Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

This album cover looks like a middle school doodle. Somehow the art sold for like 2 million bucks, though. Not a bad thing, but just sayin'.
I'm so over these 70s bands! What a snoozefest! And it's over an hour, too. I like the name "Layla". Nowadays the kiddos are calling their faves "Shayla", which is another 70s song, as I understand it. Anyway, many of the songs are love songs about George from the Beatles' wife, so that's fun I guess. A 2.5, but since it was so long I will round down.

Highlights: 'Keep on Growing', 'It's Too Late', 'Layla' (another rare song where the music is actually more enjoyable for me than the vocals)

A great blues album. In fact, I've always associated Layla with Erik Clapton. Nice to have learned something new here. I'll definitely enjoy listening to this again. 5/5

I wasn't expecting much, but this blew me out of the water.

A white English shitbag borrowing "blues" sounds does not make an album important enough to be one of the 1000+. I've heard Layla quite a few times thanks to classic rock radio, and even then it's one of those "just sit through this and we'll get back to better stuff" tracks for me.

Feel free to never listen to this before you die, friends.

I don't think I've ever actually heard this whole album. I mean I know a few of the songs from it, but to the best of my memory, I've never played the whole thing.
I've always felt like Clapton was super overrated as a guitar player (and as a human too I suppose but that's a different conversation...) and never really got they hype. I mean he's good, yes. But there were so many people who did it better than him.
Layla is a great song, there's no denying that. I've always like Bell Bottom Blues too. I mean I feel like those are the two songs from this album everyone is going to know. A few others I've heard a bunch of times by a bunch of different artists. The cover of Little Wing is just terrible.
The rest of it is...fine. No real complaints it's just exactly what you would expect from a Clapton album. I think this album is on her solely because of Layla, outside of that, there isn't really anything that you couldn't hear from a local band at any number of bars in any city in the US. It's a decent album, but not one I would ever play again. 3/5

Bluesy, melodic, guitar much better than the voice, quite charming actually

This was fantastic. Should've never gone into pizza.

Great album to listen to when you inevitably find yourself in love with your friends wife

A classic for a reason. You come for Layla and stay for the high quality guitar playing from both Clapton himself and Duane Allman. Probably not one I would regularly listen to the whole thing of, but it is really good. Favorite songs were I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, Anyday, Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?, Little Wing, and Layla.

Amazing guitar album with Clapton and Allman. It does run a bit long, but the jam sessions and back and forth between the guitars are excellent.

Yuck

Layla obviously a banger but the rest is super boring and Clapton’s a cunt

The first two songs are unlistenable. I tried, but I ended up skipping them, which I seldom do. When I started this project, I knew there would be albums I did not like, but I resolved to listen to them all, to open myself up to new things - except country. Because fuck country.

If I’m being completely fair, it gets better after the first two songs. It’s still bog standard 60s blues-tinged rock. Which is fine sometimes, but the country stuff is unforgivable.

Definitely better than the previous Clapton album. However it is 76 minutes of self-indulgent noodling. The title track is that good that it single handedly bumps this up from a 2/5 to a 3/5

This is #day145 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... it's the final day of 2024, which turned into a catch-up on January 1st, 2025, as I forgot to listen to the album yesterday. When I was halfway through it, I learned about Eric’s love of russia, its music, and, as he says, "the mythical side of russian history". This discovery, in light of russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine and the countless atrocities committed by russian terrorists, made me furious. You must have drunk your brains away, Eric. This album gets a 2 out of 5, only because of "Layla," the dog at my wife's parents' house, whom I named after the eponymous song. Looking forward to #day146.

I like this. It’s really strong throughout, with great songwriting and musicianship. He sings well, there’s nice melodies and the guitar work is on-point. I thought it might all be front and centre and showing off, but it’s not really. There is a reasonable amount of noodling, but it’s done well, and it’s mostly complimentary. Layla is obviously a monster of a tune. What a riff that is, honestly.

Jimi Hendrix's version of Little Wing is 2 minutes 25 seconds. Clapton's is 5 minutes 33.

I feel like that says a lot about the difference between the two. Jimi knew to leave people wanting more. Clapton gives them it until they're sick of it, then adds another solo on top. Like smoking a whole pack of fags at once then being told to smoke a cigar.

Many of the songs need to be shortened. Haha

It was allright, as good as an Eric Clapton album can be. Layla is a fantastic riff and song though

I think if I had to sum up this album and Claptons career I would say generic classic rock

Favourite song: Layla
Least favourite: every song is a little meh
Album artwork: I love the cover

The Good: People say EC = God
The Bad: Some people say the earth is flat…
The Ugly: Other people say a 1 + 1 = 3

TLDR is almost applicable to this album, as after a while you wonder what the hell the producers were thinking when they said “sure, go on for a bit more lads!”

Little Wings was terrible, several of the tunes were just WAY too long and the artist trying too hard being Blue is way too evident… guess drugs are bad after all!

Yet, one can not deny that, overall, the album is what it is, from a period that was what it was…

so, 3 1/2 * that translate to 3, as we will downgrade due to excessive trying...