Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Layla alone holds this album up, rest is very generic blues rock and album on the long side, but Lyla makes it worthy of the list.

It’s a good album, it certainly deserves its place on the list. Honestly, Duane Allman’s contributions are way under-appreciated compared to Clapton’s.

“Layla” is iconic, overindulgent, awesome, and overlong. All these things are true. My favorite track is “Bell Bottom Blues,” and the final acoustic track, “Thorn Tree In the Garden,” was a pleasant surprise. But I think their cover of Hendrix’s brilliant song “Little Wing” best exemplifies why this is a mid-tier album: well played, reinterpreted consistently, but losing the magic of the original.

Side-note while thinking about “Little Wing:” it would be interesting to see the songs that appear on more than one release on this list.

Layla aside it’s pretty disappointing

This album is average. Most of the songs are simple and relatively uninteresting. All in all not horrible, but definitely in the bottom 50%. 2.4/5 but will need to round down. 2/5.

White men playing middle of the road blues music. Layla is alright.

Before listening, I was familiar with Bell Bottom Blues and Layla, and I liked Layla.

After listening, I added Layla and Anyday to my list. But wow was this a slog. I would call it Layla and Assorted Overwrought Blues Jams. And then they have the audacity to throw that final song at you, which demonstrates they do possess acoustic guitars and can write a song that sounds even a little different from every other song. It was both a breath of fresh air and a little insulting. Now I’m fired up. I was between 2 and 3 stars but I’ve talked myself into 2.

Enjoying the guitars in I looked away, backup vocals in it's too late, Layla (a classic, cool piano interlude)
Overall enjoyable singing and instrumentals since I'm a sucker for blues, 3*

There’s a reason it’s called “Layla and other… songs.” Besides the title track, the other tunes aren’t very memorable. Still not bad for white blues rock. Duane Allman’s slide guitars and the vocal harmonies are highlights.

Aquí está Layla. Suena bien y entiendo que por cultura hay que oírlo. No está mal, pero no me ha entusiasmado.

Took a minute to figure it out, but then I learned this is a Clapton thing. And it's got Clapton doing what Clapton do, little bit samey at points, but that'sa some pretty good blues guitar

I don't really like this kind of blues music. This is fine though. Unremarkable. It's music that was at least two decades old in 1970. Noodley guitar work. It settles quickly into by-the-numbers blues chords and beats you down until Layla comes in (too late) with some genuine passion and clever playing.

Meget positivt overrasket! Fed blues, fed rock! Det holder sgu stadig.

Not even the slide-god Duane Allman can rescue Eric Clapton from his native bland blues-dad territory. Layla is a good song I never need to hear again, but otherwise the best tracks on here are like filler on an 80s ABB album - big broad major-key southern rock chord progressions, mildly funky basslines, and mostly aimless noodle. The best bits are the harmonized gual guitar leads and Duane's slide solos/fills. Clapton's vocals are flat and soulless and, Cream aside, I've never understood the hype around him as a guitar legend - he's just a technically proficient but very mechanical Buddy Guy/BB King impersonator with nothing special about his phrasing, tone, or anything. There are so many licks on here some are bound to be good, so every couple songs there's something ear-catching like a cool descending run, a minor pentatonic->mixolydian transition, or a big melodic line. It's all very mid, but hey, there's a lot of it - real discount bin stuff...

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

Clapton is a creep but I can't not sing along.

2 stars for generic 60s wibbling UK blues. +1 star for Layla (although, even now, that songs drags on after the monster opening doesn't it?) -1 star for being a racist bigoted prick

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.

Layla was really the only standout song--probably why it was in the title of the album. The rest of the album wasn't necessarily bad, it just didn't catch my attention. 3/5

I don't know how this got extended to a double album, it has one good song, and even that is good not because of Eric Clapton, but Jim Gordon's piano in the coda. The rest is filler.