ZZ Top - Tejas
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Free Music Review: Drum Tracks Ruin Previously Great Album
Hit: 1 Stars
When this album was remastered, the original drum tracks were altered to coincide with the band's more recent sound on albums like Eliminator, etc. What a tragedy! This was a great album and should be reissued in its original form. I am only grateful I still have a turntable and can play the original. I threw the cd out. I could not get past the altered drum tracks. I cannot believe the band chose to "revise" the album. I hope that it is eventually put out on cd as it was originally meant to be heard. Nothing on the packaging even warns you that it is not in the original form. Dishonest and disappointing is all I can say.Free Music Review: Don't mess with Tejas.
Hit: 3 Stars
Remastering isn't always good.I bought this album on vinyl right after it was originally released. Twenty-some years and hundreds of listens later, I broke down and bought the CD. Oops. Whose idea was it to get creative with the drum tracks? On vinyl, Frank Hill's drums sound as tasteful as always, particularly that nice hollow, gritty snare drum. On some of the cuts on the CD, the drum track has been reverbed, effected, and pulled up front so far that poor Mr. Hill sounds like a bad drum machine in my disco nightmare. On other cuts (e.g., "Driving While Blind"), completely different and notably inferior drum tracks have been substituted for the originals.
Still a fine, fine album, but the remastering didn't do it any favors. I'm disappointed. The original gets five stars.
Free Music Review: Don't mess with Tejas.
Hit: 3 Stars
Remastering isn't always good.I bought this album on vinyl right after it was originally released. Twenty-some years and hundreds of listens later, I broke down and bought the CD. Oops. Whose idea was it to get creative with the drum tracks? On vinyl, Frank Hill's drums sound as tasteful as always, particularly that nice hollow, gritty snare drum. On some of the cuts on the CD, the drum track has been reverbed, effected, and pulled up front so far that poor Mr. Hill sounds like a bad drum machine in my disco nightmare. On other cuts (e.g., "Driving While Blind"), completely different and notably inferior drum tracks have been substituted for the originals.
Still a fine, fine album, but the remastering didn't do it any favors. I'm disappointed. The original gets five stars.
Free Music Review: Unique production lost in the pop
Hit: 4 Stars
In '87 ZZ Top released Tejas only to discover no one was listening. Everyone, including future productions for ZZ Top went pop. But the true measure for Tejas is its freshness even today. More that ten years after its release new fans are exploring the unique, gritty Texas blues edge throughout the cuts. Songs like "Arrested while driving while blind" and "Snappy Kakie" get right in the grove you find popular these days with artists like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kenny Wyane Sheppard and Johnny Lang. After you let the "boys" slap down a helping of "Little 'ol band from Texas" energy, you'll suddenly experience what is perhaps the best artistic work recorded by the band in the instrumental "asleep in the desert". Or just listen to "Enjoyed gettin it on" and end any questions about ZZ Tops unique sound of "Funkified Blues". Either way, Tejas is an album true to the ZZ Top roots. This album will continue to stand the test of time and perhaps become the best example of the bands influence and legacy.Free Music Review: tejas best captures texas style
Hit: 4 Stars
Tejas may have been the poorest selling of ZZ Top's recordings over a career spanning three decades. Following its release, the band went on a hiatus of sorts until the release of Deguello. But if you are a fan of the band from the days before they became hooked on more of a pop sound, you might want to give this track a look-see. It's Only Love was, safe to say, the attempt at a chart topper but still provides the vintage Texas boogie sound the band is known for. Once you get past that, though, the music heats up, providing a sound and feel indicative of the Southwest. Arrested for Driving While Blind is one of the band's all time best. Billy Gibbons' Les Paul and his unique, gritty sound are captured in a great lead at the latter part of the song. El Diablo could have passed for a Clint Eastwood movie theme song. The ending, especially, evokes an almost lonely, mysterious feeling. Asleep in the Desert is the surprising instrumental. It features some beautif! ul classical guitar work and a side of ZZ Top you may not have known existed. These guys are real musicians. Avalon Hideaway is my personal favorite. Like the other songs on Tejas, it tells another macho story, this time about gambling in some seedy godforesaken place in the world of the workin' man. Ten Dollar Man is about a pimp slash drug dealer and the cheap thrills available on the mean streets. The intro is a great sampling of Gibbons' raw sound.
Drummer Frank Beard displays his perfect meter and bassist Dusty Hill teams up to provide some of the vovals, sharing duties with Billy Gibbons. It's not a greatest hits album but then I'm not looking for one.