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 So it's not ACTUALLY complete...well duh! November 17, 2007
Dr. George L. Sik (Epsom, Surrey)
38 out of 40 found this review helpful
For this really to be COMPLETE, it would have to be everything that Eric Clapton has ever recorded, something it obviously isn't. Perhaps the title is wrong, but 'Greatest Hits' is rather hackneyed.
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br /Most of those posting unfavourable reviews are complaining either that it's not complete or that one or two of their favourite tracks are not on it. Dear oh dear. How spoon-fed we seem to have become.
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br /So what IS on it? Precisely what a half-sensible person might expect: many of his best-known tracks, spanning his entire career, including Layla, Wonderful Tonight, Tears in Heaven, Cocaine, Lay Down Sally...I mean, come on! What's the problem? I could get all grouchy that one of my favourites, Hoochie Coochie Man, isn't on it - but it's on other Clapton CDs. I think I can live with that.
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br /This is an excellent introduction for the novice and a great collection for the fan.
A good intro to a guitar legend November 12, 2007
Shadowalker (Leamington Spa, UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
There's no way that this album can hope to cover all of Clapton's career -but this is a good introduction to his style.
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br /There are the classics that everybody associates with him - such as Layla, and I shot the sherrif, but there are some other gems on this album as well, such as the real tear jerker Tears in Heaven, and the thought provoking Cocaine.
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br /All in all, a good album, and one that I am more than happy to say has taken residence in my car (as well as being copied onto my MP3 player!)
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best compilation for starters November 3, 2007
spike (united kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the best compilation for fans new to Eric Clapton since the first disk contains some of his best work with Cream, the dominoes and his solo out put which more or less speaks volumes for disk 2 which shows Eric Clapton is still god.
Misnamed tribute to a legend! November 18, 2007
Mr. M. I. Khan (Manchester, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
it is a good selection but there is so much more especially for a aficionado of this great man but to keep his respect I will still give it five stars. I think Crossroads (I and II) are probably a better investment personally I think they are great. I also like the from the cradle album which came out after the crossroads albums.
Slow hand through the decades November 26, 2008
Bob Sherunkle (London, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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br /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.
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br /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".
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br /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.
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br /Full marks for the inclusion of the "unplugged" version of "Layla" as well as the original version.
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