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Is Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the greatest album of all-time?

mwachsmanmwachsman Posts: 474
edited February 2007 in Other Music
While I'm not sure that it is.......

The fact that it has Clapton and Duane wailing on the same album gives it strong consideration. Simply amazing.
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  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,846
    well not greatest of all time but it is pretty amazing
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  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    The Dominos are awesome, but my favorite non-Cream Clapton project has always been Blind Faith...THAT is phenomenal! And those Allmans...just great, great music.
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  • seanw1010seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    one of my favorites.....
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Well, what that album did was to consolidate what The Beatles failed to do with their aborted Get Back album (which became Let it Be), and which The Band helped push forward: that anti-psychedelic, clear and "realist" approach to studio recording that came in, around 1969-70. I know that the irony of the album was that they were all seriously smacked out, but it still sounds a lot less excessive than the Cream or Blind Faith stuff that preceded it.

    It's up there, as an album.
  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    It's amazing, and quite overlooked in my opinion. To me, its easily the best written and performed of Clapton's career.
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