Layla (track)
by Derek & The Dominos
Year: 1970
From the album Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (track #13)
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Layla appears on the following album(s) by Derek & The Dominos:
- Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (track #13) (this album) (1970)
- Superstarshine Vol. 33 (track #4) (compilation) (1973)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 10/13/2025 19:24 |  Superunknown | 506 | 86/100 |
| ! | 10/02/2025 17:05 | gmessian | 1,390 | 55/100 |
| ! | 09/16/2025 11:24 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2025 14:32 | machiaj | 8,768 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2025 10:46 | mash | 4,070 | 92/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 92.0/100, a mean average of 91.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.9.
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Squonk007 10/01/2021 15:50 | #274533
Love it, the opening riff gets you hooked straight away.
Best Clapton song hands down. Amazing guitar, the piano part is fantastic too. One of the best song ever.
This song got me on my knees.
TheDude85 04/09/2019 16:25 | #234682
This features the most raved about guitar riff ever, but what really pushes this track over the top is the best slow fade, duel guitar led piano fade out in recorded history - unparalleled by other great fades like Eagles' "Hotel California" or Prince's "Purple Rain".
Fun fact, Jim Gordon, the drummer for Derek and the Dominoes was insane, and killed his mother cause he heard voices that told him to do it. He helped write one song on this album, and it was Layla... Good song, den outta den.
Possibly the greatest love song of all time.
Best guitar solo ever.
This is one of the best rock songs ever made IMO.
The bluesy riffed part is so strong, and then the beautiful second part with Allman shining on top af that emotive piano part.
Just plain perfect.
Mother Nature's Son 03/18/2015 15:18 | #137209
I love the hectic guitar riff and all, but the second part of the song with the emotional piano/wailing guitar frenzy happens to be my favourite part (unlike Evandar). Just heavenly!
GandalfORiley345 05/13/2014 03:43 | #111639
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