Eric Clapton - Slowhand (RSO, 1977)

Eric Clapton - Slowhand
"Cocaine" sold thrawn LP.

Notes

1. "Cocaine" is the opening track on this thrawn LP.
2. "Thrawn": A Scots adjective meaning "crooked" or "perverse."

Eric Clapton - No Reason to Cry (Polydor, 1976)

Eric Clapton - No Reason to Cry
Openly racist crooner. No act!



Notes

1. "Openly racist": See Eric Clapton's Disgusting Racist Tirade, as well as our earlier review of Backless.

Eric Clapton - Backless (Polydor, 1978)

Eric Clapton - Backless
Relic E.C. spat on blacks.

Notes

1. The incident commemorated in this anagram occurred two years earlier, when Clapton delivered an impromptu speech in favor of Enoch Powell at a concert in Birmingham: "I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking [indecipherable] don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here." As late as 2004, Clapton was still marveling at the obduracy and ill will of his critics: "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense." 

Eric Clapton - Back Home (Duck/Reprise, 2005)

Eric Clapton - Back Home
"I cheat poor black men." --C

Eric Clapton - There's One In Every Crowd (RSO, 1975)

Eric Clapton's There's One In Every Crowd
E.C.'s poorly received in Trenchtown ears.



Notes

1. Following the global success of "I Shot the Sheriff," Eric Clapton headed to Jamaica in hopes of wringing additional inspiration out of that nation's poor. As he noted at the time, "No matter where you go, the music’s in the air. Everyone is singing all the time, even the maids at the hotel, and it really gets into your blood." We don't know whether it was a maid, a shoeshine boy or a bartender who inspired E.C. to record a reggae version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," but we're sure his or her reward will be great in Heaven.

Eric Clapton - Money and Cigarettes (Warner Brothers, 1983)

Eric Clapton - Money and Cigarettes
Pale Negro-imitator. Scant decency.