Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

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

Eh

Didn’t love it. Lots of reallly stretched out blues tracks with long Eric Clapton guitar solos. Got more bored/annoyed with it as I went. A few nice moments but not for me

This album gives off very Boomer vibes. I would say it sounds older than it actually is. I can't see how they can justify this album being an hour and 15 minutes long. It just drags, and it feels very bloated at the points. I would say on the whole, I feel very neutral if not bored b this album. I think really, the only song of merit is 'Layla' and even then I've never been a huge fan of that song. Fav Track: Layla

The instrumentals are solid, the audio engineering is good, the vocals are lacking. There is a confidence in performing and love of the music that comes through. It just feels a bit disingenuous. "I Am Yours" was the first track that caught my attention. "Anyday" is fine, but goes too long. Goes on far too long, often not doing much and had me losing interest at times. There is a better album in here, someone just needed to rope these guys in and chop it all down.

Mucho blues y el toca muy bonito la guitarra pero tampoco tiene nada que encante. Buen cover de little wing 🙌🙌

Boring bluesy dad-rock. “Layla” is worth hearing and the guitar-playing is very good on many of the songs. But Clayton’s voice can’t handle a lot of what he’s trying to do (I know from “Unplugged” that it eventually will). I think he’s going for a kind of soulful rasp but it just sounds weak and untrained. Not easy to listen to. This is not something I’ll ever put on again.

It really delivered on its promise of being Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Ultimately that is how we remember it, an album unapologetically propping itself up on one song. Good song though

Layla almost saved this album for me but even that song was way longer than I realized. Overall it was a very boring listen with occasional good songs and riffs but mostly forgettable

Eh, no thanks.

70s rock, heavy on the guitar and bass. Not my cuppa, got that raggedy Clapton feel to it. 2/5

I was enjoying this. Then it went on for another hour. Also, Clapton is a cunt, so taking off a star for that.

I know the song Layla, not heard any other part of this. Opening tracks do not appeal, shallow lyrics (man-baby whining) are really offputting. Music burbles on. I kinda like the idea that Clapton wanted to play songs, in a band, rather than just have his guitar playing as the focus, but the band music isn't that interesting: the bits with Allman are better than those without but still meander; there are vocal harmonies, but the voices aren't well-blended; track 7 is a weak jam, only justifiable if someone thought the guitar soloes were great (I don't); cover of Little Wing is tedious; overall this record if played by a local band down the pub would have good points but get boring. Even the song Layla doesn't sound that good. Meanwhile I looked at some reviews here, many v negative about Clapton, so I read a bit about his life and political views, seems to have been quite messed up. Also, this whole thing being so overblown (ie a double album not single) cuts across any respect I might otherwise feel for any elements: it's Pretty Poor, 3/10. (Slightly more listenable than a 2/10, but I would never choose to put it on.)

🥱 Great last track though

Decent stuff but it’s a bit generic. Some of the songs are blues-heavy and I think that’s the saving grace. Other songs sound kinda like a late 50s school dance. It’s alright overall. 2.6/5.0

Mostly harmless. Unsure why Layla decided to be a blueprint for 80s sitcom themes in its last act.

Didn't know much about these recognised Layla from Clapton and it is one of the best rock songs of all time. However it is surrounded in Blues tracks some of which are tedious. Now I love blues normally but this is long drawn out self indulgence I was bored waiting for Layla. This is a 30 mins album stretched out to 1hr 16 mins and it's painful at times. I give it 2 for Layla

Assorted basic blues rock.

Additional star for the definitive Layla cover but otherwise over indulgent and over long

I don’t think this needs to be on this list. Layla could be on a 1001 songs you need to hear before you die list…but idk I think there’s a lot of the same flavor of 70s rock on this album.

As per tradition, deducting one star for being a knob … so a solid 2 stars from me.

I get it - Clapton can play guitar. But I don't love this album. If I want blues I'll go to the source - this just feels like a pale imitation. Layla is catchy but doesn't really redeem this album for me.

Blues, Blues y Blues. ¿Blues?

I don't know what is more rancid, this album or making the joke "More like 'Layla And Other Ass Love Songs', am I right?". Yes, I think this album is just boring and super bland blues rock with an unnecessary long runtime. There were maybe some moments I found better than the average, those being the more upbeat ones like "Keep On Growing", "Anyday", "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?", but even these ones I can't say I truly love or like them. Notice that I didn't mention "Layla". Being the second to last song, at that point I'm so tired that it doesn't do anything for me, specially when it is seven minutes and half of it is piano without the riff that makes it a decent song to begin with. In addition, I don't get the hype for Eric Clapton. Maybe nowadays the praise for the man is not as notable as in the past, but still, I think it is super mediocre guitarist. Only thing he does that I can say interested me is the riff of "Layla". All the 1000 solos feel like worthless filling (to me). Ultimately, not the worst blues rock release I've ever heard, as at least there are some moments that aren't really tiring.

it's pretty bluesy y'all sounds like eric clapton had an achy and/or breaky heart these songs is long layla especially has an entire back half that feels like a second song bolted on 💥bell bottom blues 💥anyday 💥key to the highway (good but loooooong) 💥why does love got to be so sad? 💥little wing 💥layla

fav songs: i looked away blues, boring 30/100

Eric är jätteduktig på gitarr ja, men detta är alldeles för gubbigfierad blues.. det blir så tråkigt

bell bottom blues underrated. this went on far too long and then i learned about eric clapton from the reviews sooo yeah. boo

As a kid growing up discovering music from friends and the radio, i had no idea of what the blues were or sounded like. So FM radio led me to Layla and eventually this record. Its okay.. no shortage of wanking however. There's better and there's worse.

Eric Clapton plays the guitar very well on this record, but he plays it too much like Eric Clapton. The songs are simple. They are made for everyone to understand, and because they are made for everyone, they belong to no one. A man should not make his sorrow smooth just so it is easy to swallow. It is a long record. Some of it is heavy and good, but most of it is just pretty. A man can listen to it, but it will not keep him warm in the night.

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.

Dritkjedelig, orker ikke å høre gjennom hele

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.

beetje blues-achtig, klinkt prima

This is a great representation of white, bar blues that I don't like.

i didn’t list to much of the album, maybe just half of it. i think i am usted to a more modern style of music, but the songs bell bottom blues and nobody knows you are really nice.

Nä, faktiskt inte så bra som man skulle vilja med tanke på deras historiska betydelse. Layla är en fantastisk låt i tre minuter, sen urartar det i 4 minuters instrumental onani. Blä! En tvåa

I'm sorry, but "the most cookie-cutter dad-bait blues rock you've ever heard over and over" is not enough to carry a full double album. It's very clear why Layla was the flagship song from this, because it's the only one I really found memorable. Bell Bottom Blues was pretty good I suppose, and Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out was done way better by Nina Simone. If it were a single album it might get a 6 or even a 7 out of 10, but as is it's too little variety and too little excitement for too long. Fuck Eric Clapton, man.

That's enough, Mr. Clapton, please, no more today. Standouts: I Looked Away • Keep On Growing • Layla

Chápu proč se to jmenuje LAYLA and other.... Layla je naprostou dominantou. Žádná další píseň mě nezaujala tolik. Album je to asi krásné, ale asi nezvládnu ocenit tolik. Je to pořád to stejné dokola.

Definitely a combination of rock and roll and blues music. The songs were entirely too long though. Because the songs were so long, the album got tiresome and about halfway though I just wanted to shut it down. I forced myself to finish listening to it, in spite of my feelings about it. I'm glad that I did as the best song on the album was the last song titled, "Thorn tree In The Garden".

Ugghhhh...

I've listened to this before and left the experience unimpressed. The first couple songs made me think I had prematurely dismissed it. By the time I go to minute nine of Key To The Highway, I had calibrated my feelings.

2/5 - Layla is a great song. I have limited patience for Clapton in general, and the rest of this album didn't change that.

I'm not going to get into the whole debacle of separating the art from the artist. I'll let you all fight about that. And no, this rating is not an April Fool's Day joke. The band inferred in the title that this album is mainly known for one massive hit song, and not much else. There are worse things out there, but an entire album composed of love songs by a disgusting bigot, and womanizer should not be considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Favorite Track: "Layla".

cant even enjoy the titular song after an hour of whatever even though its objectively not bad

Okay. i might get strung up for saying this. But i just didn't care for it. maybe because its been so long since it came out, but its just not my vibe? the music is beautiful and i guess the guitar playing is really impressive... but idk. its just kind of the same song over and over again, and i dont like his voice. honestly? i dont even like Layla.

That was hard to listen to. Sure, Layla is good, maybe the guitar playing is technically good, but it’s just boring old blues

Layla is a classic, but the album as a whole did not do much for me.

Wayyy too long of a runtime. I enjoyed the first few songs but soon I got tired. Then I got REALLY tired of the album. Not bad though- just too long and repetitive at a point.

Yawn. Why do I want British invasion blues rock when I have the actual original blues right here? Least favorite Little Wing and it ain't close.

At the start I was like hell yeah blues rock, this'll be fun! By the time I entered the 10th minute of Key to the Highway, somehow still only halfway through the album, my enthusiasm had waned considerably

first time listening to this through. overrated for sure. most of this felt like middling white boy blues, which is a big time nah for me dog. also I forgot about the sappy af second half of "Layla" that goes a minute longer than the rocking part of the track and feels twice as long as it is. didn't realize Duane Allman was in this group. neat.

[Epic guitar intro] "I wanna fuck George Harrison's wife" [Epic guitar solo] "Oh, baby, I need George Harrison's wife" [Epic guitar solo] "Oh, George Harrison, I'm gonna fuck your wife" [Epic guitar outro] (Repeat for 76 minutes)

Sometimes, someone is that much of a cunt that it's impossible to separate the art from the artist and that's where I'm at with Clapton. It's a shame because this is a great blues record, albeit a bloated one.

It was good a lot better than what I was expecting, but way too long. Why on Earth would this album be a hour and 16 minutes. A HOUR AND 16 MINUTES HOLY SHIT WHY WAS IT THAT LONG??? IT SURELY WASN’T THAT GOOD TO BE THAT LONG? The guy is racist. Won’t listen ever again.

It was a mistake going down the rabbit hole of the person, his shit stances on life and his personal tragedies before listening to the album. It made the album a harder listen. It starts off slow, ponderous and somewhat boring. As the pace of the songs sped up, the album grew in quality. It has it's moments, but a slide guitar and the odd solo can only carry your average blues folk rock so far. An alright album that stands below is peers in the genre, with one all time smash hit.

Layla is a classic but the rest not for me.

So fine

Tjaa… Layla on hyvä biisi ja siinä se. Taitavat muusikot ovat tehneet levyllisen taitavasti soitettua varsin yhdentekevää musiikkia. 2/5

Creo que la única canción que merece la pena es la de "Layla" y "Thorn tree in the Garden", me parece la mas original, el resto, la mayoría blues (creo), no me aporta nada interesante, de hecho, he tenido que hacer un esfuerzo para no dejarlo a la mitad.

Not bad but didnt stand out to me

ein, zwei Hits, der Rest ist nicht mein Geschmack

Blues fatigue will not enamour me to this any more than I ordinarily would regardless. Clapton is overrated as far as I’m concerned and nothing I heard here changed my mind. I particularly dislike Layla - dad rock for boomers.

No thanks. Got bored.

Ironic that I could not wait for Keep On Going to hurry up and end. I guess that's how I feel about this album. It's ok, it's is not my cup of tea. Clapton is so damn problematic. Layla's a banger though. So yeah. 2 stars?

I cheated a little and looked at the reviews and it turns out this Clapton guy is super racist. he is, however, a pretty talented guitar player. That being said this felt very white boy blues and I didn't really vibe with it all that much.

No non mi è piaciuto sorry

It was good until I found out that Clapton is a prick so now it sounds like over pretentious noodling around. And I need to wait 1 hour until the only good song Layla is played. Can be compressed into a single and wouldn't have missed anything.

Now I quite like a guitar but this was a lot and got boring real fast and I don’t know, I was expecting something revolutionary the way people bang on about this guy? Layla is a great song obviously but I knew that before listening to over an hour of this.

1. Okay here we go. TBH i find eric clapton annoying, I have NO idea why, maybe that's somebody else's opinion that I stole years ago and never questioned I DON'T KNOW. I just don't think that he should be in a rock band. Also I always thingk Layla is Lola by the kinks? i think? and i DO NOT LIKE LOLA! So I've always disliked layla unfortunately because of the similarity in the name. I'm a moron i know. Anyways, this first song isn't too bad I guess. I don't think ive ever heard of derek and the dominos, for some reason i though they were like a jazz band from the 50s or something? I guess this first song wasn't terrible but nothing special to me. 2. Also, as I said before, I don't love the 70s. Okay I just looked up a photo of eric clapton in 1970 with short hair and clean shaven and he was a cutie pie. Clapton REDEEMED. The song's alright. Okay I actually like the melody in the chorus. 3. Okay, off to a good start, did aerosmith kind of rip this off? Okay now they've lost me. A little to jumpy for the intro. I'm a little bored SORRY. 4. Okay, had to give up on the last one a little prematurely because they kept doing the same thing over and over again unfortunately I didn't even like it the first time. This one's not bad though, off to a good bluesy start. The little guitar riff is a giving somewhere by the beatles JUST A TINY BIT DON'T LIE YOU HEARD IT TOO. And then the endless guitar solos with no discernible melody. Great. 13. okay, i'm not having fun so i've skipped straight to layla, here goes. okay i definitely recognize this riff. Okay i've heard enough though. I'm done. Thank you.

не дуже шосд якесь кантрі

A crap ton of Clapton guitar noodling 🥱🙄

Layla er et godt nummer, men bedre i Claptons cover. Resten var rocket, men ikke tilnærmelsesvis bemærkelsesværdigt.

This is as boring as it gets. Music that wifes get beaten up to in movies. Oh…and f*ck Eric Clapton.

It’s fine. Great 70s rock.

Gotta go through the same shit over and over until you get to Layla. And at that point, you're pretty much done with the album and just want to get it over with.

Not for me. I found this boring. I knew Layla. I prefer the unplugged version from my childhood. I much prefer Eric Clapton solo.

Mediocre. I have not enjoyed this album one bit. MAYBE I wouldn’t mind it while driving, but I’d probably hate it.

I heard The Band as a big influence on the first three tracks and thought oh maybe this won't be so bad but then the dreary blues widdling started in earnest and then I read about how badly ripped off Rita Coolidge was for the Layla coda and reflected on how there is always some new horrible detail to learn about Clapton's world. That cover of Little Wing is overstuffed and clueless.

Very solid. Fun to learn about the history of this one.

This could really have done with more work on the production floor. I get that you’re amazing guitarists, but every song doesn’t need two minutes of meandering duelling solos

Layla is een topper, de rest misschien wat saaier?

Very American rock and roll, very self-indulgent too. A lot of these tracks sound like jam sessions or displays of technical skill which have been lightly reworked into something that could be called a song, they don't sound like organic tunes. And it's overlong, I was prepared for this to be over halfway through side 2 out of 4.

Meh. Listened to 3/4 of this and had to stop, not my favorite at all

2.5 but he’s a dick

2.5. Я не можу чогось прям поганого сказати за цю музику, вона цілком ок. Її головна проблема, що це все занадто рівно, тримається якогось середнього рівня з буквально декількома піснями, які можна назвати хайлайтами, і триває 1 годину 15 хв. Також є відчуття, що не було б тут Лайли, то цей альбом в списку теж не був.

Possibly the middest blues band of all time. "Layla" cannot save this album.

A deeply personal album fueled by obsession and virtuosity, but one that often mistakes emotional excess for depth. The extended jams and indulgent arrangements dilute the impact of its strongest songs. While “Layla” itself remains iconic, much of the record feels weighed down by its own intensity.

Excellent musically and vocally!

all flops besides layla

I Looked Away - 3.5/5 Bell Bottom Blues - 4/5 Keep On Growing - 3.5/5 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - 3.5/5 I am Yours - 3.5/5 Anyday - 3.5/5 Key To The Highway - 2/5 Tell The Truth - 2/5 Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? - 2/5 Have You Ever Loved A Woman? - 2/5 Little Wing - 3/5 It's Too Late- 3/5 Layla - 3/5 Thorn Tre In The Garden - 2.5/5

Clapton is talented, for sure, but the actual blues are way more fun to listen to

Não gostei.

2.99

Is Eric Clapton the best example in history of the 'Fake it til you make it' phenomenon? I feel like he heard blues music and proceeded to play music like he was a blues musician until he got quite good at it. Then after improving as a musician and getting some attention he started playing guitar like he was one of the best, until people thought he was. Of course my feelings are incontrovertibly disproven by the opinions of far more serious people than me, his unassailable musical resume and collaborations. Speaking of feelings, Eric Clapton once, and may still, thought England should be reserved for only...never mind. I challenge anyone to listen to the Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix versions of Little Wing and still disagree with what I have written here.

Blues by whites… mediocre at best. Don’t care about the guitar legends doing this. Layla is fine… until it drags on and becomes boring.

I liked it but maybe a bit too the same, the songs didn’t have enough character in them for me.

4/10

Everyone sings their praises about Layla, yet forget to mention that halfway through the song it abruptly loses all momentum and drags out what could've been an amazing song to one that's mediocre at best.

Not my cuppa

Great sound. Incredibly talented musicians. Clapton is an ass hat and I can't stand to listen to him.

Layla and other assorted drivel

Lame

Layla is a classic, but the rest of this didn’t do much for me.

50/50

Non mi ha fatto impazzire, è quel rock/rocknroll che sa di vecchio. Ma c’è qualche pezzo che si salva

Really didn't like this one felt flat and not even ground breaking considering the contemporaries.

I imagine this is what happened in the studio....Oh my gosh we just laid down a banger with this new song Layla. Everyone is going to love that song so much that we need to release it ASAP, but we don't have anything else really ready so let's write a whole bunch of throw away background songs and hide Layla at the end so it sounds everyone forgets about how they listened to all these throw away songs for the last hour. Personal rant...this was love in the 70's, she left me, she won't stay with me, she won't put up with all my crap and just deal with all the bad things I do to her...how dare she! If she just loved me exactly how I am and let me do whatever I wanted we would have a perfect love. I liked the guitar in I am Yours and Layla is a banger (even if the lyrics are actually subpar). But I am just not sure they really save the rest of this blah album about love for me.

This feels like one long album of Eric Clapton showing how well he can play the guitar. I'm probably biased in general because he sucks as a human, but this album was boring to me and felt too self-indulgent. Layla is a good song, despite its weird roots and the saga surrounding it.

Love all the guitar - some great playing. Songs were not very memorable- Layla was the best one.

Not my jam. I really tried to finish it, so I skipped ahead to their most listened song on this album on Spotify, and hey! I know this song, it isn't bad! So I went back and finished the album. One good song, thirteen not my jams.

It's fine. There are some absolutely legendary tracks buried in here and I have nothing but love for Duane Allman, but let's be honest. It's 1970 boomer guitar noodling for the most part. It's a very excellent specimen of 1970 boomer guitar noodling, but I think there's enough of it out there. Some underrated highlights IMO are Key to the Highway, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, and Nobody Knows You. Everyone knows Layla, fewer people know how messed up the backstory is.

Not bad

layla es muy buena las demás no me mataron. Una onda a los beatles

Hmm.. not my usual taste of music

none stood out to me but i liked the sound, would listen to again

Very 1970s very late period Beatles influence. Naval gazing.

It was okay.

Not horrible but really not my thing.

There’s no reason this needs to be so long, other than self indulgence I guess. Eric Clapton ruins perfectly good songs by dragging them out way too long. Layla is a perfect example of this. It starts out so well and just devolves. This whole album is pretty much that over and over again.

Tedious white guy blues

Layla is the only reason to listen to this very generic blues album.

ok

nah

I got so bored about halfway through this album that I skipped to "Layla" to confirm it was in fact still good. It is, but doesn't rescue an otherwise bunch of meh.

Boring af.

Exactly the kind of music a guy named Derek would make

Found this very hard to get through, don't why it just doesn't do it for me

Oi kaip atsibodo. Be laylos nieko išskirtinai įdomaus.

A lot of people say Clapton is a good guitarist and that may be technically true. But all his music sounds like three drunk alley cats in a fight. The last two songs were okay.

Hey guys, I'm gonna make an album where I just play blues licks for the whole runtime, how long do we think it should be?

The moment the 60s became the 70s. Self-indulgent and overlong twiddling.

Not my thing, and although I always liked Bell Bottom Blues, Clapton is a bit difficult to listen to now.

A worse version of Abbey Road songs. This gets old fast. Layla saves this record.

Don't like the sound signature

OVERALL THOUGHTS 2.5/5 Some cool guitar stuff (Duane Allman apparently taking a lot more lead parts then people realize) but yeah it really did feel like some white dudes trying to make compelling blues music without any of the soul and emotion that should come along with it. Not the most offensive dad rock I've heard by far though. (maybe one of the more offensive dad rockers tho, dude stinks big time) STRAY THOUGHTS - Beatles ass chorus on Bell Bottom Blues - Neat that they're using a Tabla drum but kinda distracting??? - There were some compelling songs at first but mannnn they start dragging - People hyped up Little Wing, it's fine FAV SONGS: I Looked Away, Layla LEAST FAV: Key To The Highway, Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad, It's Too Late

Very accurate title. Layla and some other songs. Would give it 2.5

Some great guitar work, but otherwise pretty forgettable for me.

It’s better than the Cream album, but it’s too long, with few and far between decent bits. Layla is overblown imo, the riff/chorus release is undeniably class but that’s it. It’s too long. Too bloody long, stopped listening in the weird end-of-a-sitcom series bit. 2.1/5.0 Best Song: Bell Bottom Blues

L album

Layla is a tuneeee but doesn't negate from the fact Clapton is a racist and the rest of this album is quite shite

2 oder 3

37/1001 First listen. Layla and some other shit. This is like way back in the day when you hear that song on the radio you love and just can’t wait to hear it again and again so you save up and buy the album and then there’s nothing else on there that sounds like that one song. But you try like hell to like it cause it’s all you got till your next allowance. Well it’s streaming now bitch and I don’t have to try and like your shit so I’m Movin’ on. 3/10

Favorite tracks: Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? These songs are so irritatingly long, all of the songs over 5 minutes ended up getting skipped during Eric Clapton's solos. He is a good guitar player but boy does it get old. Also, knowing that he wrote this album in pursuit of his friend's wife, who he then abused and raped, made it hard to stomach most of these "assorted love songs". Layla still slaps, though

I wasnt super into this one. It was a little too busy and too muddled for me. Maybe I just don't listen to enough blues. Layla was my favorite song on the album, and I thought the guitar was really impressive.

Shoot me with a gun

Clapton can get fucked.

This was surprise. I was fully expecting a reggae album. It's such a reggae band name. What I got was 70 American rock that was so middle of the road I nearly crashed on the motorway.

its not good. not only that, it is way too long as well. the classic 1-2 combo.

I am not a Clapton fan. That being said this might be the least painful of his records on here. (Dear Reader, that’s a low bar) Layla is a great listen, especially while being chased by the police whilst high on concaine. I’ll give Bell Bottom Blues some love too. But man this record gets long in the tooth.

downloaded layla and little wing. meh

65

slow. chill. mellow. ok.

A lot of guitar Kind of forgettable Only great song is layla

Forget about Layla - who wants to listen to some heroin addicts play the ‘classic rock’ that will one day make fans of Phish and other jam bands bounce around the room? Everyone, apparently. Well, not me. I hear unimaginative blues covers and formulaic rock structures existing just to unleash indulgent, extended solos that do nothing but make the album boring and repetitious. Some say this album is “hit after hit.” I’d agree - if they were talking about the skip button.

Not a bad listen, just one that gets a bit old for me. Though "Bell Bottom Blues" and "I Am Yours" really stood out to me. Also the back half of "Layla" is so good.

Another album that I've owned, listened to once and never played again. It's safe, bland and beige! Everyone has heard Layla and probably never needs to hear it again.

ok

Like being invited to a party only to realise you’ve been kidnapped.

I don't really care for this.

The title song is the only real headline here The rest is a little too expertly played It’s a solid 3 but let’s call it a 2 cos Clapton is such a dick

Learned this was an old band that Eric Clapton was part of. The Layla song sounded cool. 2.7

Nothing super memorable other than Layla but 'one song an album does not make'.

I only know Layla and to be honest, I only needed to know Layla. The rest were boring and repetitive and the guitar wasn’t even that impressive for him being to GOAT or whatever they say. Even at the time this was released, it had all been done before.

A vibe Long songs Fire guitar solos

eric clapton é o véio mais overrated da história do rock pau mole. vai tomar no cu que eu ouvi isso tudo. dito isso, se vier mais dele, eu vou chorar, papo reto. não vou dar 1 estrela porque tem layla, que é ruim, mas meu amigo douglas gosta. em respeito a ele e só.

This would probably be a 3 if it was not so long.

Rating: 1.6 He stole George Harrison’s wife right? George should have beat his ass to a pulp ahead of time and spared us this boring, drawn out, ugly mess.

Eric Crapton.

Listening to Clapton noodle is tiresome after the second track.

Meh

i dont like it, its flled with loud drums and the lead vocalist just sounds so manly for an album cover that looks like this, its not soft enough for me unfortunately lol

not so assorted after all

Decent classic rock, much sounds the same, especially the guitar and bass lines sound very similar between songs.

That was dull. Even Layla is more boring for about 50% of it's runtime than I remember it being. I feel like I can't give an album 1 for just being boring, and they're clearly very skilled musicians but it just wasn't my thing at all. 2/5