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Music CD - ZZ Top: ZZ Top - Greatest Hits
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Music CD: ZZ Top - Greatest Hits
Artist: ZZ Top
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $6.08
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Gimme All Your Lovin'
2. Sharp Dressed Man
3. Rough Boy
4. Tush
5. My Head's In Mississippi
6. Pearl Necklace
7. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
8. Viva Las Vegas
9. Doubleback
10. Gun Love
11. Got Me Under Pressure
12. Give It Up
13. Cheap Sunglasses
14. Sleeping Bag
15. Planet Of Women
16. La Grange
17. Tube Snake Boogie
18. Legs
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075992684620
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1992-04-14
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Customer Rating:
Summary: It's so rare, a newer band where every song is good.
Comment: I almost never see a band from after the eighties or sixties where there is not at least one song that's a filler worth skipping over. ZZ Top has a hit on every spot to listen to over again. My least favorites are Gun Love and Pretty Little Women, but no one should ever skip Rough Boy and Legs. Everbody's favorite is probably Viva Las Vegas, but it was from Elvis first. The absence of re-recorded or different versions of songs so present on most albums is so refreshing. I never get tired of this music. Like maple syrup on pancakes, almost nobody can turn it down.
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Summary: zz rocks
Comment: I had this album on tape and enjoyed it . I purchased a cd because i was wearing ou the tape.
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Summary: zztop
Comment: mostly fun to listen to...on the way to work it is motivating! I don't care from Track 5&6 but that is a personal preference.
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Summary: All the latter day shiny chrome bits
Comment: ZZ Tops long slow climb to the top of the hard rock tree at the height of the MTV hair metal daze was almost unfair given that the band were quite a lot more vital than many of their fellow stars. Being born in the 70's and having a hard rocking pedigree that so many of the other bands that were around them didn't during the mid 80's means that it's unfair to find ZZ Top guilty by association.
Yet their big bucks heyday did go a long way to forever imbedding their status as a novelty hard rock act totally obsessed with well endowed women wearing not much of anything on MTV and this best of is certainly guilty of pandering to their late 80's/early 90's phase. A quick look at the track listing proves that this is a veritable casual fans delight. Really, the casual hard rock fan or the casual Top fan can't really go wrong here in terms of picking up a slice of southern tinged hard rock Americana. The big radio hits: Gimme All Your Lovin, Sharp Dressed Man, Got Me Under Pressure and Legs are all here. Even lesser hits like Doubleback come alive when surrounded by the bearded ones choicest cuts. While some of the double entendre is a bit forced (Pearl Necklace) it's really not much worse than that of bands like AC/DC or early Skid Row (I'm thinking Big Guns here).
A highway album for sure, this is an album that you can just put in and press play and let the deeply blues steeped toe tapping hard rock thump out of your speakers and wash over you. It should also be noted that some of the tunes here were remastered which is perhaps fair enough given tunes like La Grange reach all the way back to 1973 though the simpler production values of the 70's are actually perfectly suited to ZZ Tops working mans boogie rock. The liner notes sadly don't really add much apart from some trivia knowledge and the fairly tacky cover and booklet art is pretty cringeworthy.
Those little quibbles aside this is probably a pretty darn useful album for anyone who has lived under a rock since these guys started out. The fact that the source album for each track is duly noted is a bonus, allowing the listener wanting to explore their reasonably extensive back catalogue a clue as to where to start based on what tunes they like most.
A good career retrospective, whether the purists agree or not, and well worth your dollar.
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Summary: zztop Greatest Hits CD
Comment:
CD was well packaged and promptly delivered. Would purchase from this seller again. Thank you !
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Editorial Reviews:
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One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision; even in the side-long-jam era of the '70s, the Texans almost always fit 10 cuts on their albums. Surveying two decades of their output, Greatest Hits isn't the perfect overview you might expect, but it's still a pretty darn good driving album. The disc goes easy on the pre-Deguello stuff surveyed on their earlier best-of, and seems to digitally boost the drums on tracks like the 1975 "Tush." Still, later cuts like "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" and "My Head's in Mississippi" are full-on triumphs of this trio's very weird, very blues-drenched sensibility. --Rickey Wright
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