Worst Nineties Eric Clapton Single

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

were the electronica experiments not released in the 90s

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.

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.

I mean, I still disagree that 90s AC would have been really great if not for these songs.

"My Father's Eyes" is more or less exactly what I would expect and accept from 90's AC tbh.

LOOK
IN-TO
MY
FAAAAAAATHER'SSS
EYEES

oh i remember that song now. jeez.

man.

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.

it's about overzealous backup singers

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.

I can't help but notice you left "Motherless Child" off here, because that's actually kind of great.

it's strange to me that people feel the need to bash "Tears in Heaven" as hard as they do

there is footage of Eric Clapton playing slide guitar and running on a treadmill.

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

like the bassinet got bumped

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.

serious lol @ that cover art though

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Eric_Clapton_Pilgrim.jpg

classic nineties

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.

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

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.

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.

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

― Eric H.,

I will never claim this marriage doesn't surprise

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...

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

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

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

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

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/music/2010/galleries/grammys-memorable-moments-1975-to-2009/grammy-awards-1993-eric-clapton-71873/500x595/25662900-25662902-large.jpg

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).

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

thought it was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKIjfNIx6LA

Now that I think it over carefully, actually it was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKXlqY1pD34

The Pilgrim cover art is the most 1998 thing ever

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

Learning a couple hours ago that From the Cradle shipped three million surprised me.

knew it was #1 and is the biggest selling blues album but

not part of the poll but i LOVED this 21 years ago and i still do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpbG_esuA4

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.

every one of them sucks

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.

Motherless Child is indeed great.

"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.

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.

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?

anyway i have the most personal contempt for change the world

I dig the unplugged Layla a lot, especially the guitar solo. The unplugged album as a whole is pretty rad.

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

it's called "I fart on you."

"Layla" stinks like a fart

speaking of which,

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07-06-2012, 15:42
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Clapton goes on to say a lot more but you get the idea

"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.

The last thing I liked from him was his interviews in Beware of Mr. Baker

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Sad songs are nature's onions.

got me on my knees

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

Fuck this guy. Just stay in the background and don’t play a solo and don’t sing anything.

Sorry. Play a solo but don’t say anything. You are allowed to play a solo. Otherwise shut the fuck up

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

No, THIS is his worst nineties hit.

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

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

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.

Forever man, Forever man

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

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

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

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

"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)

Xp oh his live shows are SO valuable and unique

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

I remember some DJ running down the top 40 when buzzcocks had hit with "Promises" but played the wrong record

Good thing he didn't change "Lay Down Sally" back to "Orgasm Addict".