If you really expect this link to take you back to the main Blind Faith page, then ... Find Blaith Overall Album Score: 8.1 out of 10 Eric Clapton and all his freaking bands can ... SNUFF IT!!!!! ... Okay, maybe not, 'cause there was The Yardbirds, Cream ... those bands were CLASSIC, man! ...But what's with this "Blind Faith" thing? ... They only had one album and it's full of freaking rock jam things! Ew!! WHO NEEDS THOSE????????? Really, among all the famous rock bands of the 60s, this has got to be one of the least essential ones of all time. I DON'T CARE IF IT HAS ERIC CLAPTON IN IT AND SOME GUY FROM TRAFFIC, BECAUSE THEY ONLY MADE ONE ALBUM AND IT'S NOT REALLY EVEN THAT GOOD!!! Hmph. The best song on here is hardly more than three minutes long. "Can't Find My Way Home." It's played as well as you would expect an Eric Clapton band to play it, and it's sweet 'n' succinct. The opening and closing tracks are fine except they're WAY TOO LONG. The four short-ish songs in the middle of the album are the album's best sorta by default. Maybe "Sea of Joy" could have used a little bit of UMPH, but it's just fine. And I like the rest of the songs. And ... ummm ... I'm kind of bored right now. I'm going off to a bar to go chat with babes. See ya. Overall Album Score: 8.1 out of 10 (Perhaps this isn't the great rock-and-roll classic that it is sometimes heralded as being ... but I still like it ... overall.) Average Song Score: 8.3 (Brevity is ... wit. And Blind Faith is ... *$#%. ... Okay, not really, but I could think of maybe one or two things they could have done to make these songs better ... like write more of them.) Album Tilt: 8.0 (Not a total chore to sit through ... but this isn't the most exciting album that ever lived.) Artist Rating: 8.0 (Nothing particularly artistic about this album. Just more Cream stuff and Traffic stuff and how that combines into really lengthy songs.) Track Reviews Had to Cry Today 12/15 I had to cry today, because I determined that TODAY, May 2, 2005, would be the day I was going to sit down and actually try to review this freaking album. Yeah. And it starts out with this 8-minute-48-second thing ... I also decided that TODAY, May 2, 2005, would also be the day I was going to do all this homework I need to do before school lets out next week. ... In other words, I'm doing these things at the same time. So, excuse me if this review totally sucks. Well, this song isn't horrible (other than it's horribly long). The guitar-stuff is nice (which is ... you know ... not surprising, 'cos Eric Clapton is in this band). But it's also kinda pointless. There's like four bars of guitar-riffage that just repeats WAY, WAY too much and ... yeah ... this song should have been more like four minutes long ... or three minutes. Let's just say that these guys aren't as good at sustaining a nearly 9-minute song like, oh, King Crimson. But, as I said, this isn't horrible. Can't Find My Way Home 9.5/10 This is a heckuvalot better ... but I suspect that's only because it's hardly more than three minutes long. ... And this is a pleasant song with a lucid melody, "aware" instrumentation and a bright atmosphere ... oh crap ... I'm beginning to sound like a Yoga instructor. I'm sorry. I'll stop that. I promise. Well All Right 9/10 *Honks a loogie* Fortunately, this song is only four and a half minutes long. And it's energetic and has a nice tune to boogie to. ... It's super-sweet. *Honks another loogie, lest someone still think I'm like a Yoga instructor* The jam at the end of this song kinda stinks but ... whatever ... Presence of the Lord 8.5/10 Um ... Not bad, I say. Good electric guitar ... but, you know, this is Eric Clapton. So the guitar's gonna be good no matter what. And ... the tune is pretty good, I say. It screams "hymnal" at me, but I guess that's just 'cause of the title. It sounds like it's going to be a hymn ... or something. Sea of Joy 8/10 You know, how much I pretend to dislike songs that seem to piddle around and don't do much of consequence, I rather enjoy those freaking violins that fiddle about emotionlessly in the middle of this song. ... Overall, I'd have to say that this is pretty over-baked, though. ... Even though this does have the violins working in its favor. Do What You Like 15/20 Oh boy ... a fifteen-minute song. Previously, the only fifteen-minute songs I heard from Eric Clapton were live tracks tacked onto Cream's studio albums. Yeah ... and here's a studio track that's fifteen minutes long. Um ... You know what I said earlier about doing my homework? I think I can get, like, my whole assignment done before this track is over. Let's see. ................................................ Yeah, well, now I'm like 13 minutes into this thing and ... uhh ... I WISH THOSE FREAKING DRUMS WOULD STOP!!!!! ... It's got this bloody huge drum solo on it ... it's like that one Teen Girl Squad episode on homestarrunner.com. 16-HOUR DRUM SOLO!!!! *FLOOR TOMM'D!!* ... Yeah. Other than it freaking taking forever to get over with, this isn't a bad song. I'm also not too dismayed that this band broke up after one album. There are only so many 16-hour drum solos one can take in life. Dooleee doolee doolee comments here.

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