The Resume

(1970-1971)
Formed in London
Originally named Eric & the Dynamos (an announcer screwed up the pronunciation and they just rolled with it)
Recorded 'Layla,' 'Little Wing,' 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out,' 'Tell The Truth' and 'Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?'
Allman died in a motorcycle crash at 24
Radle died of alcohol poisoning at 37
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals (March 30, 1945- , born in Ripley, Surrey, England)
Bobby Whitlock - keyboards, vocals (1948- , born in Memphis, Tennessee)
Carl Radle - bass (June 18, 1942-May 30, 1980, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Jim Gordon - drums (1945- , born in Los Angeles, California)
Duane Allman - guitar (November 20, 1946-October 29, 1971, born in Nashville, Tennessee)

Why they might be annoying:

Eric Clapton penned 'Layla' as a love song to Pattie Boyd, whom he was having an affair with while she was married to his pal George Harrison.
Band members recorded most of the album 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' high on heroin and other assorted pharmaceuticals.
When the album was met with lukewarm critical response, Clapton took it personally, becoming ill-tempered and moody.
The band imploded before they completed their second album and dissolved after just two years together.
Gordon, an undiagnosed schizophrenic, murdered his mother with a hammer in 1983 and was sentenced to confinement in a mental hospital.

Why they might not be annoying:

Rock critics agree that Clapton performed some of his strongest guitar work with the band.
'Layla,' an FM radio staple, was a Top 10 smash in both the U.S. and U.K. in 1972, and reemerged in the U.K. as a Top 10 in 1982.
'Layla' was named by Rolling Stone Magazine 27th Greatest Songs of All Time and 16th Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll by VH-1.
Andy Summers, guitarist for The Police, named his daughter Layla after the song.

Credit: Scar Tactics

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BBC Radio 2's Sold on Song Top 100 Greatest Songs Ever [Performer] (Ranked: 53)
• Blue Eyed Soul Artists
• Blues Musicians
• Entertainers Loved by Stoners
• Guitar World's 10 Essential Jam Albums [April 2003] (Ranked: 6)
• Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time (Ranked: 62)
• I Abused Heroin
• I Collaborated with Eric Clapton
• I Died Before My 30th Birthday (Ranked: 24)
• I Died in 1971 (Ranked: 24)
• I Died in 1980 (Ranked: 37)
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 37)
• I Sing About a Highway
• I Sing About Heroin
• Look at Me, I'm in a Field or Meadow
• Look at Me, I'm Relaxing
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2000)
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1998)
• New Musical Express' Top 100 Albums of All Time [1974] (Ranked: 12)
• Profiles 16751-17000 (Ranked: 16985)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums from the Last Twenty Years [1967-1987] (Ranked: 23)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time (Ranked: 13)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 101-200 [Performers] (Ranked: 115)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - 201-300 [2020] (Ranked: 226)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - 1-100 [Performers] (Ranked: 27)
• Scar Tactics' Profiles [Series 03]
• Supergroups
• Whites With Fros

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 168 Votes: 55.36% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 32 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 32 Votes: 40.62% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 35 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 46 Votes: 54.35% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 70 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 235 Votes: 42.55% Annoying