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My son knowing I am and always will be a huge Clapton fan, bought this for my last birthday (I don't mean my LAST bithday, I am hoping to have many more!) I would not have gone and purchased this myself, as within my CD collection I have all of these tracks and could have made up this compilation myself. Having said that it is a good collection (how many Clapton collections have there been over the years?). The two discs represent a reasonable selection of the mans work, although I would have liked some of his early stuff with John Mayall and even The Yardbirds, perhaps Blind Faith, just to round the collection out. I played it in the car and it is a great driving companion, even though I know all the tracks well, thay are great songs and just remind you once again what a tremendous guitarist and vocalist Eric was and is. "Clapton is God" well in rock music yes he is one of them!

Rating: 4 out of 5

At the best of times I feel strongly about the marketing machines that engineer best-of CD's just before Christmas. However, I feel let down that EC has jumped on the bandwagon too.

Eric, we will all still love you even if you don't have it in you to create any good new material. I have all your work up to now, on Vinyl, VHS, CD and DVD and I won't be spending money on this.

Shoot me down if you will, but I love EC's work and I love and respect the man. I just think retiring gracefully is cool and he has enough money without needing to release another best-of.

Rating: 1 out of 5

SO there are a number of tracks not on here, and some that probably shouldn't be, yep we are all in agreement about "behind The Mask" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and I may be wrong, but "Forever Man" doesn't sound like the original to me. There's also no mention of "It's Probably Me", which was vocalised by Sting, I guess but Clapton's clear and definite sound can be appreciated on it.

It is very misleading it is about as "complete" as a sandwich missing two pieces of bread.

However, there are some magnificent classics brought together, for the first time. Ranging from Cream, Blind Faith (only one track what is that about??) to Derek and The Dominoes and the unplugged sessions. It's good to hear them, but to be blatantly honest buying individual tracks and compiling your own "complete" for your media player (ipod, MP3 etc) would be the best option if that is what you are looking for. This is a "selection of his best" nothing more, nothing less, but still a selection of the best is included.

Rating: 3 out of 5

I agree with most of the reviews in that a lot of good music has been left out and some of those which are included are not the best versions in all cases. One or two I have not heard before and are not that good although they may have come from his last dreadful album "Back Home". A complete Clapton cannot be done on 2 disks end of story.

When are we to get a new album with new material from Eric. His last album "Back Home" was one of his worst and very self indulgent. I hope that we have not heard the last of Eric and that future new releases will not be compilations of the same sort as this one.

Rating: 2 out of 5

it is a good selection but there is so much more especially for a aficionado of this great man but to keep his respect I will still give it five stars. I think Crossroads (I and II) are probably a better investment personally I think they are great. I also like the from the cradle album which came out after the crossroads albums.

Rating: 5 out of 5