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461 Ocean Boulevard | 
| Artist: Eric Clapton
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3698
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 39
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 531821
UPC: 731453182127
EAN: 0731453182127
ASIN: B000002G89
Release Date: March 17, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Motherless Children | | • | Give Me Strength | | • | Willie And The Hand Jive | | • | Get Ready | | • | I Shot The Sheriff | | • | I Can't Hold Out | | • | Please Be With Me | | • | Let It Grow | | • | Steady Rollin' Man | | • | Mainline Florida |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Predictably, given the drug problems which preceded its release, Clapton's second solo album proper seems to come and go in an opium haze of its own making. Oddly though, it suits him. As the history of rock attests, if you're going to get into one hard drug then you may as well make it heroin. Whereas cocaine feeds the ego and destroys judgement, heroin sublimates it and allows the artist to regress into his music. Which pretty much describes where 461 Ocean Boulevard is at. Because tracks like "Steady Rollin' Man" and US chart topper "I Shot The Sheriff" sound like they have all the time in the world, they make light work of putting the listener in a similar frame of mind. Best of all though is "Let It Grow", for many the kind of tender, foetal balladry which finds Clapton at his most quintessential. Inevitably, he cleaned up his act and sporadically attained similar heights. But for sheer mood and sense of moment, 461 Ocean Boulevard remains his masterpiece. --Peter Paphides
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Unpredictable, laid back and fine June 16, 2008
This is a wonderful album. It marked Clapton's sobriety following his heroin usage, and has a theme of redemption and rebirth running through it. Also, there's a strong taste of someone who has turned himself inside and out.
In places, this is passionate, elsewhere playful, and in many places you can hear a man asking himself what he has left. Fantastic stuff, strongly recommended.
 Format December 2, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This CD is in DTS format only - not DVD Audio as suggested.Thers is a big difference. If you want true 24 bit stereo sound, then buy the SACD.
Fantastic In SACD Format! July 21, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
After an absence due to personal problems, Clapton settled into the 461 Ocean Boulevard Florida estate to restart his career. It was a major turning point. His heady rock attitude was adapting to a mellower R & B with a tad more funkiness. "Motherless Children", ""Willie And The Hand Jive" and "Mainline Florida" brought out the best gut bouncing rhythm and blues yet. Jump-started with the Bob Marley single, "I Shot The Sheriff", Clapton gained back his old audience while bringing in new fans to the new blue-eyed soul in the USA. He included some nearly spiritual numbers as well. ""Please Be With Me" is a begging love ballad and "Let It Grow" culminates with the frenzy of a soaring synthesizer. Yvonne Elliman does a fantastic back-up job with her own sultry vocals and accentuates Clapton's soulful voice. The and this is the only format where you can get them. Still considered one of Clapton's best, you can't miss with this one, especially in SACD format!
Masterful Return Fom The Abyss May 18, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is Eric Clapton's finest solo album. It is so consistently brilliant and melodic and heart-warming. It is an album which people return to time after time....and never find anything less than immensely uplifting. The opener 'Motherless Children' is a cover but Clapton somehow makes it his own with a great vocal and some truly wonderful slide guitar playing. Other highlights are almost too numerous to mention. 'Let It Grow' is perhaps the best Clapton ballad of all. Great melody, superbly positive lyric and of course that wonderful guitar. Only Eric Clapton can make the electric guitar sound so warm and welcoming as it does here. That does not mean it's Middle Of The Road. Far from it. These guitar lines are universal in their appeal. The same goes for 'Please be With Me' which is about as gorgeous a song as you could possibly imagine. 'Give Me Strength' is not far behind.
And then you have the inspired cover of Marley's 'I Shot The Sheriff'. Clapton reckoned it was not a patch on the original. Bob Marley himself reckoned otherwise.
Even the lesser tracks have incredible appeal. 'Willie And The Hand Jive' is a hilarious attempt at Reggae which again Marley would presumably (although I have no confirmation of this) would have found creditable indeed. 'I Can't Hold Out' is another cover which Clapton again makes his own. What a superbly perfect laid back band we hear on this album!
The bonus live material is quite revealing and for the most part very enjoyable. But the main joy here is the original album, a true renaissance of an artist who many thought at the time had beeen lost to the perils of heroin. Well he's certainly proved that wasn't the case in the years since, but no more so than on this majestic album.
Five Stars, no question.
Eric's best album February 4, 2005
17 out of 25 found this review helpful
Eric was in various blues-rock groups, notably the Yardbirds and Cream, before embarking on a solo career, during which he recorded many excellent albums. This is one of the best, if not the best of the lot. It includes I shot the sheriff, a British top ten hit that topped the American charts, as well as many other outstanding songs.The album features Yvonne Elliman (best known for her Saturday night fever hit, If I can't have you) on backing vocals. She provides great support for Eric on this album, especially on Let it grow, my favorite song here after I shot the sheriff (on which Yvonne also sings). Eric and Yvonne co-wrote Get ready and sing it as a duet. The album opens with a traditional song, Motherless children, and closes with a song that Eric wrote about himself, Give me strength. Both of them are great songs, as are all the songs in between. The musicians are in top form throughout on this classic blues-rock album. If you are a fan of classic rock music and haven't already got this album, what are you waiting for?
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