ZZ Top

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...fresh air. In the 70s ZZ Top had been known as an underground boogie blues trio; now, in the 80s, they reinvented themselves as MTV stars, a kind of American Status Quo, or a Creedence Clearwater Revival with beards; and the album 'Eliminator' spending over two years on the album chart, it looked like their time had come. 'Gimme All Your Lovin'' is track 1 on this 18-track set (playing time nearly 73 minutes, which has to represent good value in ...
...'Greatest Hits' is all the ZZ Top you'll ever need. From the much-covered 'Tush' to their cover of Elvis' 'Viva Las Vegas', a surprise Top 10 hit in 1992, from the bluesy 'My Head's In Mississippi' to the unashamedly un-PC dance floor filler 'Legs', from the cinematic sound of 'Doubleback' to the slower 'Rough Boy', they turned out some killer singles while the going was good. 'Sharp Dressed Man' still packs a punch, and 'La Grange', their first-ever ... Read review

Advantages: Fun to listen to when taking long drives
Disadvantages: Lots of their music sounds the same

ZZ Top is one of those bands that is definately unique. They have a rock and roll genre with country and jazz undertones. The band consists of odd personalities as well. As obviously noted their long beards was their fashion statement to the world. Even though I had heard of many of their songs on the radio and never quite realized who actually sang these songs. I was introduced officially to the band about a year into my relationship with my now ... Read review

Advantages Several outstanding tracks.
Disadvantages Weak ballads and too much filler.

...ZZ Top's most recent studio release, shows that even after nearly 40 years together, they are still capable of producing some of the finest music out there- an almost perfect combination of blues and rock n' roll. This album has several standout tracks, which easily match their most famous work. Bassist dusty Hill takes over singing duties on Piece, and the result is one of their finest tracks to date, with two incredible guitar solos from Billy Gibbons. He also demonstrates his considerable vocal talents on closing track Liquor, a classic down and dirty blues number that shows that ZZ Top are still up there with the best of them. Buck Nekkid shows the bands more humorous side, with great lyrics, a classic blues riff, and some seriously good guitar playing.But sadly, this album is far from perfect. The main criticism... Read review

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...’s just killing me”, “What’s up with that”, “Black Fly” and “Vincent Price Blues”. “She’s…” should be well known as the song is part of the soundtrack of the famous Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez – movie „From Dusk Till Dawn“. According to ZZ Top, this song was written after watching the movie in only half an hour and recorded in another half – and you can hear this, which is not meant in a negative way. Songs as rough and rude as this one are very rare. „Black Fly“ is a song in best ZZ Top – tradition. It features a cool guitar riff supported by a unusual jumping rhythm section. “What’s…” also is a great song. The muffy guitar sound can only be called cool. “Vincent…... Read review

Advantages A more commercial sound, brilliant lyrics
Disadvantages It's not Thick as a Brick

...This was the Tull 'comeback' album that stunned the rock world when it won the 1989 Grammy for best Hard Rock Album ahead of the odds on favourite 'And Justice for All' from Metallica. Whether this really is a hard rock album is another matter - it's certainly not a typical Tull album (if such exists) but it opens with a very ZZ Top influenced Steel Monkey whilst other tracks - notably Farm on the Freeway and Budapest - bring to mind Dire Straits. In part that's because Ian Anderson had, perforce, to change his vocal style following the throat problems that had beset him earlier in the decade, leading to a slower, more 'spoken' style of song narration. This also helps makes it perhaps the most 'commercial' sounding of Tull's many albums. Lyrically it is one of Ian's best, and songs like Farm on the... Read review

Advantages: cultish ...
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...clear influence. Blues, jazz, folk rock influence and classical rock'n'roll influence are to be found here very clear. One can recommend the album to all friends of "Jethro Tull". Who stands on rock music already a few days on the hump{hunch} has, thus also on old albums{bleaks; albs} of "Black Sabbath", "Deep Purple", however, also "Blackfoot" and "top ZZ" stands, might find here an album this knows how to like{fall}. Who expects{awaits} constantly{permanently} hard sounds or stands only on hard rock and harder, left the fingers of the disc{slice}. One could give deductions for the rather simple and unspectacular song{singing} as well as three supershort tracks, because these one the mouth do{make} watery then, however, again are over, give, however the cult factor of the album offsets again. In this sense All friends... Read review

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