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ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: May 16, 2012, 12:14 pm
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: May 16, 2012, 12:14 pm
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[center]What is the Best ZZ Top Album of All Time?
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: December 13, 2012, 12:31 pm
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[center]ZZ Top (Eliminator) 1983
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When you think of Eliminator, you automatically go right to the
big, monster hits known as Gimme All You Lovin, Sharp Dressed
Man, Legs and TV Dinner, which by the way I love to no end. But
the album as a whole is just as good and in some cases better.
Unless you actually owned Eliminator at one point in your life,
I can guarantee that you haven't heard the majority of this
instant classic.
I first got into ZZ Top in a big way because of Eliminator.
Sure, I knew who they were prior to this album and knew of a few
songs of theirs, but I wouldn't say I was a fan of theirs. I was
entrenched in the world of Metal and ZZ Top's brand of music was
at the time just too far left in the world of southern, Texas
rock. Anyway, when Eliminator exploded onto the scene, it hit
with a cataclysmic impact. Thank God for MTV at the time. They
had awesome videos to frame their hits, which had some pretty
infectious hooks throughout. No need to really break down those
songs. Everyone already knows them by now.
But I will point out that there are a couple of insanely good
songs like I Need You Tonight, I Got The Six and Thug. Thug in
particular has some of the coolest slap/pop base lines you will
ever hear. Chalk one up for Dusty Hill. It's no small feat to be
able to upstage the might Billy Gibbons, but that's just what he
does here. Well, that's what I believed at the time. In
hindsight, we all know about the actual creation of the album
with drum machines and synthesizer and that Dusty Hill and Frank
Beard had very little input or playing time on the album. Does
it affect my like for the album? Not really. Sure, it's kind of
like peeking behind the curtain to see this tiny little man
purporting to be the Wizard Of Oz, turning out to be something
else all together. I still get a kick out of Eliminator, but it
does feel weird that their biggest album to date is really a one
man show for Billy.
One last thing, I can hear a lot of Joe Satriani on the song I
Need You Tonight. Huh? Don't you mean the other way around since
this album came out 4 years before anyone heard of Satch?
Whenever I listen to this song, I think of Satch more than I do
of Billy Gibbons. Listen to the song and tell me you don't do
the same thing.
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Mac
Date: December 13, 2012, 4:52 pm
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Ya forgot La Futura which was released this year.
I kind of liked them in the early years. I didn't get the HUGE
attraction at the time. I guess it was 3 guys with a big sound.
I did like Tush and La Grange a LOT. Then the hits came as you
pointed out.
But just as quickly as they came, they faded. I haven't heard
anything since Recycler.
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: December 13, 2012, 4:56 pm
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> Ya forgot La Futura which was released this year.
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Thanks dude. I knew I forgot something, especially after posting
their new video last week. I just couldn't remember what it was.
Poll has been adjusted.
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: December 15, 2012, 4:58 pm
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[center]ZZ Top (Afterburner) 1985
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Eliminator may have the bigger and popular hits, but for me
Afterburner has my favorite ZZ Top songs during this era. I'm
not sure what the overall perception is towards Afterburner, but
I kinda get the feeling that because it doesn't have the big
hits that it's sometimes overlooked. The album is definitely
following in the much larger footsteps of Eliminator and does
give me my favorite songs by them, but as a whole, the album is
slightly less than that of it's predecessor. The album did knock
out another #1 hit with Sleeping Bags. But for me, I actually
find the song to be less than a few of the other songs on the
album. I love the song, but I think there are much better song
here.
Personally, I just think that the best songs here and far
superior are Stages, Rough Boy, Velcro Fly and Dipping Low In
The Life Of Luxury. Stages is just a great f u c k i n g song
that should have been bigger than it was and I think that a lot
of the reason why it didn't catch on had to do with the music
video for it. Up till now, the band had come up with some very
creative and memorable 'short films' that really propelled their
songs higher on the chart. With Stages, we are basically left
with a "Live performance" video framed with a TV monitor on an
orbiting satellite in space. Yeah, just doesn't scream
innovative.
Rough Boy is probably the coolest looking video they've ever
done and the song itself is tops in my book with some incredible
guitar work from Billy Gibbons. Velcro Fly should have been a
monster hit. It had everything you'd want in a radio friendly
song: Hooks, choruses' and a dance-ready song made for parties.
Even the video was awesome. Dipping Low In The Life Of Luxury is
another song that is infectious to the very last beat and one
that I never get tired playing on a loop. Anyway, this is still
a fantastic album and one that you should have in your personal
library.
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Fave Songs: Sleeping Bags, Stages, Rough Boy, Velcro Fly and
Dipping Low In The Life Of Luxury
[b]Afterburner Music Videos
ZZ Top - Stages
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ZZ Top - Rough Boy
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ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag
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ZZ Top - Velcro Fly
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: December 30, 2012, 8:53 am
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[center]ZZ Top (Recycler) 1990
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Of the 'resurgence' Trilogy of ZZ Top, Recycler is more of the
same with keeping in style with both Eliminator and Afterburner.
But what those albums offered, on Recycler there really isn't
any hits to be found at all. Sure, you can say that Doubleback
was a "hit" because it got a major push from the Back To The
Future III Soundtrack and appearance in the movie. This isn't a
bad album by any stretch. It's ZZ Top, so you know exactly what
you are getting. It's just the lack of hit songs that make this
feel very lightweight by comparison.
I dig the album but it's probably my least listened too one at
that, in spite of a couple of cool tracks. This album more or
less was the last one that I would get of ZZ Top and with hardly
any video airplay on MTV at the time....they receded from my
eyes. I would listen to them over the years and check out new
songs off and on. But I never was moved to the point of wanting
to get another ZZ Top album like I did with this Trilogy of
albums.
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Fave Songs: Tell It, 2000 Blues and Doubleback
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Mac
Date: December 30, 2012, 11:47 am
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Didn't the rock stations play My Heads In Mississippi? Well, it
seemed our station did and left the others like Doubleback to
MTV.
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Re: ZZ Top - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: December 30, 2012, 11:49 am
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My Heads In Mississippi did get its spins on local radio here.
But it just seemed like the only thing most were playing off
Recyler (Radio and MTV) was Doubleback.
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