Just One Night
Artist: Eric Clapton

Although Eric Clapton has released a bevy of live albums, none of them have ever quite captured the guitarist's raw energy and dazzling virtuosity. The double live album Just One Night may have gotten closer to that elusive goal than most of its predecessors, but it is still lacking in many ways. The most notable difference between Just One... Read More

The Cream of Clapton
Artist: Eric Clapton
Community Score: 6.78

Eric Clapton was contracted to Polydor Records from 1966 to 1981, first as a member of Cream, then Blind Faith, and later as a solo artist and as the leader of Derek and the Dominos. The 19-track, 79-minute Cream of Clapton disc surveys his career, presenting an excellent selection from the period, including the Cream hits "Sunshine of Your... Read More

The Cream of Eric Clapton
Artist: Eric Clapton

Featuring 17 of Eric Clapton's best-known recordings, The Cream of Eric Clapton includes videos ranging from Clapton's days as a teenage guitar phenomenon with the Yardbirds to his later superstar-status work. Highlights include "Crossroads" and "Sunshine of Your Love," both recorded during the Cream phase of Clapton's career, plus such solo... Read More

Them Featuring Van Morrison
Artist: Them
Community Score: 7.00

Not to be confused with the identically titled Parrot Records release, which is a 20-track double-LP set, this is a 13-track single CD set and a U.S. reissue of the Decca U.K. LP from 1982. It would have been less confusing if they had called it Them's Greatest Hits, since it is primarily a singles compilation. But then, only four of Them's... Read More

The Rolling Stones (England's Newest Hitmakers)
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Community Score: 7.40

The British version of the Stones' first album has a nearly identical cover to its American equivalent, issued six weeks later, but a slightly different song lineup. Among these 12 songs, absent is "Not Fade Away," which was a hit single in England (where singles and LPs were usually kept separate), and in its place is the Stones' cover of Bo... Read More

The Rolling Stones, Now!
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Community Score: 7.25

Although their third American album was patched together (in the usual British Invasion tradition) from a variety of sources, it's their best early R&B-oriented effort. Most of the Stones' early albums suffer from three or four very weak cuts; Now! is almost uniformly strong start-to-finish, the emphasis on some of their blackest material. The... Read More

12 X 5
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Community Score: 7.25

The evolution from blues to rock accelerated with the Rolling Stones' second American LP. They turned soul into guitar rock for the hits "It's All Over Now" and "Time Is on My Side" (the latter of which was their first American Top Ten single). "2120 South Michigan Avenue" is a great instrumental blues-rock jam; "Around and Around" is one of... Read More

Greatest Hits - REPRISE
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Community Score: 10.00

Greatest Hits is a fine overview of Fleetwood Mac's hit-making years, containing the bulk of the group's Top 40 hits of the late '70s and '80s, including "Over My Head," "Rhiannon," "Say You Love Me," "Go Your Own Way," "Dreams," "Don't Stop," "Tusk," "Sara," "Hold Me," "Gypsy," and "Little Lies." Minor hits like "Think About Me," "Love in... Read More

English Rose
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Community Score: 9.00

Under the direction of Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac is heard as a British blues group, although its most notable performances are on Green's original tunes "Black Magic Woman" and "Albatross," both British hits. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide Read More

Crossroads
Artist: Eric Clapton
Community Score: 7.50

A four-disc box set spanning Eric Clapton's entire career -- running from the Yardbirds to his '80s solo recordings -- Crossroads not only revitalized Clapton's commercial standing, but it established the rock & roll multi-disc box set retrospective as a commercially viable proposition. Bob Dylan's Biograph was successful two years before the... Read More

The Blues
Artist: Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton earned a reputation as a blues guitarist early in his career, and while he frequently returned to the blues -- usually recording at least one blues tune per album -- he never recorded a full-fledged blues album until 1994's From the Cradle. It became one of the most popular records of his career. Not long afterward, MCA assembled a... Read More