Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
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Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
It has been a long wait for those of us waiting for a comprehensive Clapton compilation. Crossroads was released a number of years ago and is therefore missing the later tracks. Crossroads 2 was all live and covered the 70's only. Cream of was excellent but stopped around 1981 or so. Chronicles started where Cream of left off and does not have the great tracks from the 60's and 70's. There were also a sprinkling of other minor hit compilations. If you took Cream of and Chronicles and put them together, key tracks were still missing such as Motherless Child and Rock and Roll Heart. Finally we have Complete Clapton which brings the two together and adds the missing key tracks in one compilation. The remastering is excellent and the booklet has some good liner notes and information. If you are looking for the one compilation that has it all this is it. Finally, the "Complete Clapton" !Free Music Review: WOW
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a HUGE fan of Eric Clapton. I already own every one of these selections and more. This is definitely for the person who owns little or no EC CD's. If you're looking to buy a fairly comprehensive collection of EC on 2 discs, than this is it. I can't argue with the tracks included here. All the hits from Cream to 2007. One after another in time sequence. What a tremendous amount of music and memories!
Is it perfect? Probably not. I initially questioned the absence of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out" from the unplugged album, "No Alibis", "One Track Mind" and anything at all from the Cream reunion concerts. As for the Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers, who really cares? WTF? You have to draw the line somewhere to get it all on 2 discs.
I know if I bought this now it'd be ten years before it made it out of my car. It's that good!
Free Music Review: What took me so long to actually buy a EC album
Hit: 5 Stars
All these years I have heard my Dad go on about how great Eric Clapton is as well as colleagues from work. Sure I liked some of his 'famous' tracks but was it enough to buy anything? Not at the time.
However I was lucky enough to see him with Winwood at MSG recently and despite not knowing many of the songs I was blown away (I know some were Winwood classics but you get the drift I hope).
I immediately brought this and wasn't disappointed. If you are like me and hadn't got off you rear to buy anything by Eric before I reckon this is a good place to start. It now has me trawling through some of his older stuff to see what to buy next (I recommend getting the book too!!)
Free Music Review: Great 2CD Set
Hit: 5 Stars
Nice new hits package; 2 CD's, pick 36 tracks and that's it. They did a great job picking the 36, including several that were left off of the U.S. "Cream Of Clapton"(1966-81 stuff) and "Chronicle"(1985-2001 stuff) - like Lay Down Sally and I've Got A Rock & Roll Heart.
The title "Complete" is ofcourse just a gimmick - the complete Clapton would take 30 or so CD's. "Ultimate" or "Very Best" would have been a better and more appropriate title.
p.s. - Strange Brew (not on this CD) is a Cream song that wasn't a "hit" in the U.S. - Cream charted 5 hit singles in the U.S., and Strange Brew is not one of them.
Free Music Review: EC is ... (you know the graffiti!)
Hit: 5 Stars
I have loved his music for 40 years, and this is the best of those decades. The chronological flow is historical and enlightening.
The first time I saw him was with Cream in 1967, when the trio set up huge speakers on a pier on the Hudson River, aimed the sound at the Palisades across the water, and serenaded New York live. I was lucky enough to be attending college on top of those modest cliffs in New Jersey, and had a room-mate with binoculars. Almost as amazing as is his career, chronicled and celebrated in this disc, and yet still amazingly fresh in concert.