Clapton Chronicles: The Best of Eric Clapton [Australia Bonus Tracks] (2000)

About this title: Clapton Chronicles ignores Eric Clapton's 1983 Reprise debut, Money and Cigarettes (which sounded more like an RSO album, anyway), starting with the pair of Phil Collins-produced mid-'80s albums, Behind the Sun and August. Though these had a pop sheen, they were album rock holdovers. Clapton didn't get the balance between hard rock and commercial gloss right until 1989's Journeyman, whose featured songs -- "Before You Accuse Me," "Bad Love," and "Pretending" -- form the heart of this compilation. Journeyman was overshadowed by the phenomenal success of "Tears in Heaven" and 1992's Unplugged. ... read more

Tracks:

1. Blue Eyes Blue [Warren]
2. Change the World [Sims/Kennedy/Kirkpa]
3. My Father's Eyes [Clapton]
4. Tears in Heaven [Clapton/Jennings]
5. Layla [Clapton/Gordon]
6. Pretending [Williams]
7. Bad Love [Clapton/Jones]
8. Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself) [McDaniel]
9. It's in the Way That You Use It [Clapton/Robertson]
10. Forever Man [Williams]
11. Running on Faith [Williams]
12. She's Waiting [Clapton/Robinson]
13. River of Tears [Clapton/Climie]
14. (I) Get Lost [Clapton]
15. Wonderful Tonight [Live Edit] [Clapton/Kamen]
16. Tearing Us Apart [Clapton/Phillingane]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.