ZZ Top - El Loco
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Free Music Review: Sweet!
Hit: 5 Stars
Um, I don't know why this album has caught so many bad reviews... I've never heard the original version (though I'd like to) but even so, this just may be my favorite ZZ Top album and I own quite a few. I will admit that at first, I didn't care for it much at all. But the more I listened, the more it grew on me and now I listen to it the most out of my ZZ Top collection. It sounds weak through an iPod, so I prefer to play it in my car, which has a very nice stereo system... it sounds so groovy and laid back, which I really like. Good cruisin' music. This album sounds like blues numbers mixed with a surf edge to them; there isn't much in the way of heaviness and distortion on this album. I guess it's really about personal taste more than anything else; I'm a laid-back guy so I like laid-back music. So yeah this isn't an album for angry people. Actually I take that back, buy it if you're angry cause it'll calm you down. Anyway, I'm done. Long live ZZ Top.Free Music Review: El Loco isn't a classic but good.
Hit: 3 Stars
After reading a fellow reviewer report I have to disagree with him/her.This album was released before Eliminator.This one was released in 81,Eliminator was in 83.This album has a new wave sound like so many albums from this time frame.I admit it was quickly put together due to the record company pushing for a hit.Cheap Sunglasses was huge for them in the 70's.Although its not a commercial succsess like Eliminator[thanks to mtv videos of those girls} their careers took off.El Loco isn't a classic album but its fun for entertainment purpose.Free Music Review: Garbage Remix With 80's Gimmickry
Hit: 1 Stars
As part of an attempt to capitalize on the success of their Eliminator sound, ZZ Top decided to go back into the studio and remix and also re-record parts of their first 6 albums thinking it would make them more money and entice fans of their newer sound to go back and buy their earlier records. Well guess what, in the process their older fans who were used to the original versions on the old cassettes and albums were shocked when they listened to any of these first generation CD releases. They heard bogus reverbed drums, and entire sections of both music and vocals re-recorded. Talk about tarnishing the legacy of a great band's output. Well someone finally wised up and now at least Tres Hombres and Fandango are now available in original mix, remastered form. So stay away from this trash and wait for the entire back catalog to be released in it's original mix, remastered form on CD.Free Music Review: ZZ TOP'S PEAK ALBUM**1981** GET IT WITH DEGUELLO!
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1979 ZZ TOP did what I consider to be their first masterpeice DEGUELLO.
Two years later they did this one. Almost as good in some ways and even actually better in others this album is equally a classic.
Still got the fuzzy, raw blues feel going, only here we start mixing in a few synths that would evntually take over on the next album.
HERE though they compliment the tracks very well and work throughout the whole album. THIS WHOLE THING IS WORTH EVERY DIME but my most favorites are
TUBE SNAKE BOOGIE: perhaps my favorite of all time, tied with 79's BAD-NATIONWIDE.
TEN FOOT POLE: very cool
PEARL NECKLACE: probably the most eighties sounding track but still good.
I recommend this and the previous over all other ZZ TOPS even any greatest hits you may find. The two are sleazy, raw, and a whole ton of fun. DEFINATLEY GET BOTH!
Free Music Review: I LOVE THIS RECORD!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Never being a "serious fan" of ZZ TOP, other than seeing their now familiar series of videos on MTV in the mid- Eighties, I never took the plunge and purchased a full length album from these legendary Texas rockers until a few years ago. A friend of mine turned me on to this cassette about ten years ago and I copied it, loving all the songs. Seriously fun, boogie-woogie blues, rockers, a few ballads, even a dance song ( the middle part of "Heaven Hell or Houston" has a great dance beat as well as some incrdeible guitar playing. ) ZZ TOP purists would probably hate me for saying this, but I think it's their best overall album ( I have since purchased quite a few of their discs. ) Oddly enough, my favourite track on this album is the most unconventional, most "this doesn't sound like ZZ TOP" song "Groovie Little Hippie Pad" starts with a few synth squiggles, then blasts off with a herky jerky rhythm and drum machine patterns that quite frankly wouldn't have sounded out of place on the first B-52's album ( and to me, that's not a bad thing.) Finally, a hard rocking album you can dance to. Great at parties, there's something here for literally everyone.