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- Matthew Wilkening
- 'La Grange' From 'Tres Hombres' (1973) Without a doubt the most popular ZZ Top song of all time, this ode to a famous Texas whorehouse from Tres Hombres is inescapable on the radio, in TV commercials and as a mood-setter for numerous big screen films.
- 'Tush' Bassist Dusty Hill takes one of his occasional turns on lead vocals on this highly traditional, and typically supercharged blues number from Fandango.
- 'Gimme All Your Lovin'' Perhaps because it now contrasted with slick, modern keyboard accents, Billy Gibbons' guitar rarely sounded as full and rip-snorting nasty as it did on Eliminator.
- 'Waitin' for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago' From 'Tres Hombres' (1973) With Tres Hombres, ZZ Top made another bold leap forward in terms of sophistication and range, crashing the Top 10 charts and cementing their reputation as one of the best and biggest rock bands of the 70s.
- “La Grange”
- “Waitin’ For The Bus”
- “Tush”
- “Got Me Under Pressure”
- “Legs”
- “Rough Boy”
A deliciously juiced-up John Lee Hooker–derived rhythm-guitar lick drives this classic “two-minute wonder” (in Billy Gibbons’ words), which paid tribute to the Chicken Ranch, the same long-standing real-life brothel in La Grange, Texas, that inspired the book and movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. “I went there when I was 13,” Dusty Hill to...
Poor ZZ Top, they just wanted to get home. The Homeric track that opened their iconic Tres Hombres album starts with a thin, precise bluesy guitar lick and a tight, sighing drum line that foreshadows the band’s electro-blues era, setting up Gibbons and Hill to plead for compassion in concert: “Have mercy!” Gibbons goes on to explain they’ve been wa...
ZZ Top and producer Bill Ham gave a big ol’ Texas bear hug to the synthesizer on the trio’s monster 1983 LP, Eliminator. While Billy Gibbons’ guitars remained fuzzy and raw, a synth doubled Dusty Hill’s bass track (or all but provided it, depending on who you ask) on “Sharp Dressed Man,” infusing the peacocking anthem with a pulsing rhythm. Along w...
Billy Gibbons never explains how he hooked up with a hoity-toity dominatrix cokehead in the Eliminator hit “Got Me Under Pressure,” because she got him so stressed out. All he’s capable of is trying to keep up with her predilections for French food, art museums, and having sex in cars while wearing London Fog slickers. By the time he’s ready for a ...
The third in ZZ Top’s Eliminator singles trilogy goes all the way in its embrace of shimmering synths and radio-friendly hooks — compared with the grit and verve of “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” it could almost be Huey Lewis. Crass, commercial, and utterly catchy, it’s the only one of those three songs that made the Top 10. Billy...
The trio claimed to have written this proto-industrial power ballad “on a cold winter day in the wilds of west Texas” in their Greatest Hits liner notes. In the song, Gibbons croons huskily from a place of regretful introspection, trying to make sense of his misbehavior, before admitting “I’m a rough boy” over a keening guitar line. The trio worked...
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- David Browne,Kory Grow,Brian Hiatt,Joseph Hudak,Angie Martoccio,Simon Vozick-Levinson
1. Gimme All Your Lovin' 202M plays. 4:00. 2. Sharp Dressed Man. 159M plays. 4:11. 3. Rough Boy. 30M plays. 4:48. Tush. 43M plays. 2:18. 5. My Head's in Mississippi. 8.7M plays. 4:22. 6. Pearl...
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits The Video Collection. Playlist • Stevie Renee • 2022. 17K views • 12 tracks • 50 minutes ZZ Top's Greatest Hits (The Video Collection) released in 1992 A classic...
