Reviews (page 11 of 14)
Ese sonido de guitarra se extraña en la música actual. Le pongo 3 porque si bien hay canciones buenas, hay rellenos por allí.
Peut-être à 5$
The hits are the hits. The rest is fine but not memorable. Cover art 5/5 instantly recognisable
Semi-decent fast paced rock. I enjoyed the use of synthesizers on a few of the songs, which I wasn’t expecting from a ZZ Top album. Biggest turnoff we’re the lyrics consistently being creepy or just simply boiling down to “I want to have sex with this pretty woman”. 5/10
Machinelike cool.
Genre: Hard Rock 3/5 6 albums ago, I received the other ZZ Top album, Tres Hombres, a much more straight blues rock album with some slick lead guitar work, but overall it didn't bust my nut. I could almost copy/paste that sentiment for Eliminator, but I'd replace "straight blues" with "heavy synth". The 80s is all over this, but ZZ Top doesn't let it get too much in the way of their rockin' ways. Gimme All Your Lovin and Sharp Dressed Man are both great hard pop rock jams, both huge hits, both dripped in synth backdrops, and both with knockout lead guitar playing from Billy Gibbons. The rest of the album was entirely formulaic, with not much to comment on, but the bass playing in Thug is essential listening and nearly each song features Gibbons lettin' loose in some way, which is always a good time. Decent album.
So I loved the videos back when I was young. Songs are decent but I love the older ZZ Top much better.
Not quite as fun as the Bon Jovi but still pretty good!
Not a big fan of cars, but I guess that shiny red eliminator is pretty fascinating. That's how I felt throughout the entire album. It's an interesting and fun take on blues rock in the '80s domain. The singles are great, but it has a considerable amount of fillers. Synthesizers and drum machines are so good at turning music into noise that the entire second half became boring. Still a fun album, but perhaps just outdated.
This was such a HUGE a record in the MTV 80’s. It’s interesting to go back and listen. There’s such a distinct fuzzy tone with the dance-y beat layered under it there’s no mistaking it for anything else. Also, those vocals are pretty great. Still, is it GREAT? Hmm.
Not so good
This is ZZ Top's 8th album, and it's their most successful one - selling 20 million worldwide and being certified diamond in the US. This was the first ZZ Top album to have a breakout outside the states and achieve worldwide success. The album also sold ten times more than any previous ZZ Top album in the US. The music can be categorized as hard/blues/synth rock, since at the time the band was evolving from blues rock to a more mainstream synth rock and new wave sound. The tempo of the songs on this album was also faster than previous albums. A portion of this album's popularity can be attributed to multiple music videos that were produced and aired on MTV regularly. The changes made by the band for this album paid off, with the album making the band become newly popular with young people, as well as satisfying the older fans. This may just be the best ZZ Top album!
"If I blow my top will you let it go to your head?" Perhaps the only time I've heard a popular song lyric that I'm pretty sure is a euphemism for giving someone a facial. How can you not love that? Seriously though, ZZ Top is pretty cool. Lucinda Williams loves them, so I guess that's good enough for me. I do think they were better before they tried to break through to more of a mass audience though. Great guitar. 3 stars.
This is the ZZ Top album with all the hits... but not as good as Tres Hombres or La Futura.
It's fun for a bit. There's definitely some fun, catchy riffs. I can't imagine not enjoying at least a few songs here just for that alone. The vocals aren't so great. Some songs don't work for me at all. I don't have a heap of praise but it really was a enjoyable listen for the most part.
Pretty average, some good songs
Good album, enjoyed it. Strong guitar riffs, catchy
Beards at the ready! Thrusting power chords evoke visions of American road trips. Decent enough
I didn't expect to like this, but it was actually pretty fun... at first. I don't know if the album just drops off or if it was too much of the same thing, but I got bored by the end.
It’s funny how I sort of think of “Gimme All Your Lovin’” as a Christmas song because of The Santa Clause even though that song makes no sense being in that scene in that movie. This album has cool riffs and fun vibes though.
Enjoyed this album by ZZ Top. Felt like a pretty typical 80s rock album filled with rocking songs to drive to. Album went pretty quick and only a few songs that weren’t too great. Some classics on there though too. 7.2/10
Incredible guitar ruined every time by shouting 😂
3.5
A fine album, nothing I'm going head-over-heels for but an easy listen with some familiar tunes.
Sharp dressed man is always a good song. Tv Dinner was really weird lol. Solid album I liked it plenty of guitar throughout
Good slbum
So, I like ZZ Top, but I don't think they're really that good. I appreciate that it's three guys and they were like, "Hey, let's stick to a shuffle on the drums, eighth notes on the base, a single guitar tone, and write a buncha songs about girls and cars. Oh, also, we'll have cool beards and spin our guitars around." And - to their credit - it worked. They are iconic in the sense that you can play 5 seconds of any of their songs and people will be like, "oh, that's ZZ Top." The part of me that loves this music wants to rate it favorably. The critique in me can't get past the horrible slap-bass on Thug (or the general "okay-ness" of the entire album). Given that I believe ZZ Top has a place on a "top 1001" list, and given my assumption that this is the only one of their albums we'll encounter on the list - 3.
Inte superspännande men har svårt att inte tycka om ZZ. Gimme all your lovin och Sharp Dressed Man är toppenlåtar. Däremot mycket ganska intetsägande låtar även på den här plattan. Cruisar hela vägen till en trea
zz top-ne top
Good
Just good old fashion southern rock'n'roll. This is a perfect album for driving with the windows down.
Good rock and roll
Is ZZ Top peak rock and roll? Anything more quintessentially rock and roll than ZZ Top and Billy Gibbons' whole aesthetic? And is there anything more peak of the peak than "TV Dinners?" They wrote and recorded and, I assume, repeatedly played, a bluesy rocker of a tune about the necessity of a microwaved meal. "TV dinners, I'm feelin' kinda rough TV dinners, this one's kinda tough I like the enchiladas and the teriyaki too I even like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue" Amen, Billy, amen. I've never understood the early 80s so well. Of course, they do follow it up with a rather creepy song about wanting to catcall a pretty girl in a nice car. Again, the 80s... "Gimme All Your Lovin,'" "Legs," and "Sharp Dressed Man" were probably Billy Gibbons' greatest achievements... until his recurring role as Angela's dad on "Bones," at least.
When I first started working, I was on a project with a retirement age gentleman. The main thing I remember about him is that my coworker told me his daughter was the woman in the Legs video. Well what did google pop up when I searched for “ZZ Top legs girl”? A 2013 nostalgic blog post by an 80s music video aficionado where he tracked down the Legs woman and sort of interviewed her. She remembered, “I think the most memorable scene (although some would disagree, preferring the lingerie shot) was being placed by the biker up on the counter and spinning to kick off my boyfriend’s boss. In the process, by accident, just a peek of the crotch of my underwear showed. I was ahead of Sharon Stone. A true slip and never brought to my attention.” https://www.noblemania.com/2013/07/the-girl-in-video-legs-1984-part-1-of-3.html?m=1 The guy tracked down and interviewed a number of lesser known 80s music video stars, like all five women from Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love. The site is a hoot for consumers of 80s MTV. I watched the Legs video for the first time. All I can say is that special effects were poor in 1983, amazingly so. ZZ Top are at their best when the guitars are driving things forcefully with a steady beat from the drummer. Songs like Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, and Bad Girl. It’s a bit boring otherwise.
Rock al palo. Nada de cosas raras. Con un par de hits para que todo el mundo se sienta familiarizada con la banda
7/10
The hits are hits for a reason, all that guitar is goddamn catchy shit and I'm here for it. But the album does become quite monotonous as it goes on. Thank you for giving us "Legs" and knowing how to use them.
2021.11.19
Enjoyable rock for a Monday morning
Fairly standard MOR rockers, some better than others. 'Legs' is a nice change of direction, and I'm fascinated by the fact they stopped thinking about sex for just long enough to write a song about TV dinners.
Guay. 3
notttt really to my tastes - every drum beat the same - all songs seemed to be the same tempo. some nice vocals and guitars though i'll give them that
meh not my type of music but was okay
Hit singles lifting a solid rock album that wears its blues history on its sleeve as a badge of honour. Nostalgia and knowing wink glosses over the sexism. A step into the mainstream for a jobbing rock band.
Nokkrir bangerar. Fín plata!
Another prominent star in the constellation of my pop adolescence. Friday Night Videos standards for many months. Clearly guitar is the star here, and it doesn’t get much better for this style of American heavy rock. The singing shows its weakness whenever the material gets slightly challenging though, and the lyrics at best have a slick but superficial stylishness, at its peak in Sharp Dressed Man.
Decent listen. Several hits that were fun, most of the others were ok but a lot of the same sound.
Good ol' classic rock and roll. Deserves a 3.5 but I can't quite get it to a 4.
I tend to think of zz top as gezers but they seem like they might have been pretty hip back in the 80s. pretty decent classic rock album but likely not one I'll come back to often.
Legs is one of the best rock tracks of all time, Give Me All Your Loving has been used to death in adverts so just makes me think of sofa sales. The rest is nice but it all blends into one for me, it’s very of it’s time and not my cup of tea.
Pretty cheesy but a solid album and fun to listen to 6/10
Boring. 5/10
This album is great blues influenced rock. So catchy and so fun. I love this record. If you don’t smile during TV dinners you may need to talk to a professional.
Straight up rock. Aight
Decent rock album
Lustige Mischung aus schlichtrock und guten Sachen
Noh brilliant nor bad…
ZZ Top was the face of blues for millions following the release of this album. ZZ Top were quite vocal about their blues roots and their influences in legends like Howlin Wolf or any of the Kings. After all, they made huge contributions like the renovation of the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale. This album was a transition period into a much harder sound incorporating synths typical of the 80s. But these songs still follow true to the blues formula, found in most of the songs, especially the guitar solos. Of course the highlights are the three singles. My personal favorite is the lesser known of the three "Legs", probably because of the computerized synths and lighter tone. I liked a lot of songs, especially on the second side, to be weak. Why? Well, I like the variety in funky synths. And the blues sound is there... sometimes. But it sounded too much like other hard rock or synth of the era. It tried too hard to be commercialized, and in the end the songs themselves did not stand out. And I wonder if any of the songs would have stood out if not for the MTV heavy rotation. Overall, it is an enjoyable experience with great radio staples but tried too hard to be something of its time.
Very 80s rock production, sadly not enough ZZ Top blues for a higher score, but a solid album.
I like ZZ Top but this is just basic classic rock. Nothing spectacular
There are some amazing songs on here, but there are also a couple that kind drag on… for me they balance the album between not quite being incredible, but not quite being a bad album either
They were great in their time. Liked their music more then then now.
It all sounds the same but it’s as classic rock as it gets
This is a fun listen. I appreciate the eighties electronic textures. Favourite track is TV Dinners.
I liked the non-hits as much as the hits, but the entire album is knocked down one star by the TV dinner mess of a song.
Sharp Dressed Man is one of those songs I've heard 100 times played by cover bands, but I don't think I ever listened to the actual song until now. Really good stuff, tasteful synth usage on top of the standard rock sound. They sure made the most of the minor pentatonic scale.
Alright, but not fantastic. A few good songs, but unfortunately, the rest are not very interesting.
I def dislike this but it is an unheralded ingredient of mainstream 80s rock for sure
Kind of forgettable
ZZ Top was one of the first bands I saw live (2008 Orange Bowl halftime show) but I had no idea who they were.
its a fine rock album. honestly better than I expected it to be but still nothing crazy to write home about
I went into this album thinking I wasn’t a ZZ Top fan. And I went out realizing that was still true. This album has its moments and its good in its own way. I don’t really enjoy how just about every song is about the objectification of a woman.
barndom ..
Paar Banger drauf. Album ist okay. Mehr Bart wäre wünschenswert
Fast women, faster cars. It was certainly a different era.
Some great tracks, some duds too. There are better ZZ Top albums but always worth dipping into
Great fun
Good album
Батянский рок
Nice pick. I liked it just fine.
Route 66, Bärte, Motorräder, Rockmusik...
Teils guter und harter Rock. Allerdings hab ich mich nach 4-5 Liedern sattgehört. Mit einem Tag Abstand merke ich, wie sehr mir Musik mit echten Instrumenten doch manchmal fehlt und wie schön raue Rockstücke sein können.
Macht Lust auf eine neue Staffel Peaky Blinders.
I Need You Tonight is a great song. Decent album, would listen to again.
So cool
Mostly dull, but 2 very catchy songs. Never really got in tune with ZZ.
3.5/5 I'll have to relisten, although it's kind of interesting!
I'm finding it difficult to form an opinion for this album, I think I liked it but I don't see myself ever listening to it again so...
Simppeli resepti. Homma lähtee kitarariffillä ja sitten rummut ja basso ihan normaalisti. Texasin Kotiteollisuus. Kolme ajatonta hittiä, mutta loput levystä aikalailla täytettä. Tai same old same mutta vähän eri mausteilla. Kitarasoolot oli välillä loppumattoman pitkiä ja hitaammat biisit varsin outoja. Pelkästään hittien takia kuitenkin 3.
Great rockin album. Three or four songs that got WAY too much airplay, but the rest of the songs are strong.
Deece. A low 3
All the hits, lots of fun and does what it says on the tin.
Perusrokkia Ameriikasta. Tätä kuunnellessa pystyi kuvittelemaan itsensä alasarjan jääkiekkopeliin, kun kuuluttaja pistää jytää c-kasetilta. Vähän jo jossain kohtaa mietin pitäisikö tarjota ihan nelosta, mutta pyöristin kuitenkin kolmoseen. Sharp Dressed Man oli tietty se hittibiisi, mutta levy rullasi muutenkin kivasti eteenpäin. Joissain kohdin kitarajurnuttelut olivat kuitenkin turhan pitkiä ja jumittavia.
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. I was flirting with 4 stars, but the second half was less impressive than the first. 7/10
Good fun.
Good fun! Some bangers. Between a 3 and a 4. Gonna go with.... hmmm a 3.
Is “I got the six” about a size queen looking for a gay hookup?
Samey af
Some of this could be brilliant but needs to lose the synthesisers and the ridiculously clean production. Would probably be great without those.
Meh
Very riff heavy songs a fun listen
Too much white noise.
3.6 - Fun, bouncy blues rock with some synth elements to modernize the sound for 1983. Some of their biggest hits are here - "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Legs." Also some throwaway tracks, notably "TV Dinners", which sounds like it was written by a 9 year old.
This album is very common and easy to listen to. I know that it should be considered a great rock album for 83, but nowadays, the age came and it just an ok album.
This sounds like rock music
Well, nice listening that guitars and the distorsion, but seeing the videos on MTV make a great difference
Grand for the background. Some good riffs.
The first ‘whole’ ZZ Top album I’ve listened to. The hits are SO good. The non hits are SO forgettable. All balances out.
I occassionally think Gimme All Your Lovin' is Huey Lewis. Whoops.
Not the kind of music I'd listen to on a daily basis, or ever, as a matter of fact. I'm just not a fan of blues-rock in general. However, I still think this album is interesting due to its production history, the fact that it was the first ZZ Top album made using synths and drum machines plus guitars and that it was basically just Billy Gibbons and the producer in the studio, while Dusty Hill and Frank Beard did almost nothing.
Fun record. Love their sound, even if a lot of tracks blend together.
While not ZZ Top's best album (personally that honor goes to "Degüello") this album rocketed them to huge commercial success, and was my first album of theirs. it has arguably their biggest hits, and some stinkers, but overall a very good album.
i liked it but nothing extraordinary
Enjoyed. It made me think of the tv show Bones. Would listen again
Something was lost from their older stuff. This is too polished, too... 80s, but in a bad way.
Ganz ok. Wieder ein Album, zu dem ich nichts weiter sagen kann.
Nothing mind-blowing, but a lot better than expected! "Sharp-Dressed Man" and "Legs" are the standouts!
I toe-tapped all the way through this, it's impossible not to. Although ZZ Top basically play different versions of the same song throughout their entire career, it's a very good song to repeat. Incredibly catchy, full of 80s nostalgia, music that puts a smile on your face.
It was fine.
Not a huge ZZ TOP fan, but see how the album makes the list
It's good , but the relentless pounding drum machine is bit much...
It's OK! I'm not really super-duper into the whole 80's rock scene but I gave it a listen.
I want to like it but it's just not enough for a 4 for me. The songs are just a bit too simple for me, both lyrically aswell as musically but they lack the catchiness of for example CCR
Flashy trip through history
Kivasti soivaa rockia noin kokonaisuutena ja pari kovaa lekaa.
only heard like half of it unfortunately but still, not my thing
ZZ Toppia, toimii tietenkin vaikkei mun lemppari olekaan
80s excess drenched in some classic, southern fried blues. The riffs are great, might be a little fat to trim. Some, dare I say, interesting song topic choices (I'm looking at you "TV Dinners"). "Sharp Dressed Man" plays in everyone's head when they put on a suit. Favorite tracks: "Dirty Dog", "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
it was ok i guess.
I was interested in listening to this after the listening notes and not having listened to ZZ Top in any meaningful way. It was not what I would have guessed based on the look of the band at all. I expected relatively intense blues rock and lyrics. What I got was more or less an early MTV playlist, all shine, sheen, bops and not too much to say. Musically, it’s OK. Pop rock is going to pop rock, and it feels very precisely designed and produced for that. It’s also not really an album in some respects so much as a playlist of songs - there’s no links or anything, and it’s so poppy that it’s hard to critique it as more than was it a bop? And yes, it kind of was. Polished and disposable in the same way that gym t-shirts are; OK, but you wouldn’t miss a specific one. I keep getting an internal A&R man telling me, well, you can sell it. And yes, it’s accessible and unchallenging. Would I put it on by choice or think of it again? Probably not. Would I be annoyed if someone else put it on? No. It’s a low 2 to 3, ending on a two.
I never enjoyed this type of hard rock, drizzled in '80s commercial sheen. It's inoffensive, but it's not very enjoyable or interesting for me either.
I like blues rock, but a lot of this album was meh to me. The song about TV dinners was a real low point. I’m sure I would enjoy this album if it was playing in a dive bar.
Je comprends pas pourquoi c'est drole comme album !! C'est encore un album ok. Vraiment moyen. Ca ne me touche pas du tout. J'en ai ras le bol de tout le temps ecouter la meme chose. C'est pas interessant. 70% on entend une guitare, une personne qui chante trop fort. C'est chiant enfaite. On a toujours du rock, du rock, des derivees de rock. Toujours des gars qui chantent ou sont les filles. Genre c'est bon, ca me gave.
It's like they only wrote one song. I can't believe how samey it is.
Crazy whack
As cerebral as art can be, sometimes you just need something that's as dumb as a box of rocks. A koala at a Trump rally level of dim-witted. Big car go fast, loud guitar go woaooao and of course, good girl go bad. I don't always want to watch a silent film from the Polish arthouse underground that examines how the capitalist view of Europe has shaped the poorer nations' internal politics. Sometimes I want to watch HOSS FIGHT 6, where a Godzilla sized Baboon slugs it out with a Mammoth who is the size of a fuckin' mountain. Give that about 90 minutes to unfold before me, stomp the shit out of Manhattan, and maybe call in a last minute alien angle to set up HF7. Call that a hell of a Wednesday morning. "Eliminator" seems to me, to be in the same vein as the HOSS FIGHT series, in that it's completely boneheaded and ready packaged for mindless consumption while inhaling coolant fumes above a hot rod. Even still, there are some thunderous tracks on here. Sharp Dressed Man STILL rules unfortunately. Has me flicking around my nonexistent hair like "Gorgeous" Jimmy Garvin. Only those in the middle of the venn diagram where the two sides are "those who have watched original tapes of the mid 80's NWA" and "readers of my reviews" will understand that reference. That leaves zero people. If a tree falls in the forest, does it kill David Crockett? I hate this record, but I also hate myself for not hating it as much as I should. GO MAMMOTH GO!!! 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Ah man he really slugged em'!
pf no que aburrido y mira que la grange me gusta
Got a couple fantastic tracks but the rest is pretty generic 80s rock.
Awright. Nothing special
ZZ Top explaining any one of their songs: imagine a woman, she’s beautiful, and wowee she knows how use everything she’s got, you know. And I’m wearing THE COOLEST clothes, uhhh and so is she.
didnt mind it until the guy kept singing
the guitar work saves this brainless mess
An album with 2 hits by a band with 2 hits
not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue
It's full of classic songs, but I can't condone ZZ Tops chicanery
259. ok
Not my type of music...
Crusty riffs and even crustier lyrics
Típico som de ZZ Top (rock básico), contaminado pela sonoridade dos anos 1980. Regular, mediano.
Mmmm ñe
5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background
"I was there from the very beginning for this project. In fact, I was working on this project with Billy before I even knew we were working on a project. I knew about the approach to ELIMINATOR and songs on ELIMINATOR before two-thirds of the band did (Frank and Dusty). I was deeply involved, then I was shunned, bad-mouthed, shat upon, disavowed and treated like a dog. It really happened like this. What more can I say or do. This is truly a story about greed and betrayal. You're welcome Billy Gibbons (WTF)." - Linden Hudson: cowriter of this album https://www.reddit.com/r/musichistory/comments/891bl7/linden_hudson_cowriter_of_the_zz_top_eliminator/
This wasn't downright bad, the first 3 tracks were actually really enjoyable! However, this album does feel like one long repetitive song! The lyrics don't really mean anything, but some of them are terrible and extremely cringeworthy, but the guitar is the main attraction so I wasn't expecting any insightful or intelligent lyrics. Hard Rock is very hit-or-miss, but I've found that it's often very repetitive and most albums in the genre have a couple hits then a whole lot of filler. This fits that description perfectly.
I love ZZ Top, but this album kinda blows
Nope apart from a few moments
Some songs are fun enough, but the lyrics are one-note and generally the whole thing was noth very interesting.
Guitar solo city! ZZ Top is a band I know nothing about I heard 2 songs in my life,Sharply Dressed man and I think as an introduction to this band I think they are just okay. A lot of it blends together to create this kinda dad soundscape which is essentially easy listening music. Lyrically this thing is raunchy and silly and dated. Tv dinners being a silly highlight just a song about frozen dinner come on! Legs is one of those raunchy moments but it still Sounds like love even with all the leg talk. I think this to me is more of a bit and a pretty accurate representation of boomer/late Gen X rock. Which to me is better than the actually monotonous nature of the songs ending early lyrically and becoming a solo. Is the song the lyrics or the solo behind it. That’s a larger music question that is far more interesting than anything I heard on the Exterminator. Oh it’s called Exterminator because it bugs you haha get it.
Ik vind het eigenlijk best saai. Het imago wat ze neer proberen te zetten is als een bbq’ende hells angels man. Maar de muziek is vrij saai los van de solo’s gebeurt er niet veel. Het is net zo’n anticlimax als een hells angel die uiteindelijk gewoon een lieve man blijkt te zijn. Saai
Somehow I get the feeling that gays are not the target audience for this.
To me, ZZ Top is a band from which I like the hits only. Sharp Dressed Man is a banger, but the rest of the record is just meh for me. I like Tres Hombres a bit more. I give this a 2 for that matter, cause I gave 3 to Tres Hombres.
What happens when a very good boogie southern blues band that fuses psychedelic Tex Mex sounds into a stew decides that the secret to success is to add more synths and discover the magic guitar tone? They turn into a popular pile of shit. Sure, 2/3 of a band of bearded ugly guys surrounding themselves with hot women hides the smell but it is just impossible to hide the fact that this record is really the same song cut up into 12 pieces. It bears repeating that it is just a pile of crap cleverly designed to appeal to a specific group of listeners who would never ever be called discerning. It’s a cheesy pop record with embarrassing lyrics that are repeated for effect. Sharp Dressed Man and Legs are truly the same song structure including the solo placement. Again, the so called critics loved this record, the masses ate the shit up, and then like most pop records, ended up in the used record bins alongside Billy Joel, Barry Manilow and 3 of the 4 Kiss solo records. There are no redeeming qualities to this record. The only interesting thing about ZZ Top is that Frank Beard is the only member of the band without a Beard. See you at the county fair. 2/5
Ok
This is the album where ZZ Top jumped the shark. Not the same band they were in the 1970s to be sure. The car on the album cover symbolizes the enshitification of music brought about by videos and MTV.
я правда пыталась дать этому шанс, но это ваще не моё. альбом вышел в год рождения моей мамы, еще до ее рождения 🙃 из плюсов крутые гитарные соло, можно включить если захочется попрыгать под что-то около рока Сохранила: 1/11, 9% (и кстати не самые популярные!)
Nothing lile ZZ Top to make you want to kick out the old school jams. This, while containing some of their best singles, doesn’t hold a flame to Tres Hombres as my favorite ZZ Top album.
Peak 1980s dad rock. The synths and guitars go alright.Perfect for driving to, it’s completely fine and inoffensive, just not my thing at all, personal preference. Felt really repetitive.
I am so serious when I say that this sounds like the same song 14 times. Same lyrics, same baseline, same guitar licks. It's not bad it just gets stale after a while. Highlight: TV Dinners
80s rock, dad vibes, just not my kind of thing
Hits are good, but don’t love the 80s hair metal influences drifting in.
Found this weirdly difficult to get through. Like really enjoyed the first three tracks then it just descended into some bullshit. I Got The Six is the craziest shit I ever heard.
one note band
2.5 It’s okay. It’s ZZ Top. There’s no question what you’re getting. The hits are good, everything kind of sounds the same.
nah
why is the "hard rock" band mixed like the beastie boys. why is the "hard rock" band mixed like flock of seagulls. why is it (somewhat) tolerable? why am i unable to rate any of these songs? the vocals. anyways. cathy duran duran. 1.7-2.5.
Another also ran radio-friendly album that earns the most respect being played in DIY supermarkets. Novelty beards are just a weak gimmick that can't hide the vacuousness of this group. I mean for pop rock it's ok but one of the best albums of all time, not even close.
ZZ Top is one of those One Song kinda bands. The synths generally suck. I vastly prefer the 70s stuff, but who can say no to Sharp Dressed Man?
This is straight up boomer rock right into the veins. Not all bad, but not for me exactly!
you can’t make me listen to an entire zz top record. you just can’t
Gimme All Your Lovin' Sharp Dressed Man Legs
Guitars, hard, not really my style
Thought I was going to like the song “Legs” until he sang “she had hair down to her fanny”. Now, Sir!!! Theme with this band though - they start off and I’m like oh I could groove to this.. and then they start shitting out their mouths.
Some cool stuff, some meh stuff. Liked Legs a lot
This is schlock rock, but I love their videos and their image
Rating: 4/10 It sure is a ZZ Top album, but now worse. I should probably bump my La Grange scores up a point because the earlier career dirty blues sound is better than this. The first three tracks are generally the best the album has to offer, with Sharp Dressed Man being the highlight with its solid groove. After that though the monotony and lack of diversity further gets to me. The back half is entirely unremarkable. And thankfully I didn't really even take in the lyrics in my listen.
Very normal and fine. I can see how pieces of it are borrowed by artists all the time today but as it stands it's just a fine little guitar drum thing where every song sounds like Sharp Dressed Man 4.5/10
idk i don't love it. my little brother had a phase where he was obsessed with zz top and would play it on the boombox so much so maybe that soured it. great beards though good for them
There's not much to hate here if you like classic rock music. It just kind of plods along and frankly its just a bit boring and dated now.
ZZ Top is again one of these artists that I never deeply looked into. I know the hits and all but I would have not known their albums etc. It is wild that this is their 8th album and the most successful since normally the success comes way earlier. I have not carefully listened to their earlier albums but I think it is safe to say that they stuck to their own sound and eventually that lead to this success that this album had. ZZ Top is kinda like AC/DC, you know what you get!
Just not my vibe
For music that's sounds like it's supposed to be exciting this is boring to me. Some good guitar but I felt myself phasing in and out a little. From the ZZ Top I've heard in the past this felt sanded down and more commercial, I guess cos it's later in their discography. Cool album art tho
Not bad, don't quite dislike it but it's something I wouldn't listen to in a long time. plus my ears are tired of 80s type songs and will be for a long time 2,5/10
I associate ZZ Top with this Spitting Image song We Got Beards: We got beards Beards like beavers We got hair Coming out of our chins We got beards Flowing like rivers We got beards Except for him We got beards We don't use razors We got growth Of the longer sorts We got beards We sure ain't shavers We got beards And we don't mean short So what else Can we say about us Apart from beards Which you know we've got Erm... hey, what about the beards? Hey yeah! We got beards Down to our trousers We got beards That's what we've got ...except for him
Not as good as “Tres Hombres”. Not sure how many ways there are to write dive bar songs but these guys sure are trying to find out
Standard 80's, happy to listen to once, no need to listen to twice.
Don’t really like this, corny corn dad rock. RYM: N Saved a song: N
How the hell do these guys have 11.4 million Spotify listeners? What a joke. This was 45 wasted minutes of generic and unoriginal rock
ughhhhhhhhh fine i guess. the album cover alone broooo so chud
I'm much more of a La Grange ZZ Top person than a Sharp Dressed Man person. This doesn't do a whole lot for me.
Boomer rock that gets progressively worse as you listen. The worst song was the one where the lyrics are complaining a girl won’t let the lead singer fuck her. The second worst was the tv dinner song. I could’ve gone my entire life without hearing this album and nothing would’ve changed.
This album is just too repetitive.
Was expecting less yacht rock
Serviceable dad rock
"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a really good song. But I view this album as the beginning of the end for a really great band. This was too polished. I never did like "Legs" or "Sharp Dressed Man".
Yeah s'alright. Writing and performance are both pretty middle of the road. Something you'd hear on FM radio (or super crunchy AM) cruising around on a summer evening, not really going anywhere. Sun starts really setting into dusk as soon as I Need You Tonight starts playing. You imagine that you're in a Miami Vice type 80s crime drama life filled with excitement and intrigue instead of some schmuck living in Omaha on their way home again from a beige office, about to have a soggy, silent TV dinner with your partner and avoid thinking about how you're almost 15 years too late for whatever it is you wanted to do with your life. "Coming to bed, honey?" "Yes, dear." Ahem. Uh, it's probably a lot more fun for that specific scenario, otherwise just alright. Inoffensive, at least.
A little average, some fun standouts like sharp dressed man and tv dinner but… basslines on this album made me want to kill myself
Time and a place i guess
ZZ Top will always have my wry heart for "Tres Hombres," the other album on this list. But even with my gratitude goggles on, this album remains mediocre. Yes, it was popular; I wouldn't doubt that it was their highest grossing recording at the time. But lots of shit was popular in 1983, and most of it we can release into the ether. Buh bye, Eliminator.
This was a grave disappointment. Like everyone of my generation I was overly familiar with the hits from this record and thought the whole album would have that fun feeling of stupid 80s trash music. But no. The rest of this record was lazy filler with a nasty misogynist edge. I perused the 1001 reviews and all the 1- and 2-star write-ups were so spot on. The one that stuck with me the most was the person who noted that the author of these songs has the emotional range of a toddler eating sherbert. I'm not totally sure what that means, but it feels right. This album made me feel icky, and like all of us needed a nap.
Too many guitar solos. Too much aggressive. Some good song drowned into a chaotic record I didn't really like.
Lyrics are ass
2 ZZ Top albums in 10 days ... this one's not as good as the other one. The algorithm or vagaries of fate (or whatever) did this album no favors - this would likely be a 3 but for the irritation at seeing this so close to the other one.
More boring than I expected? Disappointed
The gutar work is great, but the lyrics are kinda cringe and definitely Boomer teir. Overall not something I'd choose to listen to again. Extra star for the gutar work as mentioned before.
ме. не люблю рок. но если бы я была билли из техаса, продавцом подержанных мустангов с золотой цепью, или майком из индианы, который красит грузовик в матовый чёрный, пьёт mountain dew вместо воды, называет жену старухой (ей двадцать три) и величает себя «ночным волком», то влепила бы этому альбому пятёрку.
Jammin bluesy guitar tones but yeeesh the sleaziness of this thing. I get that it’s supposed to be tongue in cheek and all but idk man, you just know the people who are giving this a 5 are beer slingin’ misogynists. As another review said “these dudes are diabolically horny”
lol I don’t think you even need to hear a ZZ top single before you die. some hits here tho of course
I think it does what it wants to do well, but this brand of 80s rock is not for me at all.
Mostly the same thing over and over again -- 4/4 beats, driving synths, slightly bluesy guitar. I'd rather hear the guitar work without the other stuff.
I've always had some cognitive dissonance when it comes to ZZ Top. I hear about how they're one of the greatest rock bands ever, and when I listen to them they sound soulless and generic. This is the first time I've listened to them outside of their radio hits, and it has only solidified my opinion of them. I did not enjoy this.
2 solid hits on it that are enjoyable. The rest of it however, forgettable
very basic rock which isnt bad but it isnt ground breaking either.
Two fun singles and a lot of "teenage boy bedroom" nonsense. Still more enjoyable that that White Stripes album, but I won't be revisiting.
I really don't get the appeal of this kind of rock Fav track: Thug
I don’t love the lead singer’s voice, it’s kind of thin to me, and the songs all started to sound the same. The guitar parts were great tho.
american driving music
There are some classics on here, it's just not my jam for a full albums worth of listening IMO
The singles are okay - but its pretty repetitive lowest common denominator stuff. Very 80's very packaged and very dumb. The low point being TV dinners ... "This one's kinda tough I like the enchiladas And the teriyaki too I even like the chicken If the sauce is not too blue" A low 2.
Poor man's Dire Straits. Without the variety. Or decent lyrics. But with plenty of overhyped '80s 'Merca.
Que ondaa😂😊 emos volvido a las reseñas musicales,.en el dia de hoy: "Eliminator" de lo tops zz!! Hora d escuchar: Dice asi: "Gime All Your Lovin" q puedo decir los 80s nno kejejejejej, ese reverb n el snar y procesamiento d la voz nos gritan el tiempo d la cancion, y el ritmo tmb no jje. Dale dale, la segunda mitad del tema m la subio con esos arreglitos q siento q le quitaron pila monotia. Capaz m sobreestimulo un poco la guitarra electrica siempre sonando al palo. "Got me under pressure" this too much for my brain.. no estoy en el estado mental para tanto mambo.. bajale a la guitarra porfa, aunq esta buena la parte del medio en el q la guitarra s empieza a pajear y se corre, como puente esta buena la idea. Dios mio q acabo de escribir, "Sharp Dressed Man" bueno m gusta eso que tipo, al final de "got me under pressure" se empieza a toquetear tmb la guitarra y gemir es una asquerosa. "I Need You Tonight" aburridisimo el riff de guitarra electrica, muteenla Canciones como "I Got the Six" solo me suenan a mediocridad e inmadurez, como grita "soy adolescente y pijudo" solo con el tono de voz q usa, y toda la atmosfera q crea la cancion es una gran falsedad muy llana. Lo mejor hasta ahora y capaz d las pocas cosas q rescato, es una notable creatividad y ganas d explotar la guitarra eletrica lo mas posible, pero todo lo demas bastante meeh. No entiendo como esto, entre otros, esten en una lista de albumes que tenes q escuchar antes d morir. "Thug" sorpresas, la bateria muy bien paneada, sentis como monos alrededor tuyo n medio d la selva, para despues ese bajo slap intentando potar con los monos golpeando como siempre hacen, mientras estos hacen ruidos raros con la boca, un completo caos q extrañamente m hace sentir en casa. Un aporte q le puedo dar a la banda es que quiten al vocalista. Muy largo el tema, la ultima seccion de 1:30 sobro parecia un loop choto. Canciones muy desaprovechadas, con algunos momentos unicos, capaces de crear un sentimiento mas complejo, pero q se quedan ahi, en momentos, simplemente un parte minuscula de un tema entero, un tema de personalidad nula, suena a canciones hechaa en joda, con una chispa q esconde muy timidamente, cuando la muestra le aplaudan pero la tan terrible no la quiere usar para el fogon, y se queda en eso su cancion, una chispa que nunca se dio a comer, y que al final del dia se apago. Sera cosa mia tmb, pero tanto mambo con la guitarra electrica al palo todo el album. Ni 1 tema sin usarla, parecen hermanos todos los temas, no en un buen sentido. Todos son en esencia la misma cancion, mediocre. Album que sacaria una discografica, no un conjunto de artistas. Cocainomanos. 2. No le doy un 1.5 porq soy el poli bueno.
We all know the singles. Just big dumb fun. The rest is like that but worse
didn’t really like it. very basic.
A very horny and monotonous album. The fillers feel like lazy alternate reality versions of the hits. Each track bleeds into the next and I struggled to keep paying attention. Even the singles feel like self-parody at this point. The cars/legs/girls thing hasn't aged well and feels like divorced dad rock you'd hear on touch tunes at Applebees. Genuinely surprised by how little I enjoyed this. The one upside is it sent me back to Tres Hombres, which imo does the greasy blues rock schtick much better without tipping into cartoonishness.
Second half of this album is a complete snoozefest. Big meh all around. Just too corny for me, but I can understand how people enjoy it.
Not great
They sound like they were on autopilot for this one. No more fire in their bellies by this point in their career. I just couldn't get excited about this album.
Zone out a lot....
Nah.
Zzzzzz Top
Is TV Diners a parody of Weird Al Yankovich doing a parody of ZZ Top? I was looking forward to this album until I got to legs and then there was a sharp drop in IQ and the rest is laughable. I’d give it a 1 if the singles weren’t so good.
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Its OK they are talented but not for me
I generally don't like ZZ Top. This isn't really much of an exception. It was a little better than expected, but my expectations were low. I wouldn't choose to listen to this, but I wouldn't tell my friend to turn it off if he played it. 2.49/5
I’ve always hated this band’s aesthetic. For me, ZZ Top’s music has always occupied a very boring place in rock history. ⭐️ ⭐️
this music makes me want to do coke and beat my wife who I HATE!!!! 10/10!!!!!! I love AMERICA!!!
Rock for the sake of rock idk. Not super unique or atleast brigs nothing new to the genre as I see it. If you want rock then this is what you want, but it doesnt bring much more than that.
Outside of the fantastic singles, this album is straight up forgettable. The synthetic drums and bass don’t do this album any favors, the tunes sound robotic as hell, and the songwriting is corny AND horny to the point of being a bit unbearable. “TV Dinners” and “I got the six” are prime examples of this. The singles are great, they have a punch and memorable hooks, and the album sounds nice with the windows down speeding on a freeway, but all in all this is only about as good as background music can be.
Meh, this was kinda disappointing. Couple of tracks that are still fun listens, but absolutely no variety. The rest of the album just sounded like fillers.
This album felt looong. I was checking to see how much was left and I was barely halfway through the record. Not a good sign. It’s just pretty generic and for the first half I didn’t really mind it, but after that it became a bit annoying.
It's ZZ Top, but not how I like them
This is an album that I feel has not aged super well. There are some undeniable great tracks here. Sharp Dressed Man is a great single. But I feel this childish, cheesy nature when hearing some of these lyrics. In the heavy blues rock genre I have heard much better.
Fun, no sticking power
Altså, det er ikke dårligt, det er bare meget røvballet øltelt.
"She's got legs/She knows how to use them/She never begs/She knows how to choose them" is pure sublime poetry. How have these lyrics never been collected in book form? All kidding aside, it's decent straight ahead, competent blues rock with insipid lyrics. Nothing groundbreaking, except for the beards.
09/03/26 porque tem tanto álbum perfeito pra música de fundo de restaurante numa lista de álbuns que eu deveria ouvir antes de morrer chato, repetitivo (esse drum beat parece que não muda), e com solos de guitarra esquecíveis e sem importância, parecendo que só existem para deixar a música maior letras da boa e velha e chata temática sexual do rock, cantadas por uma voz ordinária demais uma música única, eterna e esquecível, mas ainda não é a pior coisa que eu já ouvi não consigo acreditar que eu ouvi a merda desse vocalista latindo. 4/10 (só porque não dá para ser 3, mas também não chega no 2, justamente porque serve de fundo ou nas músicas mais famosas sem ser um projeto como um todo)
Most of the tracks blur together into the same groove, and after a while it feels repetitive rather than hypnotic. The lyrics sit somewhere in that low-to-mid range where they don’t really add much depth either. For me, the only track that truly stands out is Gimme All Your Lovin’ — that one actually has the spark the rest of the album seems to chase but never quite catch.
Lost me on the TV dinners song
"Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" are bangers, for sure, but the rest of the album really starts to feel the same.
lo escucharia tom cruise en topgun.
Not the worst of the rockers I feel like im in the racing car drifting round
nothing to write home about
Well, Tres Hombres it ain't. Too compressed, polished and predictable, but there's some fun to be had with it. In a cherry red Corvette speeding through El Paso, perhaps. Not so much on a bus in grey Birmingham UK.
This reminds me of driving to work in 2014 listening to 103.5 THE SOUND. My go to classic rock station that was replaced by a Christian rock station. Long live The Sound…that said, not my vibe but I’ll always go to bat for “Gimme All Your Loving”
1001 is a big number but I don’t think that the team behind this list would be able to justify 2 ZZ Top albums. Between the 2, this is the better one if only because of the lyrics “she’s got legs, she knows how to use them.”
Music for pickup truck commercials and montages in cheesy sports movies. We’re supposed to pretend this is good because they have long beards or something
Not satisfied
Except for a couple of fun songs, I didn't really like it.
Yea fine.
Rätt tråkigt
Its good bit I prefer earlier stuff by the top
The American equivalent of Status Quo. Appealing bit repetitive sound. For some reason I have an unjustifiable warmth to them, probably because of their image. The visuals are unique, but the music largely interchangeable. On basic analysis any time listening to this album again is an opportunity wasted, to listen to something better.
Greasy blues-rock that reeks of leather, cheap beer and seedy dive bars. I'd probably enjoy this a lot more if I was in a biker gang, but since I'm not, it fell flat for me. There are a couple of really fun songs, but also a lot of tracks that sound just too 80s for me. I saw ZZ Top live in a festival in 1994, and even back then it already felt like outdated music from another era. Maybe it's just not my culture. I get that they're good at what they do, but what they do doesn't really interest me, so I'll pass. 4/10
Another mid record ripping off Blues by american white men? Yes, please, by all means. Seriously. In 2026, who needs to listen to this?
Good
La Grange kniver om å være den kuleste låta noensinne laget. Denne skiva har dessverre ikke La Grange. De to låtene her som jeg hadde hørt fra før -- Gimme All Your Lovin' og Sharp Dressed Man -- følger den samme formelen, men er mye mer poppa og polerte. Det er 80s rock, på godt & vondt. Mer vondt enn godt...? Noe godt er det, da. Kan nikke litt til Got Me Under Pressure liksom. B-siden er utrolig dårlig. Der skrur de opp volumet på de verste 80s-ismene samtidig som de har færre riff.
Ikke akkurat ZZ tipp topp. Det er en veldig uheldig blanding av disco og bluesrock. Som om de har hørt Kiss sitt forsøk og prøvd å gjenskape det, men det låter mer som en parodi til tider. Med unntak av "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man" (Guitar Hero-nostalgi) og til dels "Legs" så er dette classic rock gone wrong.
Sterilt, enkelt og altfor kjedelig rock.
I have aged out of this album and don't enjoy the sound anymore. I would give it 1.5 stars, so I will round up to two stars.
Fun for a song or two but pretty repetitive
As a child I really enjoyed this and maybe 12 year old me still would, but it has not aged well - worse than the earlier stuff before they added all these layers of synthetic sheen to the chortling misogyny. Great beards though
First, I have to say that I’m impressed. Coming on the heels of reviewing their Tres Hombres album, I wouldn’t have expected them to suddenly have a commercial breakthrough ten years later. But there’s a high ratio of hits on this record. Having said that, I previously praised their trend-bucking, barebones production, and this album seems to be the antithesis of that. I feel like I just walked off the set of a sleazy, spray-tanned, coked-out music video. And not completely in a bad way, but definitely in a nauseating way. I teetered between ratings on this one, but I’ll round down to 2 based on my criteria that I probably won’t seek this out again.
Look how they've massacred my boy!
Couple hits to add to a road trippin playlist. Overall the lyrics were all similar stories about chasing women and love, and the overly done guitar solos were repetitive. ⭐⭐
Hard rock legal mas falta charme
It’s not a bad album, I just don’t really listen to this type of music. From my point of view all the songs sound kind of similar and follow a similar pattern.
Two or three songs in it started to be a thick listening for me. Starting to wonder how ZZ Tops early material sounded like, as I doubted that this MTV-mainstream-Hard Rock Cafe background music can't be all. Im glad I did. Perhaps im a blues purist, and can't take it when the sound is too compressed too manufactured. I need the rawness. That's something you'll find in the early material. With that said, and if someone comes across this review, don't go only for this sell out material before doing a full comprehension of ZZ Top.
Orion liked Bad Girls
might've enjoyed this more on a different day but alas it was not one of those days. felt pretty bored and almost all of the songs sound the same.
I didn’t mind this for something different but not something I’m going to be reaching for in the future
If you are my age, you know how the videos from this were mercilessly and endlessly flogged by MTV in the 80s. Re-listening to it again after 40 years was entertaining for a couple of songs, then I just got tired of it all over again before the end of the album.
This is music for dean winchester and I am not him. Give me a couple beers and I’ll review again.
One of those albums that I can see why it's so beloved, but I don't think ZZ Top are to my personal taste. A couple of great tracks on here and the guitars sound great, but it's just not for me! Favourites: Gimme All Your Lovin' Sharp Dressed Man I Need You Tonight
Best way to describe these songs are long. Every song has about a minute of just the beat after the last line. They aren’t bad
feels like my dad has sat me down for an hour to show me “music was better in the 80s”, which is what a lot of this list is feeling like sometimes. nothing wrong with it massively just very samey and by the end i was waiting for it to be over.
Lovely beards
not for me
Some classy sounding stuff (although the lyrics are far from classy), not incredibly bad. "Sharp Dressed Man" is obviously the standout track here, and I enjoy it. That being said, this album is severely lacking in the emotion/meaningfulness department (surprise, surprise.) Like many albums of the time, Eliminator is plagued with a bunch of junky filler aside from the singles. "Best of" albums of bands like these tend to be their most popular for a reason. Favorite Song: "Sharp Dressed Man"
Two tracks are, at most, decent. The rest is the audible equivalent of a snoring, soggy 55-year-old watching TV at midnight who can't let go of his past
Gimme all your loving is probably the first track that comes to mind when i think of ZZ Top. It’s a fun groove laden rocker which ticks all the boxes. I got the six sounds like a combination of ZZ Top and AC/DC cover bands to create one god awful noise. Legs is back to that classic sound, but its abundantly clear why the singles were the singles off this album. Unfortunately when you have such a distinctive sound songs can stray into sounding like parodies and that is my lasting view of this album. Better off sticking to a best of compilation
A surprising number of "classic" albums start with arguably a band's biggest track. This was very much an album of the singles plus the other stuff. I've never been a massive ZZ Top fan anyway, so I wasn't even that excited to hear the singles, but it turns out they were the most interesting part. My mind kept wandering throughout and it was a real struggle to force myself to pay attention. Not terrible, but (for me) not good. 2/5
It's alright. It sounds like cool kid music