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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
Fav- sharp dressed man 2.5/5
O sea, me gustó pero hasta ahí, no logré conectar mucho sinceramente. Quizás porque de por sí ya no le tenía fe desde un inicio. Aunque por lo que veo en las reseñas, el factor psicológico no tiene nada que ver, simplemente es un álbum "meh" y ya está. (Es de los proyectos que se escuchan una vez y no lo volvés a reproducir nunca más en tu vida).
i like it.. not the biggest fan of the beat and lyrics but the 80s rock essence was there which was nice.
Album #54, ZZ Top, Eliminator ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ve seen this album panned on this subreddit, 1 and 2 star reviews every time I see it come up. Having never heard it, I feared the worst. I’m here to tell you that you are all wrong. This is class. A genuinely funny 80s rock album that doesn’t take itself seriously at all. It’s not an album that should even be critiqued. To think too much about it would be to miss the point. But let’s give it a go. This is Billy Gibbons’ album through and through. Though I do like Dusty Hill’s “I Got the Six” and his bass playing on “Thug”, the album is essentially a vehicle for Billy’s guitar, and what a player he is. It’s not flashy, it’s all tonal and it’s perfectly weighted. I don’t think I’d change a note that he plays on the whole album. He’s also a great singer. Understated for hard rock and a damn funny lyricist. The production is very 80s hard rock, which can be a bad thing on occasion, but here it works. It’s not over the top, it’s more like a sheen over the tracks that suits them perfectly. The one thing I’d say is it sounds mostly like a drum machine throughout the album and it’s very processed. I don’t mind drum machines or repetitive rhythms at all, but the drums can lack a bit of dynamism. Still, like the other choices on this album, it feels intentional and it serves the songs. Despite the silliness, I get the sense that all these songs were put together with a lot of thought and care, and it shows. Queens of the Stone Age haves cited them as a major influence and you can hear that swampy sound through a lot Josh Homme’s guitar work. For that alone, I am grateful.
Is TV Diners a parody of Weird Al Yankovich doing a parody of ZZ Top? I was looking forward to this album until I got to legs and then there was a sharp drop in IQ and the rest is laughable. I’d give it a 1 if the singles weren’t so good.
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This is my redemption
Bogan mullet music, a couple of classics ⭐⭐⭐
Its OK they are talented but not for me
Sharp Dressed Man is probably my favorite ZZ Top song, I never get sick of hearing it and it's a 5 all on its own. There's some other great tracks on here too, but the B side has some real trash too. Thug has some of the worst attempts at funky bass solos I think I've heard, and Bad Girl seems like an attempt at creating a hair band track that made me want to pull mine out. I'll come back to Sharp Dressed Man any day, any time, so coming back to this I'd likely only ever listen to side A and then move on. 3/5
I generally don't like ZZ Top. This isn't really much of an exception. It was a little better than expected, but my expectations were low. I wouldn't choose to listen to this, but I wouldn't tell my friend to turn it off if he played it. 2.49/5
Good, hard charging rock from the 80’s. Fantastic guitar work. It just gets repetitive towards the end.
еееее рок!!
I liked this as a teenager. Grown past it now. A few fun songs - "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man."
The hits were great fun, the rest of the album more of the same, but inferior. And then there’s a song about tv dinners…
Outstanding
Pretty standard rock n roll
The only thing I liked on this were the riffs but it got repetitive quickly to me
De cuando ZZ Top se pusieron ochenteros y metieron sintetizadores y cajas de ritmos para acelerar sus ya subidas de revoluciones cadencias. Para mí ganaron la apuesta, ya que hicieron más accesible el blues rock que les caracterizaba y al mismo tiempo les daba una mejor carta de presentación para que sus vídeos entraran, además de por los ojos (sus larguísimas barbas por delante), por los oídos también en la poderosa máquina de la fama en que la MTV se había convertido. Así los conocí yo, por lo menos. Un álbum divertido de escuchar.
I’ve always hated this band’s aesthetic. For me, ZZ Top’s music has always occupied a very boring place in rock history. ⭐️ ⭐️
Ik heb deze geluisterd in de sportschool, pretty iconic weightlifting music. Echt vet. Hoe is dit hun ACHTSTE album?? En hoezo vind ik dit geweldig, maar Van Halen cringe af
Good reminds me of pop
Forgettable.
Es un muy buen álbum. Tiene una musicalidad muy sólida y no es monótono. Una pieza de colección del rock del entonces.
Weltklasse.
I liked the album overall. Good voice.
This sounds like a beer commercial for lite beer, still, it was better than I expected
liked this
this ZZ Top album was much more my speed, really enjoyed the whole thing
Such fun memories. Love all of it. Can't help but move and tap your foot.
I have always been a fan of ZZ Top. There’s something about a hard rocking, power trio that speaks to me. This is a great album.
Pretty solid
this music makes me want to do coke and beat my wife who I HATE!!!! 10/10!!!!!! I love AMERICA!!!
The Car! Sharp Dressed Man! Gimme All You Lovin'! 1983 was the time when metal was taking off in a big way, and ZZTop were certainly riding that wave I loved how this album connected with people of all ages, in a way I hadn't seen that often before Good to hear this one again, but for me the magic didn't really continue to their other ablums
One of my recent albums made me think a lot about musical hybrids - true hybrids, where the combination of styles makes something new, as opposed to music that is a hodgepodge. "Eliminator" is definitely the former - by combining gnarly blues-rock with new wave, ZZ Top made something aggressive, slick, and truly new. You can hear its robotic, penetrating style in bands like Queens of the Stone Age, 20 years later. All that being said - the singles are great, and all you really need from this one. Therefore it is a solid - THREE STARS
Rock for the sake of rock idk. Not super unique or atleast brigs nothing new to the genre as I see it. If you want rock then this is what you want, but it doesnt bring much more than that.
Outside of the fantastic singles, this album is straight up forgettable. The synthetic drums and bass don’t do this album any favors, the tunes sound robotic as hell, and the songwriting is corny AND horny to the point of being a bit unbearable. “TV Dinners” and “I got the six” are prime examples of this. The singles are great, they have a punch and memorable hooks, and the album sounds nice with the windows down speeding on a freeway, but all in all this is only about as good as background music can be.
Now That's What I Call Dad Rock! Volume 1435. pretty good guitar work, pretty rough lyrics writing and vocal performances. sometimes struggles to reconcile the rigidity of a drum machine with the desired fluidity of guitar playing.
Pretty solid album but a bit repetitive.
Like the hits, but listening to this music is like mozzarella sticks, you regret more than 3 in one sitting
There’s some pretty good songs in here, but some of it sounds a bit redundant.
Solid rock, enjoy the vocals and classic guitar riffs. Album cover does not lie, great driving album.
All of them bangers? No. LOADS of them? HELL YES.
Meh, this was kinda disappointing. Couple of tracks that are still fun listens, but absolutely no variety. The rest of the album just sounded like fillers.
I like the boogie rock aspect of the album, not knowing really what to expect. It did become a bit one-note and repetitive as the album went on though. Southern, soulful, catchy were my takeaways.
Nice but no songs stuck to me
Just average….
It's kind of hard to take ZZ Top seriously but I think they are ok with that. This is definitely their quintessential album and really captures this very specific moment in time - the crossover from the analog rock sound of the 70's to a more modern computer-aided sound of the 80's and 90's. I think ZZ Top were able to bridge that gap for a lot of music listeners. It's undeniably catchy and I am not surprised it was as popular as it was (and still is today) but it doesn't really do it for me from a musical perspective.
This album sounds like the 80s. It’s flashy, it’s gimmicky, it’s a bit dirty, and there’s just so much cocaine. Anyway, I enjoyed the hits, not sure if I really wanted to stick around for the whole album.
ZZ Top has traumatised me from their boring music
There is something about hard rock and heavy metal music that just makes me feel at home each time I listen to it. There is no way I could give less than 4 stars for this. Been contemplating 5, too, but decided I just don't love ZZ Top as much as I do Maiden, Sabbath, Deep Purple, Rainbow or Led Zeppelin. But do I enjoy them and this album? Hell yeah I do.
This album felt looong. I was checking to see how much was left and I was barely halfway through the record. Not a good sign. It’s just pretty generic and for the first half I didn’t really mind it, but after that it became a bit annoying.
It's ZZ Top, but not how I like them
Tutumpaa tavaraa taas listalla. Ja tiesin jo heti, että tästä tulee hyvä päivä! ZZ Top on kova ja tulee silloin tällöin kuunneltua. Liian harvoin selvästi tulee kuunneltua siihen nähden, miten tästä nautin. Totta kai, tutut voisit ja hyvä fiilis varmasti parantaa kokemusta entisestään. Lapsiismuistojahan tämä on. Täydellinen levy omassa tyylilajissaan! 5/5
This is an album that I feel has not aged super well. There are some undeniable great tracks here. Sharp Dressed Man is a great single. But I feel this childish, cheesy nature when hearing some of these lyrics. In the heavy blues rock genre I have heard much better.
Haha fun. Decent album. Great working tunes
Fun, no sticking power
Of all the 70s rock bands that embraced synths in the 80s, ZZ Top may have sounded the most natural doing it. The core of Eliminator is still their meaty guitar riffs, and the album has a boogie rock swagger that isn't interrupted by big hooks. The synths subtly bubble under the rock, to the point where you can almost miss them. The hits here are good, even if I can't hear "Give Me All Your Loving" without picturing an 80s movie montage underneath it. The non-hits...mostly sound like the hits. As much as I'm down for a turn-your-brain-off rock album, the songs here aren't quite good enough and the 80s polish is a bit too clean for the lack of variety to not show. And songs that do switch things up, like the slow "I Need You Tonight," don't always work. Undoubtedly fun but undoubtedly lacking substance.
Altså, det er ikke dårligt, det er bare meget røvballet øltelt.
What a rush! College days flash back. Love this album.
"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.
Great album by ZZ Top. Just shy of a 5. Wish again I could do half stars.
очень удивлена что шарп дрессд мэн оказывается не самая популярная их песня. снова милый альбом, успела не забыть что они не одно и то же с эйсидиси. но не хватает за душу)
I truly couldn't believe my eyes when this album popped up today. On a list of the 1001 albums you need to listen to before you die? This? I'm old enough to remember when this album was a huge hit, and the songs and videos were everywhere. I also recall thinking it was just sexist trash back then. I was never a fan of theirs, but the guys (always guys) who were loved that aspect of their output. This all being said, it was very difficult to listen to this today without that bias. The only positive thing I can say about this album is that much of it is catchy. It's still horribly sexist, and honestly mostly boring. Even with the addition of synths and drum machines they were still rather one-note, with the exception on this album of the song Thug, which was still awful even though it broke their mold. I've had a run of good albums lately, so it was bound to end...
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)
This is a glowing 3 star review. I am so happy that Eliminator exists. I don’t think it does anything unique or interesting, but dang it it’s fun. Just some dudes ripping sick riffs.
This was a fun one to revisit for the hits. This album has 4 certified bangers on it. And I'm old enough to remember the music videos for those bangers too. It was a great time to be alive. I never really listened too much to the back half of the album but it didn't offer as much as I would have wanted, but still a good listen overall. Biggest Hit - Gimme All Your Lovin' Biggest Miss - Dirty Dog Not So Hidden Gem - Sharp Dressed Man
The classics are pretty solid, but this album could've had a few less songs OR shorter songs.
Cool album, tunes etc, not my style so much :)
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.
Fun album, though I prefer their bluesier stuff
This was fine. Some strong rock songs, but they are all kind of the same.
ZZTop para mi siempre tienen algo especial, el sonido de las guitarras, el blues que se respira, etc...
Love this thumping album, not heard for ages, very enjoyable 🙌
Rockin out, good for a lot of different situations and activities. Not totally my style, but classic, good, and fun.
Definitely a product of the MTV music era. While still enjoyable to listen to, their earlier albums are better from a blues oriented perspective. This was their biggest commercial success fueled by great videos with recurring visual themes in all the videos. Great sing-along songs throughout. Definitely some fluff amongst the jewels ( tv dinners for example). 3 1/2 stars rounded up
Great album! Fun listen.
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.
Very mediocre album. Bluesy in some ways, new wave in others, hard at moments but there is little cohesion between these three streams of influence. It's a pop music approach to this type of music which I can appreciate but like lots of '80s pop-oriented rock music, it's chock full of corny lyrics and a perpetual fear of committing too much to one genre. Very disappointing album and the first one I would call bad from this exercise. I do not enjoy it much at all. Favorite track: none, but if I had to pick it would be I Need You Tonight
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
one of the more iconic "sellout" records of all time, and while zz top aint exactly the most beloved band of all time or anything, its pretty interesting that theyre not exactly jokes or punching bags either. including for me!,,,you'd think that hyper-masc white boy blues with glossy production values and cock rock lyrical sensibility would cause an allergic reaction...but perhaps that specific combination of elements isnt actually that common, it still commands a kind of novelty that its possible to appreciate even if ur burnt out on most of the idioms of classic rock. and yet the band is so much more concerned with Steadiness and musical discipline that putting the word "novelty" anywhere near them also feels kinda weird! in any case the result is easy to like...while the singles are probably all the most memorable musical ideas, theres a clear clarity and effort to every track that makes this a very good case scenario for buying an album by a band uve never heard of because you like one of their songs on the radio...i can understanding forming a p strong attachment when i think ab it like that
As músicas parecem sempre as mesmas kkkk. Mas é muito bom e divertido
The good songs all sound the same - but I love the synth with blues rock guitar on top. It just drives the songs along. Surprised by how good this sounded. When they deviate from the formula (I Need You Tonight, Thug) it's nowhere near as good. But Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, Got Me Under Pressure, Legs are just pure stupid fun. The thing is, as an 80s kid, the fact that it had synthesizers all over it instead of bass guitar and whatever else never struck me at the time. That was just music. Loved it - but in smaller doses than a whole album.
A few songs were familiar. Good background music for getting ready in the morning.
я очень люблю такое но довольно базово будто
I can appreciate that every song on here is a classic, and definitely deserves a place on this list. My own musical tastes pulls this down a little
Kunnon äijä rokkia. Vahva startti, kovimmat hitit isketty heti kärkeen. Loppupuoli tuntematon, mutta piti meiningin. Ei vaan tuonnut mitään uutta, samantyylisiä kappaleita. Parhaat: Gimme All Your Lovin', Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs
I only really know two songs from ZZ Top, and they're both on this album. Impressive! My prejudice about ZZ Top is that it's something you're 100% guaranteed to hear if stumble on a greaser rolling past you with the windows rolled down (which they always are). Jokes aside, 'Gimme All Your Lovin'', and 'Sharp Dressed Man' are really cool tracks with heavy riffs. They are sometimes hard to tell apart from me though. Still, first half of this album up until 'Thug' is really good in my opinion, with 'I Need You Tonight' being a really good track. Second half not really as strong. 'Heck, 'If I Could Only Flag Her Down' is basically 'Sharp Dressed Man' at different tempo and timings. This certainly is a quite one dimensional record, but I appreciate it for what it does. And it does what it does very well, despite its small shortcomings here and there.
I didn't want to like this. It's juvenile, shallow and formulaic. I really did like it though. It's just plain fun. There is nothing essentially innovative with the album but the tone of the guitar and the vocals just breathes rock n roll. There are a few stand out hits: "Sharp dressed man", "Gimme all your lovin" "Legs" etc. I thought i wouldn't like them as much as I did when I discovered ZZ Top at 13, but they are good songs. Even though they sound quite similar. Can't give it anything but a 4 star.
Too biased to rate this objectively. I fucking love this album, despite (and probably a little because of) the greasy, sleazy film dripping off it.
One of the best albums of the decade
It's impressive how many of their hits are from this one album
I don't care what the reviews say, I enjoyed this
I wanna know how many fans from this era were just a couple years earlier protesting disco. I know you’re out there, we see you! Anyways, perfect album for the jump start the eighties.
The album that took ZZ Top from That Little Ol' Band from Texas (great documentary as well) to a worldwide band. Gimme All Your Lovin' is one of their best songs. Many people would say this is their best album. For me, it's still Tres Hombres. Got Me Under Pressure is one of their most overrated songs. Sharp Dressed Man is their biggest hit, the video probably had as much to do with that as anything. It's crazy to think a bunch of blues rockers from Texas got super famous off a music video. I Got the Six has lyrics that a 13 year old boy would write. I wonder who got more out of sex joke lyrics, ZZ Top or AC/DC? Interesting they are like the first band and last band in the Classic Rock pantheon. Legs, another classic video. These guys are goof balls. The hits are the highlights, but it's a pretty good album.
Return of ZZ Top, and their final list album to boot. I listened to Tres Hombres a looong time ago, way longer than I remember. It was just over 200 albums ago - how horrifying. I don't remember much about their previous album, truth be told. I think it was a mix between metal and hard rock, which are both genres that I'm not particularly animated by. There's a ten year gap between these two albums, though I'm not expecting the music to have changed much between then. ZZ Top strike me as a band who are very much locked into their lane. Anyways, let's get into it. Wow, quite a lot has changed in ten years. They've really shaped up. I remember Tres Hombres having a lackadaisical and amateurish production, whereas these songs have a fuller and more refined sound. Hard rock, sadly, isn't really in my wheelhouse. I made a testosterone pact with the hormone devil in order to live my life as a snivelling little nerd who writes about music for free on the Internet. Any albums that are intended for men with dicks are a lost cause on me as my testosterone is being funneled straight to hell or wherever else the illicit hormone trade is taking place. At least I know of some cool myoosik, however. Anyways, getting back on track. This music is pretty alright. The guitars have a cool, thundering feel to them, and I like the rough, raw solos which are peppered throughout this album. There's a good bit of dynamism to the guitars, too. The album can go from more subdued offerings like "I Need You Tonight" to jumpy ones like "I Got the Six" without creating any real sense of whiplash. There's less to remark about the remaining instruments, however. The percussion is decent, though it is obviously second fiddle to those guitars. Same goes for the vocals. I enjoyed this album for much of the first half, though by the time side B rolled around my attention was beginning to wane. Book time. "...they conjured an electro-boogie masterpiece..." Sold 10 million copies. Wikipedia says this album had four hit singles, roped in a younger audience thanks to some popular music videos, was well-received by critics but was somewhat controversial with ZZ Top fans as a result of the move to digital production. It was a smash hit across Europe and the West, yet had the lowest placement on the American weekly charts out of every Western country, funnily enough. Yeah, all of these are solid qualifiers. I cosign this inclusion.
Zzzzzzz!!!!!!
Not much to the lyrics but quite fun
Thought this was gonna be fun but actually it just fucking sucked
I mean, what can I say. I need a different rating system for albums full of glossy-ass singles and then the rest of the album is there too. It gets a 🎩 out of 3 🦵 or something
incredible first half, should have been an EP. second half really drags
vroom vroom really front loaded. no one cares about side b, huh. zz top is, imo, a singles band - this was Okay as an album
It's fun (This album is what I presume it feels like to have a big beard)
3.5 maybe 4 on more listens
"Eliminator" is pure fun from start to finish. The album runs on tight grooves and confident 80s energy, with riffs that feel made for an action movie intro. There’s a strong atmosphere throughout: all bourbon, cigars, and muscle cars, matching the iconic cover perfectly. “Got Me Under Pressure” and “Thug” stand out for their driving rhythm and cool, controlled swagger. The production has that unmistakable 80s polish, but it adds to the charm rather than taking away from it. A stylish, groove-heavy record that doesn’t try to be deep...it just delivers attitude and momentum.
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.
Soms strong songs. Very consistent. I like the exploration into new wave. But also a bit simplistic, and repetitive, across the entire album. For an 11th album, some pretty strong tracks.
I was a kid in the 80s in midwestern USA, so ZZ Top has a lot of associations for me, some good some bad. The album is ok, but I wouldn’t add it to the rotation.
Hey didn’t rock my shit but deffo notice an unconscious head bop here and there
Fun, classic rock and roll.
I have never heard a bad ZZ Top album. Solid rock/blues album, even the songs that didn't get radio play are good.
Classic ZZ Top is never a bad thing and there are some great hits on here. I wasn’t a huge fan back in the 80’s but they always had fun videos.
My brother bought this album on vinyl shortly after its release in the 80’s and I will never forget playing it over and over again in my grandparent’s basement. It kicked a** then and it still does! Giant guitars and drum beats that rock you through those tiny a** speakers of a 70’s record player. More than half of the album are classic ZZ Top songs. The nostalgia is real.
ZZ Top was a fine 70s rock band that was remade into pop-rock stars in the early 80s. Turning away from their guitar driven, gritty rock hits like Tush, La Grange and Cheap Sunglasses, this album started the remolding of their image into a more upbeat, pop friendly music group with a playful attitude. MTV packaged that with great music videos, full of those spinning furry guitars, the sunglasses and long beards and those cool old cars. The band became very visual and image conscious but it made them very commercially successful. They followed this formula to longtime success but left their ‘real’ rock roots behind. I liked the hits this produced when I was younger, but looking back now, I wish they had stuck with their early stuff more strongly instead of selling out.
My neighbors was a backyard mechanic, he had 2 project cars in his garage, one was a 34 Ford he was building into a hot rod. The ZZ Top car is a 33 Ford, essentially the same look. I always pictured Mr McKee cruising around looking as cool as ZZ Top one day, not sure it ever made it out of the garage but so it goes. ZZ Top was the pinnacle of cool, loved this album, loved the videos, loved the cool car. Album still kicks ass, enjoyed it a couple times yesterday, enjoyed the nostalgia even more.
It's obviously a massive record, and the shift to that synth-heavy, user-friendly sound is something that has to be respected. Songs like "Gimme All Your Lovin' and "Sharp Dressed Man" are undeniably catchy, and Billy Gibbons' guitar tone still manages to shine through all the heavy production. But honestly, it feels like a lot of their original soul was lost in the process. The raw, swampy Texas blues that made their earlier albums (especially Tres Hombres) so great was largely replaced by rigid drum machines and sequencers. Because of that heavy reliance on technology, the rhythm section ends up sounding a bit sterile and mechanical to my ears. Also, once the big hits are out of the way, the rest of the album starts to blend together since the tempo and groove aren't varied much. Overall, it's a fun listen with some iconic singles. But the polished, almost robotic feel keeps it from being a true masterpiece for me. So in the end, this albums gets a 3.1/5 from me.
Se nota que son buenos, pero no es mí estilo
Good album but overall, but just okay. 3/5
This was such a breath of fresh air after enduring that Billy Bragg album. My first thought after the first song started was "Fuck Yeah!". It was enjoyable from start to finish.
A great album
Between a 3 and 4, much better than their previous album on the list, but still had some low tracks
I liked a lot more of this album than even the tracks most know about.
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
This was a lot of big, dumb fun
Good 80s rock stuff, I really like the hits but there are quite a bit of misses here as well. Fairly memorable stuff.
Also legendary
Pretty basic 80’s rock album some good hits but not memorable
Whilst this is an album very much of the 80’s- the synths, the drum machines, the smooth production, the reliance on videos. The heart of this is still what ZZ Top always did blues grooves, boogies and solos topped off with gravel tough vocals. World changing no, massive fun, yes
Loved it. Was one of the first Cassatte tape I was given to as a kid. Groovy Rock.
Not satisfied
Except for a couple of fun songs, I didn't really like it.
ZZ Top's Black Album, the one most people know songs from, the one they hopefully made a giant pile of cash on because it projected them into the stratosphere and changed everything about the way longtime fans looked at them. From great American band to the company that made key chains. That said, it is a transitional album and has a few good tunes from without heavy synth\pop focus.
Not my fav
кул
80s radio rock. It’s a competent example of it, but I’m not a fan.
This album is terrible. Most of the lyrics consist solely of objectifying women like they were written by a guy who has never been within 5 meters of one (and is probably not allowed to anyway). It is shameful that it made it to this list. 1/5.
I dig it
233/1001 ZZ Top - Eliminator Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ✅ The singles from this album are so great and whilst there isn't the same level of immediacy on first listen, I really enjoyed the rest of it.
Yea fine.
ZZ top is really great! Some of these tracks got played out when it was first released. But the singles from this album rock! The other tracks are good, but maybe a bit too much of the same character (grizzled paunchy biker who likes the ladies); coulda mixed it up a bit. A 4.
My favorite concept album about oral sex.
Obviously, this is a bluesy rock album, but it manages this really modern/polished finish without losing any of the grit. It does feel very 80s with the synths and drum machines, but in a very stylish way. Production is great, really clean throughout, which does sound different than the traditional ZZ Top sound, but I think it works well. I didn’t miss the effect of live drums; however, I do have a soft spot for synthy 80s music, so this probably has an effect on my opinion. Progressions across tracks are pretty simple, but the electric guitar riffs are crunchy and work perfectly between vocals. Vocals, as usual for BG, are effortlessly cool; the gravelines and attitude in his voice match the tone of the album perfectly. The lyrics have a very tongue in cheek bravado to them but aren’t overly deep, which again works with the tone of the album in my opinion. Overall, this was a very cool album. ZZ Top are pretty much the epitome of cool dad garage rock music to me, so I find it hard to fault them.
Rätt tråkigt
3.25
𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 is ZZ Top at their most gloriously absurd: the beards are monumental, the cars are fast, and the videos look like someone handed MTV a Texas driver’s license and said, “Do whatever you want.” Yet beneath all the 80s gloss and swagger, the band still runs on Billy Gibbons’ guitar tone — a sound so gritty and confident it could probably sandblast a pickup truck. You can joke about the spinning guitars all day, but the man plays like someone who’s been negotiating directly with the blues gods. The synths and drum machines give the record a sleek, unmistakably 80s sheen, but the songs remain punchy, catchy, and weirdly charming. It’s equal parts polish and desert dust — a combination that shouldn’t work this well, but absolutely does.
I prefer earlier ZZ Top, but still a decent album.
I think this site is doing that thing where after giving me a really bad album, it gives me a really great one. And this time it's going from Sex Packets to Eliminator. This album is an absolutely great time. I'm aware of some of it's singles due to hearing them on the radio back when i listened to my local classic rock station (before i switched to the alt rock one) but they are still fantastic songs. This album also feels like a major step up from Tres Hombres (most likely due to the fact this album came 10 years later) by sounding a lot less basic and having quite a bit of depth with all the synthy sounds. I really love this album and think that it more than deserves it's spot on this list. Best Song: TV Dinners Worst Song: I Got the Six
*1983. *All their big hits on one album (Gimme All Your Loving, Sharp Dressed Man, and Legs). *I liked this better than I thought I would - there were some jazzy/bluesy bits, and pretty high quality musicianship, but just not my cup of tea. RATING - 6/10
3,1/5
A classic but I just don't care for it.
394/1089 - Yet another Blues Rock album.
Way better than I was expecting. 4/5. I may be getting inflated values but this album is a definite listen again.
Erfindet das Rad nicht neu, aber ist kurzweilig und (gerade zu Beginn) recht spaßig. Flacht im Laufe des Albums dann etwas ab.
Ich mag meinen Blues ja gerne dreckig und bin daher eher bei den alten ZZ Top zuhause ("Tres Hombres" <3). Wenn man also mit der Zeit gehen möchte und die Songs bis aufs Letzte glattbügelt und mit zeitgenössischen Effekten aufpeppt, dann muss schon ein Bomben-Songwriting dahinter stehen. In der ersten Hälfte schaffen sie diesen Spagat und liefern hier einen nahezu perfekten Banger nach dem nächsten. In der zweiten Hälfte verlässt sie leider die Muse und durch die ganzen Effekte fällt hier jeder Song für mich deutlich unter Genre-Standard. Daher kommt die Platte als Ganzes nicht über Mittelmaß hinaus.
Irgendwie sind die an mir vorbeigegangen, aber das war richtig gut!
Sauberes Ding, war aber auch sehr schnell auserzählt. Angenehme Abwechslung bot da Thug oder If I could only flag her down. Schwache 4 Sterne.
Wieder ein richtiger Klassiker und sehr ikonisch für seine Zeit. Hab ich dreimal gehört. Weniger weil ich es so komplett überragend gefunden hätte, sondern um mich zu vergewissern, wie gut ich es tatsächlich finde. Verglichen mit anderen Bestnoten, die ich verteilt, kommt es da aber einfach nicht ganz ran, dafür ist mir das alles doch zu invariant.
Ich habe mich nie besonders mit ZZ Top beschäftigt. Die paar Hits hab ich natürlich gekannt, wenn auch wie heute festgestellt nicht immer mit dem Namen ZZ Top in Verbindung gebracht. Das Ding ist, das hier gefällt mir richtig richtig gut. Hätte ich nicht den Fehler begangen und die Lyrics beim zweiten Durchlauf gelesen wäre das sogar eine 5 für mich, so leider nur eine enorm Spaßige 4+
Mid
Some fun songs on here but ultimately just Dad rock. But this is like a better ACDC for me, more enjoyable and fun. Sharp Dressed Man always goes hard. Top Songs: Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme All Your Lovin’, Legs
Gimme All Your Lovin - 4/5 Got Me Under Pressure - 4/5 Sharp Dressed Man - 4.5/5 I Need You Tonight - 3/5 I Got the Six - 3/5 Legs - 4/5 Thug - 3/5 TV Dinners - 3/5 Dirt Dog - 3/5 If I Could Only Flag Her Down - 3/5 Bad Girl - 3/5 This album is hard carried by the first 3 tracks and then the rest peter out to somehow all blend together into one blues rocky-poppy mush. Favorites: Gimme All Your Lovin, Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man
Its good bit I prefer earlier stuff by the top
The American equivalent of Status Quo. Appealing bit repetitive sound. For some reason I have an unjustifiable warmth to them, probably because of their image. The visuals are unique, but the music largely interchangeable. On basic analysis any time listening to this album again is an opportunity wasted, to listen to something better.
Just because this is their most famous album doesn't mean that it is their best. Solidifying their iconography, ZZ Top successfully used MTV to promote their brand of 80s rock. If you want to read about the dirty side of rock n roll, look up Dusty Hill and Frank Beard's connection to The Zombies.
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
J'ai bien apprécié l'écoute de cet album, sans doute la 1ère fois pour moi et je trouve que c'est un classique et je m'enflamme avec un 4 étoiles !
I can’t say I didn’t listen to, or even get a kick out of, this stuff. Sure, I much prefer their 70s boogie, and yeah, this band is basically a cliché of misogyny, grease, and Texas dust. The 80s touch isn’t always a success. But they are the cliché of the era, and one of the last blues acts that still felt a bit hyped, if you leave aside the R.L. Burnside comeback. The intros are totally over the top, yet they still make you want to hit the road. A real guilty pleasure…
Kinda mid *the bass line in thug is awesome
Another mid record ripping off Blues by american white men? Yes, please, by all means. Seriously. In 2026, who needs to listen to this?
2.7
I only know ZZ-Top from his role in Bones lol so I'm so intrigued about what this is going to sound like. Okay! So it's 80s divorced dad rock! It's catchy and fun but boy is it one note. Still, I enjoyed the hits and I didn't mind the rest.
A decent blues tinged rock album that's a lot better than most of the hard rock of the era.
Sure it’s generic 80s rock deluxe, but it’s FUN. Have some fun people!!!!
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.
Enjoyed it more than I expected to - the hits are a bit naff, but good fun - all a bit samey I guess
в очередной раз убеждаюсь что рок не мой жанр музыки как по мне песни все очень похожи друг на друга
ZZ Top, which I'm barely realizing is spelled with only one p and not two, are THE rock band from Houston. They're not the biggest name out from my part of my town, but at a point in time, they would've been the hottest thing in Houston along with Phi Slamma Jamma. Eliminator shows them incorporating some new wave flavor into their blues offering and the results can vary to my ears. There's real catchy work on the singles "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man". Those synths in the back create a running texture for the guitars and drums to do their thing. Unfortunately, a lot of the other tracks don't exactly catch me as much as the hits. I had a feeling that a lot of fun Talking Heads/Devo type of stuff was going to come in and steal the show, but I'm still sitting through slower and basic blues stuff. They are a blues band after all, but I do commend the guys on finding a way to update their sound. ZZ Top represent my city and I stroke my imaginary long beard as a sign of respect. That and the fact that I spent some of the listen thinking about why Sonic Youth gave them a nod on (Z.) Eliminator Jr (6/10, 3/5 on this scale)
While I appreciate the switch up in style, the music is still a tad too repetitive and inconsistent in my opinion. 5/10
classic rock album
I thought this was pretty good. I usually like ZZ Top, though I don't find them to have too much depth. It's like they're just there to kick ass and grow beards, and they've already grown the beards. A number of songs on here I knew well even without having heard the album before. Sharp Dressed Man might be their most iconic song. The rest didn't stray too far away from that mold, even if they didn't really match it's quality. I didn't really find any of it bad, but maybe a little more boring. I thought that was a little better on this album than it had been on Tres Hombres. Still, it caused the album to drag a bit toward the end. I did find it odd that some of the songs felt more like Eagles tracks than what I expect from ZZ. I didn't hate it, but it caught me off guard a bit. All said, this was a pretty cool, fun listen. I wouldn't call it great, but I did think it was pretty good. Overall: 3.75/5
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.
Great album. Good energy and some variety throughout. Some absolute bangers on this album
Fun for a song or two but pretty repetitive
Solid, easy to get through and great on headphones
Fun rock with a loyal of personality and willingness to let the guitars ride. Has just as much sex as ACDC, but I feel like they at least think women are people
Very nice
ts so peak
Multi million seller but not the Tops best
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
ZZ Top goes away from their raw sound, and 80s it up a bit. And, it works! A bunch of hits, MTV hits, and fun stuff to turn up in the car. 43 years later, I still have the CD, still listen to it, and still crank it up. 5.0
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. ⭐⭐
A couple great tracks. Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man. A bit repetitive from there, but I'm not complaining.
Cool guitar, groovy sounds, nice rusty voice. But it is much of the same flavor.
Hard rock legal mas falta charme
Tidig maiden riktigt bra
Beard approved - Americans are weird
5/5
вайб есть, вот то, что ожидаешь, то и получаешь не мое
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.
Now, while I'm not the biggest fan of this style of music. Or even the band itself. I don't know there is something endearing about them. Perhaps it's because my father did enjoy them. And I mean you can't deny their technical proficiency. Or the hits. So... Yeah. It's alright.
Leuke hitjes, voor de rest niet bijzonder, wel grappig om te horen dat ze niet alleen maar recht toe recht aan muziek maakte
A classic. And one of the few that I've played through entirely. High tempo, bluesy, guitar & drum driven. For a 1980's album it sounds great too (must have had a remix I think)
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.
If you grew up in the 80s, you could not escape the hits from this record. I thought it was alright nothing special back then and nothing's changed my mind.
På en måte noe tøft, men jeg er litt hyggelig nå assa
rock tipo ac/dc, movido, ta bien de fondo pero nada del otro mundo
Ganske killer, men også litt whatever? Clap/pjooong lyden på legs e vill
Orion liked Bad Girls
Ok some good stuff
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.
Eu gostei do álbum. Possui alguns hits conhecidos e as outras músicas são boas. QoA Vesper.
This record is nostalgic for me. I didn’t realize how many hits are on this record. On top of that , the guitar tone and playing is just so damn good. Not much to say other than I enjoyed it.
I didn’t mind this for something different but not something I’m going to be reaching for in the future
favorite song: Sharp Dressed Man
Review - Definitely worth a listen, the combo of blues rock + synthesisers was cutting edge for it's time. That said, a lot of the songs are very samey. Rating - 6.5/10 Need to hear? YES
Stand-out tracks: Got Me Under Pressure - a great opener Sharp Dressed Man - a hit for a reason, enough said I Got The Six - despite the questionable lyrics, I like the energy of this one Legs - the higher pitch vocals sort of work on this one and the guitar melody is catchy I feel sort of indifferent about this album. It isn't awful, but nothing really stands out apart from the few tracks I mentioned. Sometimes the lyrics don't vibe with me and other times there is just too much distorted guitar and unecessarily long guitar solos with those loud drums in the background. It all kind of just blends together, but it is pretty much classic rock so it can't be that bad. I also feel like the album has a much stronger start and gets worse near the end.
Highlights: Gimme All Your Lovin', Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, Dirty Dog A decent pick for a mindless rockout record with great hits but a good amount of filler too. Second half is noticeably lacking in that sense. Tracks aren't as good and they always close on a drawn out instrumental. It really focuses on the rockstar esthetic and therefore it's really a "seasonal" play which depends on the listener's mood. It would make a nice highway soundtrack or a gigachad hangout theme, but otherwise I would only stick to the highlights on their own. The musical style is very 80's with the use of the synths and the drum machines and I really like that part, but it's not unique to ZZ Top so I don't think they deserve any points for inventing that style. They found a formula that works and copy pasted it all over the place. I didn't expect much lyrical depth, but I was surprised by the bluntness of tracks like Dirty Dog and I Got the Six.
Great album to bop along to as I do my monitors work tasks. There is not a lot to think about and nothing deep. It’s pure pop that mostly has the same sound. Sharp Dressed Man is the best track, while Tv Dinners may be one of the absolute worst songs I’ve ever heard.
A good piece of nostalgia, brings back the 80's
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.
“Now for a vibe like you’re driving down route 66” - DJ X.
Yeah pretty good. Too bad I listened to Thin Lizzy first—I think they have more action and drive. However, if I was listening to this on a boat or in a sick car or on a dope motorcycle, I wouldn’t complain.
Þétt rokk.
Party on, Unc.
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
Eh. Better than the last one
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
Had this since release and was looking forward to it, but if has dated badly. The 4 singles even sounded the same. MTV vids were great…
I can’t imagine a time where this didn’t sound like ass
This album is just a good time. Some great songs on here though it really falls off in the second half. Some of the deeper cuts--"I Need You Tonight" and "Thug" with that slappin bass--are good but a few throw-aways towards the end. Yes, the lyrics are vapid as hell but the bearded boys (and Frank Beard on drums) keep this one humming right along. I was seeing all those great 80's videos as I listened. Rounded up from 3.5 stars.
The bearded bad boiz of rock and roll. Lyrics are braindead, and they're not really great at choruses either.. or verses. But, credit where it's due, Billy Gibbons is a brilliant blues rock guitarist, and gets truly creative with his riffs and solos. Makes it worth a listen for me, but probably just the one
Wel oke
I only ever listenend to the hits off this record so it's strange hearing how 80's influenced it is. Almost like don henley style rock more than the og southern/blues/boogie woogie i associate with these guys. Not bad by any means just a little surprised. the hits are still the hits
Good classic rock album which I enjoyed listening to but won't rush to listen to again.
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.
"Let's sing about something different, not just the same loved up stuff others are on. What's no-one singing about? TV dinners. Let's write a song about TV dinners."
The music of ZZ Top makes me so happy and this album is full of joy. I love everything - the grindy guitar, the sassy groove, their coordinated moves on stage, the BEARDS.
Lovely beards
Top shelf hard rock songs about looking good and getting laid. (Though they do take a break from singing about late nights and hot chicks to slip some social commentary in on “TV Dinners.”) ZZ Top are awesome. Their energy is killer, their performances are tight, and the production is polished. You really can’t go wrong with this if you’re looking for loud and ripping rock n roll.
ZZ Top are such a cool, unbothered, and unproblematic band (I may regret that but I don't recall hearing any serious controversy from them ever). Their sound is solid, unique, fun, and objectively nice to listen to. This record has a few classics on it, "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", and "Legs" is really solid too. Overall the sound is a bit dated and you definitely have to put on your "I don't care if it's cringey" hat and just groove to it. Solid 4/5 for me. I will forever share the fun fact that Jimi Hendrix's favorite guitarist was Billy Gibbons. That's really saying something!
ZZ Top is so strongly associated with my ex husband that listening to them makes me uncomfortable. I guess I don't mind their big hits, but I don't want to listen to it so 1 star. Based on the merits of the band and the album and not my residual emotional response, I probably would've given them a 2 or 3. The hits are hits and everything else is kind of meh.
If AI was around in the 80's I would say that it wrote this album. Just wholly uninspired, repetitive trash
One of the many things that bugs me about this list is that it has a lot of these Blues Rock bands, but barely has any true blues artists. That said, this album is fine. Not great, but not bad.
ZZ Top rips
not for me
This is what I would put on if I was cruising through outer space while on like a flying corvette or smt. Its fun, its groovy, I like the guitar work on it a lot, especially on the track, "I need you tonight." I give it a 7.3/10
If you're gonna have one ZZ Top album this is it but I won't know because I won't come over. Shame their most interesting (sexiest) songs weren't singles
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"
Excellent running soundtrack, riff laden classic rock, enjoyed it more than I thought I would
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
I’ve sat on this review for ages, struggling to decide on a mark. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this - I knew the hits, but was surprised how much I enjoyed listening to them, because I do not remember enjoying them that much as I was growing up. I also really enjoyed “I Need You Tonight”, and found many of the others very listenable. However, this album sounds very of its time, and I suspect my enjoyment of it is more to do with that, rather than its legacy as a great album. If I could give it 3.5*, that would just be perfect - but I don’t think there’s a world that I could say it’s worth 4* objectively.
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
Good ole classic ZZ Top. A few of their hits, a few songs I haven't heard before, all pretty good. As a 3 piece band they really get a ton of sound out, and they have a great command of the instruments too. Punchy and rockin without being cliche. Good strong entry
I forget how blues/jazzy ZZ Top can be until I listen to an album
liked this more than i thought i wld 3.5/5
A lot of this album unfortunately came off as very samey to me. Most of the songs just kind of melded into the same generically good 80s Southern Rock song to me. That being said, there were a couple fun highlights and I think most of the songs individually were pretty good, just a bit trying when put back to back. Favorite Songs: “I Need You Tonight”, “Thug”, “TV Dinners” Least Favorite Song: “Legs” High 3.
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.
Great driving drum beat and impressive guitar, lyrics let it down. I thought i didnt like the long instrumental sections but they were ok, just could have been shorter. Maybe road trip music
да епт ток вчера его слушал ну нормальный роцк, качает, люблю ЗЗ топ
Great rock album, fun, steady beat that makes you shake your head in sync with the rythm. Gimme All Your Lovin’ and Sharp Dressed Man are classics, certified bangers. Overall, very strong album with one or two skips.
gscheidter rock, fetzig, aber keine überbanger und ab der zweiten hälfte wird dann repetitiv 4/5
Sympa
From my vantage point, Eliminator was a huge leap. ZZ Top went from a name I was vaguely aware of, to a global household name. And the change didn’t reinvent the ZZ wheel. In fact the changes were production tweaks and clever branding. They became a marketing dream with a cool logo, the band basically turning into a car, and MTV friendly videos with plenty of girls. Actually women, and though it might’ve had the appearance of potentially exploitative, my memory of those videos is that of women who were very much in charge. Probably a discussion for elsewhere but the music… it might’ve been taboo to mention at the time, and it is very subtle, but my now trained ears hear sequencers disguised as chugging guitars driving the rhythms all over Eliminator. It’s anathema to their earthy roots, but the difference it makes to how radio friendly the songs became is palpable. It’s production rather than musical development. The songs actually became more formulaic but it still worked because these guys know their way around a tune, and can fit a jam band mentality into a pop song structure. So many of the melodic hooks are actual guitar soloing. It’s quite a feat if you can pull it off. They even manage to slow things down here and there and get away with it. The formula saw them an album or two more, but this was the sweet spot.
“TV Dinners” feels like a jingle for a bad 80s commercial and if this list had half stars, I’d knock it down a half a star for that track. But the rest of the album is fun.
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
Every girl may be crazy about a sharp dressed man, but no girl is crazy about sloppy boring dad rock that even your dad thinks is shit. I get that 80s "classic rock" is kinda formulaic but this is taking the piss. Also come on, literally every song is about wanting to have sex except the song about tv dinners (which is probably about having sex with tv dinners).
3/5
The hits from this album are great, especially Gimme All Your Livin’ but the rest is just fine.
Instant 5-star rating! I love this album!!
Eh didn't feel it. Then again, I'm not a fan of their biggest hits from the album either.
Pure 80's southern rock!
No ZzZz's here.
The big hits have undoubtedly been overplayed on dad rock FM radio over the years, but it still hits quite nicely. Arguably ZZ Top at their best
Not my style, reminds me of my childhood. I tried really listening but every play through became background noise.
Before: I'm probably not going to like this very much. This my 15th album on the list and it seems like I start most of my reviews with a similar thought. I'm really not a fan of this genre. I was 20 when this album came out and was listening to artists like XTC, The Specials, and Elvis Costello at the time. There are a couple of ZZ Top songs that I do like a lot but they are from an earlier period. In fact one of my all time favourite songs by any artist is "La Grange", released in 1973. I actually have that ranked number one in my 1973 list. | During: The album starts of with the very well known "Gimme All Your Lovin'". I'm really NOT a fan of this genre. Not sure why, I think it's too simple, formulaic, and boring. I have to admit that it is a very catchy tune, and I find myself bobbin my head in rhythm but something is just not right with it. Another hit, "Got Me Under Pressure" is next. I think I'm gonna have to turn the volume down and focus on other task to get through this. Especially seeing how "Sharp Dressed Man" is coming up next. I think I actually hate that song. It has over 630 million streams on Spotify. What is wrong with these people? I see a one or two star rating coming up. I had to start skipping through at the 5th track, "I Got the Six". "Legs" I already know I hate, so skipping that one too. "Thug" has a catchy little bass thing going on that makes me think of Primus, maybe something to look forward too? Nope, no Primus at all in this list, another miss. | After: I did not like a single track, not even a little. I'm only on album 15 now but this one is at the bottom. Not much else to say. One star. |
Some great, memorable songs. Sexist, yes. Fun, also yes. Would definitely happily listen to.
8.0/10 This is one of the first records I got growing up.. so I remember listening to this really fondly. Loved the videos as well!
Aside from the opening track and Legs, not much else stood out to me. I will say that I found the guitar to be the star of the show, but the rest of the album felt forgettable for me.
She Got Legs, She Knows How To Use 'Em 1001 Albums Generator 205 (1/14/2025) I have no idea why I had such a strong association with ZZ Top and the 70's; I'm really surprised to see that this album came out in 1983. Anyway, similar to Tom Petty earlier this week, I really find the hits on this album to be the most standout tracks, while the other songs feel more like cheap imitations of the well known songs. Gimme All Your Lovin' is a classic with one of my favorite guitar riffs, and Sharp Dressed Man is the best example of the electronic sounds that ZZ Top were playing with on this album. Legs is the other big hit, and it's my least favorite of the three as I find it to go on a little too long, but it's still pretty good. Outside this, Got Me Under Pressure, the long jam I Need You Tonight, and the surprisingly funky Thug are also all solid tracks (seriously, Dusty's bass work in that last song is so fire). Lyrically, there's not much to say. ZZ Top is classic machismo cock rock, so the lyrics aren't exactly deep, but they get by. The second half of this album is certainly less interesting. Idk, maybe a 3.5/5, rounded down to a 3. Favs: Gimme All Your Lovin' Sharp Dressed Man Legs Least Fav: If I Could Only Flag Her Down
Better than we expected. Nothing flashy, but very sold structure and instrumentation.
Not for me
Music that has become cliched with time and subject matter that is wholly uninteresting
6.5/10
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
Well crafted.