Worst Nineties Eric Clapton Single

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Death penalty for ruining nineties adult contemporary

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Tears in Heaven 13
Layla 13
My Father's Eyes 6
Change the World 2


guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:27 (eleven years ago)

I like how just by thinking he's OK, I'm the biggest Clapton fan on ILM. I don't mind "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World" and don't remember "My Father's Eyes". The acoustic version of "Layla" is pretty unfortunate, given how classic the original is, but I refuse to vote on grounds of the thread's premise being so RONG. "Bad Love" and "Pretending" were great imo but they count as 1989, right?

EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:30 (eleven years ago)

The rest of the Rush soundtrack is really good and not AC at all btw!

EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:30 (eleven years ago)

i give tears in heaven a pass for the story behind it, plus it's not completely horrific as a song.

change the world is no good at all.

my father's eyes i think i heard once and don't remember it.

layla is the worst, though. he basically destroyed his best song.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:31 (eleven years ago)

Slow sloggy turgid "Layla" version easy. I think "Change the World" is pretty, enough to bother starting a pathetic thread about it. "My Father's Eyes" is sorta less compelling but a reasonable follow-up to that, I don't mind hearing it, kinda novel theme for a song, maybe trying a little too hard with the backing vocals/choir. "Tears In Heaven" is torture to listen to - I'll never forget the time it came on at the gym and slowly brought everybody's workouts to a slumping halt - but that's sorta what it's trying to do so at least it's effective.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:32 (eleven years ago)

maybe destroying your best song is a great temptation for people saddled with the curse of having to play their best song over and over

j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:32 (eleven years ago)

"My Father's Eyes" is the one where yells louder than his guitar, so loud that his father's eyes explode

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:32 (eleven years ago)

were the electronica experiments not released in the 90s

j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:34 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

"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 (eleven years ago)

LOOK
IN-TO
MY
FAAAAAAATHER'SSS
EYEES

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:41 (eleven years ago)

oh i remember that song now. jeez.

man.

LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:44 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

it's about overzealous backup singers

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

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.

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:45 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

four?? i always thought the kid was like, a baby

like the bassinet got bumped

j., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 21:56 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

classic nineties

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 22:13 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

I like these all better than "Saved the Best for Last."

Eric H., Wednesday, 8 October 2014 23:53 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

I like these all better than "Saved the Best for Last."

― 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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKR0haLDrek

da croupier, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:24 (eleven years ago)

I like to pretend that Clapton miraculously disappeared from the planet shortly after the release of the Derek and The Dominos record.

Speaking of which, the other day I read the first few chapters of Duane Allman's daughter's book about the dad she never really knew and it is very well done.

Do Not POLL At Any Price (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:26 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

I will never claim this marriage doesn't surprise

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

The Pilgrim cover art is the most 1998 thing ever

Master of Treacle, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:45 (eleven years ago)

I thought the only Clapton anyone liked from this decade is the blues cover album

Master of Treacle, Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:47 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

every one of them sucks

ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:17 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

Motherless Child is indeed great.

LimbsKing, Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:08 (eleven years ago)

"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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

anyway i have the most personal contempt for change the world

call all destroyer, Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:52 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

it's called "I fart on you."

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:40 (eleven years ago)

"Layla" stinks like a fart

speaking of which,

KidNapster
07-06-2012, 15:42
hello 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 (eleven years ago)

"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

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 12 October 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:01 (eleven years ago)

Sad songs are nature's onions.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

got me on my knees

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 October 2014 00:06 (eleven years ago)

http://33.media.tumblr.com/7bd86133f09321761ef9d0146713794c/tumblr_mqphw4AKLo1rojduwo2_400.gif

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 October 2014 00:07 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

No, THIS is his worst nineties hit.

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 October 2019 02:46 (six years ago)

I’ll still rep for Blidn Faith ‘s “had to cry”

calstars, Monday, 21 October 2019 03:44 (six years ago)

I like the acoustic Layla a lot, the guitar solo is good

brimstead, Monday, 21 October 2019 05:19 (six years ago)

one year passes...

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 (four years ago)

Forever man, Forever man

calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 01:42 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

That’s when she said she was pretending
*vomits*

calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2021 02:20 (four years ago)

four months pass...

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 (four years ago)

Clapton to Lars: "Hold my non-alcoholic beer."

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 December 2021 20:19 (four years ago)

"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, October 9, 2014 2:42 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

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, 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 (four years ago)

Xp oh his live shows are SO valuable and unique

calstars, Friday, 17 December 2021 21:03 (four years ago)

His latest song I like is "Promises" from 1978, unfortunately released two years after his racist rant.


yeah same. I like (or at least tolerate) way too much of his post-Derek solo stuff, but he really has nothing of interest for me after this.

eagerly anticipating his RIP thread at this point tbh

concentrating on Rationality (the book) (will), Saturday, 18 December 2021 14:47 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)


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