Best of ZZ Top

Regler:

Max tre låtar per album.
Minst en låt per album.
Ordning=Noga genomtänkt, men ej rangordnad.
Spotifylista: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/749dqBlWimOdGQ2hPnGmES?si=PAxdQ3mFT5CmGVwWX7QIqg

Kommentarer: ZZ Top bildades redan 1969 i Houston, Texas USA. De släppte 15 studioplattor mellan 1971 och 2012. Zz Top var mina första hjältar och kärleken till dem startade tidigt 90-tal med Greatest Hits som jag fick av min bror i julklapp. Tack, bror!

"ZZ Top played their first ever concert on February 10, 1970 at a Knights of Columbus Hall on the old US 90 outside of Houston. The gig was booked by Beaumont radio personality Al Caldwell of KLVI, who would later also broadcast the band's first recordings. When the curtains opened there was just one person in the audience. Billy Gibbons recalled to Q magazine: "We shrugged and pressed onwards. We took a break halfway through, went out and bought him a Coke." -songfacts.com

1. Låt: Miller's Farm (1969)
Skiva: Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box
Årtal: 2003
Kommentar: Grym jäkla singel detta!

2. Låt: Salt Lick (1969)
Skiva: Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box
Årtal: 2003
Kommentar:  Grym jäkla singel detta!

3. Låt: Got Me Under Pressure
Skiva: Eliminator
Årtal: 1983
Kommentar: Dra åt helvete vilken platta detta är. Bara hits rakt igenom. Hur ska det gå att välja mellan Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin,Got Me Under Pressure, Sharp Dressed Man och If I Could Only Flag Her Down m.m.?

"There were moments when we thought: 'Are we making a mistake?' But there weren't many of them. At our rehearsal sessions they left us quaking in our boots because we were biting at the bit to use anything we could. But I think [Bill, manager/producer at the time] Ham had a couple of raised eyebrows. I like the analysis of drums to rockabilly – that could be what synthesisers are to blues bands today. They tried it and got away with it, we tried it and got away with it. And I'm curious what might be the next 'Oh, you can't do that' thing. Needless to say, the formula was a success." -Billy Gibbons

4. Låt: Jesus Just Left Chicago
Skiva: Tres Hombres
Årtal: 1973
Kommentar:

"1973 marked the rise of Southern rock, as Lynyrd Skynyrd released their debut LP and the Allman Brothers were at their peak. With a pair of studio albums under their big Texas sized belts, ZZ Top got down to serious work as the lil' ol' band prepared songs for their third LP. Continuing to work with producer Bill Ham, the Top packed their gear and hit Memphis' famed Ardent Studios to lay down the tracks for their '73 offering, the Tres Hombres album.

The change of scenery and Memphis night life was an immediate source of inspiration for the ZZ trio, as the boys kicked out a collection of blues, rock and boogie songs that define the group's pre-MTV make-over." -JonFox

5. Låt: Just Got Paid
Skiva: Rio Grande Mud
Årtal: 1972
Kommentar: Grym platta med bara bra låtar. Svårt att välja 3 stycken givetvis. Francine, Just Got Paid, Ko Ko Blue, Chevrolet, Bar-B-Q, Whiskey'n Mama, Down Brownie och Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell skulle alla kunnat vara på listan.

"It's not like these sounds haven't been done before, it just took somebody like ZZ Top to come along and put them in their proper perspective. I'm just excited by the continuance of the development of new sounds." -Billy Gibbons 

6. Låt: Two Ways to Play
Skiva: Mescalero
Årtal: 2003
Kommentar: Inleder svettigt med bland annat Mescalero, Two Ways to Play, Alley-Gator, Goin So Good och Piece. Även Punk Ass Boyfriend, Stackin Paper, What It Is Kid, Tramp, Liquor, As Time Goes By och Que Lastima är bra också. Kanonplatta!

"Their manager, Bill Ham, was considered their "fourth member." He produced their first album, which he helped bankroll, and got them a distribution deal with a small label called London Records, where they stayed until signing with Warner Bros. in 1979. Ham produced all of their albums through Rhythmeen in 1996; they parted company in 2006...In 1991 a Texas man kidnapped and killed the wife of their manager, Bill Ham. The man was caught and given the death penalty. " -songfacts.com

7. Låt: Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Skiva: Tres Hombres
Årtal: 1973
Kommentar: Om de två första plattorna var långsam bluesrock, tar de här ut svängarna ordentligt. Lyssna bara på Jesus Just Left Chicago och Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers. Jösses, sicket sväng! Waitin' for the Bus, Move Me On Down the Line, Precious and Grace, Sheik och Have You Heard är grymma låtar också.

"On to a gig in Phoenix, we were driving through a West Texas windstorm. We, the band, were waiting to discover a place with some safe ground cover when the late-night lights of a roadside joint appeared. It was just across the line outside El Paso into New Mexico.
We ducked in quick and came face to face with our kind of folks... those soulful souls seeking solace, not only out of the dust and sand, but out of mind. What chance does one get better than that! We joined the gathering and started scribbling." -songfacts.com

8. Låt: Cheap Sunglasses
Skiva: Degüello
Årtal: 1979
Kommentar:

"We wrote that song when we used to tour in cars. And every gas station in the world had a cardboard display of the cheapest and ugliest sunglasses you could imagine. I have bought a thousand pair of them." -Dusty Hill

""The hip trip for us was to throw them into the audience as an offering. We ran out and we couldn't get any more. So we now have to make to do with Sanford Hutton's creations out of New York. The Ray Ban Wayfarer was the original cheap sunglasses. You could buy a pair for six bucks originally. I saw a catalog from 1959, and by then they were up to eight bucks. We had to take a bad rap from an optometrist who said 'Don't wear ZZ Top's cheap sunglasses. They're bad for your eyes.' There was an optometrists' convention in Hawaii and there was a huge poster – this woman with a pointing finger saying, 'Don't wear cheap sunglasses.' I suppose I'll have to agree. There is a cutoff point where optical considerations must be taken into account." -Billy Gibbons

9. Låt: I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You
Skiva: La Futura
Årtal: 2012
Kommentar:

"They are the longest-running American rock band with no member changes...All three members were born in 1949; they were each 19 when the band started." -songfacts.com

10. Låt: Blue Jean Blues
Skiva: Fandango!
Årtal: 1975
Kommentar: A-sidan är live. Den är vild. Låtvalet kunde varit vassare. B-sidan är kanon med Blue Jean Blues, Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings, Mexican Blackbird, Balinese, Heard It on the X och Tush.

"...absolutely unadulterated slow blues, with serious feeling, even if rock and roll radio listeners weren't fully aware that's what they were getting. This is Billy Gibbons putting on a blues guitar clinic, of restraint and intensity. He's not exactly holding back but he's not showing off either. It's all tone and feel, with attention to every note and lick, implemented with the perfect intention. Plus, let's not overlook that his smoldering playing is irresistibly complemented by the mournful desperation of his rasping vocals. What can I say but that this number immediately puts the listener in an absolute mood, sets a vice grip, and for four-and-a-half aching and breathtaking minutes, never lets loose. This is the blues, man; raw and real, and smattered in oil and gasoline, like the titular pair of blue jeans in the tune. Just close your eyes, and let these blues slowly wash over you, both pristine and nasty, somehow simultaneously. Only, do us all here a favor and don't tell any of those classic rock radio programmers. The incomprehensibly hidden-in-plain-sight blues of this long-held rock classic can remain unaddressed, just like whether or not Billy Gibbons' baby is ever going to be coming back to return his filthy-ass jeans. Somehow I think The King of the Blues and all those other old-timers would enjoy that." -somuchgreatblues.com

11. Låt: La Grange
Skiva: Tres Hombres
Årtal: 1973
Kommentar:

"Did you ever see the movie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas? That's what it's about. I went there when I was 13. A lot of boys in Texas, when it's time to be a guy, went there and had it done. Fathers took their sons there.

You couldn't cuss in there. You couldn't drink. It had an air of respectability. Miss Edna wouldn't stand for no bulls--t. That's the woman that ran the place, and you know she didn't look like Dolly Parton, either. I'll tell you, she was a mean-looking woman. But oil field workers and senators would both be there. The place had been open for over 100 years, and then this a--hole decides he's going to do an exposé and close it. And he stirred up so much s--t that it had to close.
La Grange is a little bitty town, and little towns in Texas are real conservative. But they fought against it. They didn't want it closed, because it was like a landmark. It was on a little ranch outside of town, the Chicken Ranch. Anyway, we wrote this song and put it out, and it was out maybe three months before they closed it. It pissed me off. It was a whorehouse, but anything that lasts a hundred years, there's got to be a reason." -Dusty Hill

12. Låt: Esther Be the One
Skiva: Degüello
Årtal: 1979
Kommentar:

"Anyone else think it sounds like a melting pot of most the songs on Desert Sessions 11 & 12" -Gary Yesterday

13. Låt: Made Into a Movie
Skiva: XXX
Årtal: 1999
Kommentar: Kraftigt bespottad av både media och "fans". Det betyder givetvis att plattan är grymt bra. Gitarrsoundet är enbart det värt att lyssna på plattan för.

""It was like: 'Okay, this feels good. We can still be a blues band and we can stand as a trio. It's just gonna require a little extra practice before we walk into the studio." --Billy Gibbons

14. Låt: Rough Boy
Skiva: Afterburner
Årtal: 1985
Kommentar: Rough Boy alltså. Sicken jäkla låt. Gåshud varje gång! Stages, Woke Up With Wood,

Ps. Woke Up With Wood är inte helt oklart vad den handlar om va? Ds.

Ps 2. Gimme All Your Lovin nr 2=Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury) Ds.

15. Låt: Brown Sugar 
Skiva: ZZ Top's First Album 
Årtal: 1971
Kommentar: Att Billy Gibbons är en av mina stora favoritgitarrister är ingen hemlighet och redan på debutplattan ZZ Top's First Album som släpptes 1971 hörs det åt varthän det barkar. Jösses som han lirar!

"The lyrics tell the story of a man infatuated with a woman, her captivating beauty likened to the addictive allure of brown sugar...During a road trip through the backroads of Texas, Gibbons stumbled upon a small roadside diner that served a unique dessert: a homemade brown sugar pie. Intrigued and inspired by the simple yet delicious dessert, Gibbons began to draw parallels between his sweet culinary discovery and the captivating allure of romantic relationships " -ilovebluesguitar.com

"Billy Gibbons' guitar tone throughout is nothing short of heavenly as he plays his '59 Les Paul famously nicknamed 'Pearly Gates'. On one of the album's highlights, the hard-rocking 'Brown Sugar', Gibbons comes across as an American Peter Green - a serious compliment...His playing tips its hat to the established masters and conventions of electric blues guitar but constantly introduces new phrasing and ideas into the mix that elevated him vastly over the thousands of players who replicated the basics of Chicago blues guitar verbatim. " -DSG

16. Låt: My Mind Is Gone
Skiva: Rhythmeen
Årtal: 1996
Kommentar:

"Det enda - och jag menar verkligen det enda - roliga med det här albumet är att Frank Beard också verkar vara på väg att skaffa skägg. Åtminstone är han väldigt orakad. I övrigt är det samma tomma tunnor som vanligt, med nya bottennapp i Billy Gibbons sexmetaforer. Bang-bang,höh-höh, know what I mean? Lägg av nu, för Guds skull." -Nöjesguiden

17. Låt: I Gotsta Get Paid
Skiva: La Futura
Årtal: 2012
Kommentar: I Gotsta Get Paid, Chartreuse, Consumption, Over You, Heartache In Blue, I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You, It's Too Easy Mañana, Big Shiny Nine, Have A Little Mercy och Threshold of a Breakdown är bra låtar. Nästan alla med andra ord. Rick Rubin rattar fett ljud. 

18. Låt: Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings
Skiva: Fandango!
Årtal: 1975
Kommentar:

19. Låt: Arrested for Driving While Blind
Skiva: Tejas
Årtal: 1976
Kommentar: Jämn platta utan självklara hits.

"The band took some time off from 1977-1979, which is when Gibbons and Hill started growing out their beards. Frank Beard is the only member who does not have a beard." -songfacts.com

20. Låt: Pincushion
Skiva: Antenna
Årtal: 1994
Kommentar:

"To sum up the vibe of Antenna, we started experimenting with all kinds of luxuries, stuff like two-and three-track overdubs of a vocal. It was during the recording of Antenna that we said: 'We can make these guitar tracks giant. What if we did the same treatment with vocal tracks?'" -Billy Gibbons

21. Låt: Just Got Back from Baby's
Skiva: ZZ Top's First Album 
Årtal: 1971 
Kommentar: Grym debutplatta från Tres Hombres. Squank är en stinker, men i övrigt är det kalas hela vägen.

"Jimi Hendrix called Gibbons "One of America's best young guitarists" on The Tonight Show, a quote that made many take note of his talents. With his band Moving Sidewalks, Gibbons opened some shows for Hendrix in 1968." -songfacts.com

22. Låt: Bar-B-Q
Skiva: Rio Grande Mud
Årtal: 1972
Kommentar:

By early 1972, ZZ Top had already become a great live band. With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, they began to learn how to capture that energy in the studio. -ultimateclassicrock.com

"We were gigging 350-odd days a year with some really wicked headliners...By '72 our onstage skills were getting good and sharp." -Billy Gibbons

23. Låt: Legs
Skiva: Eliminator
Årtal: 1983
Kommentar:

"Det kan vara lite olika och hur som helst. När jag skrev "Tush" så var det riffet som jag sedan byggde hela låten omkring. När vi jobbade med "Legs" var det textraden "She´s got legs and know how to use them" och sedan utvecklade vi låten därifrån. man vet riktigt aldrig var saker kommer ifrån eller hur de utvecklas." -Billy Gibbons om hur han skriver låtar

24. Låt: Tush
Skiva: Fandango!
Årtal: 1975
Kommentar:

"Tush, where I grew up, had two meanings. It meant what it means in New York. Tush is also like plush, very lavish, very luxurious. So it depended on how you used it. If somebody said, "That's a tush car,' you knew they weren't talking about the rear and of the car. That's like saying, 'That's a cherry short.' But tush as in 'That's a nice tush on that girl,' that's definitely the same as the Yiddish word. I don't know how we got it in Dallas. All it could have took was one guy moving down from New York." -Dusty Hill

"Tush was on Fandango!. We wrote that in Muscle Shoals, Alabama – and boy, it was hot and steamy! We were at some rodeo building and we came up with that. It just happened – we wrote it on the spot at a rehearsal. We were playing some show that night and wrote it before the show. Dusty sang it and never changed it. It was fun. I think my slide work in that was some of the best I've ever done. I still play that live about the same." -Billy Gibbons

25. Låt: My Head's in Mississippi
Skiva: Recycler
Årtal: 1990
Kommentar:

"My buddy Walter Baldwin spoke in the most poetic way. Every sentence was a visual awakening. His dad was the editor of the Houston Post. We grew up in a neighborhood where the last thing you would say is, 'These teenagers know what blues is.' But our appreciation dragged us in. Years later, we were sitting in a tavern in Memphis called Sleep Out Louie's — you could see the Mississippi River. Walter said, 'We didn't grow up pickin' cotton. We weren't field hands in Mississippi. But my head's there.' Our platform, in ZZ Top, was we'd be the Salvador Dalí of the Delta. It was a surrealist take. This song was not a big radio hit. But we still play it live, even if it's just the opening bit." -Billy Gibbons

26. Låt: Sharp Dressed Man
Skiva: Eliminator
Årtal: 1983
Kommentar:

"The iconic car that appeared in their videos and on the album cover of the same name is known as The Eliminator. It's a 1933 Ford that Billy Gibbons had made into a Hot Rod (he started working on it in 1976), and it proved so popular that he had another one built just like it to go on tour. Gibbons was into Hot Rods and for many kids watching MTV, The Eliminator was their first look at one in action." -songfacts.com

27. Låt: Backdoor Love Affair
Skiva: ZZ Top's First Album 
Årtal: 1971 
Kommentar: En sång om att uppvakta upptagna damer. Såklart...

"Before forming ZZ Top, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill were both members of a fake version of the British rock act The Zombies. The Texan group of imposters masqueraded as the Zombies and toured throughout the US to sold out shows a year after the real band split in the UK." -songfacts.com

""Is ZZ Top a blues band? Well, we're interpreters of blues bands. The wave of blues we enjoyed – not only being a part of, but also influenced by – was ushered in by the English guys. I think it would be fair to say that we were subliminally influenced throughout: The Animals, the Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Clapton, Beck… maybe a couple more. Which is kind of what got us thinking: 'Hey, we can hot-rod this stuff and make it really fun to play for ZZ Top.' There's a handful of Americans, a handful of guys from England, a handful of guys from points around the world that recognised the value of the impact of this strain of music that goes all the way back to Africa. And I'll be honest with ya, I still dig it." -Billy Gibbons

28. Låt: Ko Ko Blue
Skiva: Rio Grande Mud 
Årtal: 1972   
Kommentar:

"The power of this album isn't just that songs like "Francine," "Just Got Paid" and "Whiskey 'n Mama" find ZZ Top in a lockstep, blood-brother groove. And not just the danger that lurks behind every verse. And not just the liquid-fire solos from Billy Gibbons, or the way ZZ Top can stop and start on a dime. It's every bit of that." -ultimateclassicrock.com

29. Låt: El Diablo
Skiva: Tejas 
Årtal: 1976
Kommentar: It's Only Love, Arrested for Driving While Blind, El Diablo, Snappy Kakkie,  Ten Dollar Man och Asleep in the Desert är bra låtar.

"Whenever I have mentioned this record, the majority of friends and acquaintances have never heard of "Tejas" and further discussion usually resulted in faces looking like those of a deer caught in the glare of headlights. Really a shame, as it is a fine example of Texas blues rock..." -willyboy2

30. Låt: I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 
Skiva: Degüello
Årtal: 1979
Kommentar: I Thank You, "I'm Bad, Im Nationwide", A Fool for Your Stockings, är kanon. Manic Mechanic är ZZ Top i Frank Zappa-format.

"Burnt-out following the lengthy Tejas tour, the release of the short Degüello LP marked the group's long anticipated return to the scene following a three-year hiatus, in which Frank cleaned-up, Dusty worked at the Houston airport as a baggage handler, and Reverend Billy G did his thing." -JonFox

31. Låt: I Wanna Drive You Home 
Skiva: El Loco 
Årtal: 1981
Kommentar: De tre gubbarna i ZZ top måste ha hittat extasy, rökt svamp eller provat heroinballe eller något för detta är fullständigt urflippat. Lyssna bara på Groovy Little Hippie Pad, Don't Tease Me, Heaven, Hell or Houston, Party on the Patio...Leila är en skön Thin Lizzy-ballad, men I Wanna Drive You Home smäller nog högst här. Pearl Necklace känns överskattad och Tube Snake Boogie är rock n' roll. Nää!

"ZZ Top ease into the eighties with the feet up, shades down, and spliff in hand sounds of El Loco, wide open spaces and wide toothed grins all over effortlessly grooving, subtly silly tracks like "Tube Snake Boogie," the funky mush-mouthed "Ten Foot Pole," and porno-punster, "Pearl Necklace." Other velvet upholstered rockers like the minimalist pulse of "I Wanna Drive You Home," and "Party on the Patio" sit comfortably next to oddities in the soft rock slow dances "It's So Hard" and "Leila" (yeah, I like this one) and electro weirdo "Groovy Little Hippie Dad." El Loco is kinda like coming into an ice cold air-conditioned room after spending all afternoon baking in the Texas sun, it's cool, clean vibe both refreshing and antiseptically artificial." -bpnicast

32. Låt: Status
Skiva: Afterburner  
Årtal: 1985 
Kommentar: 

"I think we were aware of the success of Eliminator and I think we were spending a little more time inspecting the quality of the compositions and the quality of the execution. Because it was seemingly an impossible task to top Eliminator. But we certainly didn't want to feel that we hadn't done everything to at least give it another one of our best." -Billy Gibbons

33. Låt: 2000 Blues 
Skiva: Recycler
Årtal: 1990
Kommentar: ZZ Top hade slagit hårt och spelades flitigt på MTV. Då beslöt de sig för att ge sig tillbaka till sina rötter, bluesen. Soundet är knappt modernt, för 1990-talet, dvs de är fortfarande kvar i 80-talets synth-trummor. 2000 blues är Gary Moore-blues, bra, gitarrdriven, "emotionell" MTV-blues. Concrete and Steel är en ok låt, men lider av dåligt (och daterat) ljud.

"The drums have been enhanced by a sequencer so Frank Beard could probably have twiddled a few knobs on a console and retired to the bar to quaff a few cold ones to discover it was job done on his return." -Grampus

"First, it's falling behind the curve in regards to technology. True, they're pulling back on the synth assault that marked Afterburner, returning to the more guitar centered approach of Eliminator - but it doesn't sound half as revolutionary. For one, most of the tempos are sluggish and the electronic elements are too dated and generic (the synth choice in "Doubleback" is brutally out of sync with 1990, sounding like a refugee from a 1984 Glen Fry cringe fest)." -MarsHottentot

34. Låt: Prettyhead 
Skiva: Rhythmeen  
Årtal: 1996 
Kommentar:
"Denna gång har trion strippat bort de värsta syntharna till förmån för ett lite råare sound, men den överstyrda gitarren och viskande sången ekar ändå av en stark repriskänsla.

35. Låt: (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear 
Skiva: XXX  
Årtal: 1999 
Kommentar: Livelåtarna Sinpusher och (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear är kanon. Crucifixx-a-Flatt, Fearless Boogie, 36-22-36 och Made Into a Movie är bra låtar.

36. Låt: Alley-Gator
Skiva: Mescalero
Årtal: 2003
Kommentar:

"They performed for President George W. Bush a few days before he was inaugurated in 2001. While Governor of Texas, Bush proclaimed May 15, 1997 "ZZ Top Day." -songfacts.com

37. Låt: Hummbucking, Pt. 2
Skiva: Rhythmeen
Årtal: 1996
Kommentar:

"A turn of phrase, a potential title might spring to mind or a riff presents itself. It's about keeping an open mind and, in essence, 'let it happen.' We're never entirely sure of how this process actually works, but sho' 'nuff, it does work." -Billy Gibbons

38. Låt: Sinpusher 
Skiva: XXX   
Årtal: 1999  
Kommentar: Autotuner till trots är detta hur bra som helst. Skruva upp till 11!

39. Låt: Goin So Good 
Skiva: Mescalero 
Årtal: 2003 
Kommentar:

"Legend has it that the "ZZ" in their name comes from a design on barn doors and "Top" comes from Tops rolling papers, but in Billy Gibbons' book Rock 'n Roll Gearhead, he states that while looking at the concert posters that were adorning the wall and trying to come up with a new name for the band, he noticed a poster for ZZ Hill. He liked the ZZ part and thought of using ZZ King, like BB King, but that was too close. However, King was the best, or "tops," so ZZ Top is was." -songfacts.com

40. Låt: It's Too Easy Mañana 
Skiva: La Futura  
Årtal: 2012
Kommentar: Superb sista platta av Zz Top!

Bonus:

41. Låt: Waitin' for the Bus
Skiva: Live From Texas
Årtal: 2008
Kommentar:

42. Låt: Reverberation (Doubt) 
Skiva: Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box 
Årtal: 2003  
Kommentar: Zz Top gör Roky Erickson

43. Låt: Viva Las Vegas 
Skiva: Greatest Hits
Årtal: 1992
Kommentar:

"Another of rock's great lasting love affairs is between the ZZ Top man and a guitar he picked up back in 1968. He'd lent his car to an actor driving from Houston to try and make it big in Hollywood, and she got the part she auditioned for: "We figured the car must have divine connections, so we named it Pearly Gates," he said. She sold it, and the cash – now Disney-ishly sprinkled with good fortune – reached Gibbons, who used it to buy a 1959 Les Paul off a cattle rancher. "Also in the case was a love note, which we also still have, from a girlfriend of the original owner," Gibbons remembered. "She said, 'I like what you do. Meet me later. You might like what I can do.'" It's been behind some of the raunchiest power chords in rock ever since." -Historien om Billy Gibbons Les Paul -59

44. Låt: Doubleback
Skiva: Recycler
Årtal: 1990
Kommentar:

45. Låt: Gimme All Your Lovin' 
Skiva: RAW: 'That Little Ol' Band From Texas' Original Soundtrack
Årtal: 2022 (2019) 
Kommentar: R.i.p. Dusty Hill

Albumranking:

1. Tres Hombres 
2. La Futura 
3. Eliminator
4. Degüello   
5. Mescalero 
6. Fandango!   
7. Rio Grande Mud
8. ZZ Top's First Album
9. Rhythmeen 
10. XXX 
11. Tejas 
12. Afterburner   
13. Recycler
14. Antenna 
15. El Loco