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| Artist: Eric Clapton
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 423
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Running Time: 155 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517461932
EAN: 0602517461932
ASIN: B000V6JAWW
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: shop stock.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Feel Free - Cream | | • | Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream | | • | White Room - Cream | | • | Crossroads - Cream | | • | Badge - Cream | | • | Presence Of The Lord - Blind Faith | | • | After Midnight | | • | Let It Rain | | • | Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominos | | • | Layla - Derek & The Dominos, Eric Clapton | | • | Let It Grow | | • | I Shot The Sheriff | | • | Knockin' On Heaven's Door | | • | Hello Old Friend | | • | Cocaine | | • | Lay Down Sally | | • | Wonderful Tonight | | • | Promises | | • | I Can't Stand It |
Disc 2
| • | I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart | | • | She's Waiting | | • | Forever Man | | • | It's In The Way That You Use It | | • | Miss You | | • | Pretending | | • | Bad Love | | • | Tears In Heaven | | • | Layla | | • | Running On Faith | | • | Motherless Child | | • | Change The World | | • | My Father's Eyes | | • | Riding With The King - Eric Clapton, B.B. King | | • | Sweet Home Chicago | | • | If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day | | • | Ride The River - Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Slow hand through the decades November 26, 2008
Bob Sherunkle (London, UK)
As I've posted some complaints on Amazon about incompleteness of compilations (missing an artist's best-known track, apparently just to hack people off), I'd like to go the other way on this one.
Obviously this compilation is not "complete". That would require not two CDs but, er, an awful lot of CDs. It is a very fair cross-section of Mr C's career from Cream onwards, charting his emergence as a solo artist, the relative blandness of the early 80s, and his return to form from the late 80s onwards.
To be more comprehensive, it should include the early era as well, i.e. Yardbirds and Mayall. This doesn't bother me, but the blues fans might object. The Cream tracks are a mite superfluous; if you want Cream material, you probably want at least a whole compilation album, not just five tracks. Fortunately one of them is the blistering live version of "Crossroads".
I bought the album for the 1970s tracks alone, and all my favourites from this period are here, apart from "Motherless Children". You can't please everyone all of the time, and at this bargain price you really can't complain.
Full marks for the inclusion of the "unplugged" version of "Layla" as well as the original version.
 birthday present November 28, 2007
gozeat (Northampton)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My son knowing I am and always will be a huge Clapton fan, bought this for my last birthday (I don't mean my LAST bithday, I am hoping to have many more!) I would not have gone and purchased this myself, as within my CD collection I have all of these tracks and could have made up this compilation myself. Having said that it is a good collection (how many Clapton collections have there been over the years?). The two discs represent a reasonable selection of the mans work, although I would have liked some of his early stuff with John Mayall and even The Yardbirds, perhaps Blind Faith, just to round the collection out. I played it in the car and it is a great driving companion, even though I know all the tracks well, thay are great songs and just remind you once again what a tremendous guitarist and vocalist Eric was and is. "Clapton is God" well in rock music yes he is one of them!
 Elic Crapton November 23, 2007
J. Stewart (Edinburgh)
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
At the best of times I feel strongly about the marketing machines that engineer best-of CD's just before Christmas. However, I feel let down that EC has jumped on the bandwagon too.
Eric, we will all still love you even if you don't have it in you to create any good new material. I have all your work up to now, on Vinyl, VHS, CD and DVD and I won't be spending money on this.
Shoot me down if you will, but I love EC's work and I love and respect the man. I just think retiring gracefully is cool and he has enough money without needing to release another best-of.
 A bit of a con, but great music November 20, 2007
DJColzz (Glasgow, Scotland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
SO there are a number of tracks not on here, and some that probably shouldn't be, yep we are all in agreement about "behind The Mask" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and I may be wrong, but "Forever Man" doesn't sound like the original to me. There's also no mention of "It's Probably Me", which was vocalised by Sting, I guess but Clapton's clear and definite sound can be appreciated on it.
It is very misleading it is about as "complete" as a sandwich missing two pieces of bread.
However, there are some magnificent classics brought together, for the first time. Ranging from Cream, Blind Faith (only one track what is that about??) to Derek and The Dominoes and the unplugged sessions. It's good to hear them, but to be blatantly honest buying individual tracks and compiling your own "complete" for your media player (ipod, MP3 etc) would be the best option if that is what you are looking for. This is a "selection of his best" nothing more, nothing less, but still a selection of the best is included.
 COMPLETE CLAPTON November 19, 2007
Mr. Michael J. Young (FRANCE)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I agree with most of the reviews in that a lot of good music has been left out and some of those which are included are not the best versions in all cases. One or two I have not heard before and are not that good although they may have come from his last dreadful album "Back Home". A complete Clapton cannot be done on 2 disks end of story.
When are we to get a new album with new material from Eric. His last album "Back Home" was one of his worst and very self indulgent. I hope that we have not heard the last of Eric and that future new releases will not be compilations of the same sort as this one.
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