Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
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Artist: Eric ClaptonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- I Feel Free: Cream
- Sunshine of Your Love: Cream
- White Room: Cream
- Crossroads: Cream
- Badge: Cream
- Presence of the Lord: Blind Faith
- After Midnight
- Let It Rain
- Bell Bottom Blues
- Layla
- Let It Grow
- I Shot the Sheriff
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door
- Hello Old Friend
- Cocaine
- Lay Down Sally
- Wonderful Tonight
- Promises
- I Can't Stand It
- I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart
- She's Waiting
- Forever Man
- It's in the Way That You Use It
- Miss You
- Pretending
- Bad Love
- Tears in Heaven
- Layla Unplugged
- Running on Faith (Unplugged)
- Motherless Child
- Change the World
- My Father's Eyes
- Riding With the King
- Sweet Home Chicago
- If I Had Possession Over Judgment
- Ride the River
Music reviews of Complete Clapton
Music Review: A Crapton of Clapton that misses the hole and the pot
Rating: 1 Stars
Oh wow, this is really kind of embarrassing. 77 people have reviewed this item as if there's anything new to be found. As if this isn't the umpteenth compilation of hits (mostly from the 60's and 70's) by Clapton and his handlers with a view to soaking up yet another dollar from his slavish and somewhat judgment impaired fan base. It's hard not to feel crapton when you've just handed down your money for something that's more or less identical to 55 other compilation ablums out there, save maybe a few newer songs who I'm sure no one is very interested in anyway. What is EC trying to tell us with this release, half of which is over 30 years old? That he has absolutely nothing left to say or contribute, but that of course should hardly be revelatory to any of us. As a guitar player, he's quite skilled. No one will dispute that. However, unless you are a guitar player, no one wants to hear his long winded solo's, particularly the blues derived ones, which is one of his sad fortes. Crapton is just another in the long line of aging British rock stars who plundered, stole, and fed the blues to a white audience without so much as changing a note. He is just another washed up wanna-be, who made his bones on blues derivative rock and roll. When I say blues derivative, I mean ripped off totally. Blues based rock, blues stolen rock if you will, is the most boring, inane waste of time in music rivaled perhaps only by Crapton's non-bluesy compositions and covers. He isn't any kind of a songwriter, which accounts for the inordinate number of covers he has released throughout his squalid career, many of which were released as singles as I'm sure his handlers advised him he had a much better chance of getting a hit with a carbon copy version of someone else's song than one of his own third rate compositions. Nothing of this kind can be as abhorrent as "his" version of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff". I've placed "his" in quotations because it can hardly be called his own as his chief goal seems to be to mimick this song to the point in which uninformed listeners might think Marley had an estranged English half brother. There is no point in covering someone's song unless you revamp it, turn it into your own. When you cover someone's song and go to great lengths to imitate the person, release the sad creation as a single, you are merely trying to make a buck. Not content to rip off blues alone, Crapton plunges deep in to the heart of Jamaica and brutally assualts reggae as well. Musically, it is a carbon copy of the original Wailers song. But the real disgrace is Crapton's pathetic and poorly conveyed Jamaican accent. I'm sure young Gordon Sumner aka Sting was taking notes. This is no longer just a case of a very untalented hack trying to make a buck, but now borders on offensive.
As for his orginal compositions, this collection contains all the 70's staples that the myriad others do. Many of them contain a common theme in Crapton's lyrics, that he's been dumped and made to look like a loser and an imbecile (by something other than his music). It contains of course the obligatory, pitiful "Wonderful Tonight" which I suspect is a much played anthem for married couples trying to reignite the passion of a decaying relationship just before an evening of disappointing sex.
I forever recall a picture of a wall somewhere in England with the words "Clapton is God" scrawled on it. I remember that the picture that I saw had a dog in the corner of it urinating on this wall. The object lesson obvious; even a dog shows more intelligence, taste, and judgment than your average Claptonian.
Description of Complete Clapton
Eric Clapton: his music, his story. 36 of Eric's greatest songs from 1968 to 2006 in one collection for the first time ever! This 36 selection multi-disc set features hits from 1968 to 2006 including "Crossroads," Badge," "Layla," "Tears In Heaven," "Change The World" and much more.Eric Clapton Photos
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