-то внятная музыкальная идея): I Am Yours, Bell Bottom Blues, ну и знаменитая Layla, конечно. Худшие: да не то чтобы есть прям плохие, скорее просто не запоминающиеся 6/10
"Layla" is enough classical for the whole album, but some other songs are also very good songs. This is not an exceptional album, it stills sounds like a "clean" 70/80's rock n' roll (this is not really a bad thing, but it's hasn't any real highlight besides "Layla").
Not my favorite but not bad for what it was.
Tuli kuunneltua osissa niin kokonaiskuva pääsi hajoamaan, mutta ihan lepposaa ja kulkevaa rockia.
Eka biisi huolestutti vahvalla kantrivivahteella, mut levyhän alko nopeesti kasvaa raikkaaks rallatteluks.
Bello anche se non me lo ricordo gia' piu'
BT: Bell Bottom Blues (2), Anyday (6), Layla (13) Rock clásico a más no poder, perfecto para música de ambiente en un bar de cuarentones, el álbum se hace algo largo y tiene más relleno que Naruto, pero las guitarras suenan genial y Layla es BRUTAL, un buen disco de Rock blues pero más estirado que un chicle. Key to de Highway (7) son casi 10 minutos de solos de Rock/blues, que si te mola está de puta madre pero pero en 10 minutos me hago unos macarrones y me sobra tiempo. Thorn Tree In The Garden es una canción muy soft y perfecta para tu playlist de relax o de acústico. Si tienes un barucho en medio de la carretera, este disco es para ti, sino, escucha solo las BT.
Cool
muy chulooo!!
Eric Clapton at the beginning
The record starts off extremely strong, with Looked Away having everything, touching lyrics that are sung emotionally by Clapton's on the edge of breaking, lovely guitar solos and the epic ascending chorus of Bell Bottom Blues. I do not love the sharp guitar riffs on Keep On Growing and Key To The Highway, and I feel both tracks overstay their welcome by a minute or 2/3, Nobody Knows is way too much blues and not enough rock and the mastering is mediocre at times (base only in left ear). Layla is also worth a mention for obvious reasons. All in all, a fine record. 3/5
Pretty boring
All familiar songs. Lacking impact as an album.
Some pretty cool Blues Rock sounding tracks, almost a little bit Eric Clapton style. Can even hear how QOTSA Villains album had some similar sounds. Layla is an absolute classic, but this isnt generally my thing, so, 3/5. Edit: just googled it and it's Eric Clapton's band hahhaha 😂
eh. 3
3.5/5 it had some interesting songs, i'll have to relisten
Pretty cool, but again, I've had enough of 70s rock. Layla is a jam though.
Between a 2-5 and a 3 for me
"I was standing, Looking in the face of one who loved me, Feeling so ashamed. Hoping," (Keep on growing) "Please, leave me alone Nothing in this world can make me stay I'd rather go back, I'd rather go back home" (Anyday) Un poco decepcionada con este disco, porque "Layla" me parece un temazo pero todo lo demás un poco meh.
I like it.
I like it
Solid classic rock
Ok sure. Not my cup of tea, but the guitar work is great (of course). The eponymous "Layla" is really the only thing that jumped out at me.
Really good Clapton
Sixty-five minutes of derivative woman-done-me-wrong blooz then Layla then a warmup to Tears in Heaven and scene. Fuck Clapton.
lol i couldn't focus on this and DNF. maybe i'll get back to it but it's not really compelling. Just really really long. Rock songs don't need to be 9 mins long when there isn't a plot
Besides the typical soullessness of another Eric Clapton project, there are actually a couple great songs on this album… And only 1 hour and 15 minutes of garbage to sift through to get to them :) Fav tracks: Bell Bottom Blues, Layla. Great songs! Bad album.
took me like 8 days to get through this
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs I don’t think I’ve listened to this in full before. Layla is rightly part of the rock canon, a brilliantly yearning and anguished blues-rock belter with that stunning piano part. Elsewhere there are some good songs: I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, Keep on Growing, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad, their version of Little Wing and Thorn Tree in the Garden and the Delaney & Bonnie (and of course Duane Allman) influence is clear in the shuffling, rootsy, country-blues feel of some of it. However it also has many of the things that I sometimes struggle with with Clapton, a kind of extremely skilled sheen of dullness. The interplay with Duane Allman is lovely and fluid, and his slide playing is great, but even Clapton’s excellent playing in that context I don’t often find very appealing. I also find that, aside from Layla, his vocals are particularly inexpressive - obviously it’s not his fault he doesn’t have the strongest voice, but I’m just not that keen on his rather affected gruffness and bluesy mannerisms. And it also sounds very samey for a 76 minute double album, and about halfway through Keys to the Highway you wonder if this is ever going to end, especially when it’s followed by Tell the Truth. Fortunately Why Does Love Got to Be So Bad gives a welcome shot of energy and tempo, and Little Wing’s superb intro/motif brings a welcome edge of drama and variation. And I wish there were more songs like Thorn Tree in the Garden, with its wistful, Traffic-esque folky blues standing out against the bluesy morass. It’s between a 2 and a 3. As great as Layla and Bell Bottom Blues are, and as good as I Looked Away, Keep on Growing and Thorn Tree in the Garden are, I don’t know if they are enough to make me want to slog through the rest of it, as outside those songs it I do find it kind of boring. But then Layla really is one of rock's great songs. But ultimately I don’t think I want to listen to the whole thing again. 🎸🎸 Playlist submission: Layla
I have no patience for love songs.
I actually really like guitar-heavy music, but this album didn't move me at all—apart from "Layla," there's really nothing special about it. I find the album very overrated.
This is a good album of 70s blues rock by the band Derek and.. it has a standout track with a great riff and then piano break. Takes African American blues and on the whole rocks. Too long some sappy tracks but otherwise fine. But, and I may be breaking my, don’t be presentism rule. But, it’s generally now viewed as a Clapton thing, the legend, the over-rated,That is considered to be more important than he actually is, Clapton. This is seen as his best collection of songs here, least said about the puerile beige innocuous pop mush his solo career has been, that he’s been peddling to lawyers in love for their suburban dinner parties since. He seems to get all the credit here, but it was actually a band? written by and played by, though the undiagnosed MHealth of one of them and related behaviour and subsequent murder are their own story, but as said he get all the kudos, a lot of what works is established to be others contributions, either at the time or from older blues, ideas, songs, riffs - that work. Which also bleeds into the elephant in the room, tried but can’t ignore because it is so tied to the music, what kind of twat steals his whole stick from African Americans, has a big hit covering a Jamaican and then has the irony to be a complete racist. Does he have no shame? Looking at what the lyrical subject of Layla is, Guessing not. Him being part of the tin hat brigade later is just a great side note. The big song here Layla is a fine track, but that riff and piano aren’t Clapton, but that’s no longer the story. It’s good 70s blues rock, a bit too long, 3 Star But it’s Clapton, and I just can’t stand Clapton and what he is, the stain that is part of the music and effects viewing the music, which kind of breaks my own rule at the start, maybe?? but can’t win them all so 2 Star, because I just can’t not hear him.
Boring. And Layla
Holy crap I didn't realize you could make an album sound like it was happening in the background while simultaneously playing directly in your ear. Songs were good though. Just listen to the MTV live.
At best this one was just okay. I spent most of the album wishing I was listening to something else unfortunately.
not a big fan of all the muffled sound/ bad sound quality effect or whatever they had going on, some compositions get a bit tiring to listen to. Also after reading the other reviews I am shocked about Eric Clapton. For the music itself? Layla out of 5
I really don’t like bluesy stuff and heard Layla on the radio as a kid enough times for my lifetime
It's not bad, just drags on too long.
Den kjedeligste gammelmannsbluesen som tenkes kan. Selvfølgelig har de ei seig låt som er ti minutter lang. Tittellåta og den generelle spillegleden redder stumpene.
Eric Clapton is a terrible person and the most overrated guitar player ever. Your local dentist can play dad blooz just as good or better. He can't play fast, his solos have no emotion, his phrasing is generic, I don't get why people always put him in greatest guitar players ever lists. This is one of the most self indulgent and boring albums on this list. Just because you can play blues licks doesn't mean we have to hear them all. This album could have easily been condensed down to 30 minutes. The only good parts on this album are the piano outro to Layla, which apparently he stole from his band mate, and the Jimi Hendrix cover (somehow he makes it sound bad though). People say Jimi Hendrix is a bad singer, which I've never understood I think his voice perfectly suites the music. Now Eric here on the other hand is a God awful singer and makes Jimi Hendrix look like Freddie Mercury. He way he howls and grunts is just soooo annoying. Low 2.
Public Masturbation: The Album. Horrible human being aside, I can recognize Clapton’s talent. That’s easy. I can also recognize how furiously he’s beating his noodling, jam banding meat across fourteen tracks for over an hour and I’m not impressed.
Sometimes bluesy, sometimes country, often fucking terrible. Also - never authentic.
ну мне понравилось но чет я ниче не добавил
Before listening to this album, I knew that Eric Clapton had done a terrible Bob Marley cover, cheesy "Wonderful Tonight" and this album's "Layla". I also had this image of him being both a racist and an anti-vaccination jerk (which is a pretty common combination!), so I was both surprised and annoyed when the first two songs on this album were so good! After "I Looked Away" and "Bell Bottom Blues", the album level dropped. At some point the aforementioned "Layla" came along and pretty soon after that the album ended and I lost 76 minutes of my life.
Apart from Layla, but boring
Man, I can't imagine a timeline where I interact with my turntable FOUR TIMES to hear this whole thing. It's over an hour of Clapton jerking off overtop of unremarkable blues and rock music. Same as ever. Cut it out with the double albums.
Oh boy, 'one of the greatest guitar players of all time' coming at you again with an hour of 12-bar blues.
Jammin. Goes on for so fucking long though. I can only jam for 1-2 songs max man. Fuck Eric Clapton tho fr fr. I wouldn’t want to listen again. 2.
God I hate the blues, and there is a lot of it to hate here. I learned everything I ever needed to know or wanted to hear of blues guitar from watching the Stevie Ray Vaughan “Live at the El Mocambo” (sp?) DVD a million years ago, and his version of Little Wing completely shreds this band take. Interspersed into these tired, formulaic blues meanderings are a few tired, formulaic straight up rock songs too. Lastly I’ve had a long running gripe about the song Layla and particularly its long-winded outro. To say that the very highest note of the very high guitar motif that plays through much of the beginning of the song successfully bends to the right pitch every one of the million times it’s played would stretch credulity. But tell me the very high slide guitar that belabors the outro is in tune and I’ll call you a fucking liar. It’s annoying as hell, and I think about it every time I watch the end of Goodfellas. It gets one mark for the fact that because of this album my name would have been Layla if I was born a girl.
I found this unforgivably boring
More showaddywaddy* than shugi oatis: white boomer blues where it’s more about showing how good a guitarist you are than anything meaningful or soulful. I thought Yngwie Malmsteen was a dull fret masturbator, Eric Clapton somehow made even that look like a rising force. I could not make it through this in one session - even with Layla as a carrot. I seriously need to start tracking these classic double albums that could be a okay if it was a single - might have kept this from being 2 - but I doubt it. * look up Leicester’s “finest” ( actually don’t) - who somehow had 10 top 10 hits - 7 year old me did love thier version of “under the moon of love”not knowing it to be the crappy camp cover it was
So, here's Layla. OTOH, there's Clapton. The rest is white guys' blues rock. Go figure.
The album title says it all; Layla is great, the others not so much.
A bit too 70s for me
Eric Clapton lol bro is literally clapped. Ok cute. Just white 70s rock. Like put the fucking fries in the fucking bag man. Like I'm sure. Oh my god. Going from rumours to this is crazy. Bro I don't gaf. Genuinely. It's almost worse that it's nice because if it was bad I could just write it off as being a shitty 70s rock album but no it's just nice. It's just there. It's good I just don't fukcinggg care oh my goddddd. It's just unremarkable. I don't care. I don't like their voices the composition the guitar anything really it's just there. I have loved a woman. Kinda reminds me of Kings of Leon. Ok famous track. Oh ok I actually like this. Let's keep these good vibes going. Yeah ok I can get behind this. Why did it have to have a 3 min instrumental bro. Favourite: Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out/Layla Least favourite: I Am Yours
white guys doin the blues. . . . it's ok I was going to do 3 stars but then it went on really long the hook on Layla is so good and then just about everything else is wankery
I never understood why this album was considered such a big deal. It strikes me as overblown, self indulgent and unnecessarily busy rock and roll. What a waste some of the best players around at the time. Even Duane Altman couldn't rescue this one. It should have been so much more than this. Listening to it now just reinforces how lackluster and disappointing it remains in my opinion. Of course, I have to admit, I never thought much of anything that Clapton did that strayed too far from straight blues (although there were occasional exceptions).
apparently the song 'Layla' was inspired by a band member's secret love for George harrisons wife lmao was thinking abt how some of the songs sound soo familiar to the beatles discography ! favourites : Bell Bottom Blues Little Wing Layla
Back to the 70s mines.