Eliminator

Liked it. Cool, uplifting.

No. 202/1001 Gimme All Your Lovin' 4/5 Got Me Under Pressure 4/5 Sharp Dressed Man 4/5 I Need You Tonight 3/5 I Got the Six 3/5 Legs 4/5 Thug 3/5 TV Dinners 3/5 Dirty Dog 3/5 If I Could Flag Her Down 3/5 Bad Girl 3/5 Average: 3,36 Good classic rock album.

Very good!

Blues rock. Un megahit. Un 4 porque tiene muchas canciones lentillas.

I liked this album a lot. The first time I actually listened to ZZ Top. They weren't a cheesy 80s band after all. The first half was brilliant. "Eliminator" is a good introduction to ZZ Top. I'll give it 4 stars.

Crappy, unoriginal, mind numbing stadium rock

Really nice groove which is unfortunately fairly monotonous throughout. The vocals/lyrics were less discernable and thereby less abrasive than Van Halen. I don't think I'd return to this unless I was hosting a themed party or something.

Great ZZTop album. Minus a star for succumbing to 80s synth and drum machine cliches

Fun band from the 80’s.

Solid

Pretty standard late 70s record, a couple big hits. Sounds like it could be in the soundtrack for a random 80s movie. Nothing special really. 4/10

I remember when this album came out. The videos were in heavy rotation on MTV. I like it but it's not my favorite ZZ Top album.

Classic rock album from start to finish. Love it.

Give me al your lovin and sharped dress man are clsssics. Great songs. Legs is also a cracker. Love that bass line slapping on the song “thug”. Some great guitar work and solos throughout this album.

Some pretty big hits at the beginning and largely forgettable at the end. Gimmie All Your Lovin' and Sharp Dressed Man are staples of dad rock everywhere, and it honestly still sounds pretty good, albiet simple. The best tune on the album is I Need You Tonight, a more somber and mellow track that has some pretty good guitar work amd a nice groove. Then the album dives with such tunes like I Got The Six, TV Dinners, and Bad Girl, which I didn't really care for at all. Average 80s rock overall.

These white boys were cooking for real

Day154 - i prefer the more bluesy sound of tres hombres but this was a huge album with the iconic car and videos

ZZ top is iconic but nothing I would go out of my way to listen to.

Love it.

Ehh.. repetitive and not that good of lyrics. The two hits (Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Sharp Dressed Man) are fun to listen to, but for the most part this album doesn’t really do anything for me. It’s meh.

Awesome awesome sound to this record. Way more into it than I expected. Side A is some elite stuff, side b not so much but it’s still a fun time. 7/10!?

Great listen

Legs.

I just got a bunch of rocks - Charlie Brown

Has a song about TV dinners which is neat

Surprised this kinda goes crazy immediately

Fun album, several really good songs

ZZ Top definitely should be on the list. Personally, I don’t like the music so 3 minus additional point for TV Dinners

The album of Gimme All Your Lovin' and Sharp Dressed Man is my 8th album. I must say, every ZZ Top sounds like a ZZ Top song it's both good and bad in my opinion: listening to a ZZ Top album feels like listening to the same song 11 times. ZZ top makes great songs though. The second half of the album felt a bit weirder, with longer instrumental pieces that weren't that hard. I don't think this album is such a classic album and thus deserves 3 stars.

Is it the best ZZ Top album? Depends on who you ask. It is full of great tunes that dominated the radio and MTV in the mid-1980s. Gimme All Your Lovin', Legs, and Sharp Dresed Man were all major hits and helped revive blues-oriented rock from its coma. Without Eliminator, you don't have Stevie Ray Vaughn's commercial success. The thing is, it was a popular album and watered down the Texas blues that ZZ Top was known for. It made them mainstream famous but for previous fans of albums like Tres Hombres, it seemed like a bit of a sellout. Overall, it's a great album, maybe not one for the purists, but for the rest of us.

Didn't realize how well I know this album from start to finish (all thanks to a friend). Was never a fan but I gotta say after all these years it wasn't the worst thing. Can hardly believe it but I'm giving it a 3 despite the fact it's pretty much the same song throughout.

Knew it already, pretty good.

Straightforward, four-to-the-floor, groove rock. A Cadillac going 90. Sharp Dressed Man

A bunch of nostalgic songs my dad would listen to when I was little. Better than I remember it being, to be honest. Might listen to a few of the tracks again occasionally! 3.6

Middle of the road zz they have better offerings

Meh

It was somewhat enjoyable with three songs from my childhood but wouldn’t listen again

Perfect music for bringing your restored classic car to a car show.

Good listen. I'd heard some of these songs but not all

I liked it better than I thought I would. Never really got into ZZ Top, but it's a bit of fun. Didn't feel like it was trying to break any new ground, but also didn't feel like that was the point. Hats off to them for choosing what they wanted to do and then doing it well.

I can't help but love cheesy 80s rock. Hardly cerebral (TV Dinners lmao) but a fun listen the whole way through. Stand outs: Gimme All Your Lovin', I Need You Tonight, Dirty Dog (when I look past the blatant misogyny in the lyrics), and Bad Girl.

Is it weird I have never heard of this band before? "And the 80s bands, oh where did they go," amiright?The coolest guitar ever. Very sexual?? Or maybe that's just an 80s vibe I'm not in on. Love love LOVED "Sharp Dressed Man," although it pales in comparison to The Smith's version if we're strictly talking songs about men wearing clothes. Thought I was really going to like "I Need You Tonight" but then it was like seven minutes long and I got bored. Legs is SO good; my favorite so far. I feel like I don't ususally listen to this type of 80s music so I'm having fun. Added every song to my playlist. 7.8/10

Brabo

Yep, some solid tunes in there. But not really an album I'd purposely listen to.

From the very beginning of the album I don’t want to listen further, it’s boring. 1/5

Not a massive fan, good and consistent rock. But generally sounded the same. Good noise. Did not have any premium standouts for me.

Sharp dressed man and Legs are 80s tropes at this point. TV Dinners has astonishingly bad lyricism, especially when he dives into the TV dinners he likes. There are some bright spots though and the guitar is always rippin.

The idea of combining their blues sound with pop style synths was genius, and influenced a lot of other bands. The problem is the lyrics range from not great to outright terrible. There's a song about TV dinners for god's sake. If you can ignore the lyrics, this is a fun, toe tapping album.

This is not bad but it's a very standard rock album.

Three great songs carry the album, the other songs are just good enough to earn a four star rating.

Can't do another of these but I know there are still so many to come :(

Hate! Fave track: None

Samey

Not bad, but doesn’t really grab your attention. This becomes pleasantly background music and you can tell that’s not what they’re going for

Opinions have not changed since I first listened to this about 3 years ago - the opening track and Sharp Dressed Man both slap, the rest is just annoying butt rock

Interesting. Knew a couple of tracks. Quite liked it, but probably won't rush to buy / download. Solid middle of the road...

This was okay. It was nice to hear some of the songs again. Never listened to the whole album, T.V. Dinners caught me by surprise as I thought it was pretty funny.

Made for 1983 MTV. My 12 year old self enjoyed this a lot more than my 52 year old self. Very schlocky. Probably generous with a 3 rating.

Could I listen to one song if it randomly came on the radio while driving ? Sure. But no more than that.

Not as good as I remember

Very easy to dismiss as a beardy novelty band, but holy crap ZZ Top were ahead of their time. I guess it was like Dylan going electric, but the simple addition of synths gives every track such a malevolent, hard edge. Did Nirvana use synths? Did Guns 'n Roses? Oasis? No! THEY CAN ALL DO ONE.

Good album

Texas rockers! They’re really good at what they do.

Always thought this was a little too radio friendly, too polished losing the charm they originally had. It's ok but they were better

Once again an album that just isn’t my thing. There’s some good rock licks and I understand on a fundamental level why someone would love this. But I can’t stand listening to this kind of thing more than a couple of minutes. 2/5

This was a great listen! Sometimes a little samey, but the songs are excellent.

Definitely biased - this was the first album I ever owned.

I recognised more of these songs than I realised I would have –– most likely from sitting in Hard Rock Cafe I expect. A solid good dad-rock type band, average album. There hits were at the beginning of the album, meaning I didn’t care too much about finishing it. Favourite tracks: Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin’.

Wasted talent. These guys have all the.makings of guitar gods wasted on bland ribs and repetitive solos. This is like the third best album by possibly a top500 band. No room On the list

Du hard rock efficace, mais qui n'inspire rien de plus en moi. 3,5

good blues rock and solid guitars 4 stars

Repetitive songs throughout. Some good tunes on there but too safe in the 80s rock genre. 2.5/5

Excellent

Classic rock. Not blown away, but not bad. The hits from the album deserve to be hits. The rest was more forgettable

No notes

Unstoppable

Not a huge fan of ZZ Top, but it's a good album for them. Sharp Dressed Man is a great tune

Hey man it's zz top.

Solid

What a fun listen!!! Fun live too.

3.5 stars. I was apprehensive when I saw this title, as "Sharp Dressed Man" is an overplayed song, but it sounds better within he context of the album. Lots of great guitar and well constructed instrumentals. "Thug" has a really good bass line. The lyrics are where this album is lacking. "I Got the Six" sounds great, EXCEPT for the vocals. "Legs" sounds nice, gross lyrics. Why is there a song all about TV Dinners?

Some familiar and catchy tunes but some meh songs in between. A best of would probably be more suitable for me.

Solid 80s rock album, yet o am ambivalent.

It’s southern rock, it’s not going to go anywhere past the realms of easy listening and ‘this-would-be-good-if-played-whilst-driving-down-a-highway-in-texas’ territory. So with the exception of the classic Sharp Dressed Man and the great trivia that the only one in the band without a beard has the surname Beard, it’s not much to write home about.

Man I didn't really like this. Just feels so formulaic and repetitive, similar grooves in every song. The hits are OK. Feels like Van Halen and that type of thing which I also don't like :/. Fav songs: - Gimme all your loving - Sharp dressed man

Borrowed tape from library in 1980's. First real rock prob ? Gotta learn these songs on guitar.

All right. Overall this albums didn't suit me very well, but Gimme All Your Lovin' and Sharp Dressed Man is two very very good songs. But that's it. The slower songs is feeling meningless and is dragging the hell of anybody who tries to enjoy something. I had to stop writing when I noticed the exhausted guitar on Need You Tonight still was playing after five minutes.

One of the greats

It's okay. Hugely popular and hugely disappointing for a ZZ Top fan back in 1983. One of the few bands though that was able to incorporate post-punk/new-wave into their mix a little. ZZ Top have some funk and soul baked in that helps this rise above the doldrums of the era. Also, TV Dinners is awesome, you guys just don't get it.

this is a fun album.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Cheesy at times, but the riffs are solid and the tunes are catchy. Not to mention the sick album cover.

Good album, just a bit corny

Old school rock and roll. Good stuff.

Great album. I love the full sound and driving tempo of their songs. They remind me of AC/DC: maybe not the most complex songwriting or virtuosic musicianship, but you can't deny that this album is 45 minutes of solid rock music.

Eliminator has its moments of brilliance, with catchy tracks like Legs and Sharp Dressed Man that are impossible not to groove to. The signature ZZ Top sound is unmistakable, with their gritty blues-rock style shining through. However, some of the songs feel a bit repetitive, lacking the depth and variety found in their best work. The production values are solid, with slick guitar riffs and tight rhythms, but there's a sense of predictability that holds it back from greatness. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 4 STAND OUT TRACK - If Only I Could Flag Her Down

Straight off 5 ⭐ So musically pure and simple, with brilliant riffs. For such a brilliant album, it's next to impossible to pick a "best track". But, I'll give it a shot - for me, it's "got me under pressure"

After the first few songs, I thought I might not hate the album as much as I expected to, but it got worse. I technically didn't hate it. I knew the popular songs already and they are fine. I thought a lot of the instrumentals sounded cool, but many of the lyrics were just not good at all. I guess I'm just not a big fan of ZZ Top. 3.5/10

The two big hits off here are great for what they are: songs for tearing down a highway on a hot day. ZZ Top bring the riffs and the beards, but not much else. All style and no substance to me, and I was pretty bored by the halfway mark. They kinda strike me as the band that Van Halen would have been, had they been Truckers.

rawk n roll baby

Great!

They come runnin' just as fast as they can 'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man- ZZ Top

solid album. Pretty similar throughout but it works Standout songs: Got me under pressure I got the six Thug

Look at this, what a pair She won't let me touch her there She's so discriminating This is weird, it's time to blow I just heard the rooster crow I guess I'll have to spank my monkey I got this on cassette for my tenth birthday, my first album ever.

Really not for me

Não tinha reparado que "Sharp Dressed Man" tem um som eletrônico no fundo que percorre a música toda, e essa é a pegada do álbum. Aqui o ZZ Top modificou sutilmente seu estilo, com o uso de sintetizadores / sequenciadores e bateria ao estilo Flash Dance, a favor da sonoridade dos anos 80. De qualquer forma não deixa de ser um álbum do ZZ Top: solos e riffs de Guitarra cativantes ao longo da música, letras de tiozão fracas e bregas, e essa cara que poderia estar tocando em um clube de motocicleta no interior. Algumas músicas são cativantes e dão um certo guity pleasure, mas eu definitivamente não recomendaria o álbum inteiro e pularia todas as músicas mais devegar.

The singles here are fantastic, and the band is tight throughout, but those things don't fully sustain the entirety of the album

This isn't so much a "Fuck it, it's a 5" so much as it is a "I don't give a fuck what anybody else thinks, it's a 5."

Anodyne rock that was specifically designed to appeal to a style-obsessed generation. I don't begrudge the band their success. This whole phase of their career was incredibly successful, but at the cost of their soul. Credit to the boys from Texas: they invented a sound that is uniquely, unmistakably "ZZ Top of the 80s". When people joke about this or that thing or concept grown in a lab to appeal to a certain cross-section of people, this album is that joke brought to life.

A behemoth of a record. inspired by Billy digging Depeche Mode and Ministry.

So so album, a few good songs. Very well known band but I'm just not that into htem.

Blues Rock ochentero... el disco de Stevie Ray de ese año es mejor aunque no tuvo el éxtios del de estos barbudos (casi 20 millones de discos vendieron). La mejor canción, sin duda el clásico Gimme All Your Lovin'. El disco se escucha muy fácil, buena instrumentación aunque se puede hacer algo monótono. Otros discos de 1983: Excelentes debuts de REM, Aztec Camera, Madonna, The The y The Waterboys. Además discazos, en mi opinión, mejores de THE CHAMELEONS - Script of the bridge, Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE - Texas flood, Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, U2 - War , Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues, New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies, ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Porcupine, David Bowie - Let's Dance, Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual, Metallica - Kill 'Em All, e incluso Mike Oldfield- Crises, UB40- Labour of Love, Huey Lewis and The News- Sports y The Police - Synchronicity

ok ok ok I can jam to this, a tiny bit

I was expecting to despise this as much as I dislike ACDC, but its actually such a nice surprise. I quite like it. Don't get me wrong, we ain't going over a 3 here, but it's enjoyable. Legs is the highlight, decent

Interesting discovery, that in essence this was a studio creation. Still don’t like it, thiugh

I'm not sure I understand the appeal of this flavor of 80s rock music. How did this decade, sandwiched between the 70s and 90s (two of the greatest decades in rock music imho) end up with bands like ZZ Top, Motley Crue, and AC/DC as the de-facto bands of the generation? I've always felt their music to be incredibly bland and vapid. This album only strengthened that feeling of mine. Does this album have some great guitar solos and some good grooves to it? For sure. Does it have anything more than that? I don't think so. Maybe I'm too young, but I just do not see how bands like ZZ Top innovated within the genre at all during their heyday. I would give this album a 2/5, but I have to give it a 1 because TV Dinners might be the dumbest song I have ever heard in my entire life and I feel less intelligent having listened to it.

Pretty good Rock Album. Very glamourous, rock and roll for driving in a nice car in the city. A bit homogenous for me but I can see people really getting into it.

I had this album back when it came out and although it was a little generic and didn't get a lot of play, some of the songs got a LOT of play on MTV and in the rock nightclubs that were prevalent in the late 1980s. I think I probably played some of these myself when I was a part-time rock DJ. I didn't think I would enjoy listening to this again as much as I did. I remembered the synth/ keyboards/ drum machine as being far nastier than they actually were. There's a driving sound to every track on here, with pretty heavy production providing a fuller sound than earlier material by ZZ Top. I prefer their earlier albums in some ways, almost like it's two different bands. But this album (and to a lesser degree the next one) were also great in their own way. There's not a bad song here, even the one about meals to be eaten in front of a television set.

From the beginning, it's not the usual kind of music I listen to but I can rock with it. Gimme All Your Lovin' feels like a solid album opener, it sets the tone nicely and allows every artist in the band to show themselves off well, from guitar solos to strong, charismatic vocals. The next song Got Me Under Pressure is a lot more intense, there's a heavier driven bass and darker subject matters are discussed in this one. I feel like it's slightly repetitive though, but the momentum is never dropped which is always a positive. Judging by the next song Sharp Dressed Man, I think I've found the style I prefer from them, which is the playful and flirty side of them, which is weird to say about a hard rock group but you know what I mean. It's a lot more charming, and the vocalist's humour and charisma shines a lot more through this. Also, the improvisational sections from the band seem to feel a lot more engaging and free with this kind of concept, so I'm a fan! I won't lie, I feared their ballads as I know a lot of groups of this time easily came off as very cheesy with ballads, but there's a smoothness and a finesse to this track that makes it feel so sultry and sexy. The vocalist's gruff vocals work to add a raw edge to the song, and the guitar solos are something to be admired. The whole sound of this just works so well to create that nighttime romance experience. I Got The Six weirdly comes off as very artificial and abrasive to me, the vocals don't do enough for me to feel engaged but rather feel repelled and the whole energy of the song just feels too camp and processed rather than real and raw, which is what I'm growing to enjoy from their music. Legs has the perfect balance of camp and rock to me, it's sleazy but it's fun and playful at the same time. The composition of this song feels sonically satisfying, I love the blending of synth and acoustic instrumentation and the gruff vocals really shine here as it adds to the whole sleazy aesthetic. Overall, one of the strongest songs on the album so far and a strong showcase of my favourite qualities from this band. I can't lie, the beginning of this song made me feel nauseous but that's because it's wishy-washy. However, as soon as the song begins, I'm hooked. The subversive nature of this song having an instrumental chorus is fantastic, and shows there's a mystery and unexpected element to their music which you wouldn't necessarily attribute to them on a casual listen. They're a multi faceted group with a lot of hidden qualities, and this song feels perfectly within their wheelhouse while also pushing their boundaries. I feel like I could hear New Order or Depeche Mode releasing something similar too, which shows their influence on rock music as a whole. TV Dinners, in comparison to the rest of the album, feels dull and lifeless. It feels like it's just plodding along, and I could understand how someone may enjoy this outside of the album, but when put against such stronger tracks, this just feels pathetic and boring. Every album needs to have a couple of filler tracks, but it's just a shame when you can tell which ones were intended to be the filler tracks. Maybe this will grow on me in time, maybe I'll prefer to listen to this outside of the album like I'm assuming others might too, right now this just feels forgettable, which is more offensive than being bad to me. Dirty Dog sounds like at least 3 of the other tracks on this album, and unfortunately it sounds like the ones I feel come across as artificial. The best way I can describe this song is that it sounds like a theme song for Cops. The guitar solos in this song are very good, I'll give it that at least, but the song itself just feels naff and over-produced. I'm craving the variety back now though, because I'm getting deja vu in the space of 35 minutes. Now I know you think you know what I'm going to say, but I actually really like this one. It's very hypocritical of me, but this actually works. The structural composition of this song aids to keep the interest and momentum going in the song, the genre presentation fits the narrative to a T and there's a new softer vocal quality expressed in this song which feels really nice to listen to. The energy in this song never gives up, and it reminds me of some of my favourite contemporary artists like St Vincent so maybe I'm just more tuned to this style. I hate to say that we've ended this on a slight disappointment but the artificial dad rock sound is back, and I'm not overjoyed to see it. I can see that this is clearly their signature style, and I can understand how that may not be for me but it's a shame it's ended like this for me personally. I will say the energy is electric in this, and it feels like them at their prime so for hard core ZZ Top fans, this would be the perfect encore, just not for me. Track ranking: Thug Legs If I Could Only Flag Her Down Sharp Dressed Man I Need You Tonight ----------------------------------------- Gimme All Your Lovin' ----------------------------------------- Dirty Dog Got Me Under Pressure Bad Girl TV Dinners I Got The Six Final comments: Pleasantly surprised by this album, I found a lot that I could get into that didn't align with their stereotypical style but I still feel a slight disconnect from it unfortunately. Score: 68/100

pretty good! added to playlist (or already in): Gimme All Your Lovin' Sharp Dressed Man TV Dinners Bad Girl

What a great classic sound!

I understand that these men are talented musicians - particularly Billy Gibbons - but I really can’t stand their music. I find their blues riffs annoyingly unrelenting and their lyrics absolutely misogynistic. Obviously they weren’t the only ones to go this sexist direction with their songs in the 80’s (“Cherry Pie,” anyone?), but the fact that I don’t enjoy their music just makes it worse. However, I’ll round up my 1.5 stars to 2 in light of their contribution in the third installment of the Back to the Future trilogy.

This is a solid album and brings me right back to the 80s. The trilogy of music videos which launched ZZ Top into the mainstream with the iconic videos featuring the long bearded band with rebellious outsider narrative, even back then I felt like they were in on the joke. My favorite ZZ Top album will always be tres hombres but eliminator led me there. Recently getting to be at a surprise performance of la grange by ZZ Top frontman at a Billy Joel concert was unbelievable for me!

Wasn't expecting a lot from a ZZ Top album but was right into it. They do what they do and they do it well.

My father gave this cassette tape to me for Christmas. He then stole it from me and listened to it endlessly while making nightly dinner. Great album. No lag.

Give me strength to avoid such nonsense

My favorite era for ZZTop. Hits are icons, and the rest are just as rocking. Billy Gibbons and the blues pentatonic scale are a match made in heaven. Perfect for when you want to spend the evening at a smoky pool hall and cut loose

3 Excellent road trip tune as an opening. Stereotypical rock music with not much experimentation. Tame guitar solo on second tune with the same rock and roadtrip sound. Same sound, solo starts off strong but tapers down. General note is that the lyrics are incomprehensible. Now the guitar shines! With a more ballad-like sound and slower rythm. Smooth track. More roadtrip vibes with fuzzy lyrics. Not that it matters because they sound great. Now experimentation starts with a rythmic synth throughout this more 80s track! First song were lyrics are understandable is about a tv dinner. Synth rythm with great guitar is back. Bad girl has great vocals!

I like ZZ Top, but there’s no denying that all of their songs have a very similar vibe. If you like blues rock then you’re in for a good time, but if you don’t then probably just move on. That being said, I’ve never listened to this album in full before, so let’s give it a go! Songs I already knew: Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp Dress Man Favourites: Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp Dress Man, Thug Honestly, this album was exactly what I expected it to be: blues rock with gravelly vocals. If it was any longer then I may have been at risk of my attention waning, but 44 minutes is a pretty solid amount of time for what this is. There are some genuine bangers to be found here, and some really nice bass licks in Thug. If you like this genre, definitely give this a listen.

A classical driving hardrock album from the 80's.

I’d skipped the first ZZ Top album I got on here, so I didn’t know what to expect going into this. But I was quite pleased with it. 7/10 Top 3: 1: Gimme All Your Lovin’ 2. I Got the Six 3. Sharp Dressed Man

It was kinda fun

Sharp dressed man obv banger,

Love ZZ Top, but this slid too close to electronica.

Guay.

This has always sounded like pure product to me. Ready for commercial consumption but not really for deep enjoyment. Sure its boogie based but it is not something you really shake or swing to... Yes iconic I guess but is it good music? We have to wait until the second to last song to hear one with some shuffle to it.

still nope

YESSs also btw give bjorks album another listen. debut

favourite: tv dinners least favourite: dirty dog TV DINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LIKE THE ENCHILADAS AND THE TERIYAKI TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fun album mayb 6-7/10

There's certainly an 80s new wave flair to this ZZ Top effort with the synthesizers and drum machines having a notable presence on here. There's definitely some catchy hard rock and synth-rock tones to be found here, even if the lyrical content isn't particularly the most interesting.

Encore un album suuuuuper nostalgique à cause de mon daron

I only know ZZ Top from their many singles and have always considered them a good greatest hits band, so exploring their actual albums will definitely be interesting. Is it an artistic statement? No. Is it fun and catchy as hell, yes. All the people on here who are on here clutching the pearls that this isn’t some brainy art rock piece are honestly so lame, this is so fun and cool. And I like a lot of that brainy art rock. Sometimes you want a really good steak, sometimes you want a shitty $5 pizza. This is that pizza, and it hits the spot perfectly, I love it. 4/5

If I am going to be so honest, this was a hard one to get through. It sounds a bit too much like what would play in a movie while the main protagonist is in a bar after going to a trucker derby :((

Legendary

Awesome album

A very solid album.

many songs on here we have all heard and often feel "over played", but i'll say, even as a 40 year old album, it holds up really well. great riffs, catchy tunes, quality recording. Vocals aren't over the top/abrasive like you would find on many other bands of this vintage. all in all, much more fun to listen to then I expected.

I started off really enjoying this - Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Sharp Dressed Man are both in multiple playlists of mine - but I quite quickly lost interest and enthusiasm; a lot of the songs are very similar and there is little variation of style, sound, or feel. For a relatively short album, this really dragged by the end.

No denying there’s a few tunes on here. But just not for me, I always find this stuff a bit samey. Wouldn’t be out of place as the soundtrack to a cheesey 80s action film, which is fine if you’re watching Top Gun, but I wasn’t I was sat at my desk sending emails and looking at spreadsheets. Fun fact: Of the original three members drummer Frank Beard is the only one not to have a beard. Simpsons: Yes

Decent album, with a few bangers. Listening to this album made me want to grow out my beard, move to the USA, buy a motorcycle, ride it to a biker bar, and start a brawl, probably getting thrown over a pool table in the process.

Really good solid rock album with some absolute bangers in.

A few good well known songs but its 80s low tier rock, proof that a memorable music video can make a middling song better.

It only heard one or two of the singles from this album and of course of my life. Now that I've heard the whole album I really get why the band was so popular. They're a pure driving rock band in a very defining way. I ended up listening to it twice today.

Vers good

vaya temazos, simplemente gimme all your lovin’ para empezar !! ya se avecinaba un buen disco me gusta mucho la guitarra distorsionada y el groove en general del disco (y aún no lo he terminado) es un género que me puede embafar un poco, pero sin duda para escucharlo y ponerme de buen humor es un sí la guitarra en thug, wow es que es un disco para escucharlo cuando hace sol, tienes cosas que hacer y estás sola y contenta y puedes bailar y sentir la música mientras haces cosas

Classic.

Surprisingly not as boomer rock as I expected which is good, also their beards are cool and Sharp Dressed Man and I got the six are bangers. BUT, having said that, most songs weren't my type. Songs like legs, dirty dog or got me under pressure for example lean way too much into the side of boomer rock that's excessive for my zoomer palate, I get they're good songs (Dirty Dog not so much imo) and I enjoyed listening to them, but it's not what I personally like. The biggest offender of this was If I Could Only Flag Her Down, which deserves to be mentioned separately. That's why, despite liking some of the songs a lot, I decided I'm giving it 3 stars. The best song was Sharp Dressed Man. The worst song was If I Could Only Flag Her Down.

4/5 good!!

Not my cup of twa

Definitely more my style and era of music I like better. Not every song was a winner, but overall after the last few albums that I didn't like this was a breath of fresh air.

Took me back to my childhood. I never knew who sang the songs I liked, so fun to find out ZZ Top sang some of them. They must’ve known they’d made it when Sharp Dressed Man was used on “Alvin and the Chipmunks”. :0) Not a huge fan of TV Dinners though. Would’ve thought it was a Weird Al song if it was funny, but it was mostly just blah. I’ve read that the video was popular though.

Great classic rock! Legendary!

А чё, по кайфу! Мне до этого зизитоп выпадали, и, кажется, это был более ранний их альбом. Тут мне нравится. Кайфово. Ещё и sharp dressed man хитяра.

uh, YES.

Great album. Perfectly executed.

Not terrible. The tracks I liked were purely nostalgia aside from Thug. That was a new and enjoyable one for my ears.

Starts strong but quickly becomes very repetitive.

first listen. pretty good, not something i would put on myself tho.

Mg ruido

It was okay

Great

These guys are fun and have some tasty licks, though I wouldn't come back to it.

A few classics in here

This album comes out swinging with the first 3 songs, but after "I Need You Tonight" it just left me wanting... more? I was expecting the same or similar levels of quality throughout the album. I wish the rest of the album had the same amount of power and catchiness as the first few songs. By the way, "TV Dinners" is easily one of the songs of all time. Take that for what you will.

I know the hits. I will probably skip those to listen to the rest of the record. Listening to I need you tonight. This is very 80s production wise. But you still here the Texas blues rock in the voice. Really digging “I got the six”. Bad girl is a great track. I’m glad I finally listened to this album.

Perfectly decent album. Probably won't listen again but was still enjoyable

80s rock style, generic movie background music for when cars are going across the highway. I liked “sharp dressed man” Made it to “Legs”

really average and forgettable. like it was fine. but i forgot i was listening to it half way through listening to ut because it became background noise but better to forget then for my ears to be in pain for 45 minutes.

65/100

Riktigt bra album faktiskt. Jag blev nästan lite positivt överraskad få jag trodde att de skulle ha hitsen och sen bara tråk men det var inte ens hitsen som var de bästa låtarna.

This is about as generic as you can get when it comes to 70s rock, which is strange, because this came out in 1983... its certainly got the technical ability at times, but otherwise this sounds like nothing in particular for most of its run time, and I genuinely forgot I was listening to music until I looked down and realized I had four tracks left, all of which I could also tell you nothing about. Its fine, I guess? It has a quality to it that isn't as cheesy as the glam metal outfits that were starting to sprout at the time, nor are the synths used in a way to overshadow the main instrumentals, something groups like Van Halen failed to do, but still this album is incredibly dull. Sharp Dressed Man has a good hook and riff, but otherwise this is the kind of music people mean when they say they like "classic rock," and I don't mean that in a good way.

Blues based rock. ZZ Top is another band with a distinctive blues/boogie sound -- one they pretty much perfected in the early 70's. Eliminator still has that backbone but with a much more heavily produced, synthesizer-fueled vibe that I like less. Sharp Dressed Man is the best tune on the album, but there are no songs of the caliber of La Grange or Heard It On The X here.

Really fun album - Texas fried boogie blues. Eliminator contains a bunch of classic ZZ Top songs. With the long beards and fuzzy guitars it is really easy to overlook how solid a band they were and how good a guitarist Billy Gibbons is.

To me, ZZ Top is the American AC/DC because they have the same basic guitar and driving beat in pretty much all their songs, yet they are SUPER FUN to always listen to. This album is pretty much the one that put ZZ Top on the map. It’s essentially a greatest hits (of their popular radio stuff anyway). I know they have other bluesy stuff, but this is the album to dive in on. Not exactly a no skipper, but a great listen nonetheless.

Hviler seg på at riff og kul gitarlyd er nok til å fenge. Det er det ikke. Det er både treigt og slitsomt samtidig, trolig pga trommene. De trege låtene er best. En gammel variant av White Stripes.

6,5/10

Pretty generic dude rock

zz top halt haha

Love the crunchy guitar tone. Some classic songs on here. But they all start to blend together after a while. Not crazy about the synch feel in southern rock, takes away from the raw gritty feel.

Gotta love ZZTop in all their guitar-based glory!

take the groove out of ZZ Top and put a steady 80s beat underneath, with predictably mediocre results. energy without heart. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

ZZ Top has a lot of charm to me but I’m not sure it goes much further than that. God bless ‘em for being the blues rock band that came up with a good enough gimmick to have real longevity and success.

I had to listen to this growing up when I was in the car with my dad and brother. I didn't enjoy it then, and I don't enjoy it now. It all sounds about the same.

Classic guitar squealing rock....love it.

easy listening - nothing super special

Not their best by a long shot

These dudes were diabolically horny.

Southern Rock by way of European Dance music?? I don't know that I ever would've made that connection without reading about Billy Gibbons talking about it, but a very interesting combo. I don't love that they went behind the bass and drummers back and rerecorded their parts / subbed them in for machines. Easy listening made it their most widely successful album, though I don't know that it is their best

More accesible rock

Heavy, tight, awesome. Favorite track: Gimme All Your Lovin'

Very good hard rock. Practically a template for the genre.

Rating: 8.5/10 Great album overall. The energy was infectious, each song was played with so much power and passion. The guitar riffs and solos were all great and the production was very polished, which suited ZZ Top's style well. This album is pretty cheesy and one-dimensional but so catchy melodically that it does not really matter. Favorite songs: Gimme All Your Lovin', Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, I Need You Tonight, Legs, Thug, If I Could Only Flag Her Down, Bad Girl. Least favorite song: I Got The Six.

I've finally learned why there are so many ZZ Top tribute bands. Because every rock band is a ZZ Top tribute band, some people are just more honest about it than others. This includes ZZ Top, who seemed to just parody themselves in the second half of the album. I was actually having a blast with this until the line "She has legs and she knows how to use them" made me fall out of my chair laughing and it was all downhill from there. 2/5. They had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

The album cover gives me big Christine vibes, which weirdly also was released in the same year. The men of 1983 really wanted to have sex with their classic cars. Would be a much better album if they didn’t open their mouths. Some good blues in there but far too much bad pop-rock.

Not typically my kind of music but I liked it enough

Classic driving album. Would do 3.5 because it gets a little repetitive with how the songs all sound alike

Love ZZ Top and this album has a lot of their hits. Easy to distinguish their sound and has some great guitars that are blues influenced.

No notes

I like "La Grange" as much as the next guy, but I'm nowhere near divorced enough to sit here and listen to a full ZZ Top album. Sorry to this man.

Repetitiver, tanzbarer Hardrock mit zugegebenermaßen teilweise guten Gitarren. 2-3

I don't get why a band that feels so loose can sound so stiff. Not like that Billy. The bad kind of stiff. Seriously, I've heard "Tres Hombres," I know this is a fun band, but this record is no fun. I read the album summation and while I should be on board for pushing ZZ into Blondie territory, I can't help wishing for the zonked out weirdos that knew how to boogie. Instead they've recast themselves as Nueve riche party crashers who drive their caddie into the pool or pour everclear into the punch bowl. Watch out folks, hide your monocles, the boys are hack in town.

Cool guitar and drums. Not sure I can hear a bassist? This album has "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs." All the songs are 4 mins, but the last 1.5-2 mins are just guitar jamming. They could definitely be cut for time, unless you adore ZZ Top's guitar sound.

Always good music!!

I know ZZ Top's hits (e.g. Tracks 1, 3 and 6 here, 'Gimme All Your Lovin', 'Sharp Dressed Man' and 'Legs') and I'm not a huge fan. It's just kind of generic 70s/80s rock. They sound like a ton of other bands from that time, they don't really have anything that about their music that stands out to me. Let's see if this album can change my opinion about that. Meh, pretty much what I was expecting. 2/5

Leads off with three well-known hits and a couple more. Most of the rest is noise except for the final track, “Bad Girl,” which seems like a warm up for the later “Tube Steak Boogie.” Other than that track, I wouldn’t go back to any of it as an album; they come up enough on my radio stations.

Sharp dressed man is so good

I’ll probably give it a three. It’s fun enough for what it is, but it’s definitely from a different time. It’s one of those “it’s fine, I guess” albums. Not shitty enough to be a 2, definitely nowhere near a 4.

Sweet guitar sounds and tight songwriting, but also too over-produced for my liking with some truly cringe-worthy lyrics. This is becoming a theme in my reviews.

I Need You Tonight to tell me how much of a Sharp Dressed Man I am after listening to this album.

Good album. Starts off great, but by the end I was over it.

This album tops out at enjoyable but inessential, and bottoms out at deeply embarrassing (“I Need You Tonight”, “I Got the Six”).

Pentatonic central with a few exceptions. It's formulaic but good fun, not unlike your mum

The album that launched the drummer at the wrong gig video. Every song sounds kind of same and the first three are the best of the bunch but it's still great.

This was the big kick up for ZZ Top, coupled with the mega-saturation of the videos of the hits on MTV propelled them to superstardom. The production is super glossy and flawless, ushering in the Top’s blues with all the rough edges filed off. Gibbon’s playing is always, always bang on if not maybe a touch predictable but still he’s a king for a reason.

Fun to drive to, but not much more than that.

Album with a great consistent feel. Some more upbeat songs mixed with some more slow burners. Guitar forward. Some songs have multiple guitar solos. Sometimes the solos are a little less developed than I'd prefer but still very good.

Oh yeah! It's been a long time since I listened to this album all the way through but I regularly listen to the 5-6 hits on here. "Thug" is really the only song on here that I would never play again.

Reminds me of duck dynasty but it wasn’t bad once I actually listened to it outside of that context.

The band's deep dive into their signature sound. Nothing wrong with it (esp if you like boogie blues), but not an album I'll seek out.

Son geniales. 4/5.

A very fun great sounding album. Good vocal performance from gibbons and wonderful lead guitar. Front end better than the second. Would surprisingly listen again.

meh, some food songs but kinda boring

lowkey this was not good…. like tv dinners???? was that lifted from an infomercial and no one told me?

Uninteresting and boring.

Simple lyrics but AMAZING music. GOATS for a reason. M

I love getting xx top

this music that i think i can only fully understand if i peaked in 1988 when i was the popular high school quarterback, and now have an unfulfilling marriage and a queer art school son that i try to support but don't understand. that being said, it's pretty alright dad rock. not the best, not the worst.

Good album, not my favorite ZZ Top album but it’s still good.

Some of the cleanest guitar of the 80s. Every song is basically a satisfying delicious ear worm.

It's like a ZZ Top album - some songs are great, but it's much variation...

They write whacky songs about sex, cars, and tv dinners. Then they proceed to absolutely tear up a guitar with southern rock blues licks. It’s great. They are extremely strong tracks and a couple fillers.

The general cycle of my enjoyment of this album is enjoying the first few seconds when the punchiness is at its max and most visceral. Then when the vocals come in, my enjoyment plateaus. I don't mind the vocals typically but to me, they contrast the instrumentals in a way that's less than stellar. Then when the distorted, bluesy guitar takes the forefront again, my enjoyment goes up once more before one last steady decline. "Sharp Dressed Man" is an exception here and it's a song where I think every aspect blends particularly well with one another. Not a fan of how it just fades out though. "TV Dinners" is another favorite of mine because it, ever so slightly, reminds me of a The Doors song. I sort of already mentioned this but easily my least favorite part of any of these songs is the vocals. They're not bad per se (unless we're talking songs like "I Need You Tonight") just very one-dimensional. The song structures aren't very interesting either and neither are the lyrics. The only thing this album has going for it is its hard rock instrumentation which I will say, does sound great and Billy Gibbons is a very talented guitarist, taking notes for 60s legends and blues styles. Those moments when the drums and guitars hit are firey and the highlight of this album. Overall not a terrible album, just not one I found particularly interesting. Still found stuff I enjoyed here though.

Great album across the board

my dad would beat me if I didn't rate this album a five - he likes it that much.

Technically excellent, but really really not my style. Active since 1969 => holy fucking shit!

One of the weirdest commercial successes of the early MTV era or any musical era. Their earlier records are miles better. And this gets serious points off for being way overexposed (with cheesy videos and stupid songs) at a time when much more interesting music would have better used the space. One's still not convinced it wasn't all a joke; certainly these guys seemed to enjoy it.

Rock del lento, rock rápido, rock del bueno, eso es este disco.

Fun energetic album. The solos are poems in the air!!

Big beards and heavy guitar. Felt like I was driving with my dad. Another classic. I've listened to this one a lot before.

First 4 songs are amazing, but the next ones zzz

Old school, some good riffs sprinkled across. The lyrics did *not* age well.

Un buen álbum de Blues Rock, con una producción bastante interesante. El mejor track del LP es sin duda Sharp Dressed Man, ya que es sumamente entretenida y pegajosa. Sin embargo, después de un tiempo, el disco comienza a sentirse largo y repetitivo; la novedad de la producción se pierde en las primeras pistas del trabajo, logrando que la segunda mitad del disco sea bastante aburrida. ¿Hay alguna necesidad para que haya más de un disco de ZZ Top en esta lista? No lo creo.

As a white person I naturally like ZZ Top, but outside of the hits this one sucks.

This band is hard for me to rate. However, neighborhood kids father worshipped them! I remember listening to a tape of them and was wondering why it was worshipped that way!

Wow this was their 8th album? Didn’t realize they put out so much music. Classic album. Fun songs but never really something I seek out to listen to. These songs are everywhere.

Gets better every time I hear it. Used to dislike ZZ Top, but this album got it all.

i'm not the biggest fan of this type of rock. i have never willfully put on a zz top song, much less an album. some great tones, they can really rip on the guitar. talented, just not my thing. legs actually has some really cool sounds that i never truly listened to. they do have a line about a woman not letting him touch her down there so he's gonna go "spank my monkey" so, i dunno

It was okay, nothing very memorable. Not much to say about this one.

Good ol’ hard rock with a touch of southern US sound. Instrumentals were a bit boring

At their height of success in the 80s, ZZ Top were always an entertaining proposition, from the matching chest-length beards of Gibbons and Hill to drummer Frank Beard's (!) lewd explanation for why he chose not to have any facial adornment. (Look it up!!) However, musically, it wasn't for me. The singles on Eliminator are fine, particularly the rather great 'Sharp dressed man' but a whole album of riff-heavy text book rock, all at the same tempo and with the same plodding drum beat is too much to take in one sitting. That probably explains why the standout track for me is 'I need you tonight'. It's the only one where the base and drums are slowed down, leading to a bluesier performance. Overall though, not an album I'll be returning to any time soon.

Quite surprising experience as I did not know the band even. Several nice songs to bop your head to. Expected Marc rating: 4

Molt millor del que pensava. m'ha sorprès molt positivament i l'estil m'encanta. Expected Lorenzo rating: 3

אחלה של רוק! לא כל המוזיקה מהאייטיז לא משהו

Personalmente no me gusta este genero, pero tiene mezclas de sonidos interesantes...

No estuvo mal.

Sweet. These guys are classic. So down for this album. Very cool album. Knew a couple songs just from the radio.

OK -- this was an inescapable album when I was in high school. Just hit after hit for the masters of Texas Boogie. But I'd basically put about a third of the album completely out of my mind. And hearing it again, I understand why. Side 2 gets very samey (except for the slap bass on "Thug.") Fun to revisit, because Side 1 is all aces. So, stick to the Greatest Hits... Unexpected bangers: I Got the Six, Thug

Very nice, familiar-sounding zz top album, liked the music but I might be biased because I like that kind of music.

The hits are the hits. The rest didn't interest me.

Yeah, this is a great example of the hits overshadowing the rest of the tracks. This album is fine, but the 3 hit songs are the best of the bunch.

Reminds me alot of KISS, less bluesy elements in this ZZ top album and more high energy/pinch harmonics/strong basslines. Nothing like 'Bad Girl' to finish off the album on International women day..

This era and style of 80's rock really carries mixed reviews for me, but of all the bands trying to do this ZZ Top is one of the ones that worked better for me. However, there were still the issues I find typical of the genre with frequently empty lyrics and songs that are about a minute longer than needed as well as some songs that were their entire run length too long. I think I'll stick to the hits only and even then they are an average listening experience. Highlights - Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man

The album was surprisingly repetitive and I wasn't across anything outside of the 3 singles. I feel like they try and emulate what AC/DC have perfected and end up being 'AC/DC at home'. Side note, 'I Got The Six' is covered by Electric Six and I think the cover is better.

Great moments in my life came at the moment of this album. And this album brings back those memories. Love it.

HEAVYYYY blues. I love it. What a fun album. Favorite track: Bad Girl

Really enjoyed this

Brilliant ❤️

ZZ Top, the "Lil' Ol' Band from Texas," had a great lane, and they ran with it. They started as a guitar-driven blues rock band, and found modest success in that format. In the eighties, they moved in a pop direction, adding synthesizers and drum machines to their songs. This addition propelled them to stardom, and "Eliminator" was their most successful album in that format. The two in front, Billy Gibson and Dusty Hill, grew beards down to the middle of their chests, giving them a signature look to add to their signature sound. Eliminator has some of their biggest hits: "Sharp Dressed Man," "Gimme All Your Loving," and "Legs." Their simple, guitar driven mixture of pop, blues, and rock drove a successful career. It isn't complex, or of significant range, but their work is solid rock songs.

B- Gimme All Your Lovin 3 Got Me Under Pressure 3 Sharp Dressed Man 3 I Need You Tonight 3 I Got The Six 3 Legs 3 Thug 3 TV Dinners 3 Dirty Dog 3 If I Could Only Flag Her Down 3 Bad Girl 3 Classic rock sound. Cool album cover.

ZZ Top are good fun, no long intros or experimental turns, just riffs and solos. It's frequently cheesy but I find it quite endearing. They aren't doing anything a dozen other classic rock bands haven't already but every now and then ZZ top tick the boxes, and this was one of those days.

Still surprisingly bluesy. Got Me Under Pressure and Sharp Dressed Man were my favourites. I preferred this album to the previous one on this list, but only just. Appreciate the relative brevity of the songs here.

I feel exactly the same as when I listened to Tres Hombres, its good but not great. It has some really nice sounding Blues Rock guitar throughout, goes by at a nice pace and is bookended by two great tracks. I think I just convinced myself to give it an extra star. Highlights: Gimme All Your Lovin' I Got Six Sharp Dressed Man Bad Girl

Think I'm pretty much repeating what I said the last time we had a zz top album. It's good, and on paper I should really like it, but it just feels like something is missing. I want more oomph. Turn it up to 11. I think la Grange is better than anything on this album, although I recognised some hits here. Not a huge fan of gimme all your lovin. Sharp dressed man was pretty good. Think the best track was "I got the six" 3.5

Meh

wow! rocking from top to bottom! Brings me back to days drinking 8-packs of Bud down by 16th street park...

Ok

Favorite Tracks: Gimme All Your Lovin’ Sharp Dressed Man

Too much fuzz, but then, that's why people love them!

Amazing!

About time that we got a real banger again. My last 5 star rating was 26 albums ago. ZZ Top just rock, that's all there is to it, but that can be quite a lot in itself. My main criticism of the previous ZZ Top album we've had was that some of the arrangements sounded a bit too sparse. The modest synth accompaniments and added tightness in percussion through the drum machine really pull their weight in solving the sparseness issue. My other criticism of the other ZZ Top album was that the quality difference between the highs and lows was pretty big. This one is pretty much straight fire throughout. If the low-point is something like the unremarkable (but still solid) Thug, that's a straight A in my book. Great album. More like it, please. Song highlight: Sharp Dressed Man

Something a man in his late 40’s to 60’s would listen to while driving his cuda. Cool rock, definitely of its time. 2.7

Meh.

Couple of really fun songs, couple of really stupid songs. I wouldn't say it's a great album at all, but it definitely captures a moment in time from a band with a unique style, warts and all. It's a definite cultural touchstone, but I doubt many would think of it as a great work of art.

Famous band, well known music.

Solid run of the mill hard rock album.

Classic Rock at its most distilled

A lot of my favorite childhood memories were spent with my Dad driving to and from baseball games on the weekends, for most of my junior high and high school career we spent our Saturdays driving to the cursed land of Agoura Hills for scrimmages . A great deal of that time was devoted to my Classic Rock education. We'd trawl between Southern California's 2-3 classic rock stations, playing the game of who could guess the song the fastest. One lesson imparted on me across all those drives is how profoundly embarassing the 80's were for many bands. Creative bankruptcy and seismic changes to culture left many of the biggest bands of the 60's/70's in the lurch and their attempts to retain a cultural and commercial cache ranged from either flat-out cringe to just plain terrible. Somewhere in the middle of that spectrum lies ZZ Top's Eliminator. A mid career, sign o' the times appeal to the commercial overlords. An album with a couple undeniably catchy songs that still get classic rock airplay, but also sounds so very sterile and mechanistic. Just about every element on this record sounds so dated and processed to all hell. These songs move at a quick tempo, but the use of drum machines sucks all the life out of them. The result just sounds comically overblown and even if a number of the songs are solid I'll just never be able to get behind this.

I might have liked this better if I was a lyrically undemanding, horny, single, unsuccessfully on the prowl, beer-addled young male ready to party.

you can't not crank this up when you're driving

Really enjoyed this album

New sound for the bad . Still quite good.