Slowhand
by Eric Clapton

From Graeme2 TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/14/2015 10:47 | #147675 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ok so this album is kind of bland but nice to stick on in the background while you go about your day. Nothing to grab you. What does grab me though is how sexist wonderful tonight is. If you do decide to give this track attention past the chorus its hard to see it as a beautiful love song it's seen as by some. Basically he loves his women as she makes him look good at the party, he then has too much to drink, he then decides they both should go as he's tired, got a headache and had enough and so he gives her the car keys and says drive us home, where she has to put him to bed as he's a bit too gone, yes darling you were wonderful tonight. Well done dear. (Edited)

From Decurso TOP 100 COMMENTER 08/22/2014 14:54 | #120109 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

A pretty solid album. The only real fault with it is the order of the songs. The opening 3 tracks are all so dynamite that everything that comes after seems a bit anti-climatic. I think opening with The Core, and THEN cocaine (with Lay Down Sally somewhere in the middle) would give the album a completely different (and better) sound.

The first 3 tracks are fantastic and then the album slows for a little bit before reaching The Core when it picks back up but then slows again after that song. This inconsistency is what keeps the album away from the top because if it wasn't for those weaker tracks this album would be up there. Clapton is phenomenal both vocally and on his guitar pretty much the whole way through and it is such a joy to listen to him perform. He makes the songs his own and creates this fantastic laid back atmosphere that is perfect to sit down and be immersed in. This makes it a very enjoyable album to revisit and is the main reason I have listened to this album so many times. Overall, if you love laid back rock music with great guitar solos and riffs then this is a perfect album for you. (Edited)

A decent Eric Clapton album. Slowhand, kicks off with J.J.Cale's, cocaine, and then runs into, wonderful tonight, an absolutely beautiful ballad, which is utterly lovely. Some people may say it's soppy, but it a gorgeous celebration of a man's love to his beautiful wife. There's nothing soppy about that. I don't go for the sexist argument either, he's obviously proud to be able to show off his beautiful wife at a party, but I do think they should have got a taxi, it would have been easier all round. Anyway, Long tall Sally, is a nice country shuffle, and, the core, is an underrated epic of a song. Not so good though is Clapton's cover of John Martyn's, May you never, and a dull instrumental, peaches and diesel, closes the album. Not as consistent as, 461, but a good album. (Edited)

From swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/23/2014 17:05 | #130003 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Slowhand is clearly one of Eric Clapton's stronger solo releases. Whereas there are plenty of guitar solos and effects, many of these tunes are quite pleasing. A little bit mellow but certainly quite focused.