Reviews (page 3 of 14)
Enjoy this one much more than Tres Hombres.
Muy buen álbum. Parece una banda de garage, pero tiene muy buen ritmo y sonidos, buenas letras. Nunca lo habia escuchado y me puso de buen humor escuchar una recomendación tan copada, es un álbum (y probablemente una banda) que volvería a escuchar.
Awesome 80s rock with some 70s vibes - has a lot of their classic hits
Finally something I can jam to
I found this album a little cheesy but fun. After a few tracks it starts to feel all a bit similar to me. Wouldn’t mind relistening to a few of the songs when I’m in the right mood, but I’m not sure I’d come back to the album again. Fav song: Gimme All Your Lovin’ Least fav: TV Dinners
When ZZ Top breaks up I hope an imposter band starts touring as them, to honour Dusty Hill and Frank Beards origins as members of the fake Zombies. Might be harder to do now we have the internet. Favourite song: Gimme All Your Lovin' Least: TV Dinners
Of all the hard rock and blues rock bands in the 80s to dig into synthesizers, ZZ Top were probably the best ones to nail it and still sound like themselves even with drum machines. Aside from the typical blues boogie rock cheese (which some people on this very website called it, "unclassy" buddy this is rock and roll, shut the fuck up), it's creative mixture of electric blues and 80s music technological wonders has helped it hold up over time if not also being very much of it's time. It might have saved the blues from dying off and being castaway like ragtime. This album encompasses the one word I would call ZZ Top's music and Billy Gibbon's guitar tone: Bitchin'. Every song has a bitchin' riff and the songs are about cars, women, and TV dinners. Sharp Dressed Man and Gimme All Your Lovin' and Legs are the staples for the album of course but I'd like to give shoutouts to the aforementioned TV Dinners as well as the cool blend of bass and drum machine action on Thug. Also enjoyed Got Me Under Pressure, the ultimate "I'm down bad for this girl" song. Eliminator is a fun listen for thrills and to wear some cheap sunglasses and lamp up somewhere.
Nesten overraskanes gøy å høre på? Der mange av de andre 80-tallsklassikeran blir litt langdryg, fløy tre kvarter med ZZ Top avgårde raskt som bare det, men også uten å være enerveranes. Det e nok ikke det æ kommer til å høre mest på i framtida heller, men det va en generelt positiv lytteopplevelse æ ikke e gretten over å ha gjennomført (i motsetning til med enkelte album på lista).
I was hyper-exposed to the singles from this album in the early days of MTV. I still love those songs, but the rest of this doesn't do a lot for me. I still can't believe "Legs" used to be on MTV and the radio unedited, but I guess people (including me at the time) couldn't understand what they were singing.
Yeah was cool
It's been a while since I've heard the whole album. Some good tunes.
Pretty good
Hate the guys but damn if it doesn’t hit
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
Conflicted because I loved the instrumentals on this album, but lyrically this fell flat. Pretty mid-album, which is pretty surprising because I typically love Rock. -S Tier- Gimme All Your Lovin' -A Tier- Sharp Dressed Man -B Tier- I Got the Six -C Tier- Got me Under Pressure Legs Bad Girl -D Tier- I Need You Tonight Thug If I Could Only Flag Her Down -F Tier- TV Dinners
The hits are great, the rest is just okay. It front-loads all the best songs. The band play together great, even without a lot of technical skill outside of Gibbons. I also appreciate that the one member whose name is literally Beard is the one member without the famous ZZ Top beard. 3/5
Maybe I'm mad because I listened to an Eric Clapton album yesterday, but all of the ire towards ZZ Top here could 100% be directed at Eric Clapton and it would still make sense. At least ZZ Top never acted like they were god's gift to rock and roll. Unpretentious blues rock is fun and this album is no exception.
that is a must listen to every hard rock fan.
When people think of ZZ Top it is this era that springs to mind the most. Pretty good hits, some misses, still good.
Pretty basic bitch 80s rock but they are cool guys and were in Back to The Future 3 so they get an extra point for that. 3
Delicious. 3.1/5.
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.
Wow
ZZ Top rocks Best songs: - Gimme All Your Lovin’ - Sharp Dressed Man - Legs
🤮 Formula 80s
Classic album from a classic band! So many good songs!
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
Ripetitivo. Commerciale. Piatto.
I’m from Texas. ZZ Top is the official rock band of Texas. OK, that’s probably not true, but if you’re from Texas and you don’t like ZZ Top, you have to leave once you turn 18. That’s not true either, but if you don’t like ZZ Top there’s probably something wrong with you and you’re not fun to be around. Seriously, how can you not like ZZ Top?! What genre is ZZ Top? Funky Texas Blues Rock Boogie? How fun does that sound? Pretty fun. Two weird beards and one guy named Beard who didn’t have a beard?! Again, fun. Also, if you were a teenage boy in the 80s, those videos were pretty great. I like ZZ Top. I would like them even if I wasn’t from Texas. 4.6
not bad, not bad. easy listening old rock i'd say. nothing stood out to me too much, but i knew more songs than i thought. alright album all around
Solid album from the lil ol’ band from Texas
For some reason I have always fan-girled ZZ Top. It is kind of sexist but never quite patriarchal, kind of man's fantasy but it keeps the fantasy clean. I think it might be how they have such a simple formula but it is so high energy and different each song. It is likely as classic a rock as one might find by it's formula, but it somehow, at least for me, always stood in its own space. I kinda have one of those guilty pleasure situations listening to them, and I am really okay with that!
If I had to pick a favorite song, I didn't mind sharp dressed man or gimme all your lovin'. But overall, not quite my beat of music. It was fine but not great.
Classic album
I'd listen to this if I drove a really cool car really, really fast. Alas, I am a 48 year old substitute teacher who obeys traffic laws and drives a 12 year old Jetta with a temperamental check engine light and a broken A/C. Still, it gets a 4 because it's just so darn cool.
TV Dinners and the music video is damn good. love those guitar solos
catchy songs with fun guitar, great tone, good vocals and a generally great energy for most of the tracks, very good album for me zz top is never in mind as one of my favourite bands but I'm always happy to hear zz top
Quite good for what it is! I could be convinced there's better ZZ out there but I enjoyed it through-out
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
Monday, 1 June 2026 Guitars, bars, babes, and beards. Classic album. Sounds great. “It still kicks!”
A solid classic rock album, but a bit generic. This has a bunch of their hits, but it's missing 'La Grange' and 'Tush', which are their two best. The album really petered out toward the end; the good songs are all in the front half. Not much else to say about this, we've all heard ZZ Top before and know what they are, a serviceable blues-rock band from the 70s and early 80s. Nothing spectacular here, but nothing bad either. Decent 3/5
fav song: got me under pressure least fav song: i got the six my first time listening to this band! love the overall vibe of this album. feels like soundtrack from a movie where the scene of main character driving a car is necessary.
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
Just scraped a 3 because sharp dressed man was pretty good
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
Ich mag es. Punkt! Simpel, knackig, gut!
not my style
Epochal 80’s hard-drivin’ guitar rock. Is it wrong to take one star off for the novelty beards? (No.)
A huge album for the band. Elevating them from Southern boogie to international pop/rock stars. A formula created that along with MYV saw them become unlikely pop stars.
3.5/5 80s rock
This is the ultimate ZZ top album. Ready to roll up to Chili's with Nance while sporting some jorts and sunglasses.
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
Like being at a summer time backyard BBQ in the 80s
Listens: 2.5 Standout Tracks: Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man Credit given when credit due. I was admittedly not looking forward to this. This is my second ZZ Top album and the first one was so absolutely bland that I cannot remember a single thing about it, including the name (Tres Hombres). This album on the other hand I've heard a few tracks and even enjoyed the music a little. Its pretty balls-to-the-wall for the first five or six tracks before things start getting a little monotonous and weird (like TV Dinner, wtf). Overall, I don't think I would do full listens in the future, but a few tracks are going on the playlist. 3.5 rounded up.
Good fun, but not troubling my shelves Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆ (6/10) Total reviewed : 335 Already owned : 76 Purchased : 16 To buy : 3 Nope : 240
When I was in high school, my school had a tradition where, every year during the drill team spring showcase, the dads of the drill team officers for that year would dress up in their daughters' uniforms - sparkly top, cowgirl hat, high-heeled boots, the whole bit - and perform a high-kick routine. Well, not actually their daughters' uniforms - larger uniforms sized specifically for this occasion. (Somebody had thought this through.) The five guys would line up and start dancing the routine, and the auditorium would roar with laughter and approval, and they'd all look really uncomfortable, as expected. But the really interesting thing was that they'd all look uncomfortable for different reasons. There'd be one or two of them who clearly didn't want to be there at all and had been harangued into this by their daughters or the drill team coach or whoever, and they'd just sort of half-ass the whole thing. And then a couple others who weren't any less awkward but were trying to be good sports about it, putting on a brave face and at least trying to get the choreography right. And then there'd inevitably be one of them who was actually really into it but had to act like he wasn't, lest he be thought gay or something. (This would be the same guy who shaved his legs ahead of the performance, not having gotten the memo that the others definitely weren't doing that.) So you'd have this motley assortment of middle-aged White Texan men in bad drag, dancing on stage in front of several hundred people (many of them the most virulent homophobes you will ever meet), with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and getting the loudest reaction *by far* that any of the performances would get all night. The song they always danced to was "Legs" by ZZ Top. Anyway, this is a fun album. Maybe someday I'll figure out what it's about.
Standard 80's, happy to listen to once, no need to listen to twice.
This album rocks, it truly does. It's such a fantastic record, with great blues touches and some interesting and enjoyable parts. ZZ Top are a very nice listening, always, but there is so much fun in here, as well as energy. I'm very impressed to have liked this album that much. And the songs all are fantastic too. So, I've loved it.
This was a solid rock album, just feel good, out for a good time, horny man fun.
Chill typ
Classic rock with some of the best in Texas.
Rockin 🎸
"Eliminator" is the album in which ZZ Top hit it big with a more polished, synthesiser-driven sound rather than their prior loose Texas boogie sound. This shift had started with their prior album, "El Loco". Linden Hudson was responsible, in partnership with Billy Gibbons, for much of this transition but received little to no credit at the time. (In)Famously, the drums are all programmed on this album, as is the bass -it is all but a Billy Gibbons solo album, though Dusty Hill sings lead vocals on two of the tracks. At the time of release, "Eliminator" sounded fresh and modern and like nothing else in the Rock world. Oddly, despite the success of the album, and the prevailing nature of the hit singles that it spawned, those production choices haven't aged as well as their prior blues-rock-based albums. What about the songs? There isn't a poor track on the album - six of the eleven tracks are 5-star songs in my view. That said, I rarely play this album, finding myself reaching for one of their first six albums, or even their last studio album "La Futura" (a fantastic album), when I am in a ZZ Top mood. But when I do play "Eliminator", I enjoy it immensely. Four stars. Side one 1 "Gimme All Your Lovin'" (5/5) 2 "Got Me Under Pressure" (5/5) 3 "Sharp Dressed Man" (5/5) 4 "I Need You Tonight" (5/5) 5 "I Got the Six" (4/5) Side two 1 "Legs" (5/5) 2 "Thug" (3/5) 3 "TV Dinners" (4/5) 4 "Dirty Dog" (3/5) 5 "If I Could Only Flag Her Down" (4/5) 6 "Bad Girl" (5/5) Total - 48 Average - 4.36 336/1001 182/336 albums reviewed were new to me.
Good ol rock and roll yeeeeeep
You can tell they are loving it. This is a perfect version of something. Three guys in the band, one last named beard, it's the only guy without a giant beard.
Kraft Mac and Cheese is a pretty reliable product, you know what you're gonna get. A reliable person would make you some and not do anything crazy like mix in seafood chowder. ZZ Top is like that reliable. They have a formula. They give you rock music that has the tempo of the broken lines on the road passing by your car. Put on this album drive and zone out.
Kicks ass
3/5
Don’t really like this, corny corn dad rock. RYM: N Saved a song: N
Perfect fine chugging hard rock that has a nice groove. I'm not going to go back to this but I didn't hate it.
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
Four pretty cool songs, but it really is boiler-plate stuff. Every song more or less sounds the same, has the same innuendo and might as well have a drum machine going. Still, a handful of great tunes helps.
Reaaalllyyyyy good guitar solos and really good beats Keeps you involved Pretty good lyrics Not one song is a miss
I Need You Tonight and I Got the Six stood out other than the hits I've heard a bunch. 4.5/5
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.
Exactly what I expected
It just doesn’t do it for me.
Some of their songs, certainly 4, but a lot of similar material. I think a 3+ is fair.
++: Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, Thug, Dirty Dog, If I Could Only Flag Her Down +: Gimme All Your Lovin' +-: I Got the Six, TV Dinners, Bad Girl -: I Need You Tonight 7,0/10
It was a good one, not the best but it's not bad either, i liked it
Quintessential dad rock on my first full day as a dad to our beautiful Faye ❤️ this album loses a bit of steam in the back half but overall, hell yeah.
Ich wollte ja nichts zu den Videos schreiben. Aber diese hier sind so pubertär-dämlich, dass es mir peinlich ist, da zuzuschauen. Egal, ich habe die 70er von ZZ Top immer gemocht: La Grange, Tush, Blue Jean Blues, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, Just got paid... aber mit diesem Album trennen sich langsam unsere Wege.
Their best!
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.
Dikke riffs, paar toffe nummers, monotone drums
This album is just too repetitive.
The album perfectly captures ZZ Top’s unique cheesy-but-cool charm, blending 1980s style with bluesy, groove-driven rock. But I still prefer the rawer, more grounded sound of Tres Hombres overall.
I'm not the biggest on ZZ Top as a whole but they're really in peak performance with this album. Multiple of their biggest hits and tonally, consistently great throughout. Not going to be a favourite but a good time.
Classic rock radio staple, always a good listen.
One of the best blues rock albums ever
banger favs: sharp dressed man, Got me under pressure
Was expecting less yacht rock
Just pure rock and roll
Few songs id never heard before
waste of time
Enjoyable. Good band.
Such a fantastic album. Starting off huge with Gimme All Your Loving and continues track after track showcasing a new slick production it blends with their previous blues rock. A little less dirty so to speak on most tracks and a lot more gloss, but the roots are still strong and it really has that feeling throughout. Even the “stupid” song TV Dinners has just an undeniable groove that you can feel with the driving low end. Surprisingly technical guitar work. Out of all the leaps to MTV, ZZ Top really made the transition a lot better than most bands and kept up with the musical landscape.
Serviceable dad rock
Fast paced, high tempo blues, with a lot of soloing. ZZ Top have a distinctive sound, and this is consistent throughout the album. It was...ok
Cracker of an album
I am very familiar with this album one of my favorites from high school
Like, this was a crap ton of fun. But also -- when it's all so consistent and so generically rock-n-rollin' awesome-sauce, I can't help but question the artistic level going on here. It's hard not to enjoy this music. And today, that feels like a slight issue to me. Other than the middle few songs, all solid hits.
Sehr gut!
Okay, so I would’ve easily given this album a 4, it’s a fun time all the way through, BUT……. The drums…. How the HELL can a “hard rock” album have drum sounds like this? This shit sounds like a backing track for a guitar hero version. Like a Drum Learning app that makes this sound when someone messes up the part they’re supposed to play. Now at first I thought they were electric drums played by a person, which just makes my skin boil. But it’s more like a drum machine, which makes it a tiny bit better, but still. What do you mean a bunch of tough rock dudes with beards and hot rods and choppers make music with shitty electronic drum sounds that sound much worse than what i can now do in Garage band on the toilet??? I think the hot rod on the cover should be replaced by a TESLA bc of this. FUCK electric drums. They’re for practice. Would love to, but can’t give it lower than 3, bc its full of bangers if i listen on speakers far from my ears.
tv dinners rules
So fun :) great album
"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.
Rock for guys that lost custody
A little average, some fun standouts like sharp dressed man and tv dinner but… basslines on this album made me want to kill myself
Overall a good album
Kinda whatever. Didn't do anything for me but it wasn't actively terrible. First time in my life I've wished for less guitar solos.
classic
Classic 80's music. Pitchfork: n/a Rolling Stone: n/a Best Songs Gimme All Your Lovin' Sharp Dressed Man Legs
I’m not that familiar with ZZ Top’s sound prior to this album, but a lot of the other reviews on this site seem to act like this album was a betrayal to who they were. I didn’t bring that baggage to my listening of it, so I only heard the album through fresh ears and it’s fine. It’s starts really strong with some catchy songs that will get stuck in your head, but by the end of the album it’s a bit less memorable and a bit more monotonous. The songs are all a little too similar with a driving beat and don’t feel quite as catchy as the openers.
Love me a bit of ZZ Top, feels like pure rock without ever trying too hard, they just seem like they were having a good time making music.
Time and a place i guess
I have always been a bit ambivalent about ZZ Top and this record encapsulates that experience. I really like the heavy blues inspired guitar work, but the vocals and pop hooks are more Robert Palmer ecsque. I kind of want them to pick a field and plow it. Some good tracks though!
Kind of can't believe we are getting two ZZ Top albums in close succession, but I guess that's the way of the randomizer. This album represents ZZ Top's highest achievement in what they do well: fun, silly, high-energy, catchy singles. Like the blues-rock version of the B52s. But ... come on. (The filler tracks by the B52s are much better than what's here, for what it's worth.) It never occurred to me that one would ever sit and listen to a whole ZZ Top album start to finish, and especially not this one, where the cleverly-dumb, commercial aspects have been amped up so thoroughly. You take the singles you like from an album like this, put them on a playlist with other, equally dumb-fun singles of a related vibe, and listen to that playlist in the car when the mood takes you. You don't sit and listen to the album in its entirety. (Right?) Evidently, different individuals' mileage may vary. There's something funny about "Legs (Edit)" ... with no full length version to be found elsewhere on the album, not even at the end, of maybe the full length cd release or what have you ... that's some accidental postmodernism right there. Or something. I Need You Tonight sounds like a filler track from a late 70s Peter Green album. Good guitar work, not much of a song there. It's hard to believe there was a lawsuit over ownership of as lousy a song as Thug. Though, apparently the guy got cheated out of cowriter credits on the hits. Which sucks. Songs I already know and enjoy, songs I find it tough to get all the way through ... and not a lot in between.
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.
Yuck. I have never understood their appeal.
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.
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Awesome Album love it!!!!!!
There's something almost sugar-y about the blend of pop and rock here. And you gotta love the horniness.
Too many guitar solos. Too much aggressive. Some good song drowned into a chaotic record I didn't really like.
The true definition of fine dad rock. This whole album is on classic rock radio rotation it feel likes. 6/10
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.
Great Wednesday hump day pick me up; giddy up let’s goooo
The back story makes the recording sessions seem a little dodgy, but Billy Gibbons' guitar tone set the 80s rock standard.
In the summer of 1983, ZZ Top's distinctive Texas boogie rock could be heard everywhere. A series of cool music videos for “Gimme All Your Lovin’” and “Sharp Dressed Man”, followed later by “Legs”, propelled the blues-rock group to become one of the world's most successful bands. In reality, however, it was three old dogs presenting their eighth album, which they had adapted to the contemporary new wave sound of the 1980s. Notably, Frank Beard’s drumming was largely replaced by a drum machine and the tempo was adjusted to the Hi-NRG standard of the time, around 125 bpm. The result was danceable blues-rock pop that, while accessible to the masses, had lost much of the original charm of their early albums. From today's perspective, the 'more modern' Hi-NRG sound seems significantly more dated than the timeless Texas blues sound of classic albums like "Tres Hombres" (1973) and "Fandango!" (1974). Undoubtedly, the album contains numerous catchy tunes and is a classic of the '80s. However, objectively speaking, it is not ZZ Top’s best album.
much energy mucho liko
REAL MAN SHIT!!!! YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I personally gave up on being a real man when I realized I was actually a girl, but you know what, I can still listen to some HARD SOUTHERN ROCK without any qualms. Especially when “Sharp-Dressed Man” is in the conversation. Well, I for one very much like the production here, and the attitude of it all. Very much this dancey, southern, glammy hedonism vibe. It’s kind of also the album’s downfall, though, because it’s just a bunch of really really awesome, bitchin’ songs that really just don’t have a lot of conflict. “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Legs…” all 10/10 songs. But they never really go anywhere other than “FUCK YEAHHHHH!!!” And I think that’s the only real problem. As for the positives, I LOVE the guitar tones here. Same with the drum machines, which are surprisingly well-used here. Vocals are a little weak, or maybe just a little bit low in the mix, but they get the job done. I also feel like the album, while it could’ve been shorter (maybe try cutting “TV Dinners?”), is a pretty good length. Pretty cool closer, pretty cool album. 7.8/10
This was one of the few bands my dad and I bonded over when I was a teenager. Weird now to realize how old they seemed (and sounded). Definitely felt more like old person music at the time. Extra star for nostalgia.
Fun 80s rock. I think it blended the pop-metal styles of the time with some great beats to make an enjoyable record.
Im getting Dad Rock Banger after Banger!
More boring than I expected? Disappointed
I like this one a lot and loved them when I was a kid.
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.
A classic rock album I legitimately enjoyed. Pure fun to listen to. Nothing overly serious, yet not goofy. Just pure jams. 3.8/5.
Some really really really fun rock and roll music here with big riffs. But an entire song about tv dinners is….non good.
was a bit too excited for this to be over. yawn
ok.
This was fine, unlikely to reach for it again but an enjoyable enough commute
3 stars for Sharp Dressed Man. I could take or leave the rest.
Against all odds and expectations, I really enjoyed Gimme All Your Lovin’ and didn’t mind some of the other songs in there too. It sounded big, it was kinda silly and fun and I way preferred this over the other ZZ Top album we had. Interesting considering this one is from 10 years later. not sure if this is maybe them selling out?
Good
I mean, it’s ZZ
Redneck music with great guitars, other albums from ZZ are better
Virtually ZZ Top's greatest hits, this album bangs from start to finish. My personal preference is Tres Hombres (and in 1,001 there is plenty of room for both), but I get that most people would put this one above it. Influence 4. Quality 4. Hits 5. Intangibles 5. This thing needs half stars just really, really badly.
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”
love the cross over from blues into some hard rock. hard not to like this album
Довольно плотный такой хардрок, уверенный в себе, с элементами даже гламура какого-то, не смотря на южный образ бородачей. Неплохой альбом, крутая обложка.
Most of the songs off this record were pretty good
Repeat listen
About as deep as a sheet pan, but there's some pretty groovy riffs.
Enjoyable and solid. Not as good as Tres Hombres as its devolved into more guitar cock-rock and less blues but the guitars are good. Thankfully this wraps the two ZZ Top albums on the list because I was worried we were going to get some off-the-wall cuts
A lot of famous singles, but some hidden gems in there. Not something I'd normally listen to, but a welcome change for me.
lol I don’t think you even need to hear a ZZ top single before you die. some hits here tho of course
One time I was blitzed at a bar in one of the Carolinas and I told this blondie that I was the drummer to ZZ Top and she fully believed me. Spent the rest of the night hitting on her mom and pretending to play the air drums
One time I was at a bar in North Carolina and I met a guy who said he the drummer for ZZ Top and I still don’t know if he was serious
I think it does what it wants to do well, but this brand of 80s rock is not for me at all.
Dad rock before dad rock. Grandpa rock? Uncle rock? Just some dudes and some beards playing some music adequately. Sharp Dressed Man is a fun song, but is it good? Not particularly, no.
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.
1983. Their most commercially successful release.
Very fun and memorable, one of the best rock albums of the time and filled with great energy.
fun but likely won’t revisit
This is a band firing on all cylinders, if you'll allow a super obvious pun. It's true though. ZZ Top blend the wide open spaces of road trip Texas, classic American cars, and a respect for the classics that paved the way. The front end of Eliminator is so stacked, you'd be justified in thinking you were listening to a greatest hits collection. Once you hit side B things thin out a bit, but even then there's no filler to avoid. ZZ Top don't have time for that nonsense.
Rock and Roll Classic! This one is good from top to bottom if you enjoy guitar rock that has a smile and coolness. The listener counts are over the top with the least popular song being over 5M and the most popular over 660M listens. This is a rock radio staple and all these tracks still get a ton of airplay. "Gimme All Your Lovin", "Got Me Under Pressure", "Sharp Dressed Man", & "Legs" are huge hits! Then you add in solid songs like "I Need You Tonight" & "TV Dinners" and it fully deserves a spot on the Top 1001. Every one of those songs had a video on MTV back in the day. Popularity, influence, longevity, radio hits, MTV videos, this one checks all the boxes. Yeah, there are some weak songs at the end ("If I Could Only..." & "Dirty Dog") but it's so front loaded it doesn't matter. 4.5 stars
This is fine. Gimme All Your Lovin' and Sharp Dressed Man are classics, they kick ass. The rest of this is fine. There's nothing in here past those two songs that made me really care, but there was also nothing in here that was really bad. Legs is solid if I had to pick something else, but that's the most I have to say.
Pretty nice album
Good rock
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
(Previously rated June 2025) I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Possibly because it reminds me of youth. "Gimme All Your Lovin" "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" were huge back then. The rest or the album shares that slick sound. A sound that is both thoroughly 80's yet completely timeless.
10 out of 10. rhythmic hard blues, pure music to the ears
Gimme All Your Lovin’ Got Me Under Pressure Sharp Dressed Man I Got the Six Thug
Got Me Under Pressure Sharp Dressed Man I Need You Tonight Legs Thug Dirty Dog
Ahhhhh gringo y barbón
It's alright. Got some classics. But not something I would ever listen to normally.
The album is very much a tale of 2 halves - the first half is great, the second, not so much. I must confess that I prefer the earlier, bluesier version of ZZ Top to the 80's over processed version. I remember the videos that accompanied the singles which made my little teenage heart flutter.
Synth blues rawk..One-of-a-kind!!!
very basic rock which isnt bad but it isnt ground breaking either.
dqdovski redneck rock ama e mn qk
Daft nonsense. The joke wears thin pretty quickly. Give me Tres Hombres any day
Straight to the bottom of the pile
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 literally have no words to describe how unlistenable this is, using creative language in response to music as tedious as it is misogynistic would be an insult to creative language. Tom.
Do like some zz top. Have seen them live - they look like linc in a few years
Their beards are more impressive than their music
Teenage me wants to give this a 5. It was a bluesy-rocking bad ass album when it came out, and it still hits hard today. It's got a super clean production sound, awesome hard hitting bass beats and jamming guitar riffs to complement the fun lyrics.
Ok
Iconic band with a signature sound and style. They do one sound and do it well, but it unfortunately grows old after a song or two. Didn’t hate it, but I’ve never been much of a fan.
I should love this - but the ZZ Top schtick gets tiring long before the 45 mins of Eliminator passes by. It's a high 3/5 but a 3/5 nonetheless. Not much else out there that sounds like ZZ Top - great riffs, great production but these guys really only have like 3 chord progressions and every song is about getting down with your old lady. I did like Dusty Hill's Van Halen screams on a few tracks and I think the singles are iconic. Perhaps ZZ Top is America's AC/DC?
Overall, this is an entertaining album. It’s got some big hits and is an easy listen for the most part. The shift toward a more mainstream sound doesn’t bother me; bands evolve, and that’s part of staying relevant. That said, Tres Hombres is still the better album.
This is my second ZZ Top album for this challenge. The have a specific sound and if you like it, you’ll love this album.
Average at best. First 3 songs are good however it get more repetitive the longer it goes on. Definitely of its time
Insanely front loaded album, but those first three tracks are incredible. Sadly the rest of the album is overshadowed by it.
It does the damn thing.
This album starts off with a blast. 3 really good songs that got me already thinking of 4 or even 5 star rating. Sadly the rest of the album fall short for me. The songs weren't bad but they were just meh. I did enjoy listening to them but they didn' get to the same level as the first 3 tracks. Still thi is solid 3/5 album. Best track was Got Me Under Pressure.
Me gustó gimme all your love y i need you tonight
I had a period where I really liked ZZ Top but then they fell out of my rotation for multiple years. I enjoyed listening and hearing these songs again but can’t see taking time to listen to them outside of a mix or radio.
Already love ZZ Top, no notes. Classic.
Classic blues rock. Some great hits on this album.
yeah its better if we "eliminate" it.
Need to listen in full
3.6 Not at all what I was expecting. Where they a joke a band? They sound semi serious but surely they're taking the piss? Whatever, I actually quite enjoyed it. Only recognised Sharp Dressed Man which I'm not too fussed about. Other tracks were better. Got me Under Pressure and Legs were the highlights, nothing really that terrible so has to be rated as good overall.
1. Gimme All Your Lovin- Great riff, fun song, simple, good solo, outro- 9.1/10 2. Got Me Under Pressure- Fast paced, spicy, boring bridge, solid outro - 7.3 3. Sharp Dressed Man- Classic hit, great song, fun, awesome riff, great outro-9.5 4. I Need You Tonight- Great blues intro, ballad?, love the semi-emotional solo, great long outro - 9 5. I Got the Six- very spicy, fast, not a good theme, good outro - 6.69 6. Legs- Fun rhythm, spicy, quiet vocals, great guitar- 8.2 7. Thug- Weird (but good) sounding intro, funky bass, mediocre outro- 7.8 8. TV Dinners- Goofy theme (about poverty?), good solo, outro -8.1 9. Dirty Dog- Nice riff, spicy, solid guitar solo, good outro -7.7 10. If I Could Only Flag Her Down- Great drum sound, good guitar, great outro- 7.9 11. Bad Girl- high vocals, spicy, ok guitar- 7.0
Classic rock textbook.
Some big hits. Some straightforward stuff the rest of the way. It's fine.
Buenos riffs, buenos temas, buen disco en general. Si no era por esta sugerencia nunca hubiera escuchado un disco completo de los ZZ.
Solidly Good to Very Good album with a couple all time great songs. I'm having a little bit of trouble rating this one, though. It's a definite 3.5 star album. 3 is too low, 4 is too high. I guess I'm pushing it to a 4 because of how good "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Sharp Dressed Man" are, but just know that it's actually 3.5 but the site refuses to allow half stars
I really don't get the appeal of this kind of rock Fav track: Thug
muy buen álbum de zz top
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.
classic driving music, big fan of this albums sound (mainly bc it sounds like the stuff i like from this era) honestly, the whole album is just good. its driving music which means i sometimes miss when the songs switch but i dont think thats a bad thing. the whole album is a good experience my individual thoughts on each song werent very varied, i think honestly i wouldnt seek out these songs bc there are so many others like them but if they were on a playlist i'd really enjoy them maybe the most 3/5 album yet (i'd give it a 3.5/5)
american driving music
Didn’t give this a proper listen but went through the whole album. Was pretty generic 80s rock to me some decent songs
Old countryside rock style
Fun album. Get's a little delirious about being on the road but I think that's the point.
I wanted to like this more than I actually did, I expected it to be bluesier but this was straight rock with a more new wave, synth laden sound. I guess I’ll enjoy Tres Hombres more as it will be more in line with my expectations. Having said that, there are 2 very famous singles here that formed my image of the band growing up, along with their unforgettable appearance, and this was largely an enjoyable outing. Another to return to and appraise properly.
Pretty good!
Dad rock and great beards.
I've never really listened to much ZZ Top. I dismissed them as very samey. I was right, but for the first half of this album it didn't matter, as - like AC/DC - it was great fun. Got a bit much through the second half. but I could listen to this again. After reviewing Joni Mitchell's Herjira as my previous album and despairing at the lack of rhythm, this was definitely a contrast.
this was fine
My headphones died 3 times while trying to listen to this. I feel like I've tried to listen to it all week. It's really quite good. The grooves are great, the guitar playing is great, the vocals are... variable. Gimme all your loving is incredible, TV dinners not so much. It's a lot of fun though. I much prefer this to le grange or whatever the previous one we had from ZZ was.
love the sound of an old compressed fender
music is love
I grew up in a hick town in the Midwest, so ZZ Top was part of the fabric of my youth. This isn't a great album, quite a drop off from the hits to the other tracks and definitely not as enjoyable as their earlier work.
1. Gimme All Your Lovin´: Me gusta, rocksito piolon. 7/10 2. Got Me Under Pressure: 7/10 3. Sharp Dressed Man: 8/10 4. I Need You Tonight: 7/10 5. I Got The Six: 7/10 6. Legs: 7,5/10 7. Thug: 6,5/10 8. TV Dinners: 7/10 9. Dirty Dog: 7/10 10. If I Could Only Flag Her Down: 7,5/10 11. Bad Girl: 6/10 Nota General: Osea es un buen albúm, es un buen rocksito, agradable al oído. No me parece nada del otro mundo ni ninguna locura. Ni pincha ni corta. Para mi es un sólido 7/10.
Really good for what it is -- the hits are great but mostly not for me.
There are some classics on here, it's just not my jam for a full albums worth of listening IMO
I liked it, 3/5. Just discovered blues rock, and honestly, it’s such a chill but iconic vibe.
Otro album rutero. Vibes hiper yankees. I need you tonight y TV dinners estan buenas. No es mi onda pero bancamos.
Great Album, lots of brilliant riffs.
I do like this album, with the 3 classic songs on it, thumping Rhythm
this album is underrated as hell!
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.
Esto ya es triste... decepcion tras decepcion, y lo peor es q a este album si le tenia fe, no se por q. solo había escuchado dos temas de los sisi tops, esos dos los cuales habían salido una década antes… no me debi guiar por ellos. Es como q todo el sonido de este álbum es algo parecido al de esos dos temas pero como si lo hubiesen hecho una década despues y con una producción mucho mas pulida ahr. siento q capaz es eso lo q no funciona para esta banda, deberían haber dejado de sacar música despues del 73 ahr malo. No pero ahora enserio ta ahora si. Si el albun de los roling me había parecido olvidable este es otro nivel. Y si el álbum de prince me había parecido malo, bueno este directamente me da vergüenza. Bueno no quiero irme por las ramas… voy a tratar de empezar.. por el principio. Me paso algo muy parecido q con los rolin, y es q el álbum empezó dentro de todo bien, pero básicamente despues del cuarto tema me empezó a cansar. El álbum sufre del famoso efecto al q me gusta llamar "album bajo la ley de la gravedad universal"… ahr le re copiaba los términos. No, pero lo q ya empiezo a entender q hacen los álbumes q apuntan a éxito comercial es poner los singles y los hits al principio y dsp dejar el resto del álbum lleno de mierda, ahr re obvio. Pero es q los tres primeros temas son de los mas conocidos dentro de la discografía de esta gentuza y aparte son disfrutables dentro de su banalidad. Despues el resto son mas q nada deep cuts y destacan sobre todo por ser una verga… mas q verga son una verga gigante y sucia con esmegma, se me hacen obscenos, pero en serio no estoy exagerando. Hay temas q aparte de ser malos, me disgusta la letra… ah las letras, eso es posiblemente de lo peor del álbum, pero despues voy a profundizar en eso. Bueno los dos primeros temas me parecen q están bien, “Gimme All Your Lovin” es un hit de ellos y no me parece malo, tiene unos segundos interesantes durante el break instrumental de la mitad del tema y ta eso. Despues “Sharp Dressed Man” también me parece bien y me gusta bastante el bajo. El cuarto tema, “I Need You Tonight”, es un bajon de velocidad q agradezco bastante. La intro con esa guitarra me gusta mucho, creo q es de los mejores vocal deliveries del álbum, ahr porq usaba ese termino eningles. Bueno es eso q considero este tema el mejor del álbum y es casualmente el mas lento y el q se toma mas tiempo para desarrollarse. Aparte dentro de los tropecientos de miles de solos de guitarra de mierda q hay en este álbum, este tema me parece q tiene algunos q son los únicos q zafan. El álbum sigue con “I Got the Six”… aca entramos en un espiral de mierda al instante, y de aca en adelante solo vamos para abajo, cada vez mas y mas. Aca empiezan las letras mas chotas, tipo q concha es “i got the six, gimme your nine”, es horrible qn escribió esto. El álbum sigue con “Legs” q es un tema q habla de una mina con… piernas. No voy a mentir, dándole una segunda escucha me gusta bastante la voz y la melodía de esta tmb. También es un tema de los conocidos y bastante mas tranqui y liviano, no es tan malo pero bueno no destaca mucho. Lei q este álbum fue influenciado en parte por el new wave y principalmente por Depeche Mode, y la verdad q solo noto esto en este tema (simplemente por el sinte q tiene y ta), y mas q nada en el siguiente, “Thug”. Este tema tampoco esta tan mal, creo q me equivoqué cuando dije q íbamos para abajo cada vez mas y mas, pero estos dos temas son la única excepción. Este tema siento es el mas distinto dentro del álbum, es donde mas se nota ese sonido inspirado por Depeche Mode en la percusión y el bajo, me gusta si, dentro de todo. Pero, parecía demasiado bueno para ser real, y el siguiente tema nos viene a recordad q lo q estamos escuchando es una puta basura. “TV Dinners” me parece de los temas mas chotos tanto sónicamente como liricamente. En cuanto a lo musical no ofrece nada nuevo ni destacable… y bueno la letra gira en torno a disfrutar de comida congelada… ns si es mas profundo q eso pero no me transmite nada. Seguimos con otra bazofia de tema titulado “Dirty Dog”, posiblemente de los peores, quizás el q mas odié. El tema básicamente sexualiza y denigra a una mujer, como casi todo el álbum, pero aca lo hace de la forma mas descarada y hostil. Musicalmente es mas de lo mismo. Y bueno los últimos dos temas son la misma mano asi q no creo q ni valga la pena profundizar en ellos. Si, definitivamente lo peor hasta ahora. Muy repetitivo, te podrías quedar con 4 o 5 temas del álbum y ya es suficiente porq ya escuchaste todo lo q tienen q ofrecer. No entiendo en serio como entro al top este, porq ni si quiera veo la posibilidad de q haya llegado a ser importante o innovador en su época. Los puntos altos del álbum simplemente zafan, y los puntos bajos son tan tan tan tan bajos q creo q están bajo tierra.
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.
Why is my foot tapping. Good album
What a badass album. ZZ Top decides to hop on the synth pop trend and actually makes it good AND look cool. Who knew blues and synth could blend so well like this
Half point off for TV Dinners.
Really good album, but no my favorite, and also I won’t be listening to this, because is not my vibe, but I have to admit that is a good album, good instrumental, good rhythm, but no my thing.
i enjoyed this more than i thought i would, but the bar was pretty low.
This was one of the 3 CDs we had when we first got a CD player so I have very fond memories of it. It's funny to read how it was originally panned due to the extensive use of synthesisers, because when I was young, this was as rock n roll as anything could be; guitars, cars, beards and babes. Still enjoyed it today
convincingly fun album, not life changing
A true classic, probably the only electro blues album ever made, and that's a pity. The sound is great and the songs are precise and classy. You have to listen to this, at least once in your life. It also contains one of the best ballads ever made.
We all know the singles. Just big dumb fun. The rest is like that but worse
Non li conoscevo. Album fighissimo
Duck dynasty theme
It was fun and full of confidence, an anomaly of what kind of musicians make this in the first place. And every girl crazy about a sharp dressed man
Wow
When to listen: road trip obviously, cross country in a junker. I would never have called myself a ZZ Top fan but I liked this album. "Gimme All You Lovin" "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Flag Her Down" especially.
didn’t really like it. very basic.
why does every album from this era sound the same the whole way through
It feels like ZZ Top were more of a singles band. Nothing new here worth listening to beyond the stuff we already know.
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.
Lacking enough variation between songs to be really good, but some great songs. best song: Sharp Dressed Man (ofc)
первая половина- скелетик с гитарой "ЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕРОК" 2ая половина- drained
Bien
Solid boogie woogie blues album.
Mid
Boring, but strangely, it's perfect. 5/5
Slick production and clever videos propelled this album back in the MTV days and the songs are pretty good. The music does wear on you after awhile. Although this isn't part of the review there are one of the worst band to see live.
Can’t believe it’s taken me this long to listen to a Zz top album.
Get away from the singles I'm familiar with, this album is better than expected
A big seller, but I prefer earlier ZZ when I listen to it.
About as good as it gets for 80s rock.
No sabía que podían sonar tan pop y synth A veces un poco kiss, a veces un poco retro. No es garantía de calidad que pueda ser escuchado de un tirón, mucho menos si no se ignora que es terriblemente subjetivo, pero al sexto tema ya es todo una masa amorfa del mismo tema. O eso parece a primera oida, no le dedicaré otra hoy
Rv
попсовый рок, что это, глэм рок, да? я просто не очень шарю, похоже на кисс, наверное глэм приятный инструментал, но все звучит почти одинаково, разнообразия инструментального нет не драйвовый вокал, проесный и быстро надоел вокал звучит где-то далеко, скучно 2.8
Great players, great look, I can never get past their bar band blues thing that they do. They’re great at it but not for me
Good riffs but good grief do these guys need to go to horny jail.
I've most probably heard all the tracks on this album, but I'm not sure I've ever listened to it start to finish. This may not be my favorite ZZ Top album, but it's no slouch. I should probably add it to my library.
What’s fun about ZZ Top on Eliminator is that, although they present as grizzled rock backwoodsmen, the great success they achieved via this album came because they’d embraced some degree of electronica, synthesisers, and high-tempo drum machines due to their appreciation of what some British new wave bands were doing at the time. And there’s no sense that they did this cynically: they were open-minded and had moved their own music to different space while retaining its roadhouse-blues essence. It’s a fun paradox - and one of the endearing things about them was their self-deprecating sense of humour, highlighted in the MTV-saturating videos that accompanied the hit singles. The music is decent too. At heart, stripped back blues-heavy metal music without the annoying fantasy posturing that you usually associate with the genre.
I've heard the obvious 'hits' before and quite liked them, but have never listened to a full album before. Having now done so I'm a bit disappointed because there isn't as much variation between tracks as I'd have thought there would be. It's not awful and it is listenable, but just a bit samey.
Paar haarde bangers, over het algemeen vrij eentonig en een paar missers
a very strange one if only because I recognized so many tracks on it without even being consciously aware of who ZZ Top was. Very quintessential rock n roll in a way that makes me think that a LOT has been based on it.
Not great
This is classic dad rock. The guitar solos are pretty good and it's a nice vibe. The lyrics are a bit lacking on a lot of the songs, and they all blend together a little bit. Overall, this is a solid album, but there are a few things holding it back.
Excellent
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....
Lots of hits on this album. I don’t think it was a “best off” album though. But I might be wrong😜
Enjoyed it more so than I thought I would. I imagined a lot more metal, just didnt really know much of ZZ Top. Couple good ones, a couple not so much
Just a solid rock album. Doesn't need to be anything more than that
All the hits, boogie in overdrive Gimme all your lovin, Sharp dressed man Legs
80s pop rock kings. I like the singles, everything else didn’t really seem to add much for me.
Recognized 'Sharp Dressed Man'. Definitely classic rock, just good music.
Nah.
Zzzzzz Top
A solid album from the classic MTV era. The hits are fun, you can understand why they were hits, and there's even some solid b-sides in "Dirty Dog" (maybe the best song on the album) and "If I Could Only Flag Her Down." This is one of those albums with too much 80's drum machine and synth cheese, especially from a band that was capable of cooking without all the electronics, but the new wave was here and the charts required it. But we're going to hear non-synth ZZ Top as Tres Hombres is also on the menu for this exercise. Did we really need two ZZ Top albums?
Have to review this understanding what you’re listening to. It’s blues rock 4 on the floor with boogies and shuffles thrown in. It’s not lyrically deep stuff. It’s just rock and roll. It’s well done but samish. Which most ZZ Top is. Billy gibbons is the star here. And his guitar playing is stellar and soulful. I grew up with this stuff on mtv. 3.75 thanks to gibbons brilliance. And its sounds pretty modern too