Reviews (page 7 of 13)
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.
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
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.
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
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!!!!
Enjoyed it more than I expected to - the hits are a bit naff, but good fun - all a bit samey I guess
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
Multi million seller but not the Tops best
Cool guitar, groovy sounds, nice rusty voice. But it is much of the same flavor.
Beard approved - Americans are weird
вайб есть, вот то, что ожидаешь, то и получаешь не мое
Leuke hitjes, voor de rest niet bijzonder, wel grappig om te horen dat ze niet alleen maar recht toe recht aan muziek maakte
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
Ok some good stuff
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
“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.
Party on, Unc.
Eh. Better than the last one
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…
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.
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.
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
Excellent running soundtrack, riff laden classic rock, enjoyed it more than I thought I would
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.
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.
Sympa
3/5
The hits from this album are great, especially Gimme All Your Livin’ but the rest is just fine.
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
Ok. Not bad
Liked the riffs and sound better than Tres Hombres
This album is the same as The Black Album. No better, no worse.
i think ive never heard such an 80s album, this is the epitome of the 80s. I enjoyed this album but lo mio isnt rock, so i cant say that ill 100 listen to it again. Maybe in an ocassion where i HAVE TO LISTEN TO ROCK this is the album i would chose.
I don’t get ZZ Top. I have a hard time understanding the lyrics. Not their meaning, but what words they’re actually singing. Maybe the beard hairs garble them. No matter the reason, from what I can parse, I don’t think I’m missing much. “I want to have sex with pretty girls” seems to be the general sentiment. Fair enough. The 1980’s were weird. There was the futuristic shiny shirt, spiky hair, eye liner, synthesizer 1980’s. But there was also the backwards looking, line-dancing, western shirts, “Young Guns”, Reaganite, synthesizer 1980’s (everyone, no matter their affiliation, had synthesizers; they just issued them to all of us one morning in 1982 and we never questioned it). It’s like the difference between “Back to the Future”s II and III. I guess ZZ Top was part of that second 1980’s. But I still don’t really get it. I see the word “boogie” associated with ZZ Top (and Skynrd for that matter) a lot and have never really understood what that term means. Like danceable in a bar band kind of way? I’ve heard yacht rock described as acoustic seventies soft rock made by people who appear to be aware of the existence of black people. Maybe people use the term “boogie” to describe Southern blues rock made by people who appear to be aware of the existence of black people. I don’t know. This album isn’t bad. I can kind of bob my head to most of the songs. It doesn’t bother me. But I also never go, “you know what I feel like listening to? ZZ Top.” I reckon “Eliminator” is worth hearing before you die. Boogie on bearded Texan weirdos.
The catholic church. We've made a few changes.
Boogie blues rock with a driving beat. Apparently the album, with its synth and drum machines, saved the band from obscurity in the age of MTV (even though Gibson replaced most of Beard’s drums and Hill’s bass with their electronic equivalents). A pretty forgettable album for me outside of the historic context, but I couldn’t help dancing around the kitchen while it was on. A soft 3.
I am familiar with ZZ Top, but I have not listened to their music in a while so I am excited for this. Track 1 is very groovy. Historically, "Blue Jean Blues" has been my favorite song of theirs so I am hoping for that to change. The first track is good, but nothing incredible to me. I feel like the first track of an album is almost never the best one. However, this one is impressive and gives me hope for the rest of the album. Track 2 is not that great in my opinion, I feel like so far for this album the guitar riffs have been technically difficult but are lacking in musicality or authenticity. It feels a little bland and somewhat robotic. I wish it was more bluesy. Everyone knows track 3, if not by name then definitely by the main guitar riff. I do like this song, it is quite catchy and more musical than the first two. I am liking track 4 a lot. The musicality in the album seems to grow the further I progress which is nice. The main riff in track 5 sounds a lot like track 3. Honestly, the base of the songs all sound the same. Funny enough, track 6 is individually recognizable with less guitar riffs and longer, more melodic singing. I still do not entirely love it though. Honestly, I am not that impressed with this album. I have two tracks left and am a little disappointed with how similar a lot of the songs sound.
loved Sharp Dressed Man and I Need You Tonight.
Jeg bliver altid overrasket over, at deres stemmer lyder sådan
pretty fun but they do all sound the same
pretty nice, good sound consistently
Low/mid 3? Super polished but everything kind of moves by without doing much
First three songs are incredible. The rest of the album is just trying to remake those first three songs.
Didn’t really like the voice and the instrumental was sounded too much of a oldie to me but I did like the rocky sound to it
Rock clássico com pegada blues por isso não fica tão enjoativo...dad songs, but cool...
Beards, blues, and black suits. Every song on Eliminator immediately makes me think of 1980s MTV. Glossy neon graphics, bad effects, dramatic lighting, wind machines, sunglasses at night, smoke machines. The songs are cheesy as hell and mostly nonsense. But somehow, they're still likeable. I don't think anyone really takes ZZ Top too seriously. They're great musicians, but there’s a self-awareness to all of this. In my head, they sit in the same space as The Darkness: over-the-top nonsense, but enjoyable nonsense all the same.
I'm not really a zz top man. It's catchy and all that, but i feel like it's music with all the edges smoothed off. Give me all your lovin and sharp dressed man are classics, but not good enough by themselves to lift the rest of the album which sounds very same-y
First full album listen of a ZZ top record. I knew the singles - all big dumb catchy numbers that were stuck in my head all day. The rest was pedestrian. The same chugging guitar and zero tempo changes in the drums. Big beards and dumb lyrics can only take you so far. 3/5
And suddenly I'm transported to a land of dive bars past. Good background music to shoot pool to, probably not something I'd go out of my way to listen to again though.
Great album but the vibe wasn’t matching my today’s mood. Added 3 songs to my playlist, ‘got me under pressure’ and ‘sharp dressed man’ were absolute bangers
3 Arapaho Basin, spring skiing, and the smell of bbq. Ladies in bikinis. And I am thirteen thinking this is “all right, the grill is all right!”
Nothing special, just fun as hell.
Good solid rock .. but don’t need to hear it again
very dad rock but energetic
En kyllä jaksanu edes kuunnella kokonaan, mutta legendaarisuudesta ja partakaksikosta 3 pistettä
Hyvää perusvarmaa ja -turvallista rokkia. Legsiin asti ajattelin että jopa neljän tähden levy, mutta loppua kohden alkoi kyllä toistamaan aika vahvasti itseään. Ihan jeppis levy silti, mutta mennään nyt kuitenkin maltillisesti kolmella tähdellä.
Sick cover
For a ZZ Top album it's actually not too bad. I like the first 4 songs, really starts with some fun bops, good energy and catchy riffs. It's not super consistent, the 2nd half is mostly some fairly average hard rock. It's better than other things I've heard from ZZ top at least.
Hard rocking good time.
Some smoking guitars, and some solidly good songs, but ultimately a lot of same same. Although sharp dressed man is a classic
I tend to regard ZZ Top as the US Status Quo and I've walked out of two Status Quo gigs because I was bored. Perhaps slightly unfair as the guitar work is better with ZZ Top but even so... There are three tracks on here that I recognize from radio play back when the album came out. That's not enough to sustain an interesting album but enough to give it a grudging 3/5.
150/1089 A lot better than Tres Hombres i think, that one didn’t stick for me at ALL faves: Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs 60/100
it at first reminded me of electric light orchestra but then it got mid
How can an album be totally awesome and suck so much at the same time?
If this doesn't make you wanna hop on a motorcycle and drive off into the sunset than nothing will. Favorite track: Sharp Dressed Man 3.5/5
Музыка для секса с бородатым дедом 6/10
I wasn’t expecting this to be so pop-rock! Solid listen for sure, I just don’t know if I’m going to hurry back for another listen. Best Track: Legs
Hell yeah
(61/100)
perhaps a bit repetitive sound wise but enjoyable.
Again not my thing but I get it. Kind dad funk rock?
Quite a few songs with steady radio play growing up. Never really understood this band all the songs really seem to blend together. La Grange is my favorite ZZ Top song and unfortunately not on this album.
Surprisingly fun
Funny 80s movie soundtrack
no stand out tracks for me but it was an enjoyable listen. I liked the sound much better than that of the AC/DC album
Very solid, catchy Dad rock.
Good fun for a couple of songs. Then becomes generic and repetitive. Just about held on to a 3.
It's decent enough.
Meretricious
Enjoyable but forgettable
Great singles, drags a little in other parts
Not sure why this needs to be hear. Presumably something about beards. It's solid, no nonsense rock music. No real peaks, no real variance in its sound or sentiment, but sometimes that isn't important. A couple of notable singles, some good guitar, vocals on the dodgy side, possibly because all that hair keeps getting in the mouth.
ZZ Top loves a good guitar solo Fave track: Sharp Dressed Man
Such a unique sound and style is so special that you can call it a new genre of its own
Great fun with three smash hit classic pop songs and some great guitar throughout. Who would have thought this at the time of tres Hombres.
She's got legs AND she knows how to use them... for walking and running... hopping even. Magic pimps Gandalf and Saruman and their little moustachioed hobbit friend outstay their welcome a bit on this.
I can definitely vouch for its inclusion on this list. It's the quintessential ZZ Top album, and is certainly a certified classic of classic rock. The big 3 hits that everyone with a working car stereo has heard - "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", and "Legs" - are great. Even if you don't like classic rock, "Sharp Dressed Man" is a banger and you're wrong if you think it isn't. That's about where this album ends, though. If you've heard those 3, there's no real reason to listen to the full album. The rest of it is just meh-sounding generic ZZ Top.
Funny-looking band who put on a really great show. How to assess something that’s both dirty and harmless?
Gimme All Your Lovin' 3.8 Got Me Under Pressure 3.5 Sharp Dressed Man 4 I Need You Tonight 3.7 I Got the Six 3.4 Legs 3.5 Thug 3.3 TV Dinners 3.5 Dirty Dog 3.3 If I Could Only Flag Her Down 3.2 Bad Girl 3.2 Score: 3.490909091
Decent.
In the 70s, ZZ Top was like your favourite dive bar. Their sound reminded me of beer stained tables and the smell of smoke. Not healthy but comfortable. In the 80s it’s like they got someone to come in and renovate the place. New finish on all of the furniture. The beer stains are still visible but they’re under the new finish. I was surprised that there are still a few great riffs on here. Legs for example. But they don’t land as hard because of that 80s rhythm production that forces everything into strict alignment. No longer my favourite dive bar. If I wanted fancy, I wouldn’t go here.
Easy listening rock. The hits are the hits for a reason, and the non-hits don't really stand up in comparison.
Solid rock. A lovely relief after a stressful dar. Whisky at the bar music.
Shit day on the grind? Crack open a cold one with the beard boys. Legggggggs.
Probably a great album if you're into that sort of thing.
ZZ Top, exactly what you expect.
ZZ Top to me is a multiple hit wonders. So I've never listened to an album of theirs but have heard their top hits, like Gimme all your loving and Sharp Dressed Man which are on this album, so familiar territory. Overall, a solid rock album, nothing too crazy but not bad. Has catchy songs. Good album. 6/10
I enjoyed the hard rock, didn't overstay its welcome as it was starting to sound a bit samey.
"I guess I'll have to spank my monkey", ok man
This was pretty good. Most songs here rock hard. Liked the bass lines in almost all tracks. Favourite Track(s): Sharp Dressed Man Least Favourite Track(s): Got Me Under Pressure
The good songs are great but the bad ones are terrible.
Wanted to like this more. Three legit hits, but a lot of this sounded the same. I know they’re a blues/boogie band so that’s to be expected, and Chuck Berry got away with that for most of his career, but this isn’t quite in the same class as Chuck. Kudos to them for perhaps being the group with the longest span of original members and no one else — 50 years from 1971-2021 when bassist Dusty Hill died. Weird trivia. Billy Gibbons played himself, as the dad of one of the main lab techs, on five episodes of the TV series “Bones”. When she revealed who he was, she was nonchalant about it, but her co-workers were astounded.
Expected this to be a 2. After listening it’s a 3. That’s about all I have to say about ZZ Top. Oh wait. Sometimes you encounter a song where the disparity between the strength of the music and the godawful lyrics is so vast that it feels like the song is begging to be sampled and put to better use by some superior artist. “TV Dinners” is such a song. The website “who sampled” has no records of it being sampled, other than one cover version. A shame.
Slick, well-produced sleaze. The hits heavily outswing the deep tracks ("I Got the Six" pales in comparison to "Got Me Under Pressure")
Damn this is SOOO 80s. It’s not bad music, great for background music and has a few bangers such as sharp dressed man. The voice is “cool” and the guitar has a nice tone. Unfortunately this album suffers from a bit of repetition. Not really an album that stands out.
Wow. My memories of this album are deeply negative. Georgia rednecks loved it; I hated it. In 1983 it sounded cheesy and lame and it lacked any of the fire and anger that motivated me at the time. 42 years later? Well, it's still pretty cheesy, but I like it a lot more. The guitars sound dirty, maybe a little lecherous to match the lyrics (except for that fucking TV dinner song, WTF?), and it grooves in a way that an older, mellower me appreciates. I'd give it a 3.5 if I could, and I don't really want to give it a 4, so a 3 it is.
Interesting album, especially when reading about some of the lore and background behind the album that does change my perception of it a bit. Most people know Gimme All Your Lovin, Sharp Dressed Man and Legs, which are all great, but I enjoyed Thug and a couple of the other more musical tracks as well. Did ZZ Top sell out? On one hand, this was their 8th album. You can't blame a band for wanting to mix it up and evolve at some point. On the other hand, part of the transition didn't feel authentic. They couldn't even play their songs live without assistance, not to mention the calculated decision to create songs around 124BPM since analytics showed this BPM to be more popular, and then the music videos on MTV to cater to a younger audience. I liked the album overall but the background of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I'm fine with artists wanting to evolve and grow their music if it's authentic. This doesn't seem to be authentic to me. From deliberately choosing a BPM because it was shown to be more popular, taking away writing credits, incapable of even playing your own songs without a tape track playing I mean come on. This was a business decision to make more money. The singles were great, but the bad songs were just......really bad. Not a fan of TV Dinners or Bad Girl. TV Dinners is just lame. I mean, you couldn't come up with something better? But no wonder it sucks, it's 100 BPM! Bad Girl feels just as lame and uninspired. Just bad song writing.
definitely listened before but don't remember much. it's ok but nothing more
There are a lot of things I like about ZZ Top, and I left with a fairly positive impression of the album, but I couldn't listen to a lot of it at once - the aggressive lack of substance is a little tiring, I guess.
ZZ Top is a fun time! This is the best version of a road band playing in a dive bar. There's not a lot of substance, but there is a lot of rhythm guitar and the songs are breezy and toe tapping. Now, a full album of ZZ Top is a lot, maybe too much, but I didn't mind listening to it for sure! The cover is great! Love the style and the graphic design on the logo and titles, it's a 4/5.
Dive bar vibes, throwback
Pretty much the ultimate classic rock album. Car on the cover, loud, filled with solo's and covering important topics such as women and being cool. I think ZZ Top works better as a singles artist though. THey have a few great songs but their albums can be kind of middling. I didn't really dislike any part of it, but it isn't that adventurous or boundary pushing. It doesn't really try to though, can't fault an album for what it isn't trying to be.
I really wouldn't have imagined that a Southern boogie rock band being influenced by Depeche Mode would be very good but I don't hate this album. There's something charming about this era of ZZ Top. They seem like they're trying to be edgy while singing about "your hugging and your kissing" and wearing suits, but it's sort of endearing and fun at the same time. This really feels like a guilty pleasure.
More like ZZ Mid
Not bad. I mean it’s rock. From the 80s. Low 3z
It's not Tres Hombres, but it's okay.
This was released when I was 9 and I loved it. I knew nothing of what they had done previously at that age. In context, it's tough not to see this as Top's attempt to cash in on the '80s. The processed guitar tone and heavy reliance on a sequencer just cheapen what this band used to be. I'm glad they got some big hits out of it, and it has a lot of nostalgic value for me, but it pales compared to their previous material.
Gimme All your Lovin'
Definitely enjoyable to listen to... but forgettable. Too much guitar makes all of the songs sound similar. A lot of meh tracks, but definitely a few that I may come back to. Not a fan of most of the lyrics. Standout Tracks: Got Me Under Pressure Sharp Dressed Man If Only I Could Flag Her Down
A bunch of hits on here that I’d enjoy a lot more if I liked this genre of rock.
I think this album made my beard grow faster than usual…. Strange
Eliminator is who I thought ZZ Top was growing up. Catchy, over produced, constantly groovy, and resoundingly 80's. I didn't know they came from somewhere grimier and less slick. Is this version of ZZ a product of the times, or did they help shape it? I'm not sure. The early 80's release date makes me feel like they closer to the bleeding edge than chasing a fad...or maybe they were just timely. It is admirable how they were able be current but also be boogie woogie...making it pretty damn original. That said, it's strengths is also its weakness for me. A little too polished, a little too clean, a little too restrained. I'm chronically allergic to music that sounds 80's for reasons I'm still trying to understand. That said, thinking too hard about this album really misses the point. 3/5 tv dinners
This wasn’t a a bad album. I know more ZZ Top songs than I thought.
Cool and fun. Enjoyed.
Surprised to see the MTV video era album on this list. Decent album but far from their best.
This album surprised me in that I didn't hate it I am sick of the 80s lowkey... but this was moderately good 3/5 7.64/10
gimme all your lovin- 5 got me under pressure- 5 sharp dressed man- 4 i need you tonight- 4 i got the six- 4 legs- 4 thug- tv dinners- dirty dog- if i could only flag her down- bad girl- i cant sit through this. im not strong enough
Lowkey polished.
Rockt noch auf staubige Art.
Decent. 3/5
Aunque me gustó mucho el album, muchas veces se me hizo dificil distinguir entre canciones ya que era un poco la misma estructura en distinta font. Ya en la segunda mitsd del album me sonaba todo igual. Sería un 3.5 aclaración Tienen suerte que la formula me gusto mucho, a excepcion de la cancion que nombra todas las comidas que se quiere comer mientras ve la tele ? (Alejandro ass move) Favs: Got Me Under, I Need You Tonight, I Got The Six
Qué bien balanceadas voces y guitarras. Entiendo que tiene mucho que ver con que casi todo el disco está remasterizado en 2008 pero igual suena muy bien. Además, ha estado divertido escucharlo, aunque a veces los ritmos e ideas me han parecido repetitivos pero eso es más un problema mío con el género, me pasa incluso con Dire Straits según el día así que... También me escamaron algunas letras y toda la controversia de que un señor no fue acreditado por su trabajo, aunque siendo rock eso les da más aura (?). Me gustaron: Got Me Under Pressure, Dirty Dog
Lige albumcoveret, Eliminator e mid albumnavn med mindre det har ein veldig god bakgrunn. Ellers e albumet litt for gjevnt for min del, men e veldig glad i shap dressed man. Den har eg hørt mye på:) Beste sang: Sharp dressed man
it’s like judas priest but way better
pure classic rock
6/10
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but someone gave Frank Beard a drum machine and threw together a synth chain for Billy and Dusty and made a whole new sound. Yes it’s aged a lot and yes the album is a bit thin outside of its massive hits. But this is still a really amazing reimagining for the Lil’ Old Band from Texas, losing absolutely none of their edge.
Klassisk Rock. Ganske fete. Hadde bare hørt et par sanger fra før. Men starter med et smell. I need you tonight er fet. Overraskende kult.
I find myself getting fatigued of this about 3 songs in. It's not awful I just wish it was an EP. Cut off like the last minute of Sharp Dressed Man, oh my god. I Need You Tonight is AWFUL. Just lotsa noodling around, boring!!! 2.5/5
Generally solid 80s rock without many standouts. Thug probably my favorite
Los arreglos de los 80 no mejoran a los ZZ Top. Son disfrutables un ratito y mejor si ves sus videos.
Enjoyable classic rock album.
The lads from Texas found some synthesizers and started making rock tunes to a dance beat. I'm already very familiar with "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Sharp Dressed Man", but the rest of the album follows a similar formula. There's not tons of variety and it feels a bit bland at times, but when ZZ Top does switch it up a little, it's at least interesting. I don't know how I had never heard "Legs" before, but I was not prepared for it. I'll admit, for as corny as some of these songs are, it was difficult not to bob my head along, and, now that I'm noticing it, the synths are a great addition and give the songs a bit more depth. I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, but I doubt I will listen to it again. It's more of an appreciation than a fondness. Not essential by any stretch, but it is indeed different, and there's not much else that sounds like it (which is a blessing).
Seems like the iconic album from ZZ Top. So many hit songs on it. I think its a solid album, not really up my alley. Gimme all your lovin, sharp dressed man, legs, all great songs.
Classic. Rock.
its ZZ Top. Its Got Legs and it knows who to use them!
They have some like three great songs on here and guitar play is solid, however the other songs are just not that great, hence the rating.
There’s a reason why you know a couple songs on this album because the rest aren’t that good
Kinda expected more from a band as famous as ZZ Top, but I guess what I got shouldn't surprise me. All the songs sound like "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Sharp Dressed Man". It's fine, sounds fine, lyrics are about what I would expect. It's all just kind of fine. I do like the song about TV dinners though that was a bit of a surprise and I thought it was funny.
they do have a highly recognizable sound, but just kind of repetitive by end of album. never have been known for depth to lyrics.
Aight
Good musicians but repetitive not my favourite
70s and 80s "hard rock" is proving to be a genre that does very little for me. Although this one grew on me, but started to test my patience by the end. 2.5 rounded up Heard before? Some songs Owned: No 17/1001, 17/71 (23%) Will I get? No
I understand why it would be appealing to a certain demographic but its not my personal favorite!
This album is fine. There's a few huge hits, but nothing beyond that stands out to me audibly. I feel like this is another album where having not read the book it leaves me lacking understanding why it's included on this list.
A little disappointed, to be honest. I'm generally a fan of ZZ Top, but I didn't love this one as a start-to-finish album. Still decent, but I guess I had inappropriately high expectations. 3.4
Yeah well. I enjoy ZZ top in guitar hero explicitly. Feels like a middle aged uncle version of Sabrina carpenter.
It's a nice record, pretty energetic and a fun listen, although honestly it won't be going into my hard rock favourites. I thought the use of synths was pretty nice, and it embodies a very specific 80s sound. The best track by far was "Legs" for me, "Sharp Dressed Man" was pretty good too. "TV Dinner" is pretty tongue in cheek and funny, but it also has pretty low replay value for me given its subject matter.
- already I like this more than Tres Hombres, which was released 10 years prior to this album. the guitar riffs are more engaging and the sound is more straight-rock than boogie-rock, which I think fits that distinct 80s style of guitar distortion quite well - I didn't realize there was a synth playing under the entirety of "Sharp Dressed Man, which adds something that the songs on Tres Hombres were missing (though the editor in me is cringing at the missing hyphen -- without it, he's "a dressed man who is sharp," not "a man dressed sharply") - I think there's a reason more of the songs from this album made it onto the radio. everything just oozes masculinity, like you're flying down an Arizona highway on your Harley-Davidson with the ape hanger handlebars and flames painted on the sides - there are virtually no country-adjacent or "good ole Christian country boy" aspects -- almost like someone shoved an AC/DC song through an Aerosmith filter to make a track like "Bad Girl." they're still largely about women, but there isn't as much storytelling as the songs on Tres Hombres (as far as I could tell without examining the lyrics to each of the songs) - digging the slap bass on "Thug," and I think the guitars are generally more interesting and memorable here. I didn't find myself actively wanting the album to be over and wasn't checking my phone each time to see how much progress I was making to the end (even though the songs all sounded pretty similar to each other) so: ZZ Top is still a band I don't like, but I dislike this album a little less than I expected to. at any rate, it did not deserve my initial reaction of "ugh, *another* one?" when it was revealed
Some bangers but lots of filler
No cóż, ZZ Top nigdy Top, raczej tak gdzieś w środku. To porządny zespół, ale nie porywa. Jest to po prostu trójkowy uczeń, robi to czego się od niego oczekuje i niewiele więcej. 6/10
Big, commercial hits that rock.
Pure pop money maker
Mid
Não foi incrível, não foi memorável, mas não foi péssimo.
decent album
Lo he escuchado pero ya ni me acuerdo, xreo que no sonaba mal
I've never had a more solid 3 than this album. It's fine. Never asking anyone to change the music, but never jamming out to it either. It's just a boring album, but it's still fine to listen to.
What went wrong? Actually, I have no idea why I didn't enjoy this album. Everything is fine, but for some reason I just did not want to listen to 11 ZZ Top songs. Sharp Dressed Man was good. Shoutout to Duck Dynasty. Other than that, all the songs are new to me and I probably won't be listening to them again much. Weird.
ZZ Top was created in a lab to write songs for your stepdad. When it comes to their albums it’s easy to predict what you’re gonna get: white people blues rock about having sex with beautiful women. All of the music is performed well, and occasionally the songs are good! I wasn’t psyched about this one, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected, and that might be because I found it so easy to tune out. Until one of them began singing about 69ing.
Kinda fun at the beginning but it gets tiresome quickly
My favorite ZZ Top, but still nothing lifechanging. It's uncle Blues with a touch of synth.
This album is a fun classic but that's pretty much the only lens I can view this album. It works well for very specific circumstances like a needle drop in specific scenes, a playlist for when you're on a mtn biking camping trip with your dad, etc. I can't totally take it as a serious work of art. It has fun iconic riffs and catchy hooks but that's about it.
Ah man. This is record splits my brain. I immediately want to hate it, because of its cheesiness. But then I hear so many elements of music that I love. Lyrically, its kind of a disaster. Its so silly, but I think its trying to being genuine, which then kind of makes it worse. If you can get past the cheese factor, the songs are pretty fun. It suddenly becomes less hard to hate and easier to enjoy, but its not really something that pulls me in. What does stand out to me, is the heaviness behind the blues inspired guitar riffs. Its kind of a continuation of the southern rock tradition of artists like Allman Bros or Skynyrd but kind of appropriated to be heavier and louder. And that feels like something I should hate, but that sound is very much alive and well in bands like Widespread Panic, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Drive By Truckers, Marcus King Band, Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. So in a weird way, this kind of cheesy butt rock sound found its way into alt-country bluesy jam bands, where its kind of found a new life.
Volví. No soy tan fan de ZZ Top. Conocía a este disco por nombre. Conozco a algunos de los hits de la banda. No mucho más. Por eso puede sonar a blasfemia que una persona que no tiene a ZZ Top encarnado en el alma (valga la contradicción) diga algo así, pero esto es DISTINTO al sonido de la banda. Es un disco menos blusero, más modernizado, con sintetizadores y un sonido pulido. Y eso está bien y está mal, creo. Tomemos por caso el 2do tema del disco "Got Me Under Pressure". Lo escucho ahora, por segunda o tercera vez, y los sintetizadores y la sección rítmica me hace acordar a The Cars. Solo la guitarra me hace recordar que esta banda es ZZ Top (cuando deja de ser guitarra rítmica y empieza a jugar). Es interesante que una banda se modernice, que cambie su sonido. Al mismo tiempo, el tema no es tan bueno como las mejores canciones de The Cars ni como las canciones de ZZ Top que conocemos más o menos todos. Y eso pasa en todo el disco. Es un blues más moderno, más comercial, más poppy. Es interesante que exista, sí. Pero también es algo que no satisface ni a los que quieren escuchar blues ("Es "Southern Rock", filisteo" me dicen los fans de esta banda y los Allman Brothers. "OK", contesto yo, pero es claro a lo que me refiero. Al mismo tiempo, esta música no es lo suficientemente catchy para alguien que tenga ganas de escuchar un disco de power pop o new wave. Y, siempre, siempre, siempre, lo mejor de cada una de las 11 canciones que conforman el disco es la guitarra de Gibbons. Especialmente cuando se suelta, cuando intenta hacer el Southern Rock de antaño. Esa es, me parece, la propuesta original del disco, ver como persiste la guitarra de Gibbons en el nuevo sonido de la banda. Y eso es un poco todo. Creo que no tiene sentido distinguir entre canciones, ya que todas siguen, más o menos, la misma fórmula. Habrán algunas que sean un poco más bluseras como I Need You Tonight, otras más popperas como I Got the Six o Legs, y otras más rockeras como Gimme All Your Lovin' o Bad Girl. Todo esto entre comillas, porque lo cierto es que todas las canciones son un poco las tres cosas. Dirty Dog comienza con un riff rockero super poderoso, pero al toque aparecen synths y una sección rítmica muy ochentosa; algo parecido sucede con la ya mencionada You Got Me Under Pressure ¿Mi favorita? TV Dinners... tiene una atmósfera un poquito más ominosa que el resto del disco, lo que la hace mi favorita. Pero es un disco muy parejo y todas las canciones tienen la misma calidad. Los que aman amarán, los que odian odiarán. Para mi es un punto medio, por lo que le pongo tres estrellas.
Just through the power of large number there’s some great riffs in here. I’m always surprised by how incredibly cheesy this kind of hard rock is. Did people find this intimidating, was this ever “alternative”?
I thought this was alright, fairly standard dad rock but Sharp Dressed Man is a stand out.
Not a massive fan of ZZTop. I get why people like them but they are just fine.
A constant head bobber! Nothing wildly standout, a nice guitar riff at the minimum on every track though. TV Dinners IS hilarious, a much appreciated ode. Listened to: on a flight to Guadalajara. Favorite tracks: Got Me Under Pressure, Legs, TV Dinners
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Next time I need to go hyperproductive berserker, this album is up! Oh, and Legs is a perfect rock song.
I really liked this album. I just felt like the songs got kinda long after a while and they all ended up sounding very similar. Really liked their sound though.
Some pretty fun romps. Evidently the lyrics were suggestive but I didn't really hear much of them tbh, so obviously that's not good
I enjoyed it pretty well and it has a few iconic songs, but after awhile it kinda all sounded the same. I may listen to a couple again but as far as listening to the whole album through, maybe not. 6/10
Fun but generic
Unlike many of the other dad rock picks in this book (except Deep Purple and Sabbath), this album's pretty good! Maybe partly because even at their most overplayed ZZ Top is not the most obnoxious band I've heard, but also the rest of the album besides Sharp Dressed Man is pretty solid and the exact kind of bar blues rock I wanna hear when I'm having a full glass of beer, it's fun, the riffs are muscular but its not everything in the music, just all around a good time
Such painfully simple and obvious rock 'n roll, that it almost annoys me whenever it's actually pretty good.
Interesting album. Seems to leave the southern biker blues behind and transition into a more modern dare I say strip club blues? The album has some of their more famous songs on it, but not much outside of that. 3/5 Might listen again
The song legs was actually written about Ken Chutney - long, slender and defined legs that so many women are jealous of! 3.0 5/11 - I Got The Six
Fun, if somewhat simple. If that's what you're in the mood for it fits the bill.
Decent
I wasn’t super captivated but can’t say I’d isn’t enjoy it
Another album where the overall sound is nice, but it's too one-note to effectively stretch across an entire album.
Solid album that is really fun and I can't think of anything else that sounds like it. However it is a bit one note and once you notice the trick of the quick tempo and pounding guitar it makes my head hurt and has me ready for the album to end.
Вполне адекватный рок, но я такое не слушаю.
They dont suck, and are popular, but I never cared for that type of music
Day 52 First listen- I've grown out of dad rock unfortunately, a cool album regardless! The riffs were my fav part. (3/5)
A decent listen, just a bit repetitive for my liking
rock. cool
Kann man hören.
Takes me straight back to early 80s, Mtv, and guilty urges from the Legs video. Still a solid rock album that is perfect beer and darts music. Ten years ago it probably would've given it 4. Now it just sounds like rock. Great rock, but just rock nonetheless.
This is some major dad rock.
Perfectly enjoyable, nothing that offensive or bad. ZZ Top might be American AC/DC. Nothing wrong with that, but it's the parallel I'm noticing.
ZZ Top are not pushing the genre to any strange new places, but everybody's a little crazy for a Sharp Dressed Man. True to form it's classic, unpretentious, slightly-goofy 80s rock that knows what it wants to be and delivers it, even if it's pretty forgettable. Fav tracks: Sharp Dressed Man, I Need You Tonight
Pretty good, feel like this is the US version of Status Quo, mindless rock you don't need to think about (although musically more interesting)
As far as '70s bands adapting to the'80s goes, ZZ Top do a pretty good job on Eliminator. There are4 kind of highs and lows here, but the highs are pretty damn good, and the overall experience is pretty enjoyable, especially since this sounds like it could have been a mess. Putting the " '80s " paint on ZZ Top's kind of blues-y Texas hard rock honestly sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it is handled with a lot of grace on Eliminator. The band retains their energy, and it still sounds like they're having fun, and the song-writing appeal of ZZ Top's older stuff is still there, just re-contextualized with some synths and drum machines. Got Me Under Pressure is built around a killer riff, Sharp Dressed Man is a killer single, and I Got The Six is just a great hard rockin' tune. Legs kind of uses the synths as a driving rhythm component, to great success, and for as weird as Thug is with it's odd synth line and slap bass, it's a lot of fun. Songs like these are a lot of the high points here. On the other hand, I think I Need You Tonight is a little over-long (although the solo is good). Also TV Dinners sounds *fine* and I think it's going for like a new middle-American blues thing, but I think the lyrics just sound really stupid in the modern world. Dirty Dog and If I Could Flag Her Down are also kind of whatever to me. Although we end on Bad Girl, which is a pretty good song. This is a little un-even, but I'd say it's largely successful, against all odds. I had some fun!
Definitely a high-energy rock album. I liked "Gimme all your lovin", "sharp dressed man", and "Legs". I can see this as an inspiration to many rock bands after the them.
c’est très honnête, mais j’ai pas l’intention de renouveler l’expérience
These guys fuck! Especially, their beards. Ultimate dad rock. Just constant driving rhythm and guitar riffs. Kind of like AC/DC, but the singer doesn't sound like he needs to take a shit. This would actually make really good jazzersise music. It makes me want to snort some blow. ZZ Top is tolerable for a song or two every once in a while, but a whole album is too much for me. I think it's just the same drums and constant guitar leads. I get it. It's a 3 from me.
A rocker! Great album
ZZ TOP on its way through the 80s. More electronic vibes, very danceable.
It was fine.
A beast of a boogie album. It's the sound of old men finally owning a colour telly, and opening up new possibilities. It's hard not get caught up in the groove.
Classic rock
Familiar from when I was young. It has something recognizable and familiar to it, but outside the hit(s) I was never a ZZ Top fan. It is fun to hear the music though and not just focus on the cars and big beards like I did when I was a kid.
New wave for boomers? Nice guitars but a little to polished for me. I need more grit.
The guitar is really fun. I don’t think I’ll seek it out, or listen outside of the hits I already know. Definitely nothing lyrically to grab me.
Not as heavy on the synth as the big singles would lead you to believe.
It's an album you listen on repeat for one month and then never listen to it again.
ZZ TOP IZZ ZZTUPID FUN
A classic.
Loved hearing the hits again, but overall not interesting enough to play again.
And a half
Bit of 80’s AOR rock, quite enjoyable. Good driving music, gave this a listen on the way to work in the car
Mouais je sais pas trop. C’était pas nul mais pas ouf non plus
Classic American rock. Some solid guitar work on this. 3/5
Ok
Partí feliz de escuchar algo así un viernes en la mañana. Pero se volvió monótono y más de lo mismo bien rápido.
Banging tbf just not my usual cuppa
Hyggeligt basic rock album, men ikke mere end det.
It was ok, but found it a bit samey towards the end
Really only know this from the music videos and the car featured in those. Music is totally forgettable.
Classic Rock & Roll
Being so sleek, tight, and bluesy makes it enjoyable, but too slick and banal for it to rise to the level of something meaningful.
Solid album
This wasn't an unpleasant listen, but definitely did not stand-out at all. The only song which I could see myself listening on multiple occasions would be "Sharp Dressed Man". The remaining songs, I would never actively seek out, however they are also not off-putting enough to turn them off if they were to play accidentally. As the album was largely made up of these songs, this will receive a 2.5/5 and be bumped to a 3.
The good: Some serious classic tracks on this album - Gimme All Your Loving, Got Me Under Pressure (questionable lyrics, though - "She likes cocaine / and flipping out with Great Danes"? I don't want to know), Sharp Dressed Man (great song with a fantastic slide guitar solo), and Legs. The bad: Despite those classic tracks, the album doesn't hold up, primarily because it's ridiculously repetitive. Almost every song has the same driving beat, similar vocal lines (usually with cheesy lyrics), and a guitar solo (but, credit where credit's due, we're talking great guitar solos). Now don't get me wrong, the album rocks, but the repetition and cheesy lyrics (particularly bad examples: I Got the Six, TV Dinners, Dirty Dog) leave me with no interest to hear it again, and that's a 3.
Well this is a lot of fun in a dumb kind of way
Some great classic hits! Good background just getting stuff done around the house or garage music.
Listened to it from around 1PM to 2PM nothing really memorable on the album tho it was interesting to find music to put to the „girls, girls , girls“ label. Decent I think but not really standing out in terms of a rock album
Classic ZZ. Simple but catchy. Basic lyrics and structures.
Look, it’s technically very good. These guys are great musicians. It’s just boring. I’ve heard this music so many times. Boomer rock is not what I’m here for.
Nice rock album with great tunes and awesome guitar riffs.
The highs are very high, the rest is mid
3.5
Great hits with moderate filler
Bluesy rock. It's solid, but not a lot of surprises here.
Starts strong but runs out of steam. Classic material on side 1 but side two is mostly forgettable
Chugging kind of hard clipping overdrive is the predominant tone. Several hits on the album including Gimme All Your Lovin’, Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man, and Legs. Lyrically pretty shallow material. Feels like a cross between southern rock and Van Halen tonally. 80’s upped with synths and big reverb. Otherwise, very bluesy and a bit repetitive. Other notable songs include I Need You Tonight.
OK
Tää tuli kuunneltua juur autossa. Ehtaa kasaria! 3/5
The Good: legs… The Bad: Not seeing the video’s while listening to the songs… The Ugly: The elimination did not start sooner… Like many of my contemporaries teenage idiot, we really dug ZZ Top when their videos started showing up in the mid ‘80s. Flashy cars. Flashy clothes. Flashy beards… and flashy girls. I don’t care if the lyrics are deemed misogynistic by many, or that the use of synths and drum machines ruined the sound… the singles that launched from this album were hits, and they still sound nice to listen to… The problem is that the album is 11 songs long, and really there are only 3 great songs on it, where the remaining 8 sound a lot like the afore mentioned three… and then there’s Mr. Gibbons guitar soloing, which starts getting on one’s nerves after all a while, as it’s the same trick, over and over… not that it sounds bad, but should be limited to the 3 hits… So, that means that the score of this album should reflect 3 hits out of 11, which equals 2*… should I be nice and make it three?...
Okay album - kind of just a classic, but there arent many memorable moments for me. Like the guitar tone on sharp dressed man. No bad songs though. Another 3/5
Some great stuff here. Overall a good album. 3.5 stars.
My second or third favorite ZZ Top album, still great though
5/10 - it was alright. I see the charm but not my favorite
Good album, real rock & roll. 7.1/10
too glossy, too weirdly crass… i dig their earlier work but this just sounds like a coke-fueled reagan era nightmare for the most part
C'est du vrai rock
C'est quoi ce son 80s kitsch nul ? Moi je croyais que ZZ Top c'était des barbus du Sud profond qui jouent toujours la même chose.
Very strong start, first side is exemplary. Tapers off with 'Thug', the almost-risible bass soloing and synths outro is far too long and meandering. Better when it's bluesier, and TV Dinners gets the album back on track. Three and a half, pushing a four, suspect time has dulled the impact it would've had in 1983, but I still think it would have been better as a straight blues rock album, without the sequencers.
Such icons of the 80s. Some of the lyrics made me blush.
Okay, pretty good rock, not screechy, one pretty good song
more hard rock. (seriously, there are too many of these albums with a similar sound in this list...)
Good standard rock without being miserable (again, Def Leppard). Sing about tv dinners really did it
An interesting album, in that I don't ever actually need to hear any of the big hits off of it, really. They rather saturated both MTV back in the day, and classic rock radio ever after. But they're enduring for a reason, just excellent 80s pop rock. I'm not mad when they come on, you know? The album cuts are... there, I guess. "Thug" is trying to do something. What that is, exactly, I'm not sure, but the bass is wilding out and that's kinda fun. Generally speaking, the 80s were pretty rough for the big, influential acts of the 60s and 70s. I mean, look no further than Jefferson Starship to illustrate the point. With this record, ZZ Top fared a little better than, say, Steve Miller. You can still hear that lil ol band out of Texas under all the glitzy sheen of 80s production, at least. And good for that one lady in "Legs." I assume that's a feel good story of triumph over the adversity of being unable to walk, but now she has legs and knows how to use them?
When he says he just wants someone to do love to I cry evertim
Dirty, raw, sounds full of cheap beer, cigarettes, and STDs. I have no notes. More please.
Not bad, not really my cup of tea but some good tunes on there..
Fun but
The epitome of “it’s fine.” I can see why it’s on this list, I just have a real hard time caring one way or the other about this album. Growing up rural in the 80s/90s, I know I’ve heard the hits on this album a million times. The other songs all sound like something I should have heard, but I can’t place at all; nor can I bring myself to care enough to listen again.
all feels steady and similar, samey. each song starts and then it ends. not necessarily bad; would be good for background music as it’s not diverting, but on the flip side! not really interesting or engaging
I quite like ZZ Top but I did greatly prefer Tres Hombre to this album, even though I was more familiar with the songs on this one. Rating: 3
It's ZZ Top, you know exactly what you're getting. To be clear, that's not a bad thing.
Not eliminating this album
For its time, great blues sound. Listening today, the lyrics aren't great, and songs were wildly overplayed on every rock station growing up.
I'm not sure about this. It's got a a typical dad rock sound. It reminds me a little of ACDC, but has a very different mood.
this is not the best zz top project but it's okay first track drums taken directly from don't bring me down second track bassline is booboo buns but the vocals are tight and the guitar sound is nice third track is sharp dressed man. nuff said fourth track has very nice intro guitar. very good whining sound fifth track is called i got the six. fix this. sixth track is legs reminds me of being a kid and listening to 103.7 good song and very classic guitar riffs seventh track thug is just straight doodoo butt eighth track tv dinners is good if the sauce is not too blue ninth track dirty dog bro barks tenth track same old same old eleventh track functions fine as a closer
Greats are great, the rest is forgetable and very alike.