Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton

This is by itself a great blues album really, what else can I say? Seems like most reviews just talking about how piece of crap Clapton is which is true, Im sure. However I am separating art from the artist once again here, I love blues and this is a great take on american blues from british blues rock revival, so probably almost 4 stars here.

Kind of boilerplate blues rock. More or less exactly what I expect from Clapton.

neloš bluz rok, svaki član je na mjestu. druga strana malo zamornija od prve, sve u svemu solidno no ništa izvanredno

[odslušao i napisao 13/10/26]

no thanks. junkyard dog music about being an ephebophile

Not for me

quite nice

Eric Clapton is a racist and a rapist and this album reflects on that. The music itself didnt do me any good, so i’m going to give this two stars, as it didn’t piss me off too much.

I'm not really into the blues anyway, but then you give me Eric Clapton when I just had to listen to him a week ago?? Didn't finish this, I have to be honest.

nondescript blues rock. 2.5

Hit or miss in these blues tracks, some great stuff and some a little less engaging songs. Have You Heard probably my favorite track, the guitar noodling had me floating through the air.

Fuck me two one stars in a row. I was willing to go to a 2 up until Ramblin’ On My Mind. Hated it and everything that came afterwards. Felt like it went on for a bloody eternity. Hated this, absolutely hated it.

This is claptonslop.

If I wanted to be charitable, I'd talk about the variety of decent drums/harmonica/sax moments and solos on display, or perhaps about the conceivable ways the band might have influenced artists down the line.

I'll be honest though, I'm already not a big enjoyer of the blues, and have never found Eric Clapton's guitar to be that impressive. At his best he sounds like a sauceless Santana on 0.75x speed. Nevertheless, it was "Little Girl" that truly soured this experience for me. Turbo rancid vibes only three songs in, and the rest of the album never really managed to recover from it.

I have an active dislike of Clapton and I was dreading yet another British white boy blues thing. But I did find this to be ok. I liked a couple of the covers. And the fact that its called The Beano Album made me laugh. I hope they all took care of their gas pain. (I know it's the name of a magazine, chill out)

Decent enough, not particularly interesting.

I’m just not that into blues

Great blues enjoyed it maybe a bit too much

Not Cream, b/c psychedelia was never Eric’s deal, the Clapton of the Blues Breakers & the Dominoes were the best the world ever saw. For the many of us who find the bloke’s reputation bloated & undeserving, what we need to realize is that he was never a hack, he was just hella boring. A fan of the blues, an almost painful admirer of a form he knew he’d never master, Eric didn’t just appropriate black music, I think he was agonizingly in love w/ an outlet that would essentially elude him always. Agony, no matter its source, often makes for good art, & the guy has genuine breakthrus on this record, especially 'All Your Love,' 'Have You Heard,' 'Ramblin' On My Mind,' & the big-sounding 'Steppin' Out.' Oh yeah, Mayall & the rest ain't so bad either.

There's nothing wrong with this, per se. I just don't really get the unending appeal of blues. My dad used to talk about how he didn't like The Rolling Stones, "except for some of their early stuff, which was kind of bluesy." He also talked about how he didn't like Sting, "except some of his stuff with The Police, which was kind of bluesy" (which... was it?). He'd play Stevie Ray Vaughan, and I'd listen and think, "Okay."

I think that's kind of my position with blues. It's okay, but it's so formulaic that I find it rather droll. In a way, it makes me think of Bach: foundational music that follows too many rules and conventions to really spark my excitement.

It irritates me to read that Eric Clapton was sick of the "bubblegum" pop he was making with Yardbirds (!?), and jumped at the opportunity to collaborate with The Bluesbreakers on a true blues album. If ever there was an artist guilty of appropriating Black culture, it's probably Eric "Keep Britain White" Clapton. Fuck that guy.

Basic blues. Nothing special. I would have rather included a B.B. King record, as there is only one album by him on this list and I find that repulsing.

A fun and enjoyable album with Eric Clapton at his finest. Lacks having some of his highlights to make the album more of a standout.

8/10 [KEEP]