Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Gotta go through the same shit over and over until you get to Layla. And at that point, you're pretty much done with the album and just want to get it over with.

Ik hoor in het begin heet even typisch engels jaren '60 geluid met wat verlengde lettergrepen, snel aangevuld met een amerikaanse country-klank. Slaat de band een intercontinentaal bruggetje? De lange lettergrepen worden de rest van het nummer benut om telkens op een andere manier uit te schieten. Het doet me wat denken aan de muziekles van Van der Laan en Woe. Het album schiet al snel naar bluesrock, wat een heel stuk prettiger is. Ik ga steeds meer interesse krijgen in de band. Wie zijn dit toch? Er komt zelfs nog iets heel bekends voorbij. En dan, bijna aan het eind, pling, valt het kwartje. Aahhh Layla. Tja, de albumtitel zei het eigenlijk al...

I heard The Band as a big influence on the first three tracks and thought oh maybe this won't be so bad but then the dreary blues widdling started in earnest and then I read about how badly ripped off Rita Coolidge was for the Layla coda and reflected on how there is always some new horrible detail to learn about Clapton's world.

That cover of Little Wing is overstuffed and clueless.

Я ніколи не був фанатом Клептона. Такий собі доволі дефолтний батя-блюз-рок, втім і якогось роздратування не викликає. Просто ок фонова музика.

LAYLA = 5. the other assorted love songs = 3.

The most accurate album title since I got 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields. It really is Layla, which is genuinely great, GoodFellas piano outro and all ... and some other, largely interminable songs.

Unlike Eric Clapton as a person, there was nothing in this album that was offensively bad. It's all decent music, though there's nothing really groundbreaking here; not even Layla, the best track by far. Also, while each song is fine on an individual level, the full album is just feels soooo long. It's kind of a slog to get through.

Fantastic stuff. A little long but very enjoyable.

I wasn’t looking forward to this one. I absolutely hate the song Layla. Fortunately the rest of the album, for the most part, was a decent enough listen without having anything that blew me away.

Top Track - Keep On Growing

In so many years since knowing of Derek & the Dominoes, I have never bothered to listen to this besides Layla, so should be interesting. So far, listened to half and don't really see what's the big fuss with this one. Your average 70s blues rock with mid vocal performances and not many memorable parts at all I'm afraid, probably 3 stars at most.

I thought this was pretty good but it's quite samey and very long. Layla is so good though. I think George Harrison would really enjoy this band.

There’s no reason this needs to be so long, other than self indulgence I guess. Eric Clapton ruins perfectly good songs by dragging them out way too long. Layla is a perfect example of this. It starts out so well and just devolves. This whole album is pretty much that over and over again.

I liked this album but it was way too long! There was no need for these songs to be 5+ mins each

Loses a star for that reason, but it was enjoyable

3 ⭐️

ne znam zašto, ali malo mi je neugodno priznati da mi se ovo svidjelo

That was quite a lot of 12-bar blues. Not bad, but a lot of blues. When I heard Layla, I was wondering who wrote it, these guys or Clapton? Turns out that this was Clapton's prior band. The blues played on the album was really good at moments, but it kind of ran together.

I am not a Clapton fan. That being said this might be the least painful of his records on here. (Dear Reader, that’s a low bar)

Layla is a great listen, especially while being chased by the police whilst high on concaine. I’ll give Bell Bottom Blues some love too.

But man this record gets long in the tooth.

Forget about Layla - who wants to listen to some heroin addicts play the ‘classic rock’ that will one day make fans of Phish and other jam bands bounce around the room? Everyone, apparently.
Well, not me. I hear unimaginative blues covers and formulaic rock structures existing just to unleash indulgent, extended solos that do nothing but make the album boring and repetitious.
Some say this album is “hit after hit.” I’d agree - if they were talking about the skip button.

I just like listening to Clapton play guitar. I know he's problematic, but the music is good.

𝘓𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 shows that Eric Clapton can actually write memorable music and lyrics when he wants to, rather than just leaning on his guitar skills. The emotional weight of 𝘓𝘢𝘺𝘭𝘢 still stands out, but much of the credit belongs to Duane Allman, whose slide guitar gives the album its real soul and fire. Clapton may have been called “Slowhand,” but here Allman clearly steals the show. A solid blues-rock record overall — passionate but uneven.

I have a hard time getting into this. I just have never liked Clapton. There, I said it. Obviously he has incredible technical mastery. But I just don't find any any life in his playing. He also has one of the weakest and most soulless voices in rock history. The version of Little Wing is a great example. He stripped all of the the life and emotion out of the song. It's painful to listen to it He would have been a better fit as a prog artist. He just isn't believable playing blues.

The overall sound of this album is salvaged by Bobby Whitlock's vocals and Duane Alman's guitar. They both have the actual soul that this music need.

Giving it three stars because if one of my jam band friends wants to put something on, this isn't the worst thing they own.