Eric ClaptonBest Eric Clapton Albums Ranked
7.3
Avg Score
33
Opinions
40
Albums
3
Reviewers
Summary from 33 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Eric Clapton’s catalog across 40 albums from 33 opinions, with an overall average of 7.3/10. The top-rated Eric Clapton album is Crossroads 2: Live In the Seventies (1996) with a 10.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by 461 Ocean Boulevard and Give Me Strength: The ‘74/’75 Studio Recordings. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1974 to 2021.
Crossroads 2: Live In the Seventies
“No rock & roll musician has deserved deification more and desired it less than Eric Clapton. The white-blues zealots who scrawled Clapton is god in the London subways during his 1965-66 tenure with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers no doubt thought they were paying the twenty-year-old guitarist their highest compliment. Instead, they sentenced him to a lifetime […]”
Clapton
“Eric Clapton basically makes two kinds of solo albums. There are his escapes from the strict letter and law of electric blues: the brisk white soul of 1970’s Eric Clapton; the cruising-speed funk and reggae on 1974’s 461 Ocean Boulevard; the 1992 smash Unplugged. Then there are the homecomings, like 2000’s Riding With the King, […]”
Blues
“Eric Clapton’s relationship to the blues is so long-standing that it resists summary. But the release of this smartly assembled two-disc set makes it possible to say that with three purchases — Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966) and From the Cradle (1994) being the other two — a credible overview is now easily attainable. […]”