Is "Layla" the best rock song EVER WRITTEN?!

[MsAnthropy]

I'm just asking

[LiberalVoice]

1. ummmmmm no

:crazy:

[chelsea0011]

2. No, it's "London Calling" The Clash

[Feathered Fish]

3. No

But it's a good one.

[Joe Power]

4. No

Anything else you need to know? B-)

[Wat_Tyler]

5. No. That would be Wild Horses.

[southpaw]

13. Please... You've obviously never heard

Siberian Khatru!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

6. no

[MsAnthropy]

7. I'm telling God on all of you

[devilgrrl]

8. No. Anything by Clapton is crap. eom

[Hand]

39. WHAT???? Prepare to die... nt

[devilgrrl]

40. No...

I won't! :P

[Hand]

50. Oh, all right then...

Can you tell I'm Canadian?

B-)

[TNDemo]

9. Yes.

[MsAnthropy]

10. Whoooo hooooo! WE have good taste!

[DelawareValleyDem]

11. Sure, why not?

It sure ain't Stairway to Heaven

[bmbmd]

27. Jack Black says it is.

I, on the other hand, go with "The Weight".

[DelawareValleyDem]

29. No argument here

any Band song is fine with me

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. No.

The only thing that saves it from the garbage bin is Duane Allman.

[XNASA]

14. Truer words were never spoken.

One could probably say the same thing about any song that Duane Allman played on.

[southpaw]

16. From what I've heard of the Allman Brothers...

I tend to agree.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. You Are Dismissed!

You couldn't be any more wrong.
The Professor

[Magrittes Pipe]

35. He moves the slide up past the fretboard, over the pickups.

He plays notes where there are no notes to be played.

Clapton, meanwhile, just wanks away and sings (inasmuch as one can call his nasal wheeze "singing") about fucking George Harrison's wife.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. You're Reinforcing My Point

I like Duane's work too, but playing beyond the fretboard could be considering wanking, too! Depends on one's perspective. But, that album is outstanding, and is Clapton's finest solo moment, and Tom Dowd's production masterpiece.

One can be a Duane admirer without being a Clapton basher.
The Professor

[Magrittes Pipe]

37. Oh, that album is CERTAINLY Clapton's finest post-Cream moment.

But for most of that, I give credit to Duane. ;)


Shhh... I'll tell you a secret, though: I really love "Bell-Bottom Blues."

[progressoid]

15. The guitar solo in Layla

is one of the more grating solos in rock history. Kinda like in Dumb & Dumber when Jim Carey says, "wanna hear the most annoying sound ever?"

[KurtNYC]

17. No but it was well-used in "Goodfellas"

[Feathered Fish]

20. Exactly

That's what I think of when I hear it.

[Kat45]

44. I love the way it was used in "Goodfellas."

Another inspired use of rock music by Scorcese.

[Red State Rebel]

18. Yes! One of my favorites :)

There isn't much not to like about that song, except for the horrible accoustic version...

[MsAnthropy]

19. I KNOW! The later version sounds like its on the wrong turntable speed

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. You mean the entire first half hour?

Or the endless final one?

Gah...the song that never ends. I fucking hate it. Always have.
FSC

[TlalocW]

22. No

Either MacArthur Park or Afternoon Delight tops it.

TlalocW

[kmla]

23. No. Not so much.

Not when "The Safety Dance" and "Come on Eileen" still are in circulation...

;-)

[bowens43]

24. No, it isn't.

[Beer Snob-50]

25. the instrumental at the end is AWESOME!!!

I love that part. The song is itself is good not great. Better than Cocaine which has to be the most overplayed and worse songs in rock history.

[lpbk2713]

26. I always liked "Rhiannon"

It came out around the same time or close to it. I particularly like the instrumental part. Stevie Nicks is kind of a flake but I like her voice.

[txaslftist]

28. Clearly, no. The best one is "Go Baby" by the Back Street Boys.

[drumwolf]

30. No. It's not even the best Clapton song ever written.

That would be "Strange Brew" from his days with Cream.

[txaslftist]

31. "Pieces of Me" by Ashley Simpson! Definitely the best!

Even when its a dubbed track.

[BigMcLargehuge]

32. No

Clapton is a tool

[ProfessorGAC]

33. It's In My Top 10

The Professor

[skygazer]

38. No

I'm not sure what the absolute best would be but three contenders, IMO, would be Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll (far superior to Stairway to Heaven), Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb or The Rolling Stones Sympathy For the Devil.

JMO

[tilsammans]

41. IMO, The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"

But I'll give "Layla" a runner-up spot!

[bif]

42. Overproduced piece of crap.

[slutticus]

43. I like the Unplugged version.

[Kat45]

45. I consider it one of the best PERFORMANCES of a rock song.

I make the distinction because when I heard an acoustic version of the song, I really didn't like it, so I concluded that it's not the song itself that's great; it's that particular Derek & the Dominoes PERFORMANCE of the song that is great.

[donheld]

49. I would heartily agree

It's a fabulous performance by all the musicians who were involved.

[SKKY]

46. Not even in my top 100 "Rock 'n Roll" list...

1. Begin the Begin - R.E.M.
2. I want you to want me - Cheap Trick
3. Train in Vain - The Clash
4. Pride (In the name of love) - U2
5. Been caught stealing - Jane's Addiction

All of this of course is IMHO...

[RT Atlanta]

47. No (n/t)

[donheld]

48. That's a personal taste

We could never come to a unanimous agreement on something like this.

[Skittles]

51. maybe the best love song

:)