ZZ Top - Fandango!
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Artist: ZZ TopEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros UK
Soundtracks:
- Thunderbird
- Jailhouse Rock
- Backdoor Medley: Backdoor Love Affair/Mellow Down Easy/Backdoor Love Affair No.2/Long Distance...
- Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings
- Blue Jean Blues
- Balinese
- Mexican Blackbird
- Heard It On The X
- Tush
Free Music Notes for Fandango!
Free Music Review: bad hard rock
Hit: 2 Stars
This is a review for the vinyl version of Fandango.
ZZ Top's Fandango album is pretty bad and not worth owning at all, in my opinion. Read on to find out why:
First of all, the first side is probably the most *boring* side to a hard rock record from the 70's I've ever heard. Normally a band comes out strong with worthwhile material to kick things off, but apparently ZZ Top wanted to be different. The "half live"/"half studio" idea didn't work.
Their cover of "Jailhouse Rock" is not only inferior to the original, but inferior to every version of the song I know. It's WAY too short, and not interesting. From there, a 9-minute jam is up next. It starts off like it's going to be a pretty rockin' tune, but then it begins annoying me when it eventually turns into a giant rambling mess. It seriously sounds to me like the final 6 minutes of the jam consists of just one single drum beat pounding over and over, with the singer going back and forth between whispering and screaming. It's really boring. It's SUCH a carelessly created jam. Probably some of the worst live music I've ever had the displeasure of hearing.
Things pick up a bit for the second side (the studio portion of the album). "Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings" has a nice funky beat, which was ZZ Top's trademark back in the day. The guitar solo fails, and the vocals go by harmlessly, but with hardly *any* excitement whatsoever. Actually that's a huge problem I have with early ZZ Top- their music is loud, certainly rocks and they are all competent musicians, but many of their vocal melodies consist of singing along to an upbeat funky rocker, with really no creativity involved to make the vocals stand out.
"Blue Jean Blues" is easily the best song on the entire album. It's a slow, bluesy number with pretty good guitar playing. Really the band is just copying what Led Zeppelin and countless other rock bands did better, but for what it is, it's acceptable. "Balinese" unfortunately is NOT acceptable. It sounds like a really bad attempt for a commercial hit. It's probably not, but nothing can save it from being horrible.
"Mexican Blackbird" is only worthwhile for the neat southern accent from the lead singer. That alone makes the song stand out, but it can't escape the reality of being just an above-average rocker. "Heard It On the X" is perhaps the best song on Fandango. It rocks convincingly, not carelessly like the rest of the album. "Tush" finishes off the album. Everybody knows it. It's pretty good, but overplayed thanks to classic rock radio. That hurts it only slightly.
Overall, ZZ Top had some good songs, but the majority of their career was spent on creating and releasing one spotty album after another. The thing that bothers me is how most of their songs have guitar solos, and not a single one of them is interesting almost 100% of the time.
Luckily Fandango is barely 30 minutes long, but I should have watched Jeopardy instead.
Fandango! Poster
US only 180-gram hq vinyl! Remastered from the original analog tapes. Highlights include 'Thunderbird', 'Balinese' and their all-time classic 'Tush'. One of the world's greatest Rock N' Roll bands ever to strut the 50 States, these sharp-dressed Texas titans, Billy F Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill,are a righteously hell raisin' power trio boasting a 30-plus year hit-making legacy, both in the studio and at concert arenas. With their revved up Blues 'n' Boogie, they always make the most of their Texas birthright with a distinctive sound that shakes up Rock, Blues, Soul, Garage-Funk, Americana, and more. Nowhere is their force of nature musicianship better displayed than on this classic featuring both live and studio tracks.13 tracks.Pop Music CDs
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