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ZZ Top: Greatest Hits

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Label: Warner Music
Released: 1992.04.14
Time:
 72:50
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Bill Ham
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.zztop.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2008.05.20
Price in €: 4,99



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[1] Gimme All Your Lovin' (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:59
[2] Sharp Dressed Man (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:13
[3] Rough Boy (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:50
[4] Tush (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 2:14
[5] My Head's in Mississippi (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:21
[6] Pearl Necklace (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:01
[7] I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:45
[8] Viva Las Vegas (Pomus/Shuman) - 4:47
[9] Doubleback (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:53
[10] Gun Love (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:43
[11] Got Me Under Pressure (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:59
[12] Give It Up (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:32
[13] Cheap Sunglasses (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:46
[14] Sleeping Bag (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:02
[15] Planet of Women (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:04
[16] La Grange (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:51
[17] Tube Snake Boogie (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 3:02
[18] Legs (Beard/Gibbons/Hill) - 4:31

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Frank Beard - Percussion, Drums
Billy Gibbons - Guitar, Vocals
Dusty Hill - Bass, Vocals

Bill Ham - Producer
Joe Hardy - Engineer
Bob Ludwig - Engineer
Terry Manning - Engineer
Jeri Heiden - Art Direction
Glenn Wexler - Photography
Leslie Wintner - Design
Bob Merlis - Liner Notes
Davin Seay - Liner Notes

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1992 CD Warner Bros. 26846
1992 CS Warner Bros. 26846
1992 LP Warner Bros. 38299
2005 CD Warner Bros. 7599-26846-2

Although it began as an album-oriented, hard-edged blues band, ZZ Top had amassed quite a number of Top 40 hits by the early '90s. All are featured on 1992's 18-track GREATEST HITS compilation, making it a more comprehensive career overview than 1977's shorter THE BEST OF ZZ TOP. The only problem is that it doesn't contain a single selection from such early ZZ Top classics as ZZ TOP'S FIRST ALBUM, RIO GRANDE MUD, or TEJAS. But if you're searching for the best known ZZ Toptracks, GREATEST HITS is your best bet. Just about every radio staple that the trio penned is represented here, such asthe '80s synth-meets-blues-rock classics "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Legs", "Pearl Necklace", and "Sleeping Bag", plus such older favourites as "Tush", "Cheap Sunglasses", and "La Grange".



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 - Amazon.com



This isn't a perfect roundup of ZZ Top's superstar years of the '80s, but it comes pretty close. It dips back into the '70s for "Pearl Necklace" and "La Grange," with a couple of selections from the post-peak '90s, but this does offer the MTV-era basics: "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Rough Boy," "Tush," "My Head's in Mississippi," "Doubleback," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Sleeping Bag." What slows this record down are some new cuts and album tracks that don't deserve to be here, along with a remix, not the original version, of "Legs." Still, that may just be quibbling for some listeners, since the basics are all here, making this a good complement to the '70s-focused The Best of ZZ Top (although it would be nice if a definitive disc, with all the hits, would appear on the market).

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



ZZ Top became a multi-platinum franchise in the 1980s when the bearded blues-rock power trio were transformed into the cartoonish darlings of MTV, complete with flashy videos full of hot babes and cool cars. Musically, however, the Texas trio's lean boogies and greasy blues hadn't changed much since early-'70s albums like Tres Hombres and Fandango made them a popular concert attraction. Guitarist Billy Gibbons is well schooled in the music of Texas blues masters like T. Bone Walker and Lightnin' Hopkins, and that deep musical knowledge helps the band rock out without trivializing their roots. For their '80s super hits -- "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Legs," "Sleeping Bag" -- the band made slight commercial adjustments to the old formula, adding synthesizers and souped-up beats to make it on pop radio, while retaining the elemental power of such early hits as "La Grange" and "Tush." Greatest Hits puts it all together; at a filling 18 tracks, it's akin to a zesty combo plate at a funky Mexican joint, tequila optional.

John Milward - Barnes & Noble



"..a nonstop groove of smash singles.." - Rating: B+

Entertainment Weekly (5/22/92, p.76)



Excellent!

Q (6/92, p.114) - 4 Stars
 

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