Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

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.

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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.

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.

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

xDDDDDDDDD

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.

It was meh

You know how there's overrated talents? People regarded and loved and they may be talented, but not as much as what everyone makes them out to be? Some say Dimebag Darrell Abbott is one of those. I'd say he was definitely talented, but part of that talent was ripping off Exhorder. Eric Clapton, however, is definitely overrated. And a piece of shit.

Super overrated blues. Borderline soulless. So many better artists if you want to hear this style played with actual heart.

Sounds like a pretty good bar band, outside of Layla -- there didn't really seem to be any really memorable songs -- maybe it was just my mood.

Das einzige gute Lied ist Layla. Das wird ja eigentlich auch schon mit dem Titel gesagt. Für Liebeslieder sind die anderem Lieder ziemlich kalt und emotionslos.

not for me but alright in the background :)

There's provably at least a dozen bands local to me that have better blues rock than this, and I would much rather listen to them perform live than sit through this again.

well, that's 75 minutes i'll never get back. at least listening to this confirmed that layla is the only decent song clapton ever wrote. the duane allman guitar bits were interesting for a while, but I can only listen to them for so long. otherwise this is just masturbatory blues noodling by a racist antivaxxer chud that doesn't deserve the respect he's earned and subsequently pissed away over the years. into the one-star jail he goes to join his ilk: kanye, kid rock, marilyn manson, et al.

Eric Clapton spouts boring and ridiculous drivel, with a severe lack of emotional intelligence. Not only in real life, but also on this album. It really is "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs", in the sense that Layla is the only real takeaway here, and even that song isn't anywhere near amazing. And even at that point, it makes less than 10% of the album. The vast majority of everything else here is really basic blues rock with uninteresting production and, in parts, stupidly overlong. I've always used "this album is just this song and a few others" as an insult but it's quite literally on the label here. I will never understand why so many of these classic rock albums gain classic status just from having one or two mediocre songs that still get played on rock radio from time to time, because there's nothing surprising here or really even that engaging. And I don't know if there's anything I could dislike in an album more than that. 2/10

peepee poopoo

Fuck Eric Clapton

SO BORING

My god, how do you fuck up Little Wing so badly? Little Wing is perfect because it’s understated, because it’s soft and pretty, because Jimi’s delivery imbues the song with a sense of true love, a sense that he can’t quite express himself properly through his words, and so lets loose with the most beautiful, most heartbreaking guitar solo ever. You don’t turn it into this lumbering cod blues jam, you don’t make it big and loud as a way of expressing mY eMoTiOnS!! It’s emotional enough already, and it’s a song about love you fucking moron, not heartbreak! Jesus, how fucking badly can you fuck something up. I was going to be charitable, because I like the song Layla, because it’s one of the few on the album that has a recognisable riff and structure, and the rest of the albums crime is mostly just being boring. But fuck me, ruining one of my favourite songs is a sure way of getting onto my shitlist, not that Clapton needed any help getting on there in the first place. Fuck you Eric Clapton. Fuck you and your whole schtick, your fucking sell out, cod reggae, boring white boomer music. Even when you were electric, you were fucking boring. Hendrix is God, and was and always will be 100 times cooler, more talented and better remembered than you ever will be. Eat shit and die

Clapton is a pretentious idiot

There are some surprisingly sweet love songs on the album yet the songs' catchy rhythms struggle to exist under waaaaay too much squealing blues guitar noodling and unfortunate vocal performances. Layla sucks and Eric Clapton sucks.

Only really Layla stood out for me. Skipped a lot of them

To my ears, this is unimaginative, overlong, boring blues rock. There's one all-timer on here. The rest feels like I'm at a bar with a sticky floor where the resident band is playing covers for people who aren't listening. Sure, they're good musicians, but I was ready to pay my tab and go home about forty minutes ago. Highlight: Layla

eric clapton

Too old

I didn’t like this. It seemed like something that you’d hear at an open mic night rather than some all time album.

Boring as hell, Layla and Bell Bottom Blues are the only songs that don't overstay their welcome

Not what I was in the mood for

Clapton is a cunt.

Don’t listen to racists.

I’ll never pass up the chance to give Clapton one star

Snoozefest except for Layla. 1/5

bad boring bollucks

This album was grown in a laboratory specifically to piss me off, and it’s incredible this has been chosen as my first album. I hate blues riffing, I hate uninteresting production and engineering. These songs feel interminably long and meandering, there’s a 9 minute long song that just blues riffs in the same key with no interesting melodic content. You can make interesting melodies with a guitar! You don’t need to show us how good you are at playing guitar Eric we get it!

This list has made me realise just how much I hate Clapton and Springsteen. Here's another one of the former. Tried to hide behind a different band name but within 4 seconds I was suspecting something was up and 20 seconds in I was letting out a groan. And not a good one. Layla the only non terrible song, but they went and ruined it by sellotaping 4 minutes of chaff onto the end and then naming the album "that + other songs". How up your own arse can you get man. Sick of him.

Not my jam

not my cup of tea

Okay, wouldn’t listen by choice

Booooooo

Did not like… I couldn’t get thru a whole song without becoming disinterested…

Meh album. Songs just go on too long. Most are boring for what should be love songs. I only like a few, the rest were a chore to finish. Even the good ones ( Bellbottom Blues and Layla) just kept going…and going… Clapton is overrated. There are much better and more creative rockers. He knows how to play guitar but…meh, most of his songs are forgettable I’m also not above removing a star for being a noxious human being. 1 star

Sadly the other assorted love songs were a bit dreary. Blues isn’t for me. They all go on too long. Not my favourite. Layla is fab though!

Not my kind of music, sry

Unbelievably and excruciatingly unbearable. This record has achieved something special here. Clapton & Co' have managed to come up with all these different musical passages and not a single time is an exciting idea brought forth. Endless jammy wanks with next to no memorable or stand out parts. Even Layla diverges into a deluge of droney sentimental wankery that bores me to tears. All of this is coming from a massive prog rock fan where over-indulgence is served all night and day. This record is the definition of lights on but no one is at home. Not familiar with Clapton in a general sense but thank god he left Derek behind, as I will now do for the rest of my life.

This album lasted forever. Incredibly boring. Being good at guitars doesn’t make up for lackluster songwriting.

Clapton is a racist and the songs all sound the same

When they found Frankie Carbone in the meat truck, it took them three days to thaw him out before they could do an autopsy.

Blech Clapton. Trite and boring and an awful person on top of it all.

Didnt enjoy this one. Felt very basic.

Layla

One good song, all the rest sound the same. Pretty bad honestly.

I like Cream, but generally speaking I can't think of any of solo or band work Eric Clapton has done which I find interesting. I certainly don't find 9 minute "blues" songs interesting. I also hate songs with two guitar solos going on at the same time, or songs where there seems to be a constant guitar solo in the background with no real purpose. The tone of Claptons guitar also I find annoying.... I guess I could sum up this album with "there was a lot I found annoying about it" I had to skip a lot of the songs, because they were too long, I really would struggle to listen to anyone play a "blues" song for 9 minutes especially when it's just a w@nk guitar solo for 7 of those 9 minutes. Also as I mentioned the the constant background guitar solos.... why? I imagine they recorded a version of little wing as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix I imagine he died shortly before this came out? but it seriously lacked any of the heart or soul of the original and I found it far from being a fitting tribute. The one song I did enjoy was "Anyday" I had never heard that before and thought it was quite good. Layla just reminds me of men who are overly passionate about cars, which in turn I find annoying, though I quite like the piano melody in the middle section.

Boring

Didn’t listen

Bluesy but nothing sets it apart from every other blues album. Little Wing cover is a sad shadow of the original. Either 1001 is too low of a bar or I do not see eye to eye with the music crititcs who made this list.

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So I'm going to sit here and fall asleep. Layla has that pointless, endless coda. Seriously, this bloke is only good as a guest performer. Only in the studio. I'm suspecting that his live guest appearances become extended wank-fests. There is no way this should be on any greatest album lists.

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.

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

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

I don't believe anything Clapton says

Yo fuck Eric Clapton.

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

1.5

really bad

Me niego a escuchar al pendejo de Eric Clapton

nah.

I can't listen to this and enjoy Eric Clapton anymore. Same thing with the Smashing Pumpkins since Billy Corgan is a total d-bag now.

Disco che non mi ha detto e lasciato nulla. Rispecchia i canoni della musica anni settanta classici dei padri americani che fanno grigliate. Non mi é piaciuto e ho fatto fatica a finirlo

No es lo mio, ok blues, entonces... Y Leyla...bueno ese riff repetido no parece ser muy brillante, quizas me pierdo de algo pero bueh.

Eh

no. sorry pattie, idgaf. five white guys playing shitty cringe blues rock . er*c kkklapton is racist af anyway so no.

Fuck Clapton (did not listen)