Product Description

Containing such cultural staples from throughout his illustrious career as 'Sunshine Of Your Love', 'I Shot The Sheriff' and 'Layla', 'Complete Clapton' is a reminder of the influence Eric Clapton has had on popular music. Collecting work from his earliest incarnations in Cream and The Yardbirds and finishing with his most popular solo recordings, this release displays the range of styles Clapton became proficient in. Notable recordings here include 'Tears In Heaven' (used in the film 'Rush') and his version of Bob Dylan's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door', as well as tracks from his MTV Unplugged session.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Feel Free - Cream
2. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
3. White Room - Cream
4. Crossroads - Cream
5. Badge - Cream
6. Presence Of The Lord - Blind Faith
7. After Midnight
8. Let It Rain
9. Bell Bottom Blues - Derek & The Dominos
10. Layla - Derek & The Dominos, Eric Clapton
11. Let It Grow
12. I Shot The Sheriff
13. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
14. Hello Old Friend
15. Cocaine
16. Lay Down Sally
17. Wonderful Tonight
18. Promises
19. I Can't Stand It

Disc 2:

1. I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart
2. She's Waiting
3. Forever Man
4. It's In The Way That You Use It
5. Miss You
6. Pretending
7. Bad Love
8. Tears In Heaven
9. Layla
10. Running On Faith
11. Motherless Child
12. Change The World
13. My Father's Eyes
14. Riding With The King - Eric Clapton, B.B. King
15. Sweet Home Chicago
16. If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
17. Ride The River - Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #562 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 155 minutes

Customer Reviews

birthday present
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
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
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.