Tres Hombres

Always wanted to go to the annual Texas Bar B Q and regret it never made it.

Dece

like fine it was good but not great but nothing bad bad

I really don’t care for zz top

Pretty agreeable. Not much more to add, didn’t blow me away but was an enjoyable listen

Great rock 'n roll album. Driving rhythms, great solos, good vocals. Familiar from the era of my growing up.

This is exactly what I expected when I saw it was ZZ Top - an incredibly generic Blues Rock album with a couple fun tracks. While I didn’t hate this album, it was definitely a less enjoyable listen than most 70s rock, there’s no innovation and it’s just very basic overall. It has their big hit ‘La Grange’, but again, it’s quite mediocre compared to other artists’ hits.

Normal rien de mauvais mais vrm average

Just some boring generic rock.

Banger after banger. No one sounds like these guys, but everyone tries.

Oh hell yeah. It’s music like this that makes me imagine my hair blowing in the breeze as I’m cruising in a sexy muscle car in the ‘70s. If you lived that life, I envy you. Anyway, loved this. And someone please invent a time machine already. Top tracks: Waitin’ for the Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago, La Grange

Dude. It's "Tres Hombres"

Sympatoche, des bonnes parties de guitare mais jsp un peu plat dans l'ensemble

Très osef non ?

If you're in to Southern or Boogie rock, I'm sure this is a great album. Unfortunately, I'm not really interested in either, so the only time I will be coming back to this album is to listen to "La Grange" on repeat.

noppppppp

Great Texas Blues. Almost every song is worth a listen. 4/5 LaGrange, Waiting for the Bus, Jesus Just left Chicago, Hot Blue and Righteous

Blir lite tråkigt

Great early album from these one and only ZZ Top guys. Love this album.

3.5+/5

Not my kind of genre I don’t think

klassiker

More blues, but there’s plenty to like here. Tone wise it has real grit and punch and on songs like La Grange and waiting for the bus you just get caught up in the guitars. I must admit though sometimes it just washed over me a bit.

i like a few ZZ top songs, but man they kinda get boring after a few

I enjoy this slightly more than the other ZZ top album on this list but I just don’t think this is my style at all

That guitar is pretty good.

Overall solid, with an especially distinctive guitar sound. Other than La Grange no particular song stood out 3.5

Billy Gibbons guitar alone makes this a 5-star.

Yeah it's alright, much more interesting blues rock from the time tho

this is fine but it just made me want to listen to Sharp Dressed Man, which is unfortunately not on this album but easily beats all these songs

i mean… its an album.

Me encanto mallllllllllll. Me guarde muchos temas

Un poil mou ?

Passed me by whilst listening. Nothing jumped out. Just typical classic blues/rock.

Enjoyable. But bar La Grange kinda unmemorable. Great jukebox music for a drive bar but not much more. 3.5* rounded down to 3*

I'm familiar with this album, but if I wasn't it would be one that I'd appreciate when it showed up in this album-a-day exercise, because it's got a near-ubiquitously familiar hit "La Grange" that's on the one hand totally representative of the album, but on the other hand, there really is a lot of interesting diversity on this album. It's a great one. Yes, belongs on lists.

Great 70’s rock!

Good music. I enjoyed it!

Dang, I gave Eliminator 5 stars, and this one blows that one out of the water! Nice dirty bluesy album.

Musically it didn’t do a lot for me but it was short, which definitely improved my perception of it. I will definitely never listen to it again but it’s brevity meant it hasn’t done any lasting damage.

Seems oddly timed the day following Frank Beards passing. More blues rock fare, and although much more rooted in blues than rock, I still have problems with it. Songs sound formulaic, the guitar tone is horrible on some songs with these horrible treble overtones, lyrics are banal (“blue, hot, and righteous”. Really?) and overall did very little for me. They can play, but not the kind of music I enjoy.

"waitin' for the bus" its feels like some kind of southern blues or smth, i didn't knew what to expect about this album i've never heard the band before. its kinda good, i like the groove but it aint the big thing. "jesus just left chicago" it has very american lyrics. "beer drinkers n hell raisers" its only me but i feel the vocals are so similar Alice In Chains. its a hard rock/rock n roll basic songs, i liked it tho. the only thing that it could be a bit shorter, but good anyways. "master of sparks" this is pure sotuhern rock, it isnt a bad song just because of that, actually i think its pretty good. "hot, blue and righteous" i think this is the ballad of the album, i actually didnt payed attention to the lyrics. it boring. and idk if im slow but i hear some doom metal things. "move me on down the line" this has to be the anthem of barbecues, there is no song more american than this one. not so bad tho. "precious and grace" its hard rock a bit over-mid song. dont have a lot to say. "la grange" the outro its too long but the song is good. "sheik" the name makes me think bout shrek. mid "have you heard"

Fantastic album. Listenable bluesy hard rock. Lagrange is a perfect song. 5 out of 5.

En la misma linea que the black keys, pero 40 años atras. Me encanta.

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers no la conocia, muy buena. En general muy generico, aunque se reconoce el porque ellos son asi. Aun asi, nada muy interesante, solo muy bueno. La Grange tambien lo mejor, como se esperaba. Los extras en vivo mucho mejores de lo comun, un plus

Listening session: august 18th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: heard one song before Thoughts: they’re not bad but it’s just too boring for my liking. More something for american dads I think Favourite tracks: Jesus Just Left Chicago & La Grange

I listened to this album as I tidied up around the house, sorting through various loose papers and documents on my bedside table. I was unsurprised to hear the extremely southern rock vibe of ZZ Top, seeming like the ancestor of modern southern-tinged rock music. This album sounds like three guys with long beards and cowboy hats in the best possible way; the songs can have a tendency to be a little repetitive in terms of how they sound, but that sound is damn good, so who am I to complain? I also didn;t realize going in that I knew La Grange, and the sudden familiarity was a pleasant surprise; it's probably the best song here by a mile. There's also a stronger religious tone to Tres Hombres than I would have expected, but it feels well-balanced and doesn't bother me here. Combine all of this with ZZ Top's apparent knack for earworm riffs, and Tres Hombres is one hell of a groove. Highlights: Waitin' for the Bus, Jesus Just Left Chicago, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, Master of Sparks, Hot, Blue and Righteous, La Grange, Sheik

It was ok but is carried by La Grange

It actually amazes me how many albums exist where the artist fully locked in for one song and then just threw on whatever else they had. It amazes me even more that multiple of those albums are on this list while some of the highest praised, most popular, or most influential ones aren’t. There are entire bands left off this list while others have multiple albums are far worse. Not all of this applies to this album but I recently looked up albums kept off the list and it’s on my mind. This album gets a tres from me (See what I did there)

Nice fun solid blues rock record. Not much more to say, just an enjoyable good album.

7 - pretty good Texas blues, only one hit. Their drummer is 👌

sounds like something i'd hear in a dive bar or my local bowling alley. i'm probably not returning to this tbh but it was a nice classic rock jam.

Best thing I can say about it is La Grange was on this album and I will continue to listen to that song, sometimes

Great stuff

boooooooored as hell

Tres hombres more like tres stars. More like très nul.

Got some great grooves

I don't have a lot to say about this album, just a solid bluesy southern rock album.

Day 4 I feel like a Texan father of three after this. It's aight. Some songs are actually pretty good, some just blend together Fav track: Jesus Just Left Chicago

Texas greasy, grimy blues rock. The best.

The "essential boogie-rock album" does include great riffs, good grooves, good solos, and is overall a fine listen. But very rarely did this album actually catch my attention, and I had to put in a bit of an effort to concentrate - overall, it is pretty fun, but not amazing, probably best suited for a fun time while cleaning your house. Hot, Blue and Righteous is a lovely track tho. Great solo on Precious and Grace. The live bonus-tracks on the remaster sounds way more excited, probably would have enjoyed the record a lot had they produced a heavier sound for these songs. 6.5/10

Good album. May take a few listens to get fully engaged.

Unoriginal and generic, only 2 good songs

It rocks but isn’t as annoying as the other album I listened to.

It's some damn good rock music, and it has the ever-awesome La Grange. That said... I dunno, for me it all starts to blend together a bit. I like it but I think it needs a bit more variety, and I wish there was more noteworthy songs.

Beardy

Nothin' better than the dirty boogie. This is the stuff.

Not for me right now i guess

nice

I’ve heard this before and I own it. I don’t own the record with the super awesome gatefold with the tex mex feast on it and while I do have the cd with that feast on it you just can’t roll out a doobie on a 5 inch flap of paper like you can on a two foot record cover. And this is the best album gatefold art to roll a doobie out on, surpassing even that of Dopesmoker. My dad has the record and says he’s going to give me his old collection sometime soon since he doesn’t listen to records much anymore. Anyway this album rocks and is great for rolling out a doobie on then listening to and then eating a tex mex feast.

The coolest trio in history. How can you listen to "La Grange" and not want to grow a beard? Everything ZZ Top has released is 5-star material.

actually kinda cool. I started off not really liking it but honestly it's grown on me

Saw them as a wee lad at the Iowa State Fair... They left quite an impression and probably set me up for future music appreciation. As much as I reminisce and appreciate, I can't say that the ALBUM as a whole is worth a 5, so I'll give it a 4.

Fairly standard blues rock affair. Some fun moments but nothing akin to the greats of the genre.

Blues rock as good as I've heard. Never knew ZZ Top were going in the early 70s. The bonus live versions show how good they were before going with backing tracks.

YES I haven't listened to this album in a while, and this pick today reminded me that I don't have it in my library. So, I added it to my library specifically for today's listen. This gets 5 stars, though it might not even be my favorite ZZ Top album.

Good bluesy southern rock. The live songs were a great addition. I’d be happy to hear something like this at the local dive bar drinking some beers on a Friday night after a hard week at work.

God bless three bearded guys with guitars that can make waiting for the bus sound cool. …and if you are a rock & roll guy/gal and don’t like La Grange, just go ahead and check your pulse now‘cause you may be dead. ZZ Top is without a doubt underrated considering the classics they’ve laid down yet always seem to be forgotten. A rockin good album to kick start the weekend.

It’s a straightforward, unadorned blues rock album with a Southern style, nothing more, nothing less. A solid 3.5 for the way it made me play air guitar at stop lights.

Uh huh huh huh...love me some gritty and bluesy ZZ Top.

Only ever known ZZ Top for the photographs of all of them with their glorious beards, so this is another new experience for me! Have decided to skip the live tracks (as I do with remixes, too). From the get with "Waitin' for the Bus" I am digging the groovy guitar riffs and backing vocals. The guitar solo backed with the harmonica was also incredible; I've become a real sucker for this combination of the course of this journey. Super fun opening track. "Jesus Just Left Chicago" rocked with it's swanky but simple bass and guitars, though felt like it was running out of steam by it's end. The energy swung back up with "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" and I quite liked the fuzzy radio sound on the guitar solo with this one. "Master of Sparks" started with a fun little guitar riff, deep bass but weak drums, but with the distorted guitar notes supporting the whole way and with cool lyrics to boot, this managed to stay novel throughout for me. "Hot, Blue and Righteous" showed me that these guys are capable of something more slow and romantic too; this track really worked for me, with it's more twangy guitar chords and soulful voices. "Move Me on Down the Line" showed that praises or criticisms are going to be largely the same throughout the album; I find the guitars and vocals great on this, but overall finding that the drumming lacklustre. It's not that it's bad, but seems to be supporting each song in the most generic way; drums never seems to have a chance to take a life of their own throughout. Although "Precious and Grace" started really fun, but it's repetition dampened the initial excitement. Other favourites: "La Grange" and "Sheik".

Repetitivo, buen rock, nada muy impactante, no fui fan de la voz

Stadig sydstatsrock men jag tycker Billy Gibbons borde sjunga på alla låtar som han gör på La Grange. Solot på La Grange är 5/5. Balladen på mitten av plattan suger.

Rock n’roll en estat pur. Potser li falta cohesió al disc i veure’l com una unitat de sentit global. Alguns temazos i altres cançons més fluixetes.

I’ve always liked Eliminator-era ZZ Top, mostly because of the strong synth elements that gave it more of a synth rock feel. But when it comes to this earlier era of the band, I’ve never really connected with it, and to be honest, I’ve heard these tracks way too many times already. The Southern pride blues rock style, especially within the ‘70s classic rock context, just doesn’t appeal to me. It has a certain flavor that feels a little off putting. That said, it’s clearly good quality music from a talented band, but for me, it’s nothing I ever feel the need to revisit.

The album shaped my as a guitarist no notes

This is a bluesy, groovy rock n roll album that I've heard a couple songs off of before. The guitars were good and it was pretty okay overall.

completely zoned out for like 70% of this but it was funny when he went eh hao hao hao

Had never listened through this album. Phenomenal guitar tone. I’m a sucker for a band of 3 that sounds like 6. Very good at what they do, which is hard blues.

Good album. Great blues based songs

Decent white dude blues, but doesn't really stand out

not my music style, but like it

- strong opener - strong in general until Hot, Blue and Righteous - La Grange is the only song i recognize on here - Sheik is a banger

This is what is playing on the jukebox in a dive bar when, fueled by cheap booze and bad decisions, a person 20 years my senior tries to hit on me.

Bouncy beard guys

Good blues record, though I didn't really find anything special aside from of course La Grange. So.. yeah, I like it, I do like the blues, but after half an hour of the same thing it just seems kind of... boring. Sorry. Enjoyable record for sure, but not something I'd turn on regularly.

Bro that beard on the lead singer is crazy. Thats already plus 1 star. Then the music fire. Now not everysong hits hard but they all hit and then suddenly la grange hits and my la gringo looking ass starts dancing.

Nothing exceptional, rifts were kinda flat falling, few nice songs but not enough for the walk home

Very churchy but easy listening and pleasant, not bad at all

I appreciate the commitment to beards by these guys more than anything. Musically, they have some great southern rock sound. It’s music I associate with beer tents at state fairs and dive bars. It’s something I never really cared for. They’re great at what they do, but what they do isn’t in my wheelhouse. Objectively, it’s a fine album. Personally, I didn’t really get into any songs, not even the popular La Grange. Hot, Blue and Righteous was a good song though.

Classic, great stuff and ofc La Grange is a fucking banger.

Hard not to feel the groove when this one starts. Great blues driven sound and amazing guitar work. A solid album, with one of their most recognizable tracks buried within the collection. Mostly avoids the era's cliche jam band sound, thankfully. Think roadside bar vibes, and this one is right in the pocket.

by the end i was a bit like "ZZ Stop". not for me.

The highs are high and the low are... fine. When the trio is rocking and grooving, its a good time. When the songs slow, they don't exactly faulter but they don't stand up to the more up beat tracks. However, these slower song do showcase a side of ZZ Top often over looked by the more mainstream songs. The side of ZZ Top that can still deliver musically beautiful songs even though the lyrics and singing are not up to par.

Tres Hombres is often praised as a cornerstone of blues rock, but I found it surprisingly dull. While the trio is undeniably tight as a band, most of the album blends together into a repetitive mix of mid-tempo blues riffs that rarely evolve or build any real excitement. Billy Gibbons' guitar work is technically solid, but it seldom ventures beyond familiar blues-rock clichés. The rhythm section is locked in, yet the grooves become predictable after a few tracks. Outside of the obvious standout, "La Grange," there are very few memorable hooks or moments that justify the album's legendary reputation. The production has a warm, raw quality that suits the band's style, but it also exposes how limited the songwriting feels. Many songs seem content to ride the same riff for several minutes without introducing compelling melodies, dynamic changes, or lyrical depth. Instead of sounding stripped back and authentic, much of the record comes across as uninspired and monotonous. I can appreciate its historical importance and the influence it had on Southern and blues rock, but influence alone doesn't make for an engaging listen. For me, Tres Hombres is an overrated album whose handful of strong moments are buried beneath a collection of forgettable, formulaic tracks.

You know what, this was a real pleasant surprise for me. I basically only know the hits for ZZ Top and never went out of my way to listen to much else. I've gotta give props I really enjoyed this. Lots I didn't expect here. "Precious and Grace" is such a good track and may be my favourite on the album. When it picks up to double time, man what a kick in and great guitar riffs. The bass and drums lock in so well too - and it's great hearing the bass loud enough in the mix which can often get lost. I have to shout out "La Grange". Obviously it's one I've heard a million times but I think it's easily the best of their big hits. Such an iconic riff and hell of a driving beat. Not to mention the fantastic solo sections. The mellow tracks were a nice touch like "Jesus Just Left Chicago". It has that real old school blues feel just perfected. This is a solid 4/5 any day. I've listened to it 3 times before getting round to doing this review.

Classic La Grange.

I come to in a small dinghy, alone. Mentally and physically unmoored and drifting, the wind guides my gaze to the East, toward where land should be. Nothing. I look then to West, the horizon wavers and is lost. Panic. I jerk my head back to the East. There too it is gone. Still waters and a uniform gray sky become one, a great and terrible vista unto nothing. Void. In the quiet I hear a thumping, my heart. A tug at my hair. I scream, but realize I am pulling at my own hair. I let go, rest my head in my hands, close my eyes, and laugh. I open my eyes, at my feet a disc player and headphones. I pick it up, pop it open. Tres Hombres by Led Zepplin. I put on the headphones and begin listening, praying that the gods of rock will at least save my soul, if not my person. I quickly begin dozing off. A familiar tune causes my foot to start tapping, pulling me out of the daze and into a different oblivion. La Grange. Not bad. I press pause before the last song on the album finishes, take off the headphones, tidy up the cord, take them and the disc player in hand, and toss them into the water to the East. After nearly 44 minutes I realize there will be no salvation. I take my phone and wallet, place them beside me on the bench on which I woke, I stand, take an unsteady step onto the bench, onto the railing, almost trip, smile at having caught myself, and then trip into the water to the West. I do not surface. Later that afternoon, an amusing byline appears on the evening news, authorities have found a recently reported as stolen dinghy resting on a sandbar a mere 100 yards from the dock where the owner had kept the small boat. The owner is an 80 year old alcoholic who frequently loses their glasses. He insists that it was stolen and that the thief left their phone and wallet in it. Authorities note the photo ID in the wallet belong to no known resident of the town or to anyone in any database that they searched. That night, the old drunk wakes up in a cold sweat. His heart is racing, he claws for his phone, calls the local emergency line. "He stole my disc player and Tres Hombres! It's the greatest rock album of all time." On the other end of the line, a pause. The operator sighs, "Hank, that shit is mid at best. Stop calling this line or we'll have to actually file charges."

This is almost a 4. I need to devote more time to it. La Grange is, of course, the GOAT ZZ Top track.

Well, I wasn’t expecting to like this after listening to that shite eliminator. However, even though it’s not my style of music it had me toes tapping and I almost thought about growing a mullet. It’s just got a more mature and credible sound to it. Yeah, good one

A good listen

Listened before and loved

Tres Hombres was actually a pretty nice surprise. There are plenty of fun, no-frills rock songs on here that are easy to boogie along with, which is pretty much what I was hoping for from ZZ Top. What really caught me off guard, though, was the singing. I’m already pretty familiar with the band, I knew “La Grange,” along with plenty of their later hits, but I never realized how much vocal range they actually had. There are moments where the vocals are genuinely impressive, and it made me appreciate them a little more beyond the beards, sunglasses, and fuzzy guitars. Nothing on the album completely blew me away, but it stays enjoyable for most of its runtime. I also think this was the first time I’d ever heard a slow ZZ Top song. After hearing it, I understand why that side of the band never became their calling card. It was pretty dull. Still, this was a decent, fun rock album with more personality, and better singing, than I expected.

harrr harr harr la grange baby!

ZZ Top just rock there's nothing to dissect. They took a style of music and created a unique filter of their own to put it through like some kind of overdrive pedal covered in pink fuzz and sequins. Even here on the earlier album they were dialed in.

I need to dive into more ZZ Top!

Some solos are a bit repetitive, but otherwise a masterpiece.

A couple of okay songs, but I’m still not over having to listen to these guys ad nauseum in the 80s.

WOW. just great, wouldnt listen again bc its not my type of music but it was an amazing experience, loved the riffs. hot, blue and righteous my fav song 🙏

Honestly, I prefer this early stuff to the primped and over-produced albums that made them world famous.

Alright, not mind blowing

This is fun rock. It doesn't do anything too crazy, but it is enjoyable. It just is fun! The style and the vocals work really well together too! "La Grange" is a classic! These were great rocker songs. Actual Rating....3.5 Liked Songs: "Jesus Just Left Chicago" , "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers", "Hot, Blue and Righteous" , "Move Me on Down the Line" , "Precious and Grace" , "La Grange" , "Sheik" , "Have You Heard?"

Okayy

ZZ Top absolutely does not deserve more than one entry on a "top 1001 albums of all time" list. Pick this or Eliminator. But not both. In this one, the lyrics are (predictably) unremarkable, and the singing is mediocre at best, but the ultra-groovy instrumental parts more than make up for that. Nice groove and riff in the opener, Waitin' for the Bus. Harmonica had mostly been abandoned in the rock world by 1973, so it's pretty cool to see a nod back to 60s (and earlier) blues here. An ultra-smooth transition to Jesus Just Left Chicago shows you ZZ ain't messing around with album-crafting. A straight-up blues number, complete with a slow blues swing and the standard I/IV/V chords, though there's definitely experimentation too. The guitar solo rages across the rhythm section, and the chord progression includes some wacky stuff in the 9th and 10th bars. But all things considered, ZZ Top isn't really experimenting much here. Sometimes you just need straight-up rock numbers with no strings or complications attached. During those times, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers is damn excellent. I suspect, in Master of Sparks, that Gibbons is trying to imitate classic blues vocalists – something that the likes of Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, and Billy Joel occasionally (and semi-successfully) do. A kick-ass, and tragically short, guitar solo can be found near the song's tail end. At the end of side 1, we're looking for a lower-energy number after the onslaught of solid-and/or-emotional blues rock. Hot, Blue, and Righteous, a ballad, a breath of fresh air, comes to save the day. Good album sequencing right there. Move Me on Down the Line – fast, peppy, rocky, short (just 151 seconds). Unremarkably solid. The main standout in Precious and Grace is, obviously, the guitar riff. Combined with the drum part, it leaves the listener slightly confused as to what the intended rhythm is. ...Then La Grange starts playing and it's like a completely different band. The singing is atrocious – deliberately so, and more so than any other track – but that quick double-time swing is so freaking good and you find yourself tuning out the vocals to get into a mad, frenzied groove amongst the other instruments. Great clear recording, great breakdown halfway through (including a gnarly guitar melody), and thankfully not much of Gibbons's singing. Sheik acts as an extended mostly-instrumental coda for La Grange. Pretty good, if mostly one chord and one two-note riff. I like the exotic, mysterious, detective-movie feel – and the outro is heavenly. Have You Heard?, the final track, repeats itself a lot. Hope you weren't looking for poetry in the lyrics. 4/5 Key tracks: Waitin' for the Bus, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, La Grange

Boring, didn't catch me

I liked the idea of this more than the reality of the same fu ky beats over and over

The vital force of rock and roll is strong here. Never properly listened to ZZ Top but I do get it now, great choice of music if you want general rocking goodness

I know the ZZ Top hits everyone knows from the radio. This is a great album with a few amazing songs and no low points. Favorite tracks: Jesus Just Left Chicago, La Grange

Funky, blusey fun times. Saw them live last year. Unfortunately, they either lost a step or they've always phoned it in for live shows. I guess I'll never know. La Grange makes the playlist of course.

ZZ Top are the kings of the stank-face groove riff, which is highlighted here on "Waitin' for the Bus" and, my personal favorite, "La Grange". I own this on vinyl and it's a welcomed Rando. This is a solid album, but it does have its lackluster moments, as is typical for ZZ Top. I did listen twice back to back, and then queued up one of their greatest hits compilations to seal the deal (skipped over "Rough Boy", of course. *Family Guy disgusted shudder*).

Okay, this will be fun: For a previous album (Dire Straits) I said it "reminds me of that thing where boomer blues rockers in wraparound shades move their face forward and back on their neck in time with the music instead of nodding or shaking their head" and also sometimes "a kid I knew who used to drop his pants and strum his junk like a guitar and go 'deener-neener-neet neet neet neet neet.'" But this one has way more head-bobbing white blooze man energy! I give it 6.5/10 neck-sliding white blues men, a new record, and hence crown it the king of the head-thrusting blues rockers. Who will dethrone it??! (If an album in this competition is really hard to take, I'll also assign it a "junk-strumming kid." This one is kinda bland, but you wouldn't say "hard to take.")

I have been aware of ZZ Top and their hits for many years, but have never gotten excited for their music or for the southern rock genre in general. Listening to this did not move the needle at all for me. It's decent enough music but just isn't my jam. I'm puzzled by the title. Tres Hombres seems to imply some Latin infusion or influence... but I didn't hear that at all.

I’ve heard ZZ Top before in spurts but never a full record until now. I liked aspects of this more than I expected, the guitars in particular were often. great. Aside from a few moments, though, this was still nothing spectacular, just good Southern Rock. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: La Grange, Waitin’ for the Bus

I could never have named La Grange (or the band) but this song has been everywhere in my nearly 50 years.

I was excited for this because I love their hits and wanted to hear more. Fairly disappointed in a lot of the other songs though. It's a big roller coaster for me between stuff I really like and stuff I'd skip if I heard it again.

Πολύ καλά είτε. Ορισμένες κομματαρες. Ορισμένα κομμάτια λίγο απαρατήρητα

Just not a fan of these guys.

good

Enjoyable but it felt like one long song. I think I’d feel so cool listening to this live though. 3/5.

A fascinatingly middle-of-the-road album. ZZ Top is your down-to-earth uncle's go-to band; unadorned and unpretentious, sticky-floor bar room, blues-infused, inoffensive hard rock for the kind of guy who thinks black leather jackets and old-school Coca-Cola vending machines are maximally cool. The kind of manly-man audience that's still keeping Harley Davidson in semi-business these days. That all sounds a little snooty, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart - it reminds me of the smell of cheap liquor and cigarette stains trapped in the eaves of old drinkin' sheds, bouncing around cheap furniture and trying to catch shades of the saucy pinup posters in the man-cave. It's the anthem of big grey-bearded community-men in wraparound-shades who would give you the flannel shirt off their backs and men who can't quite get the right words out but have the right spirit. ZZ Top don't vary their sound much over the course of the album, but why would they? They nailed the vibe from track one and all they had to do was keep the jukebox turning. 'La Grange' is playing, the sound of billiard balls is in the back clacking across green felt, and there's a cool glass of foamy beer plastered across your whiskers. It's a warm Thursday evening, the smell of gasoline and cigars whispers in the air, and there's nowhere else to be. It's definitely more earnest and better-sounding than their later more commercially pop-ish work. Tres Hombres is a good album. Four stars. Continues to be a fun little tidbit that the only fresh-faced member of notoriously bearded trio is their drummer, Frank Beard. Fav tracks: Master of Sparks, Precious and Grace, La Grange, Sheik

These guys have a good vibe about them. Not gonna always come back to this one, but if I hear it at a barbecue or on a road trip, I'm feeling it.

Kinda liked it, but not really my thing.

At one point, it seemed like their image was better than their music. If you said ZZ Top, my first association is beards.

ZZ Top only really have about three songs and about three themes – women (or parts of), cars (or parts of), and good times (general) – but they do them well, with such growly, groovy panache that I can't get too annoyed. I thought this was a fun, slight album with a strong opening, a weak middle, and one sizzling hot classic in La Grange.

Disappointed with this. Not a major fan of ZZ Top by any means but did enjoy much of their output in the 80s (Eliminator was their best album). This just felt a bit boring. A couple of tracks got my foot-tapping but most of the stuff didn't excite. The slower ones were instantly forgettable, The exception for me was La Grange which had a good riff and the middle/end guitar section appealed.

More like ZZ Plop. I’m so confused about this record and why it’s on this list. Reading other reviews makes me think I may have even listened to the wrong album. It’s so plodding … and the production is just awful! The guitar riffs all sound the same, the singing is okay but there is just a serious lack of catchy tunes or songwriting skills. That being said- I bet it would be fun to play on guitar hero! Move me on down the line is okay

Ambient 5: Music For Blowing Your Brains Out With a Shotgun

Jesus Just Left Chicago Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers La Grange

The kind of southern rock I should be in to but doesn’t click with me for some reason

4 Enjoyed this, solid classic rock album

La Grange is a masterpiece and the rest is just some bullshit.

Great blues bar-rock. ‘La Grange’ is a classic. I was struck by how much ‘Jesus Just Left Chicago’ reminds me of ‘Ride On’ by AC/DC, but I guess it is just a basic blues with soft singing over the top. Still good, though!

Love ZZ Top especially their earlier bluesy albums

gratingly boring album. i really hope this wasn't included because of one song when so many more deserving albums could have been incmuded

Feels like showing up at some random dive bar during a road trip and being blown away by the local band. Really nailed the vibe, just not hugely my type of rock.

6/10

7/10 it was good i liked it. guitars are awesome on the tracks

Es un rock que me hace acordar a vaqueros.

Is this the second or third ZZ Top album I've had on the list? Either way, more than one for such a nothing band is a bit ridiculous. Again, if I were doing this list I'd put a two album cap on every artist. This wasn't very good. I held out on giving it a three for as long as I could, but it's a two. Aside from some interesting stories in the lyrics, there's little to go on. Pretty bad vocals play over forgettable riffs, with no memorable melodies to be found. I don't like giving rock albums less than three stars, but there was a lot better being made at this time, before, and since, and this just about scrapes by on being average.

Another busy week and I'm already falling behind on my listening. I have to listen to this one in short bursts so it might be a song-by-song review. Waitin' for the Bus--great opening song, sweet blues guitar line underlies the whole song Jesus Just left Chicago--shit, I knew ZZ Top of the 80s, this is so much more fun--really a Texas blues album. Great stuff Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers--ok, this song sounds like what ZZ would become a decade later. Still blues-y, but more in the rock vein and with that distinctive guitar Master of Sparks--least interesting song so far, not helped by uninspired vocals Hot, Blue, and Righteous—I take it back, this is the least interesting so far. What happened? I was really liking the beginning of this album. Move Me on Down the Line—Yup, the album went south fast. At least La Grange is coming up. Precious and Grace—boring La Grange—still excellent! Sheik—I liked this one, too, not much left to say about it Have You Heard—back to the blues; not my favorite song, but it’s got soul 10 songs: 4 really great, 2 very good, 4 meh. 6/10 good songs, bonus star for a unique sound. 4 stars

ZZ Top has a ton of swagger on this album, delivering slab after slab of blues rock. A few tracks, like "Master of Sparks" and "Precious and Grace," have a nice groove to them. Others are more drawn out, closer to traditional blues. And some, like "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers," just sound clumsy. While there's nothing outright bad here, this sound has been done better by other artists, and the band doesn't bring all that much new to the table. "La Grange" was a big hit and has a memorable riff, but structurally and lyrically it's a pretty empty song. Probably a lot of fun while tearing down a desert highway or at a barbecue, but not as interesting for dedicated listening.

I liked Hot, Blue & Righteous but other than that this sounded like many many many other albums I’ve listened to on this project and I didn’t like those or this agh.

Groovy rock for old men with beards that is surprisingly killer.

- Just an absolutely great record. 5 just for "Hot, Blue and Righteous" ..... -

I did not like 80s zz top. In fact they were a turn the station band. Listened to this and it was great what the feck happened to them.

The live songs were so much better than the rest of the album

Es muy disfrutable, pero no me pareció algo muy loco o exageradamente bueno, es más que el 3, pero no siento que llegue al 4

Southern groovy blues rock; with slight touches of early metal - mostly from shredding and the odd heavy riff like the start of master of sparks. If drinking Jack (or southern comfort ) while playing game of pool in a dingy bar had a sound this would probably be it . “Hot blues , and righteous” really drags the album down and the following “move me on down the line “ does little to rectify the situation tres estrellas

Tres estrellas

First album I’ve encountered where I disliked the recorded songs, but once they were live, I got it. Should’ve done live songs for the entire album.

Good stuff

bueno…

Nesten alle vet at La Grange er verdens kuleste låt. Resten av skiva veksler mellom ganske kul og litt kjedelig. Hot, Blue and Righteous spiller ikke akkurat på bandets styrker vel? Og Move Me On Down the Line må vel være et eksempel på den kjedeligste formen rock har tatt? Tipper ZZ Top er et band der det er lov å lage sin egen greatest hits og si seg fornøyd.

Jeg har aldri likt "La Grange" noe særlig, shoot me. Resten av plata er helt OK, men jeg får heller lyst til å høre på Lynyrd Skynyrd eller Grand Funk Railroad.

i am so deeply ambivalent

Phenomenal, love all of it too to bottom. A no skips album! 5/5

Great 73 album from three men from Texas

[ shrugging ] It's Rock.

I liked this album a lot more than Eliminator from 1983. Their sound on this album was heavier and a lot more “Texas blues-rock” than the more mainstream rock sound of Eliminator. Early ZZ Top like this is the sound every band playing in a smoky roadside bar should aspire to be. It also doesn’t hurt to have an all-time song like ‘La Grange’. Really good album to drink beers and have fun while it plays. Solid 4/5

I understand how this is good. But I can't enjoy it. Except La Grange. This was on Guitar Hero 3. Memories!

Beast but not really my thing? Gotta respect it tho

No!! Never could get into this band.

Vet ikke hvorfor det har tatt meg så lang tid å høre et ZZ Top-album, men dette var ganske fett ja! Svak 4. RIP Frank Beard

This was fine

rock bangbang cool but not niche

2.5/5 good album, not my fave Johnny Cash album, and tbh Hurt by NIN is better, sorry, not sorry.

Unbeatable in the pantheon of Southern Rock music. It has some of the greatest guitar riffs and pays good respect to blues music. 9/10 [KEEP]

Some fine classic/swamp rock, could see it growing on me in the future. Highlights-Hot, Blue And Righteous, La Grange, and Have You Heard?

Damn, this was good

Alright classic southern feeling rock. Nothing particularly stood out, but I wouldn't mind it being on again

Loved the album, didn't find the cultural background story as interesting as in other albums.

A few good songs but about half of them are pretty tedious, and the whole record has the same sound and feel.

At Least La Grange is good, the rest is forgettable and bland

*Very impressed by ZZ Top on this list so far- this is the second album I'm rating *Solid blues rock

This is the music that abruptly stops when I walk into the bar where I'm about to be murdered. 4/5.

Partially known. One great song and the rest was fine.

Fucki La Grange is such a banner of a tune! Most of this album is really good but for some reason there's a few songs they put the guitar away, which seems.like a waste of time. But peak ZZ Top is incredible!

This record makes me want to grow a beard, buy a motorcycle and ride it across the country. Favorite track : La grange 3.5/5

More like southern rock than the stuff I know them for.

pretty fun, 10 songs in 33 min.

Kkool

It’s alright. I’ve never been huge on them but it was a fun listen. I can say that I’ve listened to a full ZZ Top album now instead of just a greatest hits comp so that’s cool.

I feel like this album being on the list is a reason why Eliminator shouldn't be on it. This is much better in just about every way. I like the over-the-top southernness on all of these songs. Bonus points for making the simplest blues song with Waitin' for the Bus and managing to make it sound good. The whole album is pretty damn simple, to be fair, and much like Waitin' for the Bus, it all sounds pretty good.

Not bad, but not my thing.

sounds great! Kinda boring. one star for each hombre ❤️

It’s ok….nothing exceptional

this record is really good. simple lyrics with catchy riffs. had me grooving and feeling funky. standout songs for me were "beer drinkers & hell raisers", "hot, blue and righteous" and "la grange". this record would be playing if i'm in the desert and want a tint of blues music.

Mediocre and short rock album. The riffs were cool, but the singer is not it for the most part. I found the songs on this album really drag. When ZZ Top leans into the blues rock this heavily, I just find it unbearably boring.

Cool.

There are probably hundreds of albums that should not be on this list, and i think i just found the first one that i can positively say has no business being here. I really have no idea what i just listened to. The only thing i consistently like is the guitar work, it’s basically AC/DC esque classic rock mixed with blues. But it’s horrible. I really didn’t enjoy this Highlights: Hot, Blue & Righteous, Move Me On Down The Line, La Grange - The only tracks that were close to being good. The guitar solo on Move Me On Down The Line is actually pretty cool Lowlights: The rest

This album sounds like barbecue.

Good bluesy sound. I liked this one. Didn't listen to all of it though.

Not too bad, a bit blusey.

Cheesy but just about listenable

Its the best bikermusic can get, medium 4 for me.not mutch to say other than reminding me of old trucker games i played.

Three men, drinkin' some bourbon while talkin' shit and watchin' the game. 3/5, a point for each man

This album made me 20 years older, and made me want to neglect my wife and children by going and cracking open a cold one with the boys.

This was pretty interesting at points, I liked the more bluesy stuff, but overall it's not really for me. Shrug. Music to ride a 4 wheeler with your shirt off to.

I’ve probably mentioned before, this is one of the bands that I shared with my dad. I would find ZZ Top and Van Halen tapes in his truck, that he had borrowed for me. I always love that connection. Also, this record is just so bluesy, swampy, swaggering.

Very good performance

No doubt ZZ Top are tops at what they do. That said, I find their music basically tolerable. If this app had a scale of 10, I'd rate this a six. But here we are with only 5 on our scale.

Feel like I expect more from ZZ Top. Solid, but nothing remarkable.

I feel like I’m the only one who feels this album was just boringggggggg looking at the reviews

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4 because this is definitely the best album to come out of this putrid genre, perspective matters

Such a unique voice !! Fav song is ‘La Grange’.

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Really solid album.

Solid album Standout songs: Jesus just left Chicago Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers

Classic rock and roll but not my genre

Nostalgie ben met me pa bij ZZ top geweest in de HMH toen ik nog klein was. Lange baarden, gitaren en dikke auto’s. Heerlijk om op je motor door Noorwegen te scheuren met dit album op.

Het is eigenlijk te mooi dat deze na muddy waters komt. Album is eindeloos goed. Imo perfecte uitvoering van blues rock, met echt specifieke southern sound erbij. Je hoort ook mooi terug dat bands over het gehele rock spectrum hebben geleend van zz top, wat meer latere blues rock, en revival soorten, maar ook gewoon metal bands. Iedereen wil die groove.

Surprisingly good!

8/10

Dad Rock but amplify it and turn it up to 11. All solos and shredding guitar jams, and yet not a lot of substance. To be honest, I was expecting to like this one a bit more, but it’s rather samey from song to song and besides the famous “La Grange”, the best song on the album by far, it’s very unmemorable as a whole. This is the first of 2 ZZ Top albums I have rolled for this project, and the first in order of release. Considering the other album came out 10 years later and has “Sharp Dressed Man”, I’m going to be very interested in comparing the 2 albums. This album in particular is fine. I really don’t have a lot of negative things to say about it. The guitar playing is great, but somehow I don’t find myself getting very attached to it. It’s missing something, and I don’t really know what that something is. I feel in my heart they this should be an easy 5 star album, but it just didn’t really do a lot for me. That’s surprising, because I’m a sucker for solos like this. However, when every song kinda has the same energy, style and vibe, the repetition can start to lose some charm. This album is very repetitive. Come for the fantastic guitar solos and not much else. Still though, it’s a great album and I had fun listening to it. After all, I really am a sucker for a good solo, and that’s this entire albums gimmick it would seem. ZZ Top is one of those bands where I know I’ve heard a lot of, but can’t name anything besides their 2 huge hits, both prominently featured for this project. The bands image is greater than the sum of their music in my mind. ZZ Top to me just exude coolness, and that’s all I need them to do. 3 cool guys with some long ass beards who appreciate a good, gritty, old fashioned guitar solo. You can’t get much more American than that. This one for all its strengths, surprisingly, is getting a Tres from me. Perhaps that’s appropriate given the album name, but I was really expecting a bit more to it than what it ultimately delivered.

very forgettable tbh. "la grange" is alright though. 1/5

Tres Hombres is what ZZ Top sounded like before the beards became a costume and the synthesizers arrived to sand down the edges — raw, blues-rooted Texas boogie with no production sheen and no apologies. This is the record that turned a regional curiosity into a real band, and hearing it now it's easy to understand why. Billy Gibbons is the central fact. His guitar playing sits deep in the Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf lineage — dirty, economical, groove-oriented in a way that prioritizes feel over flash at every turn. "La Grange" is the landmark, built on a John Lee Hooker boogie riff that Gibbons makes completely his own over the course of five minutes that don't waste a second. But the record earns its rating before La Grange even arrives — "Waitin' for the Bus" and "Jesus Just Left Chicago" run together as an opening sequence that establishes the band's coordinates immediately and delivers on every promise they make. The blues DNA here triggered a specific memory: a former band that used to play "Crash on the Levee" from the Basement Tapes, reimagined through exactly the kind of ZZ Top filter this record makes inevitable. The origin story involves guitarist Loren "Hot Sauce" Huggins falling asleep on an ant hill after considerable whiskey, a resulting fever dream of ZZ Top covering Dylan, and a version of the song that transformed something ramshackle and mellow into something considerably less so. That's the kind of band folklore that lives forever, and Tres Hombres is exactly the record that could conjure it. The rhythm section locks in and stays there. The songs are short and unpretentious and don't overstay their welcome. The whole record has the quality of a band that knows exactly what it is and has no interest in being anything else, which in 1973 Texas meant blues-soaked rock played with total conviction. A strong four that earns the blues DNA comparison honestly. Not quite the irreplaceable peak expression of the tradition that would push it to five — that conversation belongs to Hard Again — but an excellent record by a band operating at the top of their pre-fame powers.

Ahuh hahaha

I've only known ZZ Top from the 80s, when they were playing up their long beards and spinning guitars schtick. But they are legit southern blues rock dynamos. Fun lyrics, singing guitar solos, and total vibe. Southern rock through a blues filter, with a side of gospel. Great sound.

Pretty solid classic rock. Loved the opening track Waitin, 5 stars on that one, the rest 3 and 4.

I saw these guys at Virgin Free Fest once. They were fun, like this album. Very interesting intersection of blues and white-man-rock-and-roll that works better at some times than others.

Lot of fun. Only thing preventing it from being a 5 star for me was that the slower change of pace songs in the middle were bleh. The hits really hit though. Favorite intro song of any album so far

Great beards, great music

This was a great record outside the classic La Grange (which is GREAT). Lots of fun and great guitar riffs

Before all the embellishments, just good old-fashioned bar room blues, with some cracking tracks.

Not sure why I’m not more of a ZZ Top fan. I like the album, don’t love it. I like La Grange, but my favorite ZZ Top-associated memory is the drummer at the wrong gig video.

Pretty good blues rock. This is one of those classic albums where it's proficient and enjoyable enough, but still nothing amazing. Not a bad album by any means. A bit samey, bit slow in parts. The guitar sounds too good for the songs most of the time, like he's ripping these amazing solos for some of the most plodding songs, it's quite incongruous, like Messi playing for your local sunday league team. Like a V8 in a shopping cart.

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Good even though I got lost in the middle a little

Bluesy and funky.

Nah, I don't vibe with this sound at all This was a bit of a struggle

the first of my first listens for this project. ive heard the pretty popular songs by these guys but not much else if im honest. this is a lot more bluesy than most of the stuff ive heard by them. ill be honest, not all of this works for me, and its entirely because of the vocals. but oh well. ive heard La Grange before, of course. ah haugh haugh haugh favorite tracks: La Grange

I enjoyed the other ZZ Top album on this list but I couldn't really get on with this one. It's pretty repetitive and it doesn't have the cheesey pop hooks that Eliminator did. Overall it felt longer than it was.

Pretty average against people like Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert King, etc in my opinion.

I got bit by a dog in my neighborhood while listening to this album, so needless to say, that put a bad taste in my mouth and I’ll now forever associate this with that.

Excluding La Grange this is my first time listening to ZZ Top but this isn't my first time hearing Gibbons. Gibbon's guitar performance in this album is without question great. His vocal performance is also praise worthy as it captures that blue-energy really well. Kind of spot on. The rhythm in this album is insane and consistent. Thanking Dusty Hill's bass performance and Frank Beard's drumming for that. Highlight of Album, La Grange. This is the only song in the album I've heard before. They know the song fucks because halfway through they put a stop to the vocals and let the music speak/sing for itself. Crazy stuff. Also, I want to highlight Master of Sparks; Hill and Beard go crazy here and is a close second. Also, also, enjoyed Sheik a lot. Smooth and cool song. Also, also, also, Precious and Grace has a really good riff transition 1/3 into the song. Ver Cul. Overall, very surprised with this album; for almost the entirety of the album has this fun, consistent, and cool rhythm to it. Hot, Blue and Righteous is the only outlier, though not bad, it wasn't really what I was expecting or wanted to see. This listen was fun and had my head boppin'. T3: La Grange, Master of Sparks, Precious and Grace

Pues la verdad es un album que no es ni muy bueno pero tampoco tan malo, dura muy poco y en general todas las canciones son buenas aunque no memorables, bastante tranquilo la verdad

A lesser good version of intimidator, wasn’t half bad though!

I'm not surprised that the people on this list prefer this over Eliminator, but it is not as good. It's good, but the more bluesy Midwest kind of sound doesn't compare to their catchy riffs. Still, it has awesome guitar riffs, and it holds up well. This would be so cool to hear live.

It was okay. Listened to it in the background while I worked, could listen again but wouldn’t go out of my way to.

I've always found the lead singer a little corny, but La Grange is an all timer

Good mix of rock songs with a hint of twang.

Annoying voice. Only one good song

less country than i thought it would be, which is good for me. favourite song: waitin' for the bus

ZZ Top are one of my least favorite rock bands of all time. I can’t fault anyone for enjoying them, because there’s nothing truly *wrong* with them. I just find everything about their music and aesthetic to be totally lame and insufferable. Maybe that just makes me lame and insufferable, who knows? Uh huh huh huh huh.

Very Dad rock sound for sure, get the Harleys and go cross country and get the band back together. Not a lot that jumped out to grab me, just competent music with a steady vibe. Wouldn't buy tickets to see them but dont mind the music

Classic Rock and Roll. It's a little stereotypical at this point, but those stereotypes have to come from somewhere.

The greatest bar band of all time’s best recorded illustration of their sound, and if that seems a bit like faint praise it sort of is (this kind of band could never make an all-out masterwork; it’s just not in their makeup), but neither is it an insult. Every single lame white-boy “blues” (but really hard rock) group wishes they sounded like this. Best track(s): “Waitin’ for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago” [the two songs are always played together on the radio, and who am I to separate them?]

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This album should be considered as Rock canon. I'm not the hugest ZZ Top fan but this album is an absolute powerhouse. Very enjoyable listen from start to finish.

They all look the same and all of their songs sound the same too.

5 stars for being short, but music is closer to 2.

Notable Textzeile: Right on, that bus done got me back Well, I'll be ridin' on the bus till I Cadillac Blues Rock. Könnte mir Live sehr gefallen, die Live Versionen auf dem Expander Remaster haben mich zu min 50% mehr überzeugt als die Platte. Auch, oder vielleicht gerade weil die aus dem Studio sehr/zu gut gemischt und gemastert sind, habe bei den ersten Songs den Bass sogar etwas rausgedreht um die Nachbarn nicht in der Mittagsruhe zu ärgern. Ich finde das ingesamt völlig okay, hab eine Doku über die gesehen wo sie sehr süß miteinander sind - mir würde aber auch nichts in der Welt fehlen wenn das plötzlich wäre. Ich hab das Gefühl bei mir häuft sich gerade in den Bewertungen das Mittelfeld, aber so ist ja auch das Leben.

Southern Rock, food and Sexism. Ich habe das Album schon mal gehört, nach dem es eine unglaublich positive review auf Pitchfork hab, und es schon da nicht verstanden. Granted, die Band klingt gut und wenige Songs haben eine schöne weirdness. Aber ansonsten ist das banaler Southern Rock, der Blues und Rock'n'Roll verbindet und auf den ich verzichten kann.

La Grange und dann wirds hart langweilig. Wer braucht so Musik und für was, ausser Soundtracks?

Solid rock fare really. Nice easy listening but nothing too revolutionary rather. Bless.

Always had a soft spot for La Grange and Precious & Grace. Forget Eliminator, this is the only ZZ Top LP you need.

Simultaneously terrible and 10 times better than the last ZZ Top album we had

Surprisingly listenable.

I have no words to express my contempt and disinterest in ZZ Top, although having said that the bearded wonders have produced the two biggest surprises of my 1001 listening journey so far. The first was the unexpected lo-fi type quality to the vocals and guitar towards the end of the otherwise unspeakable and misogynistic “Legs” and the other was this LP, which turned out not to be the very very worst of the duplicates we’ve had to endure, proving itself to somehow be more listenable than the recent Led Zep one… FFS. One of the all time least deserved stars of all time. Tom.

Bluesy rock from some of the absolute masters of their style. Easy to forget how easy they made this seem.

Awesome. Texas blues rock

Nasty nasty nasty electric blues. Mid heavy electric guitar tones only rivaled by AC/DC. Very listenable, especially by guitar players. My only criticism is the quality of vocals compared to the later hits that I am more familiar with. A few surprises are on this album if you only know the hits.

Grange is a general well known song, the guitar riff is iconic the overall album is good with a range of hype songs to slower songs. Besides grange none of the songs are very memorable

La grange and a bunch of stuff.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

ABSOLUTELY CRAZY story behind this one. So I randomly decided to listen to this album in the morning, and then later in the day I opened this site and lo and behold my album for the day is Tres Hombres!! I couldn’t believe it! And THEN, I went to my 1001 albums book and flipped right to the Tres Hombres page!! What a wild sequence of coincidences. Oh and the album is a masterpiece.

Good time, straight forward rock and roll.. solid album but don't feel like it adds that much to the conversation.

This album immediately reminded me of one of our neighbours growing up. Every year on his birthday he would host a pig roast where he would invite pretty much the entire village, their friends, and their families. He played in a ZZ Top cover band that would play a set every year at the pig roast. The whole thing was pretty wild and a great time for all the kids running wild through the neighborhood. Anyways, this album felt like ZZ Top had found their sound, but their beards hadn’t fully grown out and they hadn’t quite figured out the spinning guitar tricks. Overall, a good time and a lot less gimmicky sounding than Eliminator.

Very enjoyable. Less cheesy than their more famous 80s output.

4 for hard rock Amazing thing from the 70's Fav song: Hot, Blue and Righteous

Amazingly groovy Southern rock. Great boozy, bluesy vibes.

About what you’d expect from a ZZ Top album. Sounds just like the other one that was on the list. The most unique song is La Grange, which is probably why it is the most recognizable song.

The original and best for the fans who knew the Texas rockers before 'gimme all your lovin' and the source of the classic shuffle 'La Grange' which certainly stands up today as an early high point. I didn't too much to get worked up about in the rest of it but it is definitely a good competent rock album from a band who helped put another part of the states on the map.

Generic middle of the road rock. Kind of boring, nothing special. I did like Waitin' for the Bus, and have added it to my playlist; it had cool guitar work and a nice vibe. 2/5 stars.

Very iconic, every song has a similar BUT unique sound to it

Very good. Warm analogue 70ies sound. Contains a few classics.

Bueno

Boring

Reviewing ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres is like taking a dusty, beer-soaked road trip where the highs are soaring but a few bumps slow you down. The album thrives on its foundational grit, delivering instantly catchy, blues-infused guitar hooks on tracks like "Waiting for the Bus" and the energetic "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers," while boasting some stellar, pristine production work on "Master of Sparks" and the velvety smoothness of "Hot, Blue and Righteous." However, it’s a bit of a sonic mixed bag; some tracks suffer from questionable mixing choices—like the oddly recessed drums on "Move Me on Down the Line"—and others fall flat due to bizarre lyricism and uninspired melodies, particularly on "Sheik." Ultimately, Billy Gibbons' consistently spectacular, fiery closing guitar solos carry the weaker moments, and that uncanny, deeply familiar blues-rock groove makes the record a highly enjoyable, classic 4/5 experience that feels like an old friend you've known forever, even if you're hearing it for the first time.