ZZ Top - Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top
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Artist: ZZ TopEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Brown Sugar
- Goin' Down To Mexico
- Just Got Back From Baby's
- Francene
- Just Got Paid
- Bar-B-Q
- La Grange
- Waitin' For The Bus
- Jesus Just Left For Chicago
- Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
- Mexican Blackbird
- Tush
- Thunderbird
- Blue Jean Blues
- Heard It On The X
- It's Only Love
- Arrested For Driving While Blind
- I Thank You
- Cheap Sunglasses
- I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
- A Fool For Your Stockings
- Tube Snake Boogie
- Pearl Necklace
- Gimme All Your Lovin'
- Sharp Dressed Man
- Legs
- Got Me Under Pressure
- Sleeping Bag
- Stages
- Rough Boy
- Velcro Fly
- Woke Up With Wood
- Doubleback
- My Head's In Mississippi
- Viva Las Vegas
- Cheap Sunglasses (Live)
- Legs (Dance Mix)
- Velcro Fly (12' Remix)
Free Music Notes for Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top
Free Music Review: The way ZZ Top is supposed to sound
Hit: 5 Stars
It would be easy to roll your eyes at this CD and say, "God, not another ZZ Top Best-Of collection. Why bother?" That was pretty much what I thought, until I heard this album.
Hearing Disc 1 is like hearing ZZ Top anew. This was the first time I had ever heard the ORIGINAL mixes of their pre-Eliminator material, and what a difference it makes. The soulless 80's drum machines and re-recorded guitar and vocal parts that they released in the 80's are gone, leaving the original gritty blues-rock sensibilities that are at the core of this band's best music. These songs leave you feeling dirty and smelling of motor oil, cattle and cigarette smoke. (Conversely, the Six-Pack remixes felt more like someone's slick penthouse cocaine party.) It's the way the songs were meant to sound, and it's a pleasure to rediscover classic tracks that I had only previously heard in their inferior 6-Pack remixed form.
I have less to say about Disc 2. It covers their career from Eliminator onwards, and the post-Eliminator material (about half the disc) doesn't stand up too well to what came before it. The real reason to pick up this album is for the original mixes on Disc 1, and those are well worth the purchase price.
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