i know layla. i know the song. the song is one the best songs i have heard, i don't know the rest. i've already wasted a day without listening to this so i'm just gonna get straight to it because i want to do the next one too. TRACK BY TRACK 1 I LOOKED AWAY. it's alright. pretty standard blues rock about a woman running away or something. nice guitar. it's what i would expect from clapton. 6/10 2 BELL BOTTOM BLUES. now this is better. man the verses remind me so much of ballrooms of mars by t rex, and the guitar is really similar too. that's a great song though so it's alright. the chorus is great too, this is a great song. the way it goes when he says "i don't want to fade away" is soo good. really great song. 9/10 3 KEEP ON GROWING. yeah, cool blues rock. that's really all i hear is blues rock, it's so hardwired to the genre, mostly because of clapton. besides that it's a cool song, great guitar solo. 7/10 4 NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT. man the guitar is so panned lmao but great song. it's like a slower version of bell bottom blues, very emotional sounding. 60s type progression but i like it. 9/10 5 I AM YOURS. why is this here. 5/10 6 ANYDAY. everything i could say about this song i already said about the first and the third song except i like this one a bit more. 8/10 7 KEY TO THE HIGHWAY. there had to be an electric blues song somewhere in here. i don't mind it, it's pretty chill. has no right being 9 minutes but really nothing bad to be said otherwise. 7/10 8 TELL THE TRUTH. pretty standard but nonetheless head-bop worthy. earns an extra star literally just because of the guitar in the second half, damn. 7/10 9 WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? well the song isn't. solid jam-rock with good performances from everyone. that sums up the album so far too. 8/10 10 HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN. it's crazy how these songs are good and enjoyable yet still manage to sound like standard blues rock to my ears. still a 7/10 11 LITTLE WING. what a great cover of hendrix. the added psych elements are fresh air from the rest of the album, i wish there was more of it. such a great riff, one of the best songs here. 9/10 12 IT'S TOO LATE. pretty boring and way more so in contrast with the last track. i could really do with an all-time emotional rollercoaster of a song right now. 4/10 13 LAYLA. this is it, this is the song. i understand using piano in the rest of the songs might've undermined this song's singularity but cmon man. this is one of the greatest most moving songs i've ever heard and there is good reason this was used in like 529 movies. the first half is peak blues rock anyway, and then the second half comes in and hits you like a truck. some of the most beautiful piano and guitar put together is just heart wrenching. such an easy 10/10 14 THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN. this guy really made layla and instead of making it the closer he put this offensively inoffensive bland folk song at the end. that falsetto is horrendous. 5/10 overall a solid enjoyable album, with some incredibly high highs and some bland lows (none of the lows are laughably bad though). being hailed as a classic is understandable, but the title is painfully apt. 7/10