Derek & The Dominos Layla Poll

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when people ask me when exactly it was that i first knew for sure that i have bad taste in music i will be able to refer back to this helpful and informative thread.

and then i will breathe a HUGE sigh of relief that i don't have to listen to this shit.

Glad to help

Layla is the big gorilla. Disc 1 side 1 is unimpeachable. But I am voting for Little Wing.

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"Why Does Love Got to Be so Sad" is so great that I forgive the grammar.

"Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out" unplugged > album version

I'm with Joseph. "So Sad" was my first thought, even before "Layla" itself and before the thread even opened.

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Good thing I voted for "I Looked Away" instead of "Bell Bottom Blues."

I didn't vote, but "Layla" not winning is laughable. It is perhaps the only classic song Eric Clapton has ever written.

Yes, especially since it was about the wife of a Beatle.

I'll grant that only the songs that deserved votes got votes.

I briefly thought about voting for either "It's Too Late" or "Little Wing," but I figured they were both covers so I passed.

So how does this album stack up against the live stuff? A friend was playing some of the Fillmore stuff this weekend and it sounded really good to my ears. Thanks to over-exposure to "Layla" and the general shittiness of Clapton's material since I've been aware of him, I've avoided Derek and the Dominos - but now I'm wondering if that was a mistake.

I don't know much about the live stuff, but this is one of the greatest rock albums of all time. The rest of Clapton's stuff does nothing for me, but this entire record is absolutely essential. Keep On Growing is my favorite, but there are so many others......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk55sGVNG3I

this poll results puzzle me. no votes for Anyday or I Am Yours? and so little votes? I'm not big on Clapton or guitar albums but this one is quite huge.

I would have voted "Roll It Over" if it were on this album.

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Yeah, voter turnout was lame here.

I think people dismiss this record before hearing it because of title track fatigue and Clapton's solo career. They don't know what they're missing.

What is Roll It Over?

It might have been a b-side.. There's a live version on the Rainbow concert LP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv-3b-Vn6lE

korn rules

I hate clapton and love this record

I just heard a snippet of guitar from "Layla" from someone's ringtone at work--and it sounded like the coolest thing ever. Even the sound quality seemed really good. How does it suddenly sound better coming from someone's cellphone unexpectedly? Also, I think I had a flashback to being on the beach, for one brief moment. (This year is making me realize I don't have to actively do that much except keep poking around music. My taste will always shift and re-shuffle and if things seem a little dull for a while, something will come along to excite me.)

Light In The Attic is fixing to put out a twofer of Bobby Whitlock's post-Layla solo joints.

Are they actually all love songs?

"Tell The Truth" was robbed.

This isn't very good, is it. As an album, I mean.

nah it rules

'Layla' and 'Bell Bottom Blues' both rule. I could do without the rest, mostly.

‘keep on growing’ and ‘why does love have to be so sad’ also rule

“I looked away”? “Anyday”? “Keep on growin?” “I am yours”? “Why does love...”? It’s a really heavy album. It’s long and bloated and overbearing and the songs go on for too long. it feels like hanging out with friends, except for the end of Layla which feels like death. it kicks ass all the way through. It bleeds.

The coda is still always perfect

"Key to the Highway" alternates between the typical Clapton late 60s thing of killing a blues song through heat death, and more subtle passages where the volume lowers and the groove is allowed to breathe, but it's less boring than I remembered. But the poll above is pretty accurate, except for "Anyday", which is a fantastic track.

coda >>>>> first 3 minutes

yeah totally

Agree - first part is “Great riff - but do you have anything else?”; coda 3 minutes later is “oh - you do! You should do this more often”.

Not even Clapton's Unplugged version could destroy the long reach of "Layla." It should have got all the votes.

RIP Bobby Whitlock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jt9ofmDXKQ

Wow. It's never been my favourite album, but I guess I have a kind of historical respect or something for it. I used to take it out every few years and give it another try, but haven't done that for a while.

Amusingly, Zak Starkey paid him a tribute and Pete Townshend chimes in on the comments with “He crashed his Ferrari Daytona near Eric’s house.”

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Does he have any lead vocals all the way through any tunes or is it just harmony vocals and occasional bridges

Or call and response with Clapton.

The last song ("Throne Tree In The Garden") is all him, IIRC.

He had a couple solo albums right after the breakup, stacked with his heavy friends, and on them he redid a few of his D&B/D&D compositions. Future Days did a twofer. They have the moments, but I found them disappointing overall.

"Thorn Tree", even...

Oh right, thanks

lol i have never listened to this because i don’t have time for slow hand fuck that. i rly suppose i shd though, i could die anytime from here, i figure.

The drums on this album are for real

killer drums

"Thorn Tree in the Garden" is one of my all-time fave album closers. Fits the record perfectly. BTW about a dog, not a woman.

Whitlock's contributions to this great album remain underappreciated. RIP Bobby

This album a whole different animal from Slowhand solo material.

Firing on four cylinders, all four players are aces etc.

Plus Duane Allman!

Hadn't really registered that Bobby Whitlock played on All Things Must Pass.

Do I need to listen to the Dr. John album they are on?

killer drums

literally

This album a whole different animal from Slowhand solo material.

Yup. I think I posted this before, but if Clapton hadn't survived his heroin addiction, I don't doubt he would've been remembered as a massive loss to rock music, partly because he was coming off his greatest work and who knows where he would've gone and what he would've done had he lived past 26 or 27. Well, we know and to say it's been a disappointment would be a massive understatement (though I think 461 plays like a good survivor's album characterized by well-earned calm and relief rather than sleepiness).

"keep on growing" and "why does love got to be so sad" are darn great songs. "bell bottom blues," too, in a different way

This was one of the earliest records where I experienced conflict with the Classic Rock Superego, when I still thought something was wrong with my perceptions because I couldn't appreciate boring blues retreads like "Key to the Highway" or "Have You Ever Loved a Woman". It was only later that I realized that 95% of these "classic albums" lists don't care about anything but the three favourite songs or so, as long as the filler doesn't offend them too badly.

“tell the truth” is also kind of fun