Timepieces- The Best of Eric Clapton

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Greatly Disappointed- it is only rated one star because I could not proceed with my review
My purchase was never received. I never heard from the seller. After waiting more than a month for my purchase, I notified Amazon and received a response that I would be receiving a refund. There is no rating for this item - how sad to note hear from the seller.

Some of his best
If you're a Clapton fan, get this album ASAP. It has a number of great songs, e.g. After Midnight, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, I shot the Sheriff.

The best of ERic Clapton
This collection is good and worth getting, collecting Clapton's best songs from the 70s. I Shot the Sheriff is classic. Layla just defines the 70s. Wonderful Tonight is a very soulful song. Cocaine is another classic. I really like this album but I don't listen to it all the time because I feel it is dated from the 70s even though it contains a wealth of classic material.

Overrated? ,,, Not Hardly
This is a fossil - and I don't mean Eric Clapton - although he is approaching 64 - but rather the 11-12 track CD from a major label [Polydor/Universal Music Group in this case] with absolutely no liner notes. Why spend the amount asked for this when, for a few dollars more you can get a decent multi-track compilation? For example, The Cream Of Clapton, also from Polydor but with 18 tracks. There are others like that with all or most of the songs contained in this one if you search carefully. On the other hand, the AAD sound on this release is excellent, and it does give you nine of his best hits registered from 1970 to 1980 for Atco and RSO. This includes his only # 1 Billboard Hot 100, I Shot The Sheriff, from 1974, and the second charted version of Layla [the nickname of Patty Boyd who was George Harrison's wife from 1966 to 1974, and then was married to Clapton from1 1979 to 1988]. Both were billed as Derek & The Dominos, a group which also included Duane Allman, and the initial shorter single went to # 51 Hot 100 in the spring of 1971. The one presented here is the 7:10 LP version from the Derek & The Dominos Atco album "Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs" which peaked at # 10 in July 1972. Indeed, the only significant [Top 40 Bot 100] selections from that period NOT presented here are 1976's Hello Old Friend which reached # 24, 1979's Watch Out For Lucy, the flip of Promises [# 6 Adult Contemporary (AC)/# 9 Hot 100] and a # 40 on its own, and 1980's Tulsa Time, his cover of the Don Williams 1978 Country hit which made it to # 30 [they include the flipside, Cocaine, which is regarded as a "follow-along" hit]. His rendition of Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door, although released as a single in 1975, did not chart, while Swing Low Sweet Chariot comes from the 1975 LP "There's One In Every Crowd." To sum up, if you are searching for only a few of Clapton's hits and they happen to be in this volume, and you don't really care about liner notes, this is a good buy. Otherwise look deeper into the Amazon vaults. As for the charge elsewhere that Clapton was overrated, well, let's look at the facts. Starting out with The Roosters in his native U.K. in 1963 when he was just 18, he was a member of The Yardbirds from 1963 to 1965 where he was given the nickname Slowhand, then John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1965/66 followed by his formation of Cream with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce in 1966, and then Blind Faith in 1968. He also worked with John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and Delaney & Bonnie, and in 1970 formed Derek & The Dominos. He was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame in 2000. Certainly not the history of an "overrated" guitarist.

Obselete, but far from bad
While the joke about Clapton (like coffee) sucking without Cream isn't true, he certainly made his best work in the '60's. Which is why I'd point any Clapton newbie to The Cream of Clapton, rather than Timepieces, since it contains not only all of his solo hits (which are a mixed bag, I'll admit, but there are some good ones), but also offers up a few Cream, Blind Faith and Dominoes tracks. This mainly focuses on solo Clapton, other than Layla (with Derek & the Dominoes - NOT the only good song the band recorded!) This can be good - after all, you get After Midnight, I Shot the Sheriff, Let It Grow, Cocaine and Lay Down Sally. But on the other end of the scale, Wonderful Tonight, Promises, and his take on Knockin' on Heaven's Door - not bad, just mediocre. And I'm sorry, but Wonderful Tonight and Promises are hellspawn - along with I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart (sounds like he never frickin' PLAYED rock), they constitute my Axis of Clapton's Evil. The absence of Let It Rain SHOULD be an enormous red flag, since it's far and away the single best song of his solo career. Motherless Children is also missed, and as I said before, a few '60's tunes would've been appreciated. This is completely worthless now that The Cream of Clapton exists, but if that's considered contraband where you live (but this one isn't - hey, stranger things have happened), Timepieces makes for a good alternative.