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the album does have a few okay songs, however, all of them but one are covers (and still can't hold a candle to the original). Layla is not included in that list, by the way, and is highly overrated – it's the epitome of dad rock, but the uncool one. Clapton is a decent guitar player, but that isn't enough to redeem this extremely boring and derivative album. ugh
Every once in a while I would be talking to my dad and I’d start talking shit about Eric Clapton. My dad wasn’t a very opinionated guy, but would always say, in that situation, “I never liked much of his stuff either, but Layla is a really good record.” He didn’t seem to care much one way or another, he wasn’t passionate about Layla or anything, but he still always put it out there. Anyway it had been a long time since I had listened to Layla, and now I have again, and I still think my dad was wrong about this one. It is what it is.
An impressive showcase of guitar playing - but a disappointing album.
Divorced dad blooz 1-3-5 pretty boring tbh. Waaaaay too long.
Can you die several times of boredom? I naively thought that you couldn't. Thank you for Clapton and friends to help me push the boundaries of the Unknown. OK, let's aknowledge the fact that Clapton gave here an almost Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Licks in only 75 minutes.
I don't like Eric Clapton. I heard way too much dad rock growing up, and I'm pretty sick of it. However, I can't deny that Delaney and Bonnie were a great group, and I can't hate this album, but I have to draw the line at these wanky long jams that the classic rock years are known for. Nine-and-a-half minutes of "Key To The Highway"?! Three or four minutes makes the point. Get over yourselves.
Why does love have to be so sad’ and a couple of other bits where they do the fast blues/country rock thing (largely I think as one of the Allman brothers plays). Otherwise it’s pretty dull blues rock about how much Eric Clapton wants to steal George Harrison’s wife. I think this album marks the point post Cream and Blind Faith where Eric Clapton loses any interest to me. 2/5
Overstays it's welcome. There's no reason this needs to be nearly as long as TPAB. Definitely a "one and done" type of album, where I find the tracks I like first listen and then return to those and those alone.
This album starts off very weak. Meaning almost the entire first half and most of the start of the second half (outside of Bell Bottom Blues of course). But man oh man, does this album ever end strongly, with its 3 best tracks right at the end. Still though, it took a literal hour to get there, and I'm already not really a Clapton fan
It was ok
Meeeeh
Best Song: Layla. An iconic riff that's just smooth as butter. Worst Song: I Am Yours. I just really don't like this kind of "beach-y" guitar riffing. Overall: Overly long. Everyone knows that Clapton can play the guitar, but he also (to my admittedly ignorant ear) doesn't feel like he has a ton of variability or even originality. His solos are incredible, but the rest of the songs feel largely uninteresting. Every Clapton guitar track sounds the same, and that sameness is sleepy.
A couple decent tracks (quite enjoyed the cover of Little Wing) but all starts to sound the same. Not sure where the hype for this album really comes from. I maintain the only great thing Clapton ever did was his involvement with Cream 2.5
Fin baggrunds lyd, men hvis jeg lytter efter, så keder musikken mig, og lyricen kan jeg heller ikke fokusere på. Så alt i alt er jeg glad for at kunne bruge en hel weekend på at kæmpe mig igennem. Layla virker bekendt.... 🤷
Pretty good need to keep listening
This album is average. Most of the songs are simple and relatively uninteresting. All in all not horrible, but definitely in the bottom 50%. 2.4/5 but will need to round down. 2/5.
вы когда-нибудь любили женщину? музыка хорошая, но альбом просто невероятно длинный. ощущение, что он длится часа три и пацаны конечно хорошо дрочат гитарки, но уже под конец сил не осталось
cool to hear eric doing this stuff but not for me
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White men playing middle of the road blues music. Layla is alright.
This just feels kinda... bland? I ended up listening to this a few times and it never stuck. 4.5/10
so many people in the world and this guy can’t stop whining about not being able to be with his FRIEND’s wife??? NEXT. (the guitar was nice tho)
Clapton is an exceptional guitarist but I find this album kinda boring. There are some nice blues riffs and saucy solos but It’s like diet Stevie ray vaughn imo. Anyways, I’m just just here so I won’t get fined
Racist
Very boring
Very bluesy
Before listening, I was familiar with Bell Bottom Blues and Layla, and I liked Layla. After listening, I added Layla and Anyday to my list. But wow was this a slog. I would call it Layla and Assorted Overwrought Blues Jams. And then they have the audacity to throw that final song at you, which demonstrates they do possess acoustic guitars and can write a song that sounds even a little different from every other song. It was both a breath of fresh air and a little insulting. Now I’m fired up. I was between 2 and 3 stars but I’ve talked myself into 2.
Bygone era
Best Songs: Bell Bottom Blues Listen Again: No
just boring. even Layla is tedious, there's nothing to it beyond the riff
Other than Layla didn't care about any of the other songs.
2/5. Everything sounded the same but Layla was pretty good.
One hour and fifteen from the old r****t Eric, a double helping of smug self-satisfied blues rock. There is a little bit of energy that saves it from one star, but the coda to Layla goes on and on and is a classic example of more is less. And it doesn't have Wonderful Tonight on, so there's that.
Boring, noodley grandpa jams.
Really only liked ‘Layla’
Only liked Layla.
un poco monótono
Good, not my preferred style of classic rock.
I thought it would be better, but was skipping songs.
Not my favorite love album
Not a fan but glad he decided to go solo
Only recognized one of the songs on the album. It was nice to listen to some new stuff (for me). A bit slower and found myself losing interest, but for the time period I think it was pretty unique sounds. Overall, I'd give it a 2.75/5
Eric Clapton's band. Layla is great, and the Love Sad song too, but the rest is pretty bland honky tonk.
Has it’s moments
A bit bland. Nothing memorable.
I don't really like this kind of blues music. This is fine though. Unremarkable. It's music that was at least two decades old in 1970. Noodley guitar work. It settles quickly into by-the-numbers blues chords and beats you down until Layla comes in (too late) with some genuine passion and clever playing.
With a name like that I thought I was gonna love it. Struggled to listen through to the end tbh. Dad rock. Pretty good guitar saved it, but I won’t be revisiting this one.
pretty sure i could’ve died without ever having heard this album.
I enjoyed a few of these songs but still not really my kind of music
Meh
Much better Clapton than Cream. It’s not bad. It’s just Clapton. Music is fine. Not my thing.
Didn't hate this, but it felt like it went on forever, and all the songs sounded the same.
Layla is good, rest can be skipped.
voel em nie zo
Layla is great
Something not rock lsl
- some good soft rock but bloated as hell - another boring record that people wouldn’t care about if it wasn’t clappy FAVS: i looked away, bell bottom blues, thorn tree in the garden
Not really feeling this one
Sucks. Just boring white-dude blues rock. I don't get it. Allman bro work on this is decent though, saving it from being a 1/5 2/5
Fine. Didn't grab me but I liked it.
I appreciate it's place in rock history but to me personally this is a 'meh'. Not a bad album, far from it. It just doesn't do anything for me.
It's ok. Has a country, bluesy twang to it. I gave up 3/4 of the way in, though.
2 stars for generic 60s wibbling UK blues. +1 star for Layla (although, even now, that songs drags on after the monster opening doesn't it?) -1 star for being a racist bigoted prick
Samey. Not engaging for me.
Ok
Wow, this thing is bloated. This thing is a chore to sit through because most of the songs are three minutes longer than they need to be. Those extra three minutes just sound like noodling. Just very generic dad rock from Clapton. Not saying it sounds bad, there’s some ok songs in here, but it’s just a drag to get to them.
The guitars are good. Not much else though
I won’t be such a Goodfella in reviewing this album since Layla was the only song that got me on my knees.
I don't know how this got extended to a double album, it has one good song, and even that is good not because of Eric Clapton, but Jim Gordon's piano in the coda. The rest is filler.
Overly long and so loses a star. But I do enjoy his guitar playing.
Not a good workout album so far. Kind of old school cool patio drinking vibes. Was Eric Clapton in this band? Bluesy complaints about women.
There’s some good white-guy-Blues in here but man…what a gauntlet to have to run. Such a bloated and ostentatious record. This certainly falls in the time period where Clapton wasn’t outwardly enough of an asshole to make him totally unlistenable, but the signs are certainly there. Trim this down a bit and you’ve got a solid album, but as it stands right now it’s rough.
Overstays it’s welcome. This did not need to be an 1 hour 17 minutes long. Plus the two best songs are about wanting to bang George Harrison’s wife.
Incredibly bland, surface level rock. I find eric to be a rather faceless guitarist, especially for someone who has such a large tendency to overshine the other group members. Sadly, the rest of the lyrical and musical content follows suit with Clapton's guitar and only Layla, which is a fantastic song, manages to look at all beyond the bare minimum for rock in its peak era.
Yeah I dont know…. Nothing really exciting for me… Not even Layla
Ganske kjipt
Fuck this self-righteous asshole. I’m not listening to over an hour of mediocre blues. (But I did skip through it enough to justify my rating!)
1 hour long blues-y rock songs, just to Clapton show off his guitar skills. A very mediocre album with great guitar solos.
Very standart blues album. I am not the biggest fan of Eric Clapton. The cover of Little Wing is fun and witty.
Didn't do much for me
Just alright.
I understand why this is on the list, but apart from 3 or 4 of the Assorted Love Songs, I found this so meandering and uninteresting. Obviously Clapton is a very talented guitarist, but he plays with so little emotion; it's like someone taught a robot to play the guitar. A really xenophobic, anti-vax robot.
Layla is the only enjoyable song
Too long to listen again in one day but this is nothing special. Besides Layla of course.
I know it’s an algorithmic random generator, but I think they missed a trick by not tweaking the algorithm to play Sinéad O’Connor today (for those who had not already heard it). Instead we get this dreary, dull miasma of love songs. More D words for Derek and his dominoes - I felt detached, disconnected and a bit deflated. One point for artistry. One point for Layla - it’s an undeniable classic. Half a point for the Frandsen de Schomberg cover. Nil points for the Terrible version of Little Wing. The rest is Dreck!
All the songs just went on too long. Layla and Bell Bottom Blues are classics.
I'm drawn to this album cover as a piece of art. The music, however, meh.
Kinda cheating cos I honestly couldn’t Finnish this perhaps the biggest slog I’ve listened to (laylas great tho)
"Layla," and some other shit, played by a racist stealing blues licks and sucking the life out of them.
It has its moments, but the inseccent bluesy noodling over the same old chord progressions gets a bit old.
I used to really like "Layla" (the guitar melody catching my imagination as a kid, and the piano coda revealing itself as the really good bit over time). Not so much any more - gotta grimly appreciate how ol' racisthand ensures the sole highlight of this album now sounds terrible by mere association with the other crap on it. Tedious white blues, southern fried guitar wankery and horrible bloat make for an unpleasant mix. Shite PS do you think Hendrix got an advance tape? "Little Wing" on here could certainly make me vomit in my sleep
This may be a bit of a sacred cow but it just sounds like like standard pub blues rock. The title track is a standout but otherwise very meh. EC is a cracist twat anyway
Very steady, extremely influential, dad's everywhere loved it but Clapton's a massive racist and much of it has been better achieved elsewhere. Blind Faith, for example, have many of the same band members but got more funk, soul and rock n roll from Ginger Baker and Steve Winwood than is ever achieved here. Far too much stable filler and a touch too much competence for its own good.
At first I tried to admire the excellent guitar work on each of the songs on this album but by about the halfway point of this 80 minute album I couldn’t take it anymore. This shit is made for the whitest of white dads and is very bland blues rock type stuff. Usually I’m pretty favorable to this stuff but it was just so boring. I won’t give it a 1 because Layla and nobody knows you are good but it’s only about a mid 2.
Unremarkable blues rock
The kind of album that I'd expect to hear around the campfire at a party in the bush. Nothing really stands out until Layla kicks in.
Layla and other generic rock songs..
Layla a classic. 2 others of note. The rest didn’t move me
Really surprised by this album. Wasn’t really feeling it. Outside of Layla it really was pretty uninspiring. A couple others kinda felt good, but overall not the best. Layla is such a banger I will slide it through as a 2. T3B 1. Layla 2. Bell Bottom Blues 3. Little Wing
Feelar Klapton int kan laga swag blues, de blir ba o låta som (helt decent) pastiche. Soloandet är det överlägset sämsta, känns bara som (workmanlike) soloande o inge mer. De e definitivt va som får det att kännas så långtråkigt, plus att allt bortsett de två sista låtarna är väldigt likadant:( Layla = ultrablassic och kovern är bra
Layla and other assorted filler.
you got me on my knees
I have never listened to this record. Of course, I've heard the popular songs on the album, but never listened to the whole record in one sitting. Let's do it. First, note - not a fan of Eric Clapton's voice. Never have been. Second, note - not a big fan of twangy guitar rock. I can understand the popularity of this record, but it's not for me. Had to turn it off after the 4th song.
Definitely high profile in its genre, and the guitar work is amazing on some of the tracks, but it's just blues rock at the end of the day. The best songs are easily the two most famous (Layla and bell bottom blues), while most of the album was kind of forgettable and didn't age as well as the hits.
Dacht dat dit een goed album ging zijn, maar was dralend. Sowieso een ster aftrek voor wat ze met Little Wing hebben gedaan.
Det är inte helkasst och en del riktiga klassiker, men över en timmes blues-gitarr-runkande av en rasist blir lite för mycket. Gillar Bell Bottom Blues starkt.
The music is fine enough, but goddamn this is a long album and on a personal level Eric Clapton fucking sucks.
This wasn't very exciting. It wasn't bad, but some of the songs were covered better by other bands. I kept thinking that the driving blues would go somewhere but it just kind of felt stagnant. Overall, forgettable. It did have the original version of Layla on it though. Didn't realize this was a group with Eric Clapton.
What an appropriately titled album. "Layla and some other stuff."
A nice collection, definately interesting to see eric claptone here. But not for me
Came for Layla and didn't stay for the rest.
Todo bien con Eric pero despues de 20 minutos con la guitarrita ya me pudrí honestamente......... let alone 1h15m. Así y todo lo escuche entero pero no lo volveria a hacer para nada. Siento que es como un all things must pass de geroge harrison pero muy inferior. 4/10
If you like the most generic classic rock imaginable sung by a racist, this is the album for you
layla’s pretty great but the rest of it makes me think of “blues” night at the pub
Masturbatory guitar solos by a racist. Bell-bottom Blues is a good jam though
Ah no this has way too much of the Claptons about it... I could hear him all over the songs from the start. This album is not all about Clapton by any means, and it's cool reading the story of how it came about... But I just don't like Clapton. I guess I feel like to me his music is mostly about trying to do something which was already done by Black people but making it extremely boring and removing all the spice. So as a result I can't get on board with this album because to me it's just more of that. Apart from Little Wing and It's too late, together these two tracks bring my rating up a bit. Particularly It's Too Late which has more of a spicy bluesy feel to it which I much prefer to all the self-indulgent boring noodly guitar solos.
“Derek & The Dominos” as a name cracks me up. Right up there with “Freddy’s Formula.” Don’t really care for the music tho, boomer vacation vibes
2 good songs: Layla and Bell bottom blues. The rest is boring ego trips
Middle of the road rock. It’s fine. Clapton is such a dick though. I hate giving him credit for anything.
Well most of it is exactly what you'd expect from the racist child killer Eric Clapton when he hasn't got the cool members of Cream keeping him in check. But, it has Layla on it which is a tune, though the best bit is the piano. And the organ and piano throughout is great and I may Google who that was when I'm done, cos they're clearly great.
Couldn’t really care about this album. Idk why.
Way too long record with a weird mix of originals and covers from a guy who is quite good at playing the guitar but does not seem to have any other redeeming qualities. One star each for 'Bell Bottom Blues' and 'Layla'.
I'm sorry, but... yawn. I don't see the appeal in Clapton.
This isn’t the D&D night that we signed up for. Bored us to tears. We will be taking our money elsewhere next time. 0 stars
Herkenbaar gitaargeluid, maar ik wordt er wat kriebelig van.
Het ene oor in, het andere oor uit. Niet slecht, niet vervelend, niet leuk en dus niet nodig!
Skiva jag ägt. Måhända att Slowhand är en av världens skickligaste gitarrister men jag går inte igång på det här. Låten Layla är dock en femma.
Layla bangs but the rest is pretty mediocre
Can’t listen to Eric Clapton without getting irrationally upset about his behavior off stage.
Mit Layla ein absoluter Topsong vorhanden, der gesamte Rest ist gewißermaßen austauschbar und klingt irgendwie "gleich"
Did not like
Eh it was okay.
sin más
Not really a fan of blues-rock (or Eric Clapton for that matter) so I found a lot of it dull and overlong, the sound is over-compressed so there's some distortion when the band gets going. I assume this is the remastering as it's horrible digital distortion not sweet analogue warmth.
Bog standard white boy blurs rock.
Dull, nothing challenging here. Move on.
Bag of shit
The guitar work is incredible, but found it got uninteresting during the course of these overlong tracks on an overlong album.
Boring, underwhelming, and far too long.
I don't like Eric Clapton. Strap in and let me count the ways...: Well yes he sucks as a human being. But damnit I'll say it: I do not get the hype as a guitar player. He wasn't particularly innovative nor interesting in any way whatsoever to me. Blues riffs yada yada yada. Snooze. Switch stations. If you just want to stick to the era give me Blackmore/Beck/Hendrix/Page (who annoyed me as a lead player but his chord voicings and progressions were one of a kind)/Gilmour/Townshend all day every day instead and that's naming only some of the so-called classic contemporary rockers of the 60s/early 70s...I could list 100+ more that were far more exciting or emotive or unique. I emulated a lot of guitarists and styles over the past decades and never once did I yearn to cop anything Clapton ever did. Boring. Plus songwriting?? Jeeez most of his solo material is utter shit. Lay Down Sally good god man i hated that song with a passion when i was SIX - it was all over AM radio. I knew even then I was not a fan. Have I expressed this enough?? ... Ok. Now ... this album is not that bad. :D But let's be honest - it's really just the title track "Layla" that carries it all - as much as I laid out the reasons I don't like Clapton (oh yeah i left out his singing...) this is a legit classic song which definitely goes on too long, but then is rescued by the out-of-nowhere long fantastic piano outro. If you haven't heard this song you're about to join the 99% who have. The rest? It's fine at best. Although god DAMN it's too long. Virtually all bluesy laid-back guitar rock - not my favourite style at all, but it's made relatively more-interesting with Duane Allman's cool slide guitar. I was originally going to give this a 3 for "everyone should hear/know Layla" but it takes forever to even get there and by the time I did get to it I just wanted anything else...I can't get into this. If you're into blues guitar this is fine I suppose. For a good example of what makes me roll my eyes at Clapton, see: "I Am Yours" - it's not that it's mellow, it's that it's...annoyingly laconic. No more Clapton please. 4/10 2 stars.
I appreciated that this album showed up in the project. These are indisputably amazing musicians. I certainly wanted to like it. It started with a fairly high rating. And then it went on and on and on. My personal feeling is that this period and genre have been over-represented in this project, but it may just be that I've never really been into the guitar rock of this era and I'm just getting over listening to so much of it. After an hour and ten minutes of long blues guitar solos and more long blues guitar solos, and I was begging it to please, please, please end, finally came "Layla," which is what I'd come for. It's truly an incredible song, both movements. "I Am Yours" was the only other song that stood out for me, and I quite liked it.
I really don't understand the hype with Eric clapton. Not an bad album but nothing that made me go like wow!
Boring. I liked the bit from Goodfellas but even that went on a bit.
Little Wing and Layla are decent songs, which annoys me: After an hour I really wanted to hate this record purely. That's not dissimilar to my confusing vendetta against guitars generally. Part of it's just the narcissism of a bad violinist, but part is legitimate or at least grounded in reality: The reality of mediocre few-chord noodling on a cheap instruments. Far be it from me to accuse the musicians here of being technically inferior, but there are formal similarities: Cheap bluesy frameworks and totally underwhelming soloing. "Worse than the Eagles" was an early thought and still true: That band understands the occasional need for a gimmick, but they haven't convinced themselves that supposed guitar-godliness is sufficient.
Not as enjoyable as anticipated. Some highlights but overall not my thing.
Starts well. Gets boring.
In which Eric Clapton's (then) unrequited hard-on for George Harrison's wife results in a classic example of the double album that should have been a single album. Or maybe even just a single, the title track with the second half chopped off with one of the less tedious tracks on the B-side would've been more than enough... I've never had much use for "God", and on this revisit to this album (wasn't a fan first time round either) I still don't. And I may actually hate this version of "Little Wing", ludicrously overcooked and completely missing the point of the original.
Layla is a great song, though this is not my favourite version of it. All the rest of these songs were kinda dumb. But I guess that's love songs for ya. I'd say 2.5 only because of Layla, so I'll rate it a 2.
Not interesting
Ok. I hear this once and go - ugh white man blues again - and oh did not know Eric Clapton’s Layla was a cover - and everything I liked a song - I was seeing it was 6 to 7 minutes. The the incredibly long and boring Key to the Highway comes on and a bad cover of little wing? Total run time 1 hour 14 mins? Ugh. Who is this Derek and who are the dominos? oh it’s Eric Clapton? I hate Eric Clapton - and now Layla makes sense. One of the Allman’s is playing the cool riffs I like - then the band is shitting on then with 4 hour long solos. Is this album really about Eric Clapton shitty pining about his best friend’s (George Harrison) wife Patty Boyd? Really? What a dick. Then I go look let me give it one more listen - and it’s better on second listen - but it’s still way to bloody long - too many solos but good musicianship. Could have easily been halved in length but Clapton is always oh so ever self absorbed he can’t take himself down a notch and see that his head is up his own arse.
I've never been a big fan of Clapton, so I've never sought out his work. I've found his solo work boring and I never thought Cream lived up to the hype. Like, I seriously don't get why people thought he was the best rock guitarist. So, in listening to this in its entirety for the first time today I found it to be better than I was expecting. I got bored before it ended -- they probably could have trimmed 30 mins from the 75, but I didn't turn it off either. I doubt I'd voluntarily listening to it again, but if it was playing in the background somewhere I don't think I'd complain.
An interminable album by an alcoholic racist – who stole a piano part from a bandmate's girlfriend – best known for a song about how he wanted to bone a good mate's wife. Big selection of "put this on so the DJ can take a shit" tracks.
Loved Thorn Tree in the Garden. Layla might've been overrated.
I'm not a big fan of Eric Clapton or Duane Allman but I was gonna let this pass with a 3 after listening to the first few tracks. It's at least more engaging than Clapton's solo stuff. Then I noticed there's an hour and 15 minutes to this blues rock wankfest! And I've got not one, but two guitar heroes trying diddle my ears - sometimes from both directions at once! No thanks.
White people co-opting the blues, watering it down and calling it something different. I appreciate learning the source of a bunch of songs that I've always heard playing, but I don't think I need to listen to this again.
There was a lot to unpack here. I had somehow not heard of this band ever. Based on the name I thought it was going to be an early rock'n'roll type album. You know, the kind playing at the soda fountain/ sock hop/ whatever the hell kids did back then. It was not. It's a blues rock album. I typically hate blues rock. I also have ambivalence about Clapton. I think he can be pretty good at times (Cream, a couple solo tracks) or insufferable at others (most of his solo work, his personality) I was anticipating a 1 star album especially with that run time, but I was surprised, well a little anyway. The first few songs were not bad at all. I actually kinda dug em. Despite the title Bell Bottom Blues was probably my favorite track here. Then the downslide came. Key To The Highway and most of the album on was not for me. Long winded. Blues heavy. Uninteresting. God I hated Key To The Highway. Stick a car key in my ear drum level hate. Things got better with Little Wing but then went south again. The big hit and title track of this album kinda sucks. Somehow I never heard it in my 36 years prior and I didn't really need to. A bit wanky and not that interesting. Overall it wasn't THAT bad. It could've been pretty damn good if some tracks were cut or edited down a bit. Probably a 3 overall but loses a whole star for Clapton being a chode and more importantly for Key To The Highway being almost 10 minutes of blues rock bullshit. God.
Ripley is a village in Surrey, England, lying on the main road from London to Portsmouth. The village includes a coaching inn, the Talbot Inn, which dates back to 1453. The village church of St Mary Magdalen has a fine Norman chancel and is a Grade II* listed building. Eric Clapton was born there. He’s perfectly placed, therefore, to interpret the music of Chicago and the Mississippi Delta. When not content ripping off the music of black Americans, Clapton will happily steal the gorgeous piano riff from Layla (which is still an energetic, cinematic track) from his band mate’s girlfriend, Rita Coolidge.
This is one long album clocking in at 77 minutes one of the longer albums I've listened to so far throughout this journey. It's blues rock focus can at times feel a bit repetitive and a lot of the guitar solos could have neatened up the album a bit. Best: Bell Bottom Blues; Layla Worst: Key to the Highway
Not as flabby as I remembered it - but the guitars do widdley-widdle on, without moving through the gears, and Eric is in full anguished mode throughout.
Layla is a great song but the rest is pretty generic blues rock.
Well they can play guitar, and do so a lot...
1870. Layla
pleasant mix of rock folk and blues. just a shame Clapton is a total shit. colours my opinion whether i like it or not.
Title track is obviously a classic but otherwise it's a fairly standard blues rock album with uninspired guitar noodling. Never really seen the appeal in Clapton.
Maybe I've just heard some of these songs too many times to care anymore?
Beige... saccharine... meh
Eriče Klaptonče, definitivno si napravio blues album. Not great, no terrible. Dvojka za mene.
Eric Clapton, more like Eric Crapton amirite?!?! Hehe Ugl, solidan blues rock, nije loš, Keep on Growing je baš dobra stvar, priznajem. Layla naravno isto. Predugo traje album, po men se odugovlači dosta, šamaranje. Možda još jer nisam neki raspoložen za ovakvu glazbu danas, moguće je sve. Odličan cover albuma, šteta sta nisu tako i pjesme.
A ono oke je, lagano je za slusat, al nist sta nisam cuo vec 100 puta so its a no from me dawg
Layla is a great track & I remember getting excited every time it came on the radio in my pre-teen years. I Turned Away and a couple of the others songs I like (not to mention the guitar playing), but for me, the blues-rock isn't very inspired & weighs the album down. Cream was pushing the needle forward a few years early but this is a step back for EC. If you were to compare these tracks and the delivery to other LPs from that era, like The Allman Brothers or even blues-inflected songs by the Doors or The Stones, these are substandard.
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couple of songs
This blues rock double album is the sole album created by Eric Clapton's band - Derek & The Dominos - and as the title states, it's a collection of love songs. At release it was a commercial and critical failure, but over time it has been considered Eric's best work and is now certified gold. I wasn't really interested in any particular songs off the album, but it made great background music for work. Perhaps someone in love would enjoy listening to this album.
Meh, appreciate the technicality, but wouldn't listen over and over again
Honestly, too long. Some nice blues rock but there is better.
Layla. Classic. Clapton was a bit of a shit to George Harrison though wasn’t he?
Alright. Layla obvs the highlight.
Album title says it all, right?
Layla sounds familiar... the others didn’t really stick out to me
Disappointed in this. General upbeat light blues songs but no great discoveries.
A mi esto en 2021 me atufa un poco a dadrock y sinceramente pa ser de 1970 con hendrix ya comiendo suelo y los beatles separaos no le veo mucho el fuste
I’ve never been a big Clapton fan, and this album didn’t really change that, but if there’s one song I do like it’s “Layla”. “Key to the Highway” was pretty good too, but the whole thing is just too long.
A mellow album of love songs. 1RS
Some good songs but not my style.
Not great. Just what you’d expect.
1 song to listen to before you die and then an hour wasted
Way too long… oh and fuck Eric Clapton! Never forget that part!
Ugh, Clapton. No.
Nah I’m good, thanks
Clapton did to the blues what vegans did to meat. They wanted it bad enough to invent a worse version of it.
Sorry, not my taste.
Frick man. I listened to this album in the completely wrong headspace. Boring chords. Screeching guitar solos. Nothing vocals. Best: Thorn tree in the garden Worst: Layla (Frick this song)
It’s me, it’s not the music, but it’s Eric Clapton - so I hate everything about him , his history and his politics, so… I listened but still a 1
Eric Clapton is one of the most loathsome individuals in the history of music.
Masters of the 3 minute pop songs these are not…. Every song overstayed its welcome by some way.
Musically tolerable but Clapton was an absolute piece of s- to partners, to people from abroad, opposed the fox hunting ban, collaborated on an anti-lockdown single with Van Morrison... Yep, I've listened to enough of that
New to me and a fully unlistenable one star. Possibly the record that has sounded most like I feared it would but it is hard to make that judgement with all the records that have sounded about as unpleasant as this one. Tom.
Eric Clapton: “Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back.” The speech went on considerably longer. “Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight?” he said, confrontationally. “If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well, wherever you are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country.”
Enough with the Clapton already. Didn’t this record already come up?!
It wad okay.
Didn't listen to the whole album and I don't care since I learned he's racist.
Just not a fan… first album I couldn’t finish. As someone who is traditionally a fan of rock, this really bored the shit out of me.
Eric Clapton sucks
I once tried to give this a fair shake and an unbiased listen. Don't want to go through that again. Clapton isn't even the best guitarist in his own band.
Blues rock and guitar-driven soul-rock built from fiery dual guitar lines, tight rhythm section interplay, organ flourishes, and emotionally raw vocals feels like watching a relationship unravel in real time inside a smoky bar where the band refuses to stop playing— everyone is tired and doesn't want to leave while I am dead tired and go to sleep as everything feels dull, lengthy, repetetive and barely motivated any more.
3 / 10
Blues is not my thing. Took 3 weeks to listen to the whole album. Half star.
Nah. He’s a bag of fucking shit.
I am blinded by the whiteness of this band.
I gave this one a good rating last time I got it here so I'm gonna give it a 1 out of spite for eric clapton's racist ass
Just an awful mess. The absolute worst version of Little Wing I’ve heard. I will never, never understand why Clapton is considered some kind of guitar god. If your greatest sin is enjoying music, you’ll be listening to this album in hell.
It's really too bad that this gets hijacked by Clapton's Whole Thing because it's actually a pretty good (unexpectedly so) good album.
1.5/5
Very generic love songs. Guitar brings some nice tunes, but otherwise pretty unremarkable. Not personally enjoyable and sounds more like radio material. Or the kind of music played by an unnecessarily loud band in an open space restaraunt a bit too expensive for the overall quality.
Layla - 5/5 Others - 3/5 Eric Clapton - 0/5
Clapton has got to pay the racist tax. This would be a 5/5 album otherwise.
I left for five minutes to get a cup of tea, and reader, when I returned I honestly couldn't say if we were on the guitar solo for the next track, or the same one I'd left on. Every song is a couple of minutes too long. Dull blues-rock.
This was hard for me to get through. Layla is a 5 star song on a 1 star album.
I’m not. Fan of Eric Clapton, and I don’t rate “Layla” either, and these songs…..little wing, cover of Hendrix, big disappointment
Cultural appropriation of the blues by a racist. He can do one.
Extremely bland. Not sure I liked anything about it.
Eric Clapton is a racist, rapist cunt who doesn't deserve my time. I am not listen to this album. -5/5
booooriiiinnngg
poena sensus type of album
Fuck me dead this is so uninspiring. Just nothing interesting happening at all in here. To be honest I feel this sound is generic and played out by 1970 even.
One ok song isn’t saving this. The most impressive part is that I know who Eric Clapton is without knowing this “band”
I’ll make this quick. Tried listening to it, half way through started to read a book thought it may be ok as background music. I was wrong, it’s got nothing to offer me only offending me with that version of little wing.
What a pile of wank.
boring old man music
The first real stinker of this project, I’m already exhausted which definitely didn’t work in my favor for this album either. It feels so monotonous and boring. Yes, there’s some cool guitar stuff and Layla is an okay song, but holy fuck was 1:17 a slog to get through. I’ve sat through plenty of 4 hour movies that felt shorter than this. Not a fan.
Overall for me this album is too much in one tone. The voice is more droning than expressive to my ear. Not a fave.
Insufferable, apart from Layla. If I’m going to listen to blues, I’d prefer the original stuff! Some other people’s reviews amused me: “Uninspired trash over basic blues backing. If I wanted to listen to this, I can go to a local dive bar on a Tuesday evening show with a bunch of aging rockers who believe in conservative fiscal policy.” Also: “ If you want something that goes on for ages and then you hear Layla, watch Goodfellas.”
Horrible average blues, a terrible version of little wing and spent the entire album waiting for Layla
I don’t like the guitar. I don’t like this.
hmmm...
The intro to Layla is cool. The rest is mind numbing.
from the opening twangs i knew i really didn’t like this. took me so long to get through it 1001 albums marked me as on hiatus
Just one good song
Clapton
I'd like this if it wasn't way too long and if Eric Clapton wasn't a right-wing bigot. Layla's pretty great, but I'm not saving it to my Deezer because he doesn't get any more pennies from me. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Layla ⭐: Hated it.
It’s my issue and I get that but I can’t enjoy this album at all, partly because I despise Eric Clapton partly because the music is shite old dad rock. Layla is maybe the most overplayed song ever. Goodbye.
fuck you eric clapton
I can see why people like it but it’s just not for me.
Fuck you, Eric Clapton.
This just wasn’t my type of music. Very strange.
I fucking hate Eric Clapton for obvious, non-music related reasons. But now I can add music to it cause this is boring as fuck (title track aside). Over an hour of the same dull guitar riffs and solos in between songs that can hardly be described as “the blues”, fuck this
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Clapton
There's a level of complacent pomposity to this that made listening a chore for me. I'd certainly heard the hits-- "Layla" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad," but their isolation when heard on the radio kept it from being too overbearing. This sounds like it was produced to recreate the feel of an arena performance. Not a favorite.
Time has not been kind to Richard Dawkins. Neither has it treated his ideas gently. The meme, in Dawkins’ original sense, was a cultural gene - an idea that replicates itself through imitation. The irony is that the concept itself has now been consumed by the very logic it described. What once named the process by which culture reproduces has become a symptom of it: the meme as cartoon, as content, as joke template. Yet the original notion still tells us something about how culture persists after belief has drained away. Memes rarely exist in isolation. They cluster into what Dawkins called meme complexes - networks of mutually reinforcing ideas that keep one another alive. A religion, for instance, is a meme complex: a set of interlocking rituals and prohibitions that endure long after their original meanings have been forgotten. “Fish on Friday” is a faint echo of that structure, a half-remembered practice carried out by cultural inertia rather than conviction. The ritual continues because it once mattered, not because it still does. No one remembers why. Pop culture works the same way. It is full of half-dead memes performing themselves. Think of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: its opening da-da-da-DUM has outgrown the work that birthed it, surviving as shorthand for destiny, triumph, or doom. The symphony remains the best host for the motif, but the meme has long since crawled away. For most of the world, the rest of the composition is merely scaffolding for that four-note invocation. So too with Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. The title tells us everything: a dominant meme and its attending parasites. Layla is the living idea; the “Other Assorted Love Songs” are the relics, the forgotten devotional fragments orbiting it. Yet even within Layla itself, the logic of the meme complex persists. The riff - that ecstatic, spiralling phrase - was not even Eric Clapton’s. It was Duane Allman’s. Allman’s line is the animating principle, the piece of vital energy that keeps the rest of Clapton’s dull song - and the entire project - alive. Just as the Other Assorteds feed on Layla, Layla feeds on Allman’s riff: a flock of flukes sucking at the juice of four bars. When I first heard it, in a Vauxhall Astra advert in 1989, the riff was already a ghost: detached from its origin, living on as pure affect. Returning to the song reveals how much it props up. The verses are awkward, the chorus a mere superimposition on the riff, the coda shapeless indulgence. The riff carries everything. It is the selfish meme - the gene that refuses to die, sustaining even what should have fallen away. Clapton’s Unplugged version from 1992 completes the cycle of parasitism. He slows the song down, drains it of urgency, and reabsorbs Allman’s vitality into the Clapton brand. Perhaps this is how he always imagined it: retooled for the corporate Clapton of the 1990s. Either way, it exists only because of Allman’s riff. It is Layla only in the sense that Allman made Layla matter. What was once ecstatic has become tasteful; what was once desperate has become self-consciously authentic. That riff never belonged in a love song - too showy, too high-octane. It belongs in a car advert. But that is the logic of capitalism itself: subsuming the subversive, repackaging intensity as nostalgia. Allman’s riff survives, but only as a museum exhibit, a fossil of emotion presented as content. Religious practice persists in the same way. Belief has long since gone, but the gestures remain: the mantilla worn to mass, the fish on Friday, the hand raised in benediction. Layla endures like that - a ritual emptied of conviction, repeated because it must be repeated. Time hasn't been kind to Eric Clapton either. And he himself has become a meme: a symbol of Boomer exhaustion, of blues reduced to brand identity. His reactionary drift feels less like a choice than a symptom - a man becoming the cliché his music already predicted. The memeplex eats its creator, as capital always does. As his reputation decays, the question is whether Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs - or rather, Allman’s riff - can survive him. Can those four bars continue to circulate as a free-floating fragment, detached from its origin, a surviving meme in a dead cultural ecosystem? Here it all is again on a list of “1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die,” when albums themselves have died. But the truth is that the compilers don't want you to hear the album. They don't want you to hear Derek & the Dominos even. But the ritual of putting on a record remains because they don't know what else to do. The album and the band exist now only as complexes to sustain the longevity of the riff. However, if you want to experience it properly, there is an 1989 ad for a Vauxhall Astra on YouTube. 0.5 Ignoring the two lumbering blues bores here - Key to the Highway and Have You Ever Loved… - at a profit of 16 minutes, we are left with material that mainly recalls late Beatles and the first two albums by The Band. Despite their apprenticeship with George Harrison, Derek et al can’t match the imagination and sonic variety of Abbey Road. Despite having admirable musicianship they don’t produce anything as elegant as the music of the Brown album. The guitars noodle constantly but very little is memorable. Then there’s Little Wing. Hendrix‘s original, 2 1/2 minutes long, is full of uniquely mesmerising guitar lines. This version, 5 minutes long, hasn‘t a lick worth hearing. It replaces the relaxed intimacy of Hendrix‘s vocal with a double-act of harmonised hollering and the freedom of Hendrix‘s mellifluous melody is wrestled into a much more conventional rhythm. It is an ignorant, awkward piece of butchery. 1.5/5
Nicht meine Tasse Tee
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Boring
Meh
Listened to the first four tracks and didn't care to listen to the rest. I think I liked 'Layla' at some point though.
I can't. It gave me great anxiety seeing Discs 1, 2, 3, and 4. It's a lot. 40 songs. The music doesn't resonate with me.
This one hurts as it's so, so, incredibly good, but delivered by a racist, chauvinistic, cruel piece of shit.
Music for bores who like instruments more than they like songs.
Eric Clapton is a POS.
Often hailed as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement, which is why I’m giving it a generous 1 out of 5. It’s a complete pile of shit. I hope to never have to listen to this again.
Tame and meandering. Not my vibe. Too fucking long as well.
First impression pre listen: I physically groaned when I first saw this generated this morning. I cannot say I'm the biggest Clapton fan to begin with, and then I saw how long this thing was. I genuinely fear for my sanity. I know Layla has some iconic moments, but there's also a lot of cringe associated with that song. The other songs I've heard from this project were totally forgettable. Hoping it has some redeeming factors despite Clapton being a twat. My expectations are however quite low. Individual track notes: I Looked Away Is every song on this album about thirsting for someone elses wife? If that's the case I'm gonna lose my mind. It's a middle of the road 70's blues rock song. Nothing special, though nothing unpleasant. Average. 2.5/5 Bell Bottom Blues Very dramatic, but also extremely sleazy. Kinda annoying. Whiny lyrics. Decent bluesy guitar solo. The main chorus melody sort of works, but it's kinda ruined by the lyrics. Dislike. 2/5 Keep On Growing Decent tempo, I can kinda get into the groove of this. Does get a bit messy though. Feels sort of pandering. Noodly and aimless guitar. I'm rapidly losing braincells listening to this. Insufferable. Goes on for way too long with just painfully pointless waffling. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Boring and uninspired take on a blues standard. Doesn't do anything interesting with it. Gentrified and pandering. At leadt the song itself is pretty well written. Dislike. 2/5 I Am Yours Snoozefest. I don't wanna hear Clapton on something like this. He's too much of an unlikable prick to pull something intimate or romantic off. Terrible distracting percussion as well. Awful. 1/5 Anyday Certainly one of the songs of all time. Has a lot of guitar wankery and over the top vocals that almost sound like parody. What's the point of this? Should've stayed in 1970's. Awful. 1/5 Key To The Highway 9 minutes of Clapton butchering a blues song? Wanking off his guitar and stroking his own ego. What is the actual point of this shit. Get on with it... Awful. 1/5 Tell The Truth Everything on this album has been awful tl the point where the awfulness of each song just blends into the next one. I don't like saying this, but everything here literally sounds the same. Circlejerking guitar and unitelligible rambly vocals. It also somehow manages to sound generic as well. Sounds like a parody of the early 70's. Awful. 1/5 Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad? And the award for the worst song title in history goes to... Got nothing else to say. At least it's a bit different in terms of tempo and style. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Have You Ever Loved A Woman? What is there even to be said at this point? Derivative and soulless. More pointless guitar noodling. Awful. 1/5 Little Wing Go listen to Hendrix instead. There's nothing to be gained from aknowledging this version's existence. Honestly kinda painful to listen to. Awful 1/5 It's Too Late Unlikable and boring. Predictable as always. Losing my mind. Awful. 1/5 Layla Okay here comes the big one. I have to admit that the guitar riff is very good and it does have an iconic aura around it. Too bad that's the only likable part of the song. However the lyrics and all the story surrounding it sort of ruins the song for me. At least it sounds okay. The ending piano part is great because I don't have to listen to Clapton's wailing for a few minutes even if it goes on for way too long! Fine. 3/5 Thorn Tree In The Garden No thank you. Don't like anything that's going on here. Awful vocals. Bland instrumental. At least it isn't annoying. Strongly dislike. 1.5/5 Final Review I don't even want to give this a proper review, but I'll do my best. It's a tedious circlejerk where Clapton butchers songs made by much more talented people than him. He also attempts writing his own songs on here, but they are just as ego driven and insufferable as his noodly guitar playing and unsubtle and sleazy vocals. It drains the soul out of you with terrible, over the top, nightmarish guitar stylizations that end up going on way past their welcome. The reason "Layla" is the track advertised in the album's title is because it's the only remotely listenable song on this album. And even that song is a cringefest all of its own. One of the most insufferable and unlikable albums I've ever heard. At its best it bores you to sleep, and at its worst it makes you wanna listen to nails on a chalkboard instead to drown out the second hand embarassment you get from listening to this album. Would genuinely be a waste of space in a landfill. On a positive note most of the songs he's made cover versions of on here are pretty good in their untarnished states, so if you have the time go check them out. I'd suggest you skip this one and spare yourself the pain of having to waste 1 hour and 16 minutes on this pile of crap. 1/5
Shite
First listen
How many rapid fire guitar solo weepy blues ripoff rock songs with some Brit singing about how a lady he loves so much doesn’t love him - even though she is actually his best friend‘s wife who he will divorce a few years later - do we have to hear? I would hope the answer would have been none, but apparently there’s a whole crap load of them and bunch are on this album. An hour and sixteen minutes of “poor me” songs is an hour and seventeen minutes too much for poor me.
I listened to a song I don’t like this voice
I’d never listened to this album before - it sounds like a parody. I can see why Layla is the famous one - the first half of the song bursts out of the album as if it’s trying to escape, only then to be dragged back in by the second half, an interminable lump of nothing nailed on seemingly to remind the listener just how excruciating the album actually is..
Garbage.
Actually quite liked a lot of this, but apparently Clapton is a wanker, so 1 star!
clapton is a fascist and the least talented of the yardbirds alum.
I can get why someone would like this album, but not me. Songs could use to either be cut in half or removed completed. It's an incredibly long, boring, and self-indulgent album about betraying your best friend. There's some great sounds and musician work here, though.
I don't like this song because it has no words. I would not recommend this song. I don't like this song because the beat is not good. I would not recommend this song.
the first song is okay like what are these songs
Unlistenable boring drivel.
Nope.
Listened Before? N Fuck Eric Clapton. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: None because fuck clapton.
- phew, schwer zu sagen, es hatte seine Längen und für mich hat nicht wirklich etwas herausgestochen - war zwischendurch manchmal etwas genervt von einigen Passagen
This is the 80th album I’m rating. I’ve heard some good things about the album but I don’t really know what this album sounds like. Adding to my Playlist - I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, and Key to the Highway. Not Adding to my Playlist - Keep On Growing, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out, I am Yours, Anyday, Tell the Truth, Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, Little Wing, It’s Too Late, Layla, and Thorn Tree in the Garden. All in all I liked 3/14 songs. This is definitely not one of the best albums of all time. This is why every single music critic should be tortured to death.
When I have to review an album that's connected to Eric Clapton in any way, I immediately get in a bad mood. I just can't stand that guy. One of the best guitarists, maybe. But as a person, I don't like him. And then the celebrated song "Layla" says a lot about Clapton. Maybe I'm doing "Derek & The Dominos" an injustice here. Nonsense, they're not even a real band, just a project, or whatever. Throw that shit away and we'll never talk about it again.
There was a moment when listening to this when I almost DNFed. But then I convinced myself that if I could make it through Nirvana, I could make it through the most dad of the dad early 1970s rock.
Shite
i am not enough of a zoomer fuckhead to deny that "Layla" is very good. arguably, it's Clapton's finest moment as a songwriter/guitar player, and the contrast between the two sections of the song serve as a mild stroke of genius. i could play the stickler and claim Jim Gordon deserves the credit, but no, he doesn't. this is Clapton's song, it's his win, he can take it. i am being genuine and honest when i say "Layla" does not suck. the hour plus of album before it? fuck off. never have i been more lulled into not paying attention to an album that demands careful listening than "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". if it's not a very weaksauce cover of a blues standard, it's an equally forgettable original track with poor mixing and nothing to differentiate itself from the surrounding efforts. people say Duane Allman kicks Clapton's ass on his own album, but if pressed i couldn't tell you who was playing what; halfway through i felt like i was being lowered into a boiling pot of guitar licks and 12 bar struts. i could make a case for the "Little Wing" cover, but if given the choice between listening to this version and Hendrix's version, i'm obviously going to pick the latter. maybe i could make a case for "Bell Bottom Blues", which has a very nice chorus. it's a shame the pre-chorus uses this god awful tabla to bring us into it, just sort of going "bwoong" over an otherwise strong part of the song. if just one, ONE other song didn't have something that sabotaged itself, i would consider giving the record a D. no dice. it really is just "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". at the very least, they could have put it in that order.
This album is approximately 19 hours long or at least that's how I felt listening to it
Holy cultural appropriation Batman! This is the musical equivalent to all that Egyptian shit in British museums.
Fuck you Eric Clapton
I wanted to finish this album but I couldn’t, it was so grating to my ears and did not like any song.
Album - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Artist - Derek and The Dominos Release - 1970 Heard it before? - N Heard OF it before? - Y When discussing a controversial musician, one must ask, "Is it worth it?" Is the art good enough to consider separation from the artist? Think Kanye West, Morrissey, Chris Brown etc. Personally, I think that the quality of ones art should never excuse and diminish their wrongdoings. I used Kanye and Morrissey as examples, and I enjoy both artists but their views do greatly discern me and I have no sympathy for them as people. All of this to say that I think there is no greater example of controversy diminishing artistic appeal than this album. It is 76 minutes of Eric Clapton's trite white blues scratch nonsense. If there was any album that coined boomer rockist pretentions, it was Layla. It feels like background music from Forrest Gump in the worst way, (no hate to the Forrest Gump soundtrack,) and only the title track and the circumstances surrounding it's existence can give this an additional point rounded down. Also, Robert Christgau, I'm ashamed. 2/10
I wanted to like this album. I thought the album cover was pretty cool, so I definitely had a favourable impression of this music going in. However, whatever merit these songs have on an individual level is destroyed by how excruciating the album's length is and how much the songs blend together. Really didn't feel this one.
It was ok? Didn't make it through the whole album
Yuck
Bland album from an awful human being.
Jan 4th - listen to a few songs, meh. Heard the main guy is racist, so I’ll pass.
gross
Probably should have given it more of a dedicated listen.
Welp... didn't think we'd be dethroning Fairpoint Convention so quickly, but here we are... Before today, I had never been so relieved by YouTube's intrusive ad practices. I almost quit this one several times, but the challenge IS to listen to these albums before you die... even when they try their categorical best to kill you before you can... Everything from the vocals to the guitars seemed to be pathetically and PAINFULLY whining "boo friggin' hoo". It's as if someone managed to harness the dark acoustic energy of Fran Drescher and channeled it into an album. Unnecessary.
Lots of good playing going on, no doubt but the whole endeavour leaves me a little cold. It wasn't an hit at the time of original release and I'm not sure this is a classic in anyway. Pretty poor
I like Bell Bottom Blues, but can listen to any of a number of covers, so no need to listen to this album again.
Bloody fucking fart of an album.
Pure unnecessary wank. endless cheesy solos, no real heart or emotion—just a lot of technical skill that ends up feeling empty. Instead of something memorable, it’s more of an ego trip. Eric Clapton = most overrated guitarist ever. Fuck right off. Second worst concert I have ever been to.
The first CD my family was ever given (my parents bought their first a CD player so they could listen to it!) was Eric Clapton unplugged, featuring my favourite version of Layla. Aside from Clapton by all accounts bring a turd of a person (which is why I no longer listen to Layla by choice), this album possibly the longest wank with no happy ending on this challenge so far. They’re trying so hard, you can actually hear them chafing.