Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

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)