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Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton Audio CD

A fair review of the Eric Clapton "Complete Clapton" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Eric Clapton reviews here, or go back to the Eric Clapton tabs.

Band: Eric Clapton
Title: Complete Clapton
Rating:

Release Date: 2007-10-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Feel Free: Cream 2: Sunshine of Your Love: Cream 3: White Room: Cream 4: Crossroads: Cream 5: Badge: Cream 6: Presence of the Lord: Blind Faith 7: After Midnight 8: Let It Rain 9: Bell Bottom Blues 10: Layla 11: Let It Grow 12: I Shot the Sheriff 13: Knockin' on Heaven's Door 14: Hello Old Friend 15: Cocaine 16: Lay Down Sally 17: Wonderful Tonight 18: Promises 19: I Can't Stand It 20: I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart 21: She's Waiting 22: Forever Man 23: It's in the Way That You Use It 24: Miss You 25: Pretending 26: Bad Love 27: Tears in Heaven 28: Layla Unplugged 29: Running on Faith (Unplugged) 30: Motherless Child 31: Change the World 32: My Father's Eyes 33: Riding With the King 34: Sweet Home Chicago 35: If I Had Possession Over Judgment 36: Ride the River

Album Version No Longer Available for Download on Amazon.
It was explained that amazon had pulled two of the songs from the album, making the album download unavailable. I tried to find out why Amazon stopped selling the MP3 Album of Clapton-Complete Clapton, by calling customer support. No explaination for why this occured, but I did a little investigation, and found that two other albums are essentially, this album. They are Clapton-The Cream of Clapton (The Cream of Clapton) & Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton (Clapton Chronicles - The Best of Eric Clapton). The only songs missing are the following:

1. Lay Down Sally
2. I've Got a Rock & Roll Heart
3. Miss You
4. Motherless Child
5. Riding With the Kings
6. Sweet Home Chicago
7. If I had Possession over Judgement Day
8. Ride the River

These remaining songs can be downloaded by individual MP3 download, from any album. It cost me $27. 40 in total, but well worth it compared to buying all the songs individually.

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CLAPTON
WHO DOES'NT ENJOY ERIC CLAPTON AWESOME MY RATING 50 STARS.

A Crapton of Clapton that misses the hole and the pot
77 people have reviewed this item as if there's anything new to be found. Oh wow, this is really kind of embarrassing. 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.

Complete Clapton
The caliber of music and the number of tracks keeps you listening for a good car ride. It's everything a Clapton fan would want to listen to.

Nice Vinyl Compilation
I won't address the content of the collection since that's already been done in most of these reviews. I recently received this 4-LP vinyl set from Amazon. I was very impressed with this collection on vinyl. The packaging is very nice. The inner sleeves are high quality. The mastering was done at half-speed. The vinyl is heavy and quiet. I played it on my vintage Pioneer system from the mid-1970's and it sounds great. The LP's were as flat as can be - no warping or cupping. I often have that problem with the new vinyl being produced. I would highly recommend this collection to anyone who listens to vinyl LP's and wants a nice Clapton compilation for their collection.

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