Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

estuvo bien, pero es larguisimo. clapton es un boludo pero toca muy bien. me gusto mas la mitad mas pop, la bluesera es un embole

I wasn't really awake when I put this album on this morning before hopping in the shower. As the hot water hit me and I started to finally wake up, I thought, "Dang. That sounds like Clapton. I thought it was Derek somebody..." Look, I said I wasn't awake yet. Yeah, it's Clapton. It's Clapton trying to be less of a cult icon which means it's largely missing the ego and it's just a guy wailing on his guitar like his life depends on it. He's clearly just enjoying making really good music and it's tasty as hell. Later in his career, as a solo artist, Clapton would become pretty cringey but here, at this point in the game, he's just fantastic. Maybe the top of his game. There's a reason he's a legend. And this album is a big part of it. On top of ALL that, I just enjoyed the hell out of it. No reservations. Full marks.

Fine

Yeah, I mean, it's a banger. Even the Little Wing cover manages to justify its existence

I mean... It's passable, I think? Layla and Little Wing really drive the entire album. It's baffling why Layla was left so late in the tracklist.

3.5 Very good

This, objectively, a great album by a talented group of musicians. It’s also worthy of the list given they were one-and-done. Still, my gut tells me it’s still a 4. That might be because Clapton’s style is so familiar at this point that it’s hard to give this the appreciation that a fresh set of ears might have. Also, he kinda turned in to a crazy old man and I can’t get that part out of my head. Still, the album. The album is a 5.

The cover of Little Wing is unlistenable, especially the grating refrain they added. I never want to hear this album again.

Was hoping the rest of this would match up to Layla but it doesn't quite manage to do so

I'm not a fan of Eric Clapton, and I guess by extension of his other projects, like Derek and The Domino's. After listening to this album nothing has changed in my mind. One obviously great song, as albums title suggest, and then more than one hour of fun solos, exciting riffs and bluesy vocals, but nothing that sticks to you even 5 minutes after listening. Absolute average with a one diamond.

my man was down bad lmao whole album is just Eric Clapton wanting to fuck George Harrison’s wife still, despite the subject matter, this is a shockingly beautiful album actually, I guess it isn’t too surprising Clapton is Clapton; he’s a complete asshole irl, but he’s a damn talented one 10/10

This is pretty good. Not a lot of standout tunes, but I did love Anyday, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad and Little Wing. Layla just comes out of nowhere and is out of character with the rest of the album. Great song, but I like the others mentioned above better. Nice to hear a mix where no instruments are buried. Really enjoyed hearing the bass throughout. Only real criticism is the length. I could do with half the songs. Keep just the best and I’d rate this higher. 1 = bad 2 = average 3 = good 4 = great 5 = outstanding

If you like the most generic classic rock imaginable sung by a racist, this is the album for you

So many of these are great and were totally new to me! Particularly enjoyed Tell The Truth as a new-to-me tune.

bleck

Clapton and Duane Allman - what more could you want? A vocalist would have been good. Clapton can hold a tune but his voice is nothing special and is clearly the weak link in Derek and the Dominos. That said, this is a classic collection of blues and worthy of inclusion just for Little Wing alone. Then there is the title track - one of the greatest blues recordings ever.

Bell Bottom Blues makes me think of Mike Junk and a time when he sang the live version of this song, quite loudly, while driving in their Suburban up in Bear Lake. And what can you say about Layla. Just an absolute jam, acoustic or electric!

Qua zang is het niet indrukwekkend, de bassdrum zijn ze per abuis vergeten in een aantal tracks en het duurt allemaal wat lang, maar verder is het prima aan te horen allemaal. Had met minimaal de helft tot 2/3e ingekort kunnen worden, maar wappie Clapton was teveel onder de indruk van zichzelf. Keurige, cultureel toegeëigende ouwelullenblues voor de tikkie racistische blanke boomer. Ohja en de coverart is spuuglelijk. Maar wel 3 sterren.

I'm pretty familiar with Eric Clapton's music; my dad listened to his unplugged album quite a bit when I was a kid, and when I was in college, I listened to his solo stuff and Cream a fair amount. I even read his autobiography at some point in my twenties, and I really enjoyed. Now, in the year of our Lord 2022, Eric Clapton has shown his ass to the whole world, and everyone knows what a xenophobic jerk he is. It seems like no one wants to listen to his music anymore, with the exception of people who say things like "my pronouns are meat/eater." I'd always meant to listen to this album back when I classic rock was pretty much the only thing I ever listened to, but somehow I never did. Due to Clapton's current reputation, I really didn't have high hopes for this album, but I have to begrudgingly admit that I thought it was okay. I don't know much about blues music (are the Black Keys blues?), but I thought this album was pretty good lyrically and instrumentally. I've always had a liking for 'Layla,' and I still think it's a great song, but I thought that 'Keep on Growing' and 'Bell Bottom Blues' are really good too. But even with 'Layla' and a couple of 'really good' songs, I don't think this album as a whole is anything noteworthy. If I look at some of my favorite albums from the seventies (Wish You Were Here, Rumors, Who's Next), this album doesn't even come close to those. Other than some talented folks who worked on it, it really doesn't have a lot to show off. In closing, I'll leave my favorite anecdote about Eric Clapton. I used to listed to a sports podcast, and on a particular episode, they were talking about Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay taking his music memorabilia collection on the road to showcase it to the public. The hosts joked that Irsay thinks that a guitar previously owned by Clapton still contained his notes in it. One of the hosts asked if the guitar also had Clapton's hatred for immigrants in it, and the other host replied that it did, along with his parenting skills. Fuck Eric Clapton with a Fender Stratocaster.

layla’s pretty great but the rest of it makes me think of “blues” night at the pub

Pretty good 70's rock album that's fairly well-known in my family due to a family member being named Layla, after the song. That track is an undisputed banger, and there were a couple of other good songs here, but all the slow blues tracks kind of melded into one forgettable mess, to me. Favourite: Layla

In my memory this was a 5* Eric Clapton record but listening to it now: a hit & miss, still it got Layla, I Looked Away, Tell The Truth and a handful of other 5* songs on it.

In my blues period many years ago Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out was one of my favourites. Jimi Hendrix' Little Wing is another brilliant song, but not in this version, I'm afraid. Layla is probably the best known song, and rightfully so. I also recognised the soul classic It's too late, but again I was not sure if I liked this version and definitely prefer Chuck Willis' original version from the late '50s. Anyway, the album was generally okay, but I only really liked a handful of songs.

Steady blues rock but I tend to fall asleep until the classics kick in.

Kind of a hard one to put my finger on. There's some great music here. But much of it seems pretty mundane. I think I might be expecting vintage Clapton but getting 25 year old Clapton. Which means I've set expectations they can't meet.

Masturbatory guitar solos by a racist. Bell-bottom Blues is a good jam though

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

I deeply hate Eric Clapton, both as a person and as a musician. I did not want to listen to this album. However, l decided that I should at least give it a go considering that I still hold a lot of Kanye West's music very close to my heart and I should probably extend the same courtesy that I expect from some of the more Kanye-averse users on this site giving his music a fair shot to Clapton. That being said, this album was pretty dull, but of course Layla is an unimpeachable track.

показалось, что всё кроме Лейлы блюз, не для меня

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.

I've listened to this twice - and I think there are some absolute gems in this. Some really good feel good blues, with some classic rock CCR style. Bell Bottom Blues was my favourite - makes sense to me why that is the most popular one with 30M listens on Spotify!! I'm glad I've discovered this.

A belter.

“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

I used to be way into Clapton until I found out how much of a dick and racist he is. It is tough to separate the art from the artist. Like Michael Jackson hard.

Layla was the only song I recognized and easily my favorite. The whole album isn't too bad, bluesy and catchy, but not really my bag.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: I looked away, Bell bottom blues, It’s too late, Layla

Its kinda weird how into his friends wife he is.. Favourite songs: Bell bottom blues, Keep on growing, I am yours,why does love got to be so sad, little wing, layla

I enjoyed this as an archetypal 70s album

My first ever one star for this overrated, racist old bore. Pedestrian songs and one hour 16 minutes. He can shove his dominos up his arse.

Oh look, there's that racist again! Why are we allowing the openly racist here, anyway? Did Elon Musk buy this website, too? I thought this place was about creating an open community. As to the music (insert painful segue): It's of the very bluesy rock I used to like a lot, and actually still like a lot (especially in the longer songs, such as Key to the Highway or Have You Ever Loved a Woman). However, one could successfully argue, though, that this album is rather old in the tooth. And then there's Layla, a timeless classic.

Layla and other blues songs. Some nice tracks in there, some fillers...

This was alright, kind of like a jam blues band. Nothing especially standout other than Layla but everything was enjoyable and would make for nice background music in a pub or something.

Christ, this was shit. Any hope I had faded when I saw the running time of 1 hour and 16 minutes. How many Atlantic soul singles could I fit into this timeframe? ALL winners, unlike the crap from the silly old racist doing his guitar shite on this album. I know, I'll wait until Layla, I thought. I could probably just about stomach this in a non-ironic Partridge strumming style. But it was the penultimate track. Even the Spotify ads for CEX were better than this shit. Bailed three songs in. Ahh - here comes Wilson Pickett. That's better.

2 good songs: Layla and Bell bottom blues. The rest is boring ego trips

Yup, good album

Good music and excecution but looong AF

Middle of the road rock. It’s fine. Clapton is such a dick though. I hate giving him credit for anything.

Прослушано! Отличный альбом, можно и нужно слушать ещё.

I have had this album since the early 70s but only ever really played side 4. Seen no reason to change that now.

I will be in a minority here and say that Layla itself isn't that much of a hit for me. On the other hand I did enjoy the album as a whole. Nothing really stood out that much, but looking back at the length of it - never really felt like it dragged and that is a big compliment coming from me when it comes to records over 1 hour.

baita som

Good, but not as good as I thought it might be with that line-up.

Non ho una gran passione per il repertorio di Slowhand extra Cream, e Layla è abusatissima.

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.

Another round of love the art, hate the artist. Clapton is amazing, no other musician's fans acclaim god-like status like his and it's fairly evident on this album. There is a lot of filler, everything after track 2's Bell-Bottom Blues through track 10's Have You Ever Loved A Woman just drones. But the real gold is the bookends of the album. People love to drag Clapton through the mud and he deserves that, but Clapton found the inspiration for the album in Duane Allman who plays on many of the tracks and had these two met, Clapton's career might've been shorter. 4/5.

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've got exactly two problems with this record. The exhausting length and the amount of covers. Had they cut the covers to only include "Little Wing" the sole musical output from Derek and the Dominos would have stood that much sharper. Also... Taken into account that this is essentially a love letter to a friend's wife... Covers? Not really that romantic. Musically there's absolutely nothing wrong with anything though. Clapton is as good as he ever is when he's in his bluesy mood and Whitlock provides the backbone of it all. There are too few truly memorable songs but "Layla" almost makes up for anything problems I have with the album. Jesus Christ, is it possible to ever get tired of listening to Clapton crying his heart out and Duane Allman almost playing his guitar to shreds? I think not.

This is not just dad rock. This is advanced dad rock. This is father stone. It's not bad or anything, but I can feel my beer belly growing as I slowly morph into a British guy called Barry (age 63) while listening to this. "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues" are the clear winners here. A lot of this album is dedicated to Eric Clapton jerking himself off with a guitar, and while that can sound fantastic in short bursts, it kind of gets old after a while. And let's not even mention the backstory of this one. Imagine your best friend makes an hour long album about how much he wants to fuck your wife. Clapton's kind of a dickhead, isn't he?

This album just wasn’t for me

I enjoyed the heck out of this! Only thing making it a 4 and not a 5 in my view is that some songs lasted about 1 to 2 to 4 minutes longer than was warranted. (But I also get that the band was jamming.)

I actually liked this and found it easy to listen to and fun. I've always liked blue rock and Eric Clapton.

I hate myself for giving this one 5 stars… Clapton is a huge wanker but man this is a good record… anything Duane Allman touched was gold I guess

It was oK

Perfectly good background music for when you want to HEAR classic rock but you don't really want to LISTEN to classic rock. But also, obligatory fuck Eric Clapton.

It's tempting to give this album 5 stars reflexively, just based on one song, a song that happens to be one of the greatest songs ever recorded. But if I'm being honest, this is a solid 4 album with a couple of exceptional 5+ star tracks. That takes nothing away from the fact that Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs is a beautiful album that's always a pleasure to hear, one of the great albums of its era. This is laid back, bluesy stuff with an undercurrent of longing and sadness that brings a lot of depth to the sound. Yeah, there's a pronounced self-indulgence on some of these songs that gets to be a bit much. But when that self-indulgence results in "Layla," I'll listen to it gladly anytime. Fave Songs: Layla, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?, Little Wing, Anyday, Bell Bottom Blues, I Am Yours

I'm sorry, but... yawn. I don't see the appeal in Clapton.

This is probably Clapton’s best and most cohesive work. This album more or less is a concept album about Eric Clapton’s infatuation with George Harrison’s then wife which culminates in the penultimate track, the title track, where he expresses his love directly to her. The music itself is a tight country infused blues rock. Some of Clapton’s best guitar playing is found here as well.

Really love the album cover. The songs are pretty good too. Eric Clapton's best work IMO.

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

19th October 2022 Listened during the day while working from home. Chilled week, watched Liverpool West Ham. What a combo Clapton and Allman are, duelling lead guitars riffing on blues rock.

The production quality is just horrible. Highs are muted. Layla is worth 2 stars on its own.

Good album

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!

Goed hor dit! Heb dit moeiteloos kunnen luisteren.

Niet alles is even boeiend maar het merendeel van dit album vond ik toch erg de moeite waard.

Pretty solid album from a short-lived band with a stupid name. 4/5

most meh of all time bro i have got to get meaner with these reviews. one star asf. "i love listening to music i hate" - me when i lie.

Listened to on 10/24/22 4.5/5 Favorite song: Layla, have you ever loved a woman, any day I loved this rock album and listened to it all morning

One of the truly great albums

Really enjoyed

Almost perfect

itse asiassa aika vitun hyvä albumi... lyriikka... muistuttaa dustyä... tulee miinuspisteitä.. mutta melkeimpätukkoo jokainen biisinnyrikkä aivan vitun hyvä. tiiät että se espoon blues (meni konkkaan btw) ottaa sieluun mukavasti paras biisi noh tietenkin mainstream paskavittu layla mutta onhan se aika kova

I liked what I listened to

Banger banger

Amazing album by an amazing guitarist that rose to fame on the back of American blues artists.

This was a nice album. Didn’t realize Eric Clapton was in this band

That was fun, but grew tiresome by the end

Ma note : 4 Waouh ! Un vrai disque de gratteux ! Deux légendes : Clapton d'Angleterre et Duane Allman des États-Unis (il participe à 11 titres sur 14).... La Gibson d'Eric et la Slide de Duane ! Les autres musiciens sont issus du groupe Delanney & Bonnie & friends... Publié fin 1970, il reste un standart du rock et apparaît régulièrement dans les classements... Il faut acheter le coffret avec toutes les "chutes" de studio et les jams entre les deux guitares hero... Il est sorti aussi en version 3 CD pour le 20 anniversaire du disque... Tout le monde (ou presque) sait que Layla (la chanson titre) etait secrètement dédiée à Pattie Boyd, dont Clapton était secrètement fou amoureux... Le problème c'est que Patti était la compagne de Georges Harrison, le silent Beatles, qui s'avérait être aussi le meilleur ami d'Eric... Un triangle amoureux et d'amitié terrible dont les tortures génèreront une grande partie des plus belles chansons de cet album... L'histoire se finira bien puisque Clapton epousera Patti en 79 (et en divorcera en 88 !... C'était bien la peine !!!) Il existe un live, très moyen quand on sort du disque studio présenté aujourd'hui.... De ce live, hélas, Duane Allman est absent... C'est le groupe Delanney & Bonnie qui accompagne Clapton... Et sans la slide de Duane, cela n'a plus du tout le meme goût... C'est d'ailleurs cette version de Derek & Dominoes qui sera le backing band de Georges Harrison sur l'ensemble de son triple album "All things Must Pass"... "Little Wing", une reprise d'Hendrix figure aussi sur l'album... Pour ma part, je préfère et de loin les versions d'Hendrix... Celles de Clapton seront toujours lourdes et verbeuses, loin de l'émotion du titre phare d'Hendrix... C'est pour moi la seule faute de goût du disque...

Very nice. I like this better than most clapton solo junk. Solid

cool

Good shit man 4 Buncha people rating it 1 and 2 just because Clapton is a piece of shit. Y'all probably unironically love Yeezy ya hypocrites

Layla propels this past good

Blues rock, some white funk. Not bad, not great. Doesn't hit any genre or style I hate.

5/5. A great collection of songs that I can choose from any and be satisfied. Just great songwriting and musicianship.

Clapton is only good when someone else writes his songs. Consider this his all-time masterpiece.

Good blues, not enough "hits". Too long!

Great record with Layla and other well assorted love songs.

Just good old school rock, the only problem I found is the duration of the album it is just too long, however it never gets boring

menettää ainakin yhden tähden pituuden takia, eihän tällaista tiluttelua ja show-offia näin kauan jaksa. nautin kuitenkin rakkauslauluista. vaikea arvostella.

Tässä on häiritsevän rouhea kitarasoundi, ja Eric Clapton on huonolla tavalla huono laulaja. Henkilökohtaisesti en myöskään ymmärrä Greg Allmanin (muistaakseni) slide-jammailuja. Ja ovathan nämä biisit nyt naurettavan pitkiä. Paljon miinuksia. Toisaalta melkein jokaisessa biisissä on taustalla hyvä idea, ja se yksi nostaa ihokarvat pystyyn. Uskon jopa, että pidemmällä tutustumisella pääsisin tähän paremmin sisälle. Harkitsen ostamista, mikä ei liene ihan merkityksetön asia.

Nice band, I think with Eric Clapton.

6/3 down goes the dominos

Clapton is such an emotionally expressive soloist, but often the songs that are bolted onto them just aren't entertaining or original enough all the way through. It was only during the course of listening to this album that I discovered he was a racist and an Enoch Powell supporter. So fuck this guy. I can't listen to a double album through twice without that in the back of my mind all the time.

I love Layla and there are some good covers, but the rest of the album is very samey and a bit lacking. I was enjoying the Duane Allman guitar playing so I turned this off and put Eat a Peach on instead.

Songs are fine, it’s just not something I see myself returning to

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.

awesome

Layla bangs but the rest is pretty mediocre

The back end of the album is sensational, Layla is one of the great songs. Too bad the general consensus around him is he's a piece of shit.

6/14, 43%

Really groovy guitars but the songs were really long and that’s not my style

How've I only listened to the title track for going on 15 years and am just now listening through in its entirety? Clapton's masterpiece - he works best in this ensemble format (which, holy shit, this is the same band that recorded "All Things Must Past"?!?) Perfect coked-out, bluesy, romantic anguish. Fav Tracks: Keep On Growing, I Am Yours, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?, Little Wing, Layla (obv), Thorn Tree in the Garden, Nobody Knows You

A nice collection of songs. Layla is a classic track

Very good rock bless album. Though Clapton doesn't hit the same as he used to...

Can’t listen to Eric Clapton without getting irrationally upset about his behavior off stage.

Frantic blues. Sweet!

Eric really did live Patti listening to this album. Some classic tracks but a bit meandering at times. Layla is a brilliant track.

Mit Layla ein absoluter Topsong vorhanden, der gesamte Rest ist gewißermaßen austauschbar und klingt irgendwie "gleich"

So much bluesy goodness. Some songs seem to go on a little long and can be lost in a background listen. but there are some songs that can catch your attention with the lyrics or guitars solos; Is it really blues if you don’t get some gritty guitar solos? “Thorn Tree in the Garden” at the end throws off expectations though. Overall, this album was a decent way to get into the blues and the iconic Eric Clapton (if you look beyond all of his controversy). No regrets in listening to this album.

Great blues album, enjoyed this quite a bit.

So and so....many covers...but not super

Did not like

Qué grata sorpresa. Primero, no sabía de la existencia de esta agrupación. Mi conocimiento de la carrera de Eric Clapton llegaba a Cream y el otro grupo con Jeff Beck. Bell Bottom Blues ahora es una de mis canciones favoritas

I'm not quite sure why nearly every song is so long - they drag. Layla is a proper banger though, even at the 7 minute run-length.

Nearly every song overstays its welcome. The album has some decent tracks though.

I was familiar with the story surrounding this album but never listened to the full album before. The album starts off with a song with a rather country like sound. But with the start of the 2nd song the albums shifts gears into a full blues rock album. My favorite song is the 3rd song, Keep On Growing. From the first few seconds of the start of the song I could already tell i was gonna like this song. Its 2 minute outro is finger licking good! 2nd place is for Key To The Highway, such a great sound, absolutely love the guitarplay! Really like the vibe of the album, weeping guitars and that typical, almost classical 60's sound. This was really a awesome starter!

suitable for sunny afternoon

Can't do Clapton any longer since he got Vax crazy. Love the end of Layla, but just can't.

Oh Clapton.. not a huge fan of him as a person but I can’t deny his ability. This album was an enjoyable listen. No obvious highs and no obvious lows, maybe almost to a fault.

This record was made by a bunch of very seasoned and talented dudes who really, really, loved playing together, and that's exactly what it sounds like. 70s guitar rock doesn't get much better than this, and I don't think anyone can deny that Layla is one of the very best all-time rock songs. I'm not much of a Clapton fan, but his guitar work is undeniably great on this album. That said, I like Duane Allman's playing so much more, and I think he's probably the reason Clapton is so good here, as they're so clearly playing off of each other and pushing each other to go further. It's so much fun to listen to, especially on Key To the Highway, Tell the Truth (goddamn that's some beautiful slide playing!) and Have You Ever Loved a Woman. We were talking about jazz and how watching the musicians compete with each other usually kind of leaves me cold... well I guess this is my jazz, because listening to this guys trade solos is just so exciting to me.

I have never heard of this band before, but I enjoyed this album thoroughly.

Good stuff. I liked it. Bell bottom blues is one of my favorites

I used to work with a woman named Shayla, who was MAYBE 4 foot 9 inches in heels. And that's if we're being generous. Whenever she'd walk by, one of my cubicle mates would sing "Shayla, I can talk to you on my knees, Shayla." Again, this was in an office, not grade school. Good times. My cubicle mate justified it by saying, "I'm allowed to sing that. I'm not very tall either." Shayla was married to a jovial and quite tall fella who I really came to like. It turns out they divorced years later. I wish I could say it was due to the fact that Shayla carried on a wild affair with Billy Barty, but the time lines don't match. Shayla did have a suitor who she eventually left her tall husband for. But guess what? That jilted fucker remained jovial and tall. So in a fun, ironic twist, Shayla's husband reacted the same way that George Harrison did when he heard about Clapton having the hots for his wife. He didn't give a shit.

The whole premise of the titular song is about wanting to bone your best friend’s wife. I fucking hate Eric Clapton but I do think Layla is a decent song, the other assorted love songs are whatever.

i'll be clear there are parts of this record that surprised me and interesting songwriting moments that i wouldn't come to expect in a random 70s hard rock album, nevertheless one made by fucking eric clapton [rolls eyes] with that being said this is a double album clocking in at 77 minutes and while it's not the most boring thing in the world it is still considerably bloated; case isn't necessarily helped by each one of these "whatever songs" jumping into the same fucking generic 70s blues jam every time. some of these 5-7 minute songs go on for what feels like 15 minutes, and not in a good way! but hey nevertheless the good songs were pretty chill so i gotta say that if you like the vibe then you like the vibe man

And then it all goes downhill from here

Classic Clapton rock/blues.

Bluesy jam album Lots of cool stuff to pick through You can lose yourself in the guitars and/or the lyrics ^^^ very slow pace if that's not your vibe Key to the Highway is one of my favorite long jams of all time Cool mix of standards, covers, and originals Amazing album art Layla is a tragically beautiful centerpiece to the album

Yeah, it's Eric Clapton. It's good. Just not exciting. Two absolute classics and the rest are fine. 3/5

Relaxed music.

Eh it was okay.

Never heard of the band before, but Layla is a song I'm familiar with. Some pretty good songs on the album, enjoyable, not my fav, but will play it again.

Layla goated song

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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.

Pure nostalgic joy listening to this.

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.

Not a particular Clapton fan, but this is good.

dad rock endurance challenge. liked a few select tracks, but i didn't vibe with the 40 minutes of blues shuffles between them.

Boring, underwhelming, and far too long.

The headline in the LA Times says all I can say about Clapton (including 'Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs' at this waning stage of his career.. "Vaccinated but anti-vaccine, Eric Clapton tests positive for COVID-19". Perhaps a 'Lost Sailor', his contributions are fading into the mists of time on this 42 year old album. Some of the backup vocals do stand the test of time. Thanks for the add to the group. -neurorocker

Who's Derek? "Dominos, motherf**ker! See about that!" ––––––– I really liked the bluesy songs on this album. Like REALLY liked those. "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" are the real winners on this album. The Little Wing cover was an absolute travesty. That should've never happened! Jimi would've hated this (just guessing, he probably wouldn't have been able to hear it, so that's a good thing). The others were straight up 'meh'. Even the title track 'Layla' should've started about 3+ minutes into it and existed without lyrics. Clapton's guitar is great, voice and singing seems to be more of an acquired taste. Derek must've been stuck in the bathroom, this is all about the backup ...

Two artistic Brits have been prime targets for cancel culture of late. Cancel culture has its excesses, without a doubt. But it also represents a noble trend in attempting to hold our celebrities and icons to account for their words and actions, and their place in perpetuating bigotry and privilege. "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has been in the thick of it, due to her comments on trans issues. The International Quidditch Association has even changed the sport's name to Quadball in protest of the writer who created the magical game. (If you weren't aware, college students actually play a non-magical version of this game, with sticks-that-do-not-fly tucked between their legs.) Rowling's behavior has certainly changed my opinion of her as a person. However, it has only impacted my enjoyment of her literature slightly. Why is that? Eric Clapton, on the other hand, has perhaps been a racist and a bigot for a long time, but it is his recent anti-vaccine stance that has led to everyone dredging up all his cancellable ills. He is one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time, but in 2022 how much does that matter? It's pretty rich that the guy who once told a concert audience that he wanted to "stop Britain from becoming a black colony" has now said that he would "not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present," in response to Boris Johnson requiring vaccination for concerts. Maybe he's grown and would no longer say "I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism." But he's still a dumb@$$. Anyway, I can more easily separate authors from their art than musicians. I'm not sure why? Something about the level of immersion when reading? The fact that Clapton and other artists have written songs that express their idiocy (not on this album)? Its something I have considered for a long time, as Orson Scott Card has been my favorite author for a long time, despite his personal political beliefs. And it seems I'm no closer to an answer.

-1 star for Clapton aging into an insufferable douche bag.

I don't know who this Derek character is but hooray for an album that sounds like Eric Clapton without the guilt of supporting a racist POS. Wait, did Clapton cover Layla from Derek? Oh Shit...Derek IS Clapton. Damn it.

There is a lead guitar master class or five within this album. Between Clapton and Duane Allman, soaring guitar riffs are a bound. For example, there is some great work on the slow paced blues number, Have You Ever Loved A Woman. I noted recently that The Cure’s Seventeen Second’s title track is last on the album while here we have Layla appearing second to last, which I find equally odd. Layla is of course a hell of a song. Kudos to Duane Allman coming up with the famous lead riff. The song is in two “movements,” the guitar driven first and the piano heavy second. I’ve always appreciated the second movement more than the first. I saw Clapton once in Philadelphia where he closed with Layla. When movement two kicked in, a significant portion of the audience walked to the exits. I was flabbergasted. The piano part is hard to describe, but it just hits home with the subtle squealing slide guitar laid over top. Also, I didn’t know until now that Duane Allman was playing the slide above the last fret at the end of the first movement. It’s so high pitched I think I’ve never really noticed it. At 77 minutes, these 14 tracks are too much too ask to keep my interest. There are several tracks I’d rather have been cut: I Am Yours (boring and way out of place here); Little Wing (Hendrix’s original is vastly superior); It’s Too Late; and Tell The Truth. If those were gone, another star would be given.

Better than expected. Thorn tree in the garden was beautiful

I had a lot of trepidation going in to this, just because of all the baggage that comes with Clapton. I'm certainly familiar with the title track--who isn't?--but the rest of the album, though nothing that stands out as an absolute recognizable song, it all sounds comfortingly familiar. I guess that's the spell that blues guitar based music casts on it's listeners. Clearly a tentpole in the long line of this style of music. I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting.

I was pretty damn bored through the first 6 songs, it was not hitting at all for me. Highkey i was dreading track 7 bc it was about 10 minutes long. That track smacked. Then i realized it was a blues-ish rock album and it made more sense. 2nd half of the album was damn good actually. Layla goes harder than everything obviously. Good album 6/10

Guitar going crazy the whole time. Nobody knows you when you're down is an awesome song.

Meh

Bell bottom blues, little wing, and Layla top 3

the guitar on this album... wow. WOW. WOW!!!! i truly understand now how great of a guitarist eric clapton is after listening to this album in full. in particular, the guitar on "key to the highway" and "i am yours" stood out to me, but the guitar was present and amazing on every single track. and of course the credit does go to duane allman as well. the guitar is what makes this album into what it is. of course i have to mention "layla." the piano halfway through is so exquisite, so beautiful, so perfect. all in all, it was too bluesy of an album for me. it wasn't bad, but just not for me. i couldn't get into more than a few songs. but derek and the dominos did know how to make their hits, that's for sure!

I knew a couple of songs off of this album, including Layla, but ultimately I know more solo Clapton stuff, and wasn't too familiar going into this. I will say, I was pleasantly surprised. While nothing is ever going to be Layla, this album was chock full of excellent tracks. The guitar was out of this world on each song, as would be expected from a Clapton album; he and Duane Allman are on full-force display here. Nearly every song makes room to show off their combined guitar prowess and I was here for it. This was heavy on the blues, which can often get a bit boring for me, but the band navigated that incredibly well with what I felt was some good variety and incredibly catchy rhythms. Clapton's singing also establishes some variety here, ranging from gravely bluesy to loud cries meant to support the heaviest guitar moments. As far as the album's claim to being a love song album, that is the part that fell short for me. I wasn't particularly wowed with this album looking at it through that specific lens. But what this album lacks in truly heartfelt love songs, it makes up for in good old fashioned fiery guitar playing.

You can listen to it in the back ground the you raise the volume for Layla.

One good song

i actually quite enjoyed this album even though i’d never heard any song other than Layla. I thought it was quite enjoyable and interesting and I am kind of surprised that these songs aren’t as heard of.

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.

Enjoyed it. Probably my favourite so far from Eric Clapton.

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.

It is not surprising to see this album on the list, and I was going to be surprised if I loved it. Well, I didn’t love it, but there were some moments where I really enjoyed the groove.

Experienced a lot of push and pull with this one. Wanted to like it due to its reputation but I started out underwhelmed. Then found the right frame of mind and got into it. But by the time it was over, I sure was ready. Undeniable musicianship but not much here I’ll feel the need to revisit.

Wow! This is one great guitar album! I thought “Layla” was the only song I knew from this. When “Bell Bottom Blues” came on I had a shock of recognition… I loved this song once long, long ago in a forgotten past… Hearing it now was quite startling. “Layla” is a masterpiece and it is not surprising this song is embedded into the vernacular of rock. But the rest is very, very strong and worthy of accompanying such a legendary song. I almost feel embarrassed that I have never listened to this before. Eric Clapton as a person provokes mixed emotions in me today. Still, I find it difficult to imagine how one might dismiss the quality of the playing on this album if listened to with any objectivity at all. This album is packed with incredible guitar work. Phenomenal!

Very bluesy.

Not gonna lie, this would definitely be a 3 without "Layla".

I really don't understand the hype with Eric clapton. Not an bad album but nothing that made me go like wow!

I hate Blues Rock. Godawful album. "Ooh, look how well I play these riffs, aren't I cool". "No, off you fuck".

Good stuff most of the way through. Can't go wrong with Layla or Bell Bottom Blues. But it does linger on a bit much, as a whole.

great album

Great Clapton Blues Guitar!

I don't believe anything Clapton says

Some good tunes but Eric Clapton is a dick so only 3 stars

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.

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?

love it..

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...

Starts well. Gets boring.

Yo fuck Eric Clapton.

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.

Neat collaboration of musicians who went on to create way more impressive music 🎶. I loved the album cover the most!

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.

Un classiqe et un de mes albums preferées 5

Too long, but some pretty great bluesy rock.

This guy knows how to play guitar! Obviously Layla is out of this world and the sound of the whole album is quality. Just felt it dragged a bit at times. Perhaps it was one of those where you know the one song is coming so you’re listening with bated breath and everything else just drags until that point.

When the best song on the album is over 7 minutes long you know they can create some good music. Enjoyed this and would listen again.

I'll be honest, I find Clapton's solo stuff massively overrated, but I often like him when he's constrained by a band around him, so curious to see how this lands. The first song is actually alright. And Bell Bottom Blues is good too. I'm gonna credit Duane Allman. Kind of gets a bit boring for a while after that....Yeah, okay this has fallen off into the worst of Clapton-y endless blues noodling. Even the version of Little Wing, a usually amazing song, isn't totally doing it for me. Okay, but Layla is a banger, no denying Kinda digging One More Chance

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.

Solid

Obviously there are some classic rock classics here. There is also a fair bit of typical Clapton lazy blues filler. Mostly redeemed by virtuoso guitar... Getting an assist from Duane Allman never hurts I guess.

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.

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 🌟

Quite Enjoyable

Awesome album. I love seeing the evolution of Clapton career. Layla is such a fantastic song

1.5

really bad

Nice mellow classic rock

Learned alot.

It's a great album, but some of the songs run too long, which causes me to zone out a lot while listening.

One of the greatest albums ever created, Eric Clapton at his absolute best. Leaving behind the psychedelia of Cream and the 60’s, Clapton puts together a blues rock masterpiece. The guitar playing on this album is mind blowing, with Clapton’s legendary guitar playing aided by the signature slide licks of Duane Allman. Everyone knows about Layla, one of the greatest rock and roll masterpieces ever composed, but every song on the album is a classic. “It’s too late” may be my favorite song of all time, and this may be my favorite album of all time. It’s that good.

Super goed blues/rock album, kan ik elke dag wel luisteren

Great album, but I still don't like clapton.

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.

Worth to tell

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.

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.

Not bad.

This is so boring. This album has no right being over an hour long. There's so much pointless noodling it makes me want to bash my head against a wall. The vocals are bad too. Why Does Love Gotta Be So Sad is a pretty good song though. I think if the songs ended sooner it would be a much better album.

The blues numbers are great, but I can't ignore his many flaws as a human being (a racist anti-vaxxer) so won't listen to his music any more.

Eric Clapton that’s it

This is a great mixup of a supergroup. Clapton and some solid blues players make this a really good album. Layla is so great and known from goodfellas. The album has some classic rock staples and some nice blues rock songs that make it a little genre bending. Pretty cool album. 7.8/10

Dope

Decent, some nice hits

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.

Good guitar and well orchestrated songs, nothing really stands out though. Nice background music.

Boring blues-rock that I've heard a million times by now. While Clapton is clearly talented, I can't stand this type of music. I understand he was a pioneer in his field, but even then, these songs were old by the time he stole them. 'Layla' has also aged terribly, dude's simping over someone else's wife. I guess Clapton could never be original in any facet in his life.

Layla is an obvious classic, but I can't shake the feeling that I just listened to a guy masturbate for 75 minutes. The fact that it's Clapton makes it even more gross. A little more restraint in all areas of your life, please. Best track: Layla

Several great songs, a lot of bloat.

Loved Thorn Tree in the Garden. Layla might've been overrated.

I liked it right from the beginning. Didn't realize it was Clapton until Layla started and i read the Wikipedia entry.

Very “The Band” and “Beatles” esque.

Normal

One really good song but the rest were just average

A few duds but overall pretty darn good including some real scorchers. "Key to the Highway" is my favorite, they play it on Jazz88's Bridge to the Blues show about once a month and it always knocks my socks off.

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.

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.

Really good album with everything from blues to rock and some tracks that share lots of common ground with Pink Floyd.

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.

Kolejny potezny voljumowo krazek, bo bite 76 minut materialu, jak nazwa wskazuje roznorakich milosnych kawalkow, to sie nazywa tytul spojlerujacy plyte, bo nie tylko juz wiesz o czym bedzie, ale takze gdzie znajduje sie gem nagrania, czyli w tym wypadku tytulowa Layla, czyli pani z okladki, z ktora jest zwiazana przepiekna historia ruchania zony kolegi, tak bardzo ponadczasowa, banda Derek & The Dominos, to projekt pana Claptona, ktory wymeczony graniem w super bandach jak cream postanowil stworzyc cos swierzego, wiec zwerbowal kogo chcial i mial i nagral ten ekskluzywny krazek, jedyny projekt tego skladu, ktorego glownymi czlonkami poza Claptonem byli Bobby Whitlock na klawiszach i wokalu, Carl Radle na basie i drugiej perkusji, bo pierwsza gral Jim Gordon, znany takze z pianika na Layli, sam Clapton dzielil gitarowe partie z Duanem Allmanem, a to gitara jak dla mnie stanowi o brzmienie bluesowego rocka, bo o ile pan Eric jest niekwestionowana legenda jesli chodzi o skillsy gitarowe, to Duan z pewnoscia nalezy do czesci tej legendy, bo sporo wytrejdowali info podczas nagran do tej plyty, co slychac potem na nagraniach Allmanowych braci, ale posluchac tego duetu mozna jedynie tutaj gdzie jeden wyciaga z drugiego coraz to bardziej wymyslne power chordy przesterowane do granic mozliwosci technicznych, ktore niekiedy wrecz zawodza i slychac trzaski na tasmach, w ogole cala plyta brzmi jak wystep na zywca, wiec raczej zbyt duzego overdubowania tu nie bylo, tylko czyste jamowanie, jamowane sa zarowno klasyki bluesa jak Key to the Highway, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, czy tributowy cover Hendrixa, ktory wydyndkowal podczas prac nad krazkiem, Little Wing, na 14 trakow 5 to covery, reszta to kompozycje autorstwa duetu Clapton-Whitlock, poza Layla do ktorej sporo swojego dolozyl Gordon, na nieoczekiwanym pianinie, ktore razem z trakiem zostalo hajlajtem plyty, kolejny raz sprawdza sie, ze bardziej tragiczna historia jest tlem albumu tym lepszy on jest muzycznie, ale czy historia pozadania i rozczarowania jest naprawde az tak tragiczna jak mozna wnioskowac z kontentu plyty, w szczegolnosci wrecz maniakalnych wokalow Claptona z tytulowego traka, ktorym towarzyszy gitara, ktora progresuje napiecie w miare tego jak rozwijaja sie wokale, tylko po to zeby zostac opanowana przez pianinowe outro, ktore stanowi druga polowe traku, elektryczne ujadanie jest opanowane i teraz stanowi raczej tlo dla akustyka ktory wysuwa sie na pierwszy plan, wiec 7 minutowa calosc stanowi swojego rodzaju opowiesc z happy endem, od szlenstwa pozadania do blogosci posiadania, z plejkowych pickow to layle juz mialem dawniej dodana, ale z coverowych trakow najbardziej siadl mi nobody knows you when you are down and out z tak uniwersalnymi madrosciami zyciowymi, plyta nie odniosla komercyjnego sukcesu na premiere i jedynie tytulowy kawalek jest strimowany na spotifaju, ale jak dla mnie jest to jeden z najlepszych przykladow bluesowego rocka, laczacy w sobie klasyczne covery z orginalnymi kompozycjami bedacymi owocami pragnienia i pogoni za czyms co wydaje sie byc poza zasiegiem czleka, wiec idealnie tworzy bluesowy klimat

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.

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.

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...

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.

1970 - Blues Rock

Me niego a escuchar al pendejo de Eric Clapton

Muito bom! Álbum repleto de bons solos de guitarra e com tons de serestas em algumas faixas. Só depois descobri que Eric Clapton havia fundado a banda. Tudo a ver o lance das incríveis guitarras em quase todas as canções.

Blues, rock, Clapton... ¡Vinilo!

A few decent songs. Plenty of bland twaddle. And Clapton is a racist piece of shit, so I won't listen again

coisa do eric clapton

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

hi for kool cova and nice music

gorgeous album art funkier than expected

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. ***

Fuck Eric Clapton.

Outside of the single it’s an interesting album. Very good. Shines and light on what Clapton does well.

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

Ah Derek and the Dominoes. I've listened to this album many times over the years. The guitar work on this is superb and something I love yet over the years I just don't get into it as much as I used to. Saying that, this entire album is worth it just for the song Layla. I've been listening to that song for almost 2 decades now and hearing that opening riff always makes me want to crack up the volume.

Великолепно

decent blues rock album

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...

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 🌟

nah.

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.

Good stuff

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.

The title sums this album up perfectly. Competent music, but for a collection of love songs it feels cold and perfunctory. Perhaps Clapton would have been better suited to a collection of assorted hate songs? 2/5

Not bad, interesting to listen to Clapton’s blues of the 70’s

Love the sound of the overall album culminating of course in the epic Layla.

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.

I've been really looking forward to this one since I first saw it on the History list a week ago (I'm a bit behind, OK?). Layla is a guitar classic masterpiece and I've had other songs off this album popping up on my Spotify playlists now and then. Eric Clapton's guitar-playing is at its absolute best on this album, with the backing band providing a great framework for it. Clapton's vocals could certainly be improved on, but that's not what we came here for. In the end it's all about the impeccable guitars. Admittedly, the album is on the long side and there is certainly some filler on here. It would be tighter and better as a whole by dropping the snoozers I Am Yours and It's Not Too Late and maybe 1 or 2 more as well as by shortening Key To The Highway, which seems to ramble. Nonetheless, most of the album is of such high quality, that its length and the few sleepy parts can be forgiven. Highlights: Layla, Little Wing

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.

An all time classic, would give a 4.5 if possible. It does lag a bit 2/3 in but there's nothing higher than the highs.

Maybe I've just heard some of these songs too many times to care anymore?

Clapton may be a terrible person, but his best qualities are on display in this album as he pines for another man's wife. This album has all of the hallmarks that would become synonymous with Clapton's sound - blues, sweeping guitar solos, and beautiful harmonies. It is a strong candidate for his strongest work as an artist and the production story behind it is fascinating.

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

Didn't even realize this was an Eric Clapton joint until near the end! A great bluesy album. Love Layla (Look, I didn't know it was THAT Layla). The one-two-punch of Layla and then Thorn Tree in the Garden is the best

Hate that this was Eric Clapton but liked the music!

Hadn't listened to the full album before...so much more than Layla. Really well crafted songs that are a joy to listen to. 4/5

surprised at how much I liked this album. bell bottom blues is such an under-rated song.

Solid