Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

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.

Yeah I dont know…. Nothing really exciting for me… Not even Layla

I understand why this is on the list, but apart from 3 or 4 of the Assorted Love Songs, I found this so meandering and uninteresting. Obviously Clapton is a very talented guitarist, but he plays with so little emotion; it's like someone taught a robot to play the guitar. A really xenophobic, anti-vax robot.

Heb hem niet helemaal kunnen luisteren, maar klonk heel erg gaaf! Stabiele 4 voor de zekerheid

Ihan toimivaa perusrokkia, mutta eipä nouse tämän haasteen keskiarvoa korkeammalle sijalle. 3/5

Before today, the only Derek & the Dominos song I was familiar with was the epic, Layla, so this will be an interesting listen today.

An interesting story about the theme of this record. It is mostly a series of love songs, as the title states, which are written for George Harrison's then wife, Patti Boyd, who Clapton eventually manages to marry.

Duane Allman's spectacular slide guitar playing techniques, and Clapton's canoodling guitar solos mesh together beautifully on this album. Each and every song had at least one guitar solo thrown in. Without the solos, this album could have been done in like 40 minutes instead of the 1 hour, 16 minute runtime that this ended up being, but there is a lot of creativity to all those solos. The cover of the song Little Wing is good, but not as good as Jimi Hendrix's original. The first song on the album, I Looked Away, starts with a real country blues sounding riff to start off the record, and they kept the hits coming throughout. Although the runtime is long with this album, it doesn't feel it.

Overall, a really good blues rock record. Maybe a bit too much showboating from Clapton, but who cares, it's great! Will definately listen again. I'm impressed there was a song that topped Layla for me!

Favorite songs: Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?, Have You Ever Loved a Woman?, Key to the Highway, Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, It's Too Late, Keep On Growing, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, I Looked Away

Least favorite songs: Thorn Tree in the Garden

5/5

Det är inte helkasst och en del riktiga klassiker, men över en timmes blues-gitarr-runkande av en rasist blir lite för mycket.

Gillar Bell Bottom Blues starkt.

Layla was the only song I recognized and easily my favorite. The whole album isn't too bad, bluesy and catchy, but not really my bag.

Good, but not as good as I thought it might be with that line-up.

I've got exactly two problems with this record.
The exhausting length and the amount of covers.
Had they cut the covers to only include "Little Wing" the sole musical output from Derek and the Dominos would have stood that much sharper.

Also... Taken into account that this is essentially a love letter to a friend's wife... Covers? Not really that romantic.

Musically there's absolutely nothing wrong with anything though. Clapton is as good as he ever is when he's in his bluesy mood and Whitlock provides the backbone of it all.

There are too few truly memorable songs but "Layla" almost makes up for anything problems I have with the album. Jesus Christ, is it possible to ever get tired of listening to Clapton crying his heart out and Duane Allman almost playing his guitar to shreds?
I think not.

The guitar work is incredible, but found it got uninteresting during the course of these overlong tracks on an overlong album.

I'm not a big fan of Eric Clapton or Duane Allman but I was gonna let this pass with a 3 after listening to the first few tracks. It's at least more engaging than Clapton's solo stuff. Then I noticed there's an hour and 15 minutes to this blues rock wankfest! And I've got not one, but two guitar heroes trying diddle my ears - sometimes from both directions at once! No thanks.

coisa do eric clapton

Hadn't listened to the full album before...so much more than Layla. Really well crafted songs that are a joy to listen to. 4/5

surprised at how much I liked this album. bell bottom blues is such an under-rated song.

southern boogie rock. its fine if thats your thing. Layla is a perennial hit.

Brilliant

"Layla" is enough classical for the whole album, but some other songs are also very good songs. This is not an exceptional album, it stills sounds like a "clean" 70/80's rock n' roll (this is not really a bad thing, but it's hasn't any real highlight besides "Layla").