Reviews (page 11 of 13)
"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
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
Eh, not my thing, I can appreciate the longer breaks up letting the band jam, but the bluesy style is something that never really caught my attention. Facts: 1) Billy Gibbons is a car enthusiast and the cover features one of his cars. 2) Introduction to the drum machine for this band, you can tell. 3) Also, introduction to synths for this band, caught the attention of a younger audience at the time.
It's well recorded but it's missing the charm of their previous album on this list, Tres Hombres, that feels like more my speed.
not my type of album but i get her.. i like the voice in some songs but overall it’s not an album i’d go back to tbh
Eh didn't feel it. Then again, I'm not a fan of their biggest hits from the album either.
Not my style, reminds me of my childhood. I tried really listening but every play through became background noise.
Music that has become cliched with time and subject matter that is wholly uninteresting
You get exactly what you expect to get here. Kind of like AC/DC, I guess. I've never been huge into these guys as I found them kind of gimmicky and formulaic. And apparentely they didn't even have the creativity to write most of this album. I guess that's mostly on par for a group consisting of two guys who once faked like they were another band to make some quick money as imposters before becoming ZZ Top. Here you have three big hits plus a bunch of other tracks that sound like those hits, so if you love ZZ Top this is your jam. 2/5
It’s giving 80s “macho” dad with an impractical car who stares too intently at the neighbour’s teenage daughter
Every song sounds the same. There is a ZZ Top sound for sure but not for me.
ok
Både meget catchy og lidt kedeligt, på en eller anden måde!
ZZ Slop.
A friend of mine went to see Aerosmith a few years ago. At some point, he realized that most of the people were there for the "new" stuff - ie, early 80s on. He was deeply disappointed. This is ZZ Top's "new" stuff - vastly inferior to their initial iteration but wildly popular. I was inclined to give this a 3 but then I heard (and then read) the lyrics to I've got my 6. While I recognize that performative male sexual desire and rock lyrics are deeply intertwined, those lyrics stand out as extraordinarily stupid.
Did I have this album in highschool? Sadly, yes. Did I listen to anything on it but Sharp Dressed Man? No. All their songs pretty much sound the same.
A few great songs
It's fine. I've never been a fan although I can see why they were/are popular. The more I listen, the more I dislike. 2/5
Guitar is decent. Lyrics are adolescent.
“She’s got legs, she knows how to use them” She can walk?
I’ve never really spent time listening to ZZ Top, always writing them off as “dad rock” and the kind of heavy rock that should probably have stayed in the 1980s. With that preconception firmly in place, I went into Eliminator curious to see whether I’d been unfair. The big hits are undeniably strong. Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, and Gimme All Your Lovin’ are excellent pop-rock singles: slick, hooky, and perfectly engineered for MTV-era success. They’re fun, instantly recognisable, and still work well in isolation. Beyond those highlights, though, the album quickly loses momentum. The slower tracks feel flat and uninspired, and much of the remaining material blends into a fairly forgettable stretch of generic 80s rock. There’s little here that compels a full-album revisit. Lyrically, too, parts of Eliminator feel dated, with some moments tipping into tired and mildly misogynistic clichés that haven’t aged especially well. Overall, Eliminator is a record defined by its singles: a handful of brilliant tracks surrounded by a lot of filler. Favourite track: Gimme All Your Lovin is a great tune Least favourite track: TV dinners is an example of how boring this album can be Album artwork: Cool album cover
It was catchy, but I always find ZZ Top unbearably boring
This album’s pitch was “Let’s take the best rock songs of the 70s and make them boring for the 80s.” Why does Ringo get the bad rep when this drummer exists?
I’ve always thought of ZZ Top as Diet AC/DC. They represent a type of rock that I just don’t get anything out of.
The synths and drum machines really give this album a phony sheen that is not at all enjoyable.
There is an entire song about TV Dinners I cannot ever listen to this again!!!!
I do not enjoy ZZ Top's brand of rock. Also, there's a song about tv dinners on here???
This feels like a slower back in black.
Nostalgic sound I remember as a kid but this kind of Americana rock doesn’t quite do much for me. Blues rock revival of the 60s I like better or the garage rock/blues infused of the 00s. Those synths really wanted more attention on Side 2 of the album. Everyone sounded great. Won’t lie that most of these songs sound the same to me. Caught myself zoning out a lot. The sexism though….
Felt like I was in a movie from 1990.
Holy generic 80s rock batman! My non-formed opinion on ZZ TOP dropped with this one.
I appreciated the ode to TV dinners.
Another 80s rock album. No doubt the music itself is well produced, but to be honest this thing starts to get boring...
Does this one really rank?
very generic sounding. i’d say it sounds like any other rock music released in the 80s, but that would be an insult to other bands. i see what they’re trying to do, combining elements synthesizers and drum machines with traditional rock but somehow it still doesn’t work for me, it doesn’t even sound insteresting or innovative. not seeing myself reaching for this album anytime soon.
First song on the album is a banger. Then I got bored and tuned out.
Not a whole lot of substance beyond the gimmick in this one. A few well known bangers that raise a smile, but the joy kinda ends there. 7 out of 11 songs having a fade out probably tells us how much focus there was on actual songwriting... but oh boy, they sure had time for pentatonic scale jamming..
Mmmm.....
TV Dinners took this down a star.
Dad’s a rockin’ but I’m going to have to pass. Divorced grandpa music.3/10
I really didn’t need to listen to a whole album of ZZ Top - that much is certain. 1.5/5
Prefer earlier ZZ Top
I respect the style, I can barely stand the substance
fine
All the lyrical depth of a 14 year old who just found their dad's Playboy stash. They guitar parts have a strong command of the blues, but that's about the only thing propping this album up. The production succumbs to all the worst trends of the early-to-mid '80s.
Some high class dad rock - quite fun I guess? Would have preferred Huey Lewis
Music is fine, but doesn't go beyond that (and lyrics are poor)
ZZ Tripe
Rocks along nicely but many weak songs.
I thought I'd never heard a ZZ Top album before, then I saw on my RYM that I listed to Tres Hombres three months ago and it failed to leave any kind of impression on me. Considering that I had more fun than I expected with this. The move away from blues to a campy form of hard rock made things more enjoyable. Though by the time I got to TV Dinners I did start to lose the will to live, in no small part because of the absolutely dreadful lyrics.
Put simply, this ZZ Top album is not for me. I find it plodding and uninspiring. I feel like in order to vibe with this you have to think it’s very COOL, and I don’t think it’s cool whatsoever. Sorry ZZ Top, great beards tho
Interessante, mas não estava muito no clima deste album no momento que ouvi.
Pop-sounding, unoriginal, tired, whack.
Same riffs for an hour
Before I started listening to this I thought - this will be fun. Gimme All Your Lovin was a lot, well, worse then I remembered. The beards are probably the most exciting thing about ZZ Top. They're exciting beards, as beards go, but that isn't enough for a good album, never mind a great one.
Not really my jam. I couldn’t ever tell you where the emotional center of a ZZ Top song is. Maybe they hid it in their beards
I can get into some ZZ Top . . . for about three minutes. The remaining 41 minutes, which are essentially the same as the first three, are quite tedious. Still, I'm glad this exists. It's good for movie soundtracks and funny videos on the internets.
ZZ is one of those bands you always hear about and they seem to have a loyal following but I really don't get it. Overall the album is non-offensive and definitely something you can listen to, but none of it grabbed me or moved me in anyway.
There’s the 3 KCal Roq classics of Legs,Sharp Dressed Man, and Gimme all your lovin’. The rest is really whatever tbh.
Some good songs but unfortunately very samey and very much dated. some decent riffs tho fav track: TV dinners
Groupe connu par ses tubes à l'époque de la sortie de cet album, mais pas vraiment apprécié. C'est donc la première fois que j'écoute un album entier. Je ne l'apprécie pas plus qu'à l'époque : la section rythmique est trop simpliste, et la guitare très standard. Le résultat est très mou, pas désagréable (+1) mais pas inspirant. Et la même année Metallica sortait 'Kill Em All', un album qui a vraiment révolutionné le metal ... Il y avait donc bien mieux à écouter en 83/84 !!! Donc pas de seconde écoute pour moi. =>2/5
Pretty generic, I’m sure it’s great
The same song
This was such a huge hit when it came out, and the hit songs on here are pretty fun - not worth thinking about too hard, definitely not worth paying attention to the lyrics too closely, but fun pop rock hits. But for me time was not kind to this album. The vapidity of the hits is made tolerable by their catchiness and fun factor. The vapidity of the rest of the album...not so tolerable. A lot of the songs felt like filler - some of them sounded like rough drafts of the hits. And I don't really know what happened to them musically. Boring guitar solos. Uninspired melodies. And Frank Beard sounds like a beginning drummer. I know he is capable of much more...but apparently he was just their drum machine on this album. I didn't come into this expected to be so disappointed - I thought it would be a fun and nostalgic ride. And I suppose it was for 3 songs. But as an album experience, this is a dud.
ZZ Top? More like ZZZ Top (es broma lol tenía que hacerlo) La verdad que este álbum es una fórmula mecánica repetida de forma incansable durante 45 min. Y me encantan las guitarritas eh, el blues rock me suele calar bastante, pero no cuando todas las canciones suenan exactamente iguales entre sí. Salieron ya muchos álbumes con tracklists muy homogéneos pero creo que este se lleva la palma. Aún así el sonido es muy representativo de la época así que supongo que no es un mal álbum. Just not my jam. Favs: la primera, Gimme All Your Lovin', porque el resto son todas réplicas pero con otro nombre (?)
The whole time I was listening I had the image in my head of two bearded men chasing after a woman in the style of Benny Hill. Couple of the singles are catchy but the rest of the album is far less interesting hard rock/blues slop. Some of these songs go on too long. Whilst there is fun (of a kind) to be had, I struggle to understand how this made its way on to a list of the 'best' albums. 2/5
Immediately started with "Who are these guys? Oh, I know this song." And it was the best song on the album. I feel like this music was designed for people who would still drive the car on the album cover in the modern day. I drive very comfortably in my Kia, so I didn't really get much out of this one. Most of it feels pretty uncomfortable. The lyrics paired with the instrumentals feel like the kind of music you'd vaguely listen to for the feel of it and then tune into the lyrics and awkwardly turn down your radio. Sadly, I can't really uncomfortably turn down the music because the 1001 Album Gods gave me this and I must listen.
interesting proof of concept but pretty dull outside sharp dressed man and a couple others
Eliminator? I hardly know 'er. I could have sworn we had this already, but no, that was a different ZZ Top. I think this one is actually better than "Tres Hombres", but even though it's 80sified, it's still not my style. 'Sharp Dressed Man' always reminded me of 'Money for Nothing' (mashup potential), and the fact that there's a song about TV Dinners* on this album is only reinforcing that link for me. I feel kind of bad giving this a 2, but it's just so much guitar, you know? A high 2, let's say. Syntactically unnerving lowlight: the lyric "i'm needing someone like you / that i just wanna do love to" (D:) *About it, Wiki says "these servings of industrially processed foods are standard cuisine for lonely and culinarily challenged unpartnered gentlemen", which is a nice complex NP but also feels unnecessarily gendered. Let the lonely and culinarily challenged unpartnered humans of all genders enjoy their TV dinner song >:(
I found this repetitive. Even within songs, once you’d heard the first 20 seconds of the song, you’d effectively heard the whole thing.
nope. two stars for beard effort only.
lower mid
Ja ist ein gutes Album, ausser gimme all your loving hat sich alles irgendwie gleich angehört.
Never been a 80's MTV era ZZ Top fan. I know their popular hits of that time and can remember some of the videos but not for me. I had never listened to earlier ZZ Top before because I never liked them in 80's, but Tres Hombres is great. I had listened to that as part of the album challenge a few months ago and really enjoyed earlier ZZ Top; just not 1980's MTV ZZ Top.
This album is such a disappointment. The only reason this isn't 1 star is because of nostalgia for the 3 hits (Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, and Legs). And those only because they were the first ZZ Top songs I'd ever heard back when I was all of 10 years old.
Soundtrack from an 80s teen comedy drama starring Molly Ringwald.
Meh. I wanted to like this more. I can recognize what it did historically and I liked these songs as a kid but... meh.
Memorable only for the flagrant use of chorus.
Bluesy country rock with some pretty terrible sexist lyrics. But the synths were dope at the time! Not for me.
haha funny beard. TV dinners sounds like a Tim & Eric song.
Boring. Sorry
A guilty pleasure at best, misogyny at its worst. Bonus points for it being 45 minutes exactly. I also like that ZZ Top essentially came out of the Fake Zombies USA resurrection.
painfully mediocre compared to all the amazing rock music that came out during this time.
Your average blues/southern rock album talking about blues/southern rock topics with a car on the cover. The first 5 songs are cool, the last 6 are garbage. Still, it can be enjoyed while cracking a lager beer in the garage.
Before: my only access point to ZZ Top is that there’s a few times Stephen King references them in his books. I think it’s actually kind of a major plot point in one of them haha. I assume they’re just classic rock? Idk much what to expect. After: Immediately this album made me laugh. “ Give me all your lovin, all your hugs and kisses too” cracked me up every time they said it. And there were just like flourishes all over the album, like the ad libs on the song sharp dressed man that made me actually laugh out loud. I feel like growing up, this is what I imagined most classic rock was like, and that made me steer away from it. Lately I’ve gotten more into groups like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and wondered what had made me hesitant. I think stuff like this album is what made me hesitant haha. The vocal performance and lyrics are cheesy to me, and there’s something about the rhythm with which they’re sung that make it even worse. Legs was the first time I really started to enjoy the instrumentation. The guitar really broke loose there and started doing some interesting stuff. I didn’t catch anything else on the record I enjoyed quite as much as that. La grange auto played afterwards and that was so much better than anything found on this album
Generic rock, unfortunately, despite the lovely Texan accent.
The generator gave me this album on a very glum and rainy Monday morning in the UK. Put this on at 7am. By 9am I was on a Teams call wearing a denim jacket and bandana, drinking a Budweiser and preaching to colleagues about the 2nd amendment.
This was turgid. Feels like they know one thing and they repeat it until it forms a hit, as much to their surprise as anyone's. Sharp dressed man is a banger, without it, this would be a 1 star. Hard going in general.
Cookie cutter songs that were manufactured to satisfy a specific clientelle. They are well made and well performed, but the album is musically bland. It's the kind of music you'd expect in a rock/biker bar, makes for a nice background and that's about it. To me it sounds like they're easily capable of better and therefore it was probably a conscious decision to maximize the commercial aspect of the album.
The sound is kinda iconic. The problem is every song sounds the same. Very homogeneous, which gets stale after a while. The singles shine, but the deep cuts are bland and dated. So much toothless filler on this album really drags it down. I want albums to give me a reason to keep listening or come back. But as it kept playing, I found myself thinking, “Has this looped? Did the album restart?” Everything sounded so similar. I don’t see a reason to revisit. 4/10 Standout: Sharp Dressed Man
The three big hits on this record are the hits for a reason. The three at the end (Dirty Dogs through Bad Girl) are legitimately good songs. Outside the 6 I mentioned, the remaining 5 could’ve been scrapped and this could’ve been an incredible EP. Sharp Dressed, Legs, and Gimme All Your Lovin’ are a solid example of the 80s aesthetic. 10/10 would listen to the hits while working out. This album created some tension within the band and you can’t hear it at all. However, that’s because the band isn’t playing on most of it. It’s drum machines and synths and Billy F Gibbons. Now I’m going to eat a microwaveable Salisbury steak in front of the tube and watch Johnny! Note to self: acquire fuzzy spinning guitar
Non si esce vivi dagli anni 80
Here’s my review for Duran Duran’s Rio which I listened to and reviewed the day before ZZ Top’s Eliminator. The same review applies and any changes are in brackets: Not sure if I ever listened to this album all the way through before, but I feel like I’ve heard every song here 1000 times. I guess [ZZ Top] has dug itself deep into the collective unconscious. Album cover looks like something I would’ve seen in a salon in 1992.
I know there are some classic songs on this album from a lifetime of hearing them on the radio. Maybe that adds to my general disinterest in the album. It seemed a bit monotonous. Not to discount ZZ top, there were some pretty ripping guitar riffs throughout the album. It definitely fits the beer drinking, 80s, hard rock vibe.
Heard some songs from it. Their hit songs are ok and it's a well produced album. But the problem is that the rest of the songs sound like one long song. No variety 2/5
When listening to this all I could think of was The Black Keys. It's not a bad thing...not a great thing.
Przyjemny, ale chyba nie mój vibe, znowu nie ogarnęłam kiedy się zapętlił
Kind of underwhelming. Some classic singles though
Trochę zbyt agresywne, nie lubimy z Olą takich gitar
Ehh
This was my first ever ZZ Top album! I guess I thought ZZ Top was more heavy metal. This wasn’t bad to listen to.
Meh. It was some zz top.
the okayest dad rock
It was like listening to 45 minutes straight of Sharp Dressed Man but not as good.
Commercialized and watered down but the solos save this from 1 star. The songs that aren't hits are a drag. Tres Hombres was a much better blues record.
1.5 stars Growing up in the 90s I thought ZZ Top was always a joke and never considered cool. I had no idea they were so big in the 80s. Hearing Tres Hombres for the first time I thought “ok there’s some good bluesy rock here.” So I had some hope that another record on this list might be a hidden gem. I was familiar with most of the singles from this album, and did not particularly care for them. They all just sounded generic and boring. Reading that they intentionally wrote songs at a higher BPM because those were more popular seems obvious now. Having listened to Rio last week which came out around the same time, these songs all sound like “Hungry Like the Wolf” with bluesy riffs added in and less interesting vocals. And I mean all of the songs: they essentially used the same formula for all of them and kept it going. The only saving grace is that the bluesy riffs and competent vocal pieces make it not entirely dreadful to listen to, even if zoning out is inevitable. Pass.
dnf, if you just listen to the sound it feels very standard rock, nothing special but not bad, but ugh the lyricssss I am not a fan. I don’t think I’d get on well with these people, at least at the time it was written. Ik women and sex is a huge theme in music but this just feels icky
Nothing notable
Sharp Dressed Man is the highlight on an otherwise standard 80s rock album.
Couple big hits, not my favorite classic rock feel.
Not sure if I like it. That's my first ZZ top album and I don't think that's my type of music - I don't want to listen to any more of that. It's fine, the riffs are cool, but get very repetitive very quickly. Not sure if I like the lyrics - they are a bit off-putting to me but that's alright. It's not bad just not for me. Favourite track - "Sharp Dressed Man". I'm mixed between 2 and 3 so picking the lower grade.
Another mid white man rock album….
Meh
tv dinners is actually crazy. want to give 1 star because of that
the pre-packed, oven-ready, homogenised, airbrushed, bland version of rock and roll for which the 80's must answer for
meh
Holy shit, this shit sucks. Perhaps on the list because it represents a point on time where we almost lost the thread? Representative of a generation of "artists" who were charged by the music industry to remove the soul from music? I'm just glad that rock survived this music that belongs in my forgotten ashtray. WTF? I 100% did not need to hear this album before I died. Never again. This is even worse than I remembered when it was part of the soundscape of my youth. Kudos to me for actually making it through the torture to get to the end of this excrement. Kudos to you of you actually find this music interesting, but why?
Some recognizable songs that are decent, but boy this is really one note. Nothing ever progresses in each song. Also the drums man. The drums are AWFUL. The hats sound like shit. If the point of Ford commercial music like this is to be hell yea brother epic, then it should actually try to be a little more epic
Boring, the same song over and over
Sounds like every other album ever
not the best ZZ Top album by any stretch. This is when ZZ Top started to sell out for commercial appeal
Otro dia que lo que me toca se sale de mi zona de confort totalmente, podria ser la musica que suena de fondo en el Paso o en el Coyote, no soy yo muy rockera. Alguna que conocia de antes no ha sido del todo infumable, como "Sharp Dressed Man" pero tampoco disfrutona, solo soportable. No he podido terminar de escuchar la mayoria la verdad.
Fun enough in its own way I suppose, but also very dated and cheesy, without particularly strong songwriting to underpin it; not for me
Not as heavy metal or tough to listen to as I expected!
Didn’t have the same groove and energy as their other album on the list, which resulted in uninteresting hard rock that I am not a fan of
Hope their earlier work is on here, the production and drums are too slick compared to what I like about them
whatever
Some good hits but not a go to album for me.
Poor
Boring lyrics, repetitive guitar. Didn't like the guys voice either.
top
At first I thought this was a rap album, but NO IT IS NOT. Imagine the most completely generic default awful dad rock song ever. Then imagine it about 8 more times. That’s what this fucking album is. They aren’t bad it’s just I swear to god I was listening to the exact same song over and over, just with very slightly different lyrics each time. This has not enriched my music experience at all and I will not ever be listening to this nothing album ever again, it’s still probably not the worst thing this website is gonna make me listen to though, so I’ll give it 2 stars.
AA Bottom
Like so many things that have been iterated on into oblivion, I definitely respected the album for maintaining a solid, signature characteristic 80s, classic rock chug-along feeling throughout, but I can't imagine many occasions for me to listen to this again unless I wind up driving through the desert for several hours. It just feels like music made for a different lifestyle. Billy Gibbons pretty much sets the benchmark in my mind for bend-heavy, pentatonic-based blues/rock guitar solos. However, I always imagined ZZ Top to be one of those bands that would have a much more profound effect when they're playing in front of you than listening alone on headphones. Solid 2.5-3 as a personal listening experience. Several hits, no particularly bad song and he even shares his experiences with getting sick from eating TV dinners. You rarely get that kind of honesty in music anymore. Favorite song: Legs
I'm calling bullshit. So, ok this is a quintessential ZZ Top album, but seriously adding it to this list is a joke. I'm willing to gamble that everyone who needs to hear this album before they die has already heard this album and either immediately put it in rotation or said that was cool, I'm done. The point is that this is not a contribution, it's a cop out. Yes, everyone should hear Eliminator, but we already have and it's really not that amazing.
Couldn’t get through it, not my genre. Way to old, gray and slightly racist white man music
Fav: Sharp Dressed Man Least Fav: I Need You Tonight Didn’t mind the big hits but it’s the classic case of boring, one-note songs that you get with most of these types of rock albums
Never been a fan of this band and the songs you have heard were played to death. If it hadn't been for Mtv no one would have cared about this. There are a couple decent songs here. Got Me Under Pressure and TV Dinners are the only decent songs on this overrated album
Only 4/11 songs worth listening to. Mostly lyrically lacking. 2/5
Enjoyed the first half second half was a steep decline lyrics make some of the songs pretty much unlistenable for me
The singles are ok. The other songs either sound like the singles or are about TV dinners. Not my cup of tea.
First time hearing. Not great. Not terrible. Several recognizable songs. But mostly stupid.
I can't take an album with an ode to the TV meal on it seriously if it isn't a from a band that is actively trying to be a comedy band.
Interesting range from ZZ Top, but I just don't care for it.
their beards are a lot more entertaining than the music
First part is good, cheesy but good. Second half.. oof.
Not annoying but not good either
Fun!
Rating: 2.5 Notable songs: Gimme All Your Lovin, Sharp Dressed Man. Not to my taste. It's okay but I've never been a huge ZZ fan. Production etc. Sounds great just nothing catches my attention.
Yet another of this list's mediocre albums by a once-brilliant artist. But using drum machines and synths on a ZZ Top album was, and remains, pure sacrilege. I’m glad Frank went into rehab. I’m glad Billy made a bunch of hits and the money they all deserved. But as far as albums you need to hear? This is WAAY down on the list of ZZ Top albums you need to hear. Go, right now, and listen to Rio Grande Mud. 350 albums in, my sublist now includes David Bowie (Young Americans), Metallica (S&M), U2 (Achtung Baby), Bruce Springsteen, the Cure, the Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Paul Simon, Prince, Miles Davis, and the Go-Betweens. Given the GREAT music that those acts are responsible for, It's remarkable how many that this list .
This is the version of ZZ Top I grew up with. It was only slightly better than “Tres Hombres”. It had great music but, really cringeworthy lyrics that would make a young man laugh.
Generic 80s dad rock with some funny ideas for songs
I know this album so well from my teenage years that I can rate it without listening to it again (which I sort of swore I’d never do) : redneck misogyny wrapped up in a tight swamp guitar groove and largely offensive or non-sensical lyrics. Great for driving to a US military base for an air show while your dad drinks beer (while driving) in your 70s inspired Econoline van, kids sitting in the back on bench rows, not a seatbelt in sight. You can’t make this shit up.
This must be what spinal tap was parodying. Even 30 years ago I was changing the channel when this came on.
Meh.
Hubo un tiempo en que me movieron, pero todo va madurando y con pena debo decir que hoy, a la edad que tengo ZZ, ya están en mis recuerdos.
It's kinda fun, but also simple and predictable, not bad, but also not great
Kind of tough rating for me because there’s some fun stuff on here. The only problem is I don’t think any of it is very good and it doesn’t feel like this album belongs on this list to me.
You know the hits. You don't know the songs that aren't the hits for a reason.
Generic rock. The American Status Quo. Pish.
A band I expected to see sooner or later on this list. Not a personal favourite of mine, but at least I know I'll be in for an easy listen. Don't really have any expectations, maybe some cool riffs. The worst case scenario would be that it sounds truck commercial music. Maybe it'll have a bit of that vibe, but I don't think it's gonna be that bad. Gimme All Your Lovin' Oh it's this song. Haven't thought about it much, gets a lot of play on 80's stations for some reason. It's alright I suppose. The guitar riffs chug along nicely and the chorus I could see being a bit of an earworm. The verses are duds though, there really isn't much memorable about them. The final third of the track kinda goes nowhere, sort of loses track of itself. Fine. 3/5 Got Me Under Pressure The lyrics are pretty raunchy. Has a decent amount of pace to it. Decent guitars. A pretty consistent track, while nothing out of this world, does a lot right and it ends up sounding pretty good. Decent. 3.5/5 Sharp Dressed Man Classic guitar riff. Sleazy lyrics. Plenty of that rock and roll attitude. A chorus that is close to being synonymous with the southern rock genre. One of the genre defining songs of the southern rock scene. Not my favourite kind of music, but I respect it. Decent. 3.5/5 I Need You Tonight This bluesy minimalistic mostly guitar driven rock music is kinda tired at this point. The performances are pretty good, and the production sounds great, but it just lacks some pinache and personality to really drive it home. Very well constructed, with some great guitar parts, and a vocal performance that sounds very professional and fitting for the style. Just in the end doesn't do much for me. Fine. 3/5 I Got the Six One dimensional. A really predictable track. Never really does anything too different. Has decent energy I suppose. Average. 2.5/5 Legs Kinda sleazy and cringe. Horny old person drunk uncle about to get a speeding ticket core. Boring and unimaginative. The riffs are alright I suppose, just feels a bit basic. Did not like. 2/5 Thug This sounds a bit different at least. I like the bas quite a bit, has a real funky quality to it. Too bad the rest of the song sort just blends together. Sort of goes nowhere. Average. 2.5/5 TV Dinners Hmmm. Did they run out of ideas? What is the closest thing in the room I can make a song about? Oh I know! My dinner from yesterday! Eureka! At least it shows they don't take themselves too seriously, even if the final result is a very uninspired piece of oversaturated mediocrity that's only notable due to the strange concept. Ends up being repetitive and boring. Did not like. 2/5 Dirty Dog Are you sure this song wasn't on earlier? Feels like it at least. A tempo that trucks along with some guitars that are heavy on the gas. Really burns some rubber. Goes full throttle. A bootload of guitars to cruise down the dirt road to. Truck music. 2/5 If I Could Only Flag Her Down I definitely heard this song. Sound came out of my headset and into my ear then registered somewhere in my brian. Then the song kept going before finally ending. After it ended there was a brief moment of silence. In that moment I realized it was over and went to listen to the next song. I thought "That was definitely a song that exists" then never thought about it again. Forgetable. 1.5/5 Bad Girl It's fast and energetic. Really dumb. That's about all I got to say. Did not like. 2/5 Starts off okay then the sound gets tired, and it gets tired quickly. It's in your face, juvenile and horny. It's sleazy and objectifying and at times very shallow. Has some great guitar work, but it all just blends into a malformed homogenous sonic mass which struggles to distinguish itself from its own blob-like form. It's just so stuck in its own ideas that even when you think it starts to evolve some sense of variety it quickly reverts back into its own oversaturated sound. Even the songs that work have huge portions that are just simply forgetable, only really saved by a few seconds of brilliance from a clever chorus or an infectious riff. I can't fault them for their energy or skills as performers though. While I hold the opinion that the songwriting here is pretty weak, they at least sound like they're trying to make an entertaining product. There's real skill in the guitar playing, and they've obviously put effort into sounding like the best versions of themselves. It genuinely sounds like they want to be there, and that they're enjoying themselves making entertainment. It's then a shame all that effort is put into something so pointlessly uninteresting. There are some good parts here and there, but ultimately this is just average. In an ocean of classic rock albums this is just another bubble. 2.5/5 Leaning closer towards a 2/5 Fave track. Got Me Under Pressure Least fave track. If I Could Only Flag Her Down
Some of the singles are fun, but it's probably mostly nostalgia. Not an album I would likely re-listen to.
2- Stars (4/15)
Eh, not big on ZZ Top.
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I can't believe that these dudes have 2 albums on this list. This one is just as boring as the last one. There is something about this band that seems a bit try hard/sad?
Meh - pretty boring. 'Hard Rock' as a genre never goes that hard
ZZ Top give out creepy leather-wrapped bachelor pad energy, or maybe a Camaro-driving guy in mirrored sunglasses trying to convince you he’s “still got it.” Where have I heard these hits before? They’ve been grilled into my head by a thousand beer commercials or something. And WTF “TV Dinners”?!? Made me pause the album just to check if I was having a stroke. Throw this in the bin with AC/DC & Kiss.. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Sharp Dressed Man
Idek it feels like a hot wheels commercial
Classic but not my style
‘Generic’ is kind.
Not my thing
My ex husband refused to let me walk down the aisle to “Legs.” This should have been the final red flag, but that’s why he’s an ex (albeit smaller than some of the red banners in the Soviet parade of this relationship, but still.) A closer listen of this album yields nothing but the same same sound. There are some party hits, but overall boring. 1.5 if I could, but 2 to spite my ex.
I didn’t like it as much as Tres Hombres, just repulsively horny at points
Some good ones here, but generally not my thing.
The music is good (not thaaaat good), but the lyrics are ridiculous.
Another rock album. It was fine but nothing I would go back to. A whole song about TV dinners huh?
This album starts playing the moment you enter Fredericksburg. Billy Gibbons is such a solid guitar player and riff crafter, but damn if the lyrical content doesn’t suck. Almost every single song on here is about bangin women and how hot women are but they won’t let me hit sometimes so I gotta jerk. Tv Dinners is at least funny simply in that it’s not about that. Hand the instrumentals to Steve Earle and we solve everything wrong with both bands, might even have a 4 on our hands. 8 out of 11 of the songs had a fade out on a guitar solo, just play the one and end the song man. Overall really disappointed, waste of great guitar.
Definition of cock rock, but I like legs so weak 2/5. Won’t revisit
Did I just hear an ode to TV dinners?
Yikes
It’s a 2.5 but half isn’t available so it gets a 2.
This was the sound of every dive bar in America. It was fine, but a little "biker gang" for me
It's alright, but the problem is that I've heard it a million times and it isn't good enough to keep my interest over time. My favorite memory of ZZ Top is playing Space Quest and one of the bands in the space bar was ZZ Top. That doesn't really have anything to do with this album but sometimes I think about it and how much fun I had playing that game back in the day.
This is ok I guess. Very bland for me. Much better bands have done the same thing better before and since ZZ Top.
I'm a sucker for a couple of these songs, but the whole thing is just very one note, and doesn't do much.
Super boring, never been a fan
liked songs: Sharp Dressed Man I know this is a "classic," but I'm really not a fan of the monotony of this album. Same chords, same drum beats, same synth sounds, same guitar tone for most of the songs. I know that having a sound is usually a good thing, but there's just no variety here. It's otherwise competent, if unextraordinary. 2.25
Guitar solos are too long.
I like older, bluesier ZZ Top, but this was just horrible. It's like someone ripped the soul right out of them. At least they made a bunch of money, but it's tough to get past the "poetry" of "I've got the six, gimme' your nine." Yikes. Liked Songs Added: TV Dinners
Een paar nummers volgens de oude, no-nonsense, hard rock formule, maar ook duidelijk een groot deel volgens een nieuw 80s recept. Hier en daar funky basslines en new wave producties die je niet perse bij een ZZ Top verwacht. Het resultaat is dat het ietsjes behapbaarder is voor de mensen die deze primitieve rock normaalgesproken niet echt goed slikken. Maar alsnog, dit ietwat nieuwe imago van de band laat ze vooral klinken als een Robert Palmer voor bikers, wat het allemaal wel een beetje ongemakkelijk maakt. 5/10
4/10. Some popular songs. One of which is pretty terrible. But some nostalgia.
To me this sounds like what you would get if you asked AI to compute the average of all rock music released in the decade surrounding it. That makes it basically replacement-level rock. It's got steady backbeat, thumping bass, crunchy guitar riffs, pithy vocal lines, and zero creativity. The front half is pretty good, that has all the singles. But it really drags on the back half, there's nothing much worth listening to there. I like Billy Gibbons' guitar style generally, although on this one he sounds like he's fully embraced the Rockman-amp-style sound, he's got a bit of a tinny tone.
2/5
This is my second ZZ Top album so far... SECOND!!! How did one album make it into this list?!?!??!
Que puedo poner ante tanto rockcentrismo anglosajón? MEH Nota: 2.3
começa ok e depois de sharp-dressed man eu preciso de um banho
As lame as it is dumb. 2/5
A lot more new wavey then i expected. Those speedy bass riffs and complex drum patterns betray the laid back and purported smoothness of their beer thumping, lounging, and callous brand of hard rock presents. Still way too much filler but I do like the sound overall.
Yeah it was alright, I liked the songs with the very punchy basslines but it’s nothing too special. Fav song: Thug
There was something cool, original, and funky about ZZ Top… in 1973. But in 1983? As popular as these songs were, and I remember them well, they are packaged, shiny, and soulless. Give me back the Tres Hombres!
Like being in a montage of an 80s film. Very much the same all the way through - driving beat
Not terrible, I guess?
Inane MTV driven sexist rock.
vsf zz top
They're hot rod guys. They sound like they have a big engine, but they're only cruising. It's a wall of sound, but it sounds low effort. It doesn't have the energy of Van Halen and AC/DC. I can imagine it works very well live and I can imagine people like this record, but I don't. Favorite song: sharp dressed man
Not my style of music
Sounds like Huey Lewis and the News if the guitarist really loved to play minor pentatonic licks. Overall unimpressed. Some good songs and definitely some interesting sounds but listening to it made my eyes roll for most of it. Sharp Dressed Man, I Need You Tonight, Legs are standouts.
Just more uninspired and generic classic rock.
Couple of good songs.
Some great iconic hits, but the heavy reliance on synthesizers and drum machines dilutes the raw, bluesy energy of their earlier work. It feels more like a shift toward commercial appeal than a genuine evolution of their sound.
The Apex Mountain of dumb rock. You gotta give the ZZers credit for moving their boogie thang into a more contemporary, early-80s wrapping. But the lyrical sentiments have aged like milk, making this a tough listen in 2025. The idea of “fun” in rock has changed a lot in 42 years. A solid 2.
Never been a huge ZZ top fan but listening to this album may have changed that. Rock and roll baby!
Ah Jesus, someone gave Uncle Earl the aux cord again. Look, I don't have anything against ZZ Top. In fact, they're a pretty tight band with immense talent. I just don't care for general marketed misogyny from 2 bearded cowboys and their beardless drummer named Frank Beard. You just kind of walk away from an album like this feeling a bit ickier than when you went into it.
Mid
Disappointed with this album, not a lot to say about it for a supposed classic. The album was a snooze fest, songs seemed to blur together and the lyrics are painfully average for a rock album released in the 80s. Outside of the legendary sharp dressed man which is easily the highlight of the album and the really expressive bass work on Thug the album failed to leave any real impression on me. One of the least energetic rock albums I’ve listened to. The mix and production was pleasantly well done though. 2/5
Dad rock.
I don't really like ZZ Top, too USA 80's. The album feels like one whole song, not much diversity. From the album, I just like "I Need You Tonight". While I was listening, I pictured the movie "Easy Rider"
Fine. Would be best for a road trip
babe wake up it's 1-4-5 the record for the millionth time </3
This has better production values and a cleaner sound than their first couple of albums. The songs are tighter, but there's less of the boogie sound that makes ZZ Top fun.
Loud and repetitive. Apathetic lyrics and vocals.
This just has no personality, in my opinion. The vocals lack energy. This would be more enjoyable if they were just an instrumental band, and if they took, like, any risks. 2 stars for being bland but inoffensive.
tedious
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.
Too alpha
Oh boy, I've got a bit of work to do catching up so I figured why not start with some low hanging fruit? My hopes were that I could at least find something surprisingly standout here, but no, it's the same story as Tres Hombres, it honestly kind of annoys me how forgettably average this band is outside of a standout song or two. This is like the britpop equivalent for guys who probably have a punisher skull as their facebook banner Highlight: Sharp Dressed Man
Pretty sure every song on this album is a 5/10 and for that reason given its commitment to complete and total utter mediocrity I gotta deduct a point. I'm pretty sure I forgot about ever having listened to thus album mid way through listening to it 4/10 Fav tracks - none Least fav - none
Honestly, a pretty boring listen. Besides a few highs, the album is pretty bland. If you love one of the songs on the album, you'll love all of them because they're all pretty cookie cutter. Not a bad album, just very forgettable. Worth a re-listen: No Yeh: 1 Gimme All Your Lovin' Eh: 2 Got Me Under Pressure 3 Sharp Dressed Man 4 I Need You Tonight 11 Bad Girl Meh: 5 I Got The Six 6 Legs 7 Thug 8 TV Dinners 9 Dirty Dog 10 If I Could Only Flag Her Down
i puked during the slap bass solo
Cialis rock
Zelfde als vorige ZZ Top.
Ik vond die andere wel lache maar dit voelt als standaard dad rock. Misschien gewoon niet in the mood for vandaag, sws monday blues if im honest, maar heb dit uitgezet wat fuck it
Not bad. Sort of like a southern Aerosmith. Probably 2.5
One of my first records was ZZ Tops 1977 greatest hits album. Funky, greasy blues rock. Not monumental but good stuff. This record is blues based pop that feels like it was run through a 1980's computer. A few catchy tunes and MTV made this record huge but I don't find it appealing even as a period piece
The band were savvy in using the music video genre to their advantage promoting this album.
extremely stereotypical zz top, just like what i imagined their song is like after hearing "sharp-dressed man" for the first time and only that song is good the others don't rock 2/5
Got sick of listening to it towards the end
Legs reminded me of Stacy Kiebler, which caused one of my erogenous zones to tingle. However, that moment was fleeting and it marked the halfway point of an album that was far too long. I don't like the chugging guitar fuzz, it's relentless. The drums sound dead flat, no punch just a sort of ‘pfft’ on the snare. The bass was good in parts, a bit like the mighty Quo! I don't know why I had to listen to this album before I die. I imagine I'm going to be asking this a lot. If it turns out Harry Nilsson’s Soundtrack to Popeye the Motion Picture isn't on this list, I'm going to be furious with the curators.
This album has all of the worst hallmarks of the 80s - massive over production, too much crappy synth, over-gated electronic drum sounds that just go 'dik-dik-dik-dik' ... The whole thing makes me feel like I'm wearing a shiny suit with the sleeves pushed to the elbows, and (judging by the lyrical content) some old man's cum stains on the crotch. Billy Gibbons is a great guitarist. Frank Beard is a shit drummer. Dusty Hill was on the album too.
There's something I like about this in spite of myself, and there's a lot I don't like about this. I have no idea how to rate this. That was what I thought during the first couple of tracks anyway. After finishing it, I like it a lot less. It's like if you took Dire Straits and added distortion and a dash of misogyny. And I don't like Dire Straits.
Best Song: Sharp Dressed Man. I don't even know if this is the best, or if it's just familiarity that makes it feel a bit better. Worst Song: Thug. Another boring jam track on an album of mostly boring jam tracks. Overall: No matter how technically proficient the band is able to sound, they lack an ounce of soul. In a way that is difficult to articulate, ZZ Top has always felt flat and passionless to me.
Despite actually knowing some songs on this record, I actually preferred listening to Tres Hombres on this list. This was all kinda samey and a bit bland?
Will not buy on vinyl. Doesn't rock my socks.
I'm not sure what it is about this album I don't care for. Despite there being several hits on here, the whole thing just feels kind of boring and uninspired to me. Even the hits are kinda meh. Sharp Dressed Man is ok, and I kind of liked I Got the Six. Otherwise, this is a pass for me.
Sticks to the formula like glue. Guitar tone is nice, but apart from that it's bog standard redneck rock.
CHEESY BEYOND ALL CHEESE! Still though, the blues-rock/new wave hybrid has its' charms. I'm already very familiar with all the hits. There aren't any other songs that stand out as different or an improvement on the hit songs. They found a new formula and went all in on 11 tracks of it. By the time track 10 started I was praying for this to be done. Learned while Listening: This is the manufactured "image" era of the band. Manager was hiding the fact they were using tape-recorded backing tracks on stage, Billy Gibbons & Linden Hudson created a majority of the album w/o Beard/Hill input...etc. Gotta have 120 BPMs for hits! (And it WORKED! LOL) Favs: N/A Least: "I Got the Six" (1x) 2 Stars, C-
Sounded dated, not timeless, also not great
The 80's polish removed the best characteristics of ZZ Top's gritty early sound.
Hair rock innit. Not my bag really.
Whhh….. like a stale donut
we makin it outta the family reunion to this one
Somewhere between a 2 and a 3
ZZ top is so uninspired. There is nothing remotely creative or original about this band and i dont understand why there is one, not to mention two albums on this list
His vocals sound like they left the lead track and the left the background vocal to beef up the vocal track. He really lost me at TV dinners