I don't mind "Tears in Heaven"; not great, but it's okay. "Layla" is so different from the original, I can certainly understand why someone would hate it. I found it jarring when it came out, but--probably because I was sick of the original by that point (excepting its use in Goodfellas a couple of years earlier)--I didn't mind it, either, and still don't. The other two I either don't know or have forgotten.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Ha, OK, recent posts seem to suggest that my opinions about 90s Clapton singles are basically in line with most other people on the thread. Maybe I'll vote for "Layla" then.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I mean, I still disagree that 90s AC would have been really great if not for these songs.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
"My Father's Eyes" is more or less exactly what I would expect and accept from 90's AC tbh.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
LOOK IN-TOMYFAAAAAAATHER'SSSEYEES
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
oh i remember that song now. jeez.
man.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Although I'm just now realizing that I've completely misunderstood "My Father's Eyes" all this time - it's plainly about God, but I always figured it was some thing like, he looks in the mirror and sees his actual father's face. Like it's about being old and over the hill and feeling kind of like a screwup ("just a toerag on the run"), and having this realization that that's probably what his father felt like, in contrast to one's childhood vision of Dad as knowing what to do, etc. etc. I dig that song.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
it's about overzealous backup singers
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Or maybe it's just all over the map:
The song reached the top 40 on the Billboard Airplay chart, peaking at number 16, and spent five weeks at number two on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart.[1] "My Father's Eyes" won a Grammy award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song is inspired by the fact that Clapton never met his father, who died in 1985. Describing how Clapton wishes he knew his father, "My Father's Eyes" also refers to the brief life of Clapton's son Conor, who died at age four after falling from an apartment window. "In it I tried to describe the parallel between looking in the eyes of my son, and the eyes of the father that I never met, through the chain of our blood", said Clapton in his autobiography. (...)In the beginning of the music video (directed by Kevin Godley), we see a basketball which dribbles seven times, the seventh dribble causing the basketball to break into pieces. This dribbling footage returns at the end of the video, without the basketball breaking. Between these scenes, there is footage of Eric Clapton playing slide guitar and running on a treadmill.
(...)
In the beginning of the music video (directed by Kevin Godley), we see a basketball which dribbles seven times, the seventh dribble causing the basketball to break into pieces. This dribbling footage returns at the end of the video, without the basketball breaking. Between these scenes, there is footage of Eric Clapton playing slide guitar and running on a treadmill.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
I can't help but notice you left "Motherless Child" off here, because that's actually kind of great.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
it's strange to me that people feel the need to bash "Tears in Heaven" as hard as they do
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
there is footage of Eric Clapton playing slide guitar and running on a treadmill.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
four?? i always thought the kid was like, a baby
like the bassinet got bumped
― j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
The Seventh Dribble is the 13th studio album by Eric Clapton, released in 1998. The album was recorded at Olympic Studio in London in late 1997. Neon Genesis Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto designed the cover of the album.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
serious lol @ that cover art though
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Eric_Clapton_Pilgrim.jpg
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
classic nineties
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
I know this has nothing to do with his '90s work, but The Cream Of Eric Clapton surely must be one of the most unintentionally hilarious album titles ever.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I like these all better than "Saved the Best for Last."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
These all suck, because Clapton sucks, but because 90s Clapton especially sucks. But the answer is "Layla," because he took his one non-suck song and made it, well, suck.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Layla wouldn't have been so bad if it had been quickly forgotten, but instead you still hear it all the time on the radio instead of the original. Do peoplke really prefer it?
Tears is probably a strictly worse song than the acoustic Layla. Don't know the other two and won't be checking them out either.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
― Eric H.,
I will never claim this marriage doesn't surprise
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Another vote for "Layla." Actually wouldn't mind hanging out with him or talking to him or even taking guitar lesson from him, but to listen to this kind of stuff or sit through one of those three hour concerts, well...
― Do Not POLL At Any Price (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
I like to pretend that Clapton miraculously disappeared from the planet shortly after the release of the Derek and The Dominos record.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
sure i've done this on another a thread but i'd just like to note out how astronomically incorrect "if i could change the world, i would be the sunlight in your universe" is a sentiment
― da croupier, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKR0haLDrek
― da croupier, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:24 (nine years ago) link
― Do Not POLL At Any Price (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2010/galleries/grammys-memorable-moments-1975-to-2009/grammy-awards-1993-eric-clapton-71873/500x595/25662900-25662902-large.jpg
― da croupier, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
Actually wouldn't mind hanging out with him or talking to him
Me either, in that I would love to hammer away at the racist shit he spewed in the 70s (which he has never retracted or even offered a non-apology apology for).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
You said the same thing when I told you what song would be our first dance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1w8m9Nd6jw
― Eric H., Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:29 (nine years ago) link
thought it was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIjfNIx6LA
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Now that I think it over carefully, actually it was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKXlqY1pD34
― Eric H., Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
The Pilgrim cover art is the most 1998 thing ever
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
I thought the only Clapton anyone liked from this decade is the blues cover album
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Learning a couple hours ago that From the Cradle shipped three million surprised me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:49 (nine years ago) link
knew it was #1 and is the biggest selling blues album but
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
not part of the poll but i LOVED this 21 years ago and i still do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpbG_esuA4
― piscesx, Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
ha I owned from the cradle for awhile. Good guitar playing and some decent tracks but he sounds like a muppet on half the vocals.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
every one of them sucks
― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
the unplugged Layla sucks so much mostly because of the chorus I think, it sounds like some middle management drone pulled out the acoustic at a company party and all his drunk coworkers are singing along.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Motherless Child is indeed great.
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
"my father's eyes" is the first clapton i ever remember hearing. my instant reaction was "wtf, this guy is famous?" still kind of have that gut reaction to hearing his name even tho i like the yardbirds, cream, and a couple of derek & dominos songs.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
that song is basically Clapton saying "I want to beat mike and the mechanics at their own game" a decade too late instead of taking inspiration from chicago blues or jj cale or w/e.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
i had never heard my fathers eyes. he appears to be wearing some kind of puffy winter jacket in the video despite not being outside and holding a guitar?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
anyway i have the most personal contempt for change the world
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
I dig the unplugged Layla a lot, especially the guitar solo. The unplugged album as a whole is pretty rad.
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
wow. you people must have cloth for ears to even have the to have the have audacity to disrespect the great slowhand. and here was me thinking this place was called i love music
― fuhgeddaboudit! (missingNO), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
it's called "I fart on you."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
"Layla" stinks like a fart
speaking of which,
KidNapster07-06-2012, 15:42hello guys! yes this title seems ridiculous and i thought so too but i wanted to bring up something that ive noticed in my long career as a druggy. just like the title of the thread says that snorting drugs (for the most part) leads to gas (farting) or pooping for me! Let me explain.
Clapton goes on to say a lot more but you get the idea
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
"Layla" is so different from the original, I can certainly understand why someone would hate it. I found it jarring when it came out, but--probably because I was sick of the original by that point (excepting its use in Goodfellas a couple of years earlier)--I didn't mind it, either, and still don't. The other two I either don't know or have forgotten.― clemenza
― clemenza
Pretty much my opinion, except for the "...and still don't" - I ended up getting sick of it pretty quick and soon really hated it. The whole unplugged thing at the time seemed intersting.
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 10 October 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
The last thing I liked from him was his interviews in Beware of Mr. Baker
― Bobby Ono Bland (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 October 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 12 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Sad songs are nature's onions.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
got me on my knees
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 October 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
http://33.media.tumblr.com/7bd86133f09321761ef9d0146713794c/tumblr_mqphw4AKLo1rojduwo2_400.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Fuck this guy. Just stay in the background and don’t play a solo and don’t sing anything.
― calstars, Sunday, 20 October 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
Sorry. Play a solo but don’t say anything. You are allowed to play a solo. Otherwise shut the fuck up
― calstars, Sunday, 20 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
With any artist with 10+ hits, usually there are one or two I can enjoy. Original "Layla" is the closest I get with Clapton, which is fine if overplayed, and it gets much worse from there. "Wonderful Tonight", "Tears in Heaven", and his version of "I Shot the Sheriff" are among my least favorite popular songs ever
― Vinnie, Monday, 21 October 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
No, THIS is his worst nineties hit.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
I’ll still rep for Blidn Faith ‘s “had to cry”
― calstars, Monday, 21 October 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
I like the acoustic Layla a lot, the guitar solo is good
― brimstead, Monday, 21 October 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
I like to pretend that Clapton miraculously disappeared from the planet shortly after the release of the Derek and The Dominos record. Yeah, in my mind he was another tragic addition to the "27 Club" and went missing after those sessions for a second Dominos album collapsed.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 24 July 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
Forever man, Forever man
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
His latest song I like is "Promises" from 1978, unfortunately released two years after his racist rant.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
That’s when she said she was pretending*vomits*
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
Christ, what an asshole
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/17/eric-clapton-wins-legal-case-against-woman-selling-bootleg-live-cd-for-845
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Friday, 17 December 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Clapton to Lars: "Hold my non-alcoholic beer."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 December 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:42 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, October 9, 2014 2:44 PM (seven years ago)
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 December 2021 20:22 (two years ago) link
Xp oh his live shows are SO valuable and unique
― calstars, Friday, 17 December 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
― concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Saturday, 18 December 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
I remember some DJ running down the top 40 when buzzcocks had hit with "Promises" but played the wrong record
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 December 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
Good thing he didn't change "Lay Down Sally" back to "Orgasm Addict".
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link