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ZZ Top - ZZ Top's First Album (1971) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

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ZZ Top - ZZ Top's First Album (1971) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - ZZ Top's First Album (1971) {1990, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 219 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 86 Mb
Scans Included | 00:34:16 | RAR 5% Recovery
Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Texas Blues | Warner Music Japan #WPCP-3980

ZZ Top's First Album may not be perfectly polished, but it does establish their sound, attitude, and quirks. Simply put, it's a dirty little blues-rock record, filled with fuzzy guitars, barrelhouse rhythms, dirty jokes, and Texan slang. They have a good, ballsy sound that hits at gut level, and if the record's not entirely satisfying, it's because they're still learning how to craft records – which means that they're still learning pacing as much as they're learning how to assemble a set of indelible material. Too much of this record glides by on its sound, without offering any true substance, but the tracks that really work – "(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree," "Backdoor Love Affair," "Brown Sugar," and "Goin' Down to Mexico," among them – show that from their very first record on, ZZ Top was that lil' ol' blues band from Texas.

ZZ Top - Degüello (1979) {Reissue}

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ZZ Top - Degüello (1979) {Reissue}

ZZ Top - Degüello (1979) {Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 305 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 171 Mb
Full Scans | 00:34:20 | RAR 5% Recovery
Southern Rock, Classic Rock | Warner Bros. #3361-2 / 256 701

ZZ Top returned after an extended layoff in late 1979 with Degüello, their best album since 1973's Tres Hombres. During their time off, ZZ Top didn't change much – hell, their sound never really changed during their entire career – but it did harden, in a way. The grooves became harder, sleeker, and their off-kilter sensibility and humor began to dominate, as "Cheap Sunglasses" and "Fool for Your Stockings" illustrate. Ironically, this, their wildest album lyrically, doesn't have the unhinged rawness of their early blooze rockers, but the streamlined production makes it feel sleazier all the same, since its slickness lets the perversity slide forth. And, forget not, the trio is in fine shape here, knocking out a great set of rockers and sounding stylish all the time. Undoubtedly one of their strong suits.

ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {Single-Disc Edition}

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ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {Single-Disc Edition}

ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {Single-Disc Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 583 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 207 Mb
Full Scans | 01:15:50 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock / Boogie Rock / Hard Rock / Southern Rock
Warner Bros. Records #0603497851621

The very title of Goin' 50 suggests ZZ Top are considering their 50th anniversary as an event to be celebrated with a sense of humor. That's appropriate. Good spirits and lascivious jokes always have been integral to the trio's appeal, and they can be heard in abundance on this triple-CD/five-LP set that tells their story from beginning to end (there is also a single-disc edition that rounds up the highlights). Other compilations cover similar ground more succinctly – if you want just the hits, look elsewhere, or grab the single-disc incarnation of this 2019 set.

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1984, Target CD}

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ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1984, Target CD}

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1984, Target CD}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 212 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 97 Mb
Full Scans | 00:34:31 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock / Boogie Rock / Southern Rock
Warner Bros. Records #3273-2 / 256 598

ZZ Top closed out their tenure with London Records in late 1977 with The Best of ZZ Top, a basic but terrific ten-song retrospective of highlights from their first five albums (well, four, actually, since the underwhelming Tejas is ignored). There are no surprises here, just album rock favorites, which means it does draw heavily on Tres Hombres (four songs, total), adds Fandango's "Tush," "Blue Jean Blues," and "Heard It on the X" for good measure, then rounds it out with two songs from Rio Grande Mud and a selection from the debut. Yeah, there are a couple good album tracks missing, but as a ten-song summary of their early years, this can't be beat.

ZZ Top - Fandango! (1975) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

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ZZ Top - Fandango! (1975) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - Fandango! (1975) {1990, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 222 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 86 Mb
Scans Included | 00:34:07 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock / Boogie Rock / Southern Rock / Texas Blues
Warner-Pioneer Corp. #WPCP-3983

Fandango! is the fourth album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1975. Half the tracks are selections from live shows, the rest are new songs from the studio. Fandango, from which the album gets its name, is a type of dance similar to flamenco. In the late 1980s a digitally remixed version of the recording was released on CD and the original 1975 mix version was discontinued. The remix version created controversy among fans because it significantly changed the sound of the instruments, especially drums. The remix version was used on all early CD copies and was the only version available for over 20 years. A remastered and expanded edition of the album was released on February 28, 2006, containing three bonus live tracks. The 2006 edition is the first CD version to use Terry Manning's original 1975 mix.

ZZ Top - Antenna (1994)

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ZZ Top - Antenna (1994)

ZZ Top - Antenna (1994)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 364 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 123 Mb
Full Scans ~ 152 Mb | 00:50:56 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Hard Rock | RCA #07863 66317-2

Antenna is the eleventh studio album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1994. It was the band's first album to be released on the RCA label. It was also the first time ZZ Top had a song with the album title in its name ("Antenna Head"). The opening track and first single from the album, "Pincushion", reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US.

Billy F Gibbons - Hardware (2021)

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Billy F Gibbons - Hardware (2021)

Billy F Gibbons - Hardware (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 300 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 115 Mb
Full Scans | 00:37:01 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock / Boogie Rock / Hard Rock / Southern Rock
Concord Records #CRE01559

Billy F. Gibbons launched his belated solo career in 2015 with Perfectamundo, a loose exercise in Latin rhythms that was slightly outside of the wheelhouse of ZZ Top, which had been his main gig since 1969. Big Bad Blues, its 2018 sequel, could also be seen as a bit of a genre exercise, as it was a heavy blues album, but Hardware is something else entirely. This 2021 platter is a straight-ahead rock & roll album in the vein of ZZ Top, a record filled with originals that feel familiar, as they're built of the same components Gibbons has relied upon for decades: fuzztone guitars, thick swing and burly boogie, sly jokes and growled vocals.

ZZ Top - Live From Texas (2008) {2009, Japanese Edition}

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ZZ Top - Live From Texas (2008) {2009, Japanese Edition}

ZZ Top - Live From Texas (2008) {2009, Japanese Edition}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 573 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 205 Mb
Full Scans | 01:16:00 | RAR 5% Recovery
Boogie Rock / Blues Rock / Southern Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock
Eagle Records / Isol Discus Organization #GQCP-59114

A CD accompaniment to the Eagle Rock live DVD release of ZZ Top's November 1, 2007 set at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, TX, Live from Texas is one for the fans - a latter-day live record that's by no means embarrassing but not very captivating, either. The set list is hits-heavy, containing every one of the MTV hits from Eliminator and all the classic rock radio staples, all taken just a little bit slower than they were on record. That combined with the crystal clear production makes the band seem just a little bit sluggish at times, but they can still churn out a boogie - "Sharp Dressed Man" in particular cooks - and Billy Gibbons' guitar still snarls as much as his voice growls, which is enough to make this worth a listen for longtime fans.

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

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ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972) {1990, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 251 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 94 Mb
Scans Included | 00:36:59 | RAR 5% Recovery
Texas Blues, Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock | Warner-Pioneer Corp. #WPCP-3981

With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, ZZ Top uses the sound they sketched out on their debut as a blueprint, yet they tweak it in slight but important ways. The first difference is the heavier, more powerful sound, turning the boogie guitars into a locomotive force. There are slight production flares that date this as a 1972 record, but for the most part, this is a straight-ahead, dirty blues-rock difference. Essentially like the first album, then. That's where the second difference comes in – they have a much better set of songs this time around, highlighted by the swaggering shuffle "Just Got Paid," the pile-driving boogie "Bar-B-Q," the slide guitar workout "Apologies to Pearly," and two Dusty Hill-sung numbers, "Francine" and "Chevrolet." There are still a couple of tracks that don't quite gel and their fuzz-blues still can sound a little one-dimensional at times, but Rio Grande Mud is the first flowering of ZZ Top as a great, down-n-dirty blooze rock band.

ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {Reissue}

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ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {Reissue}

ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 269 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 123 Mb
Full Scans | 00:37:26 | RAR 5% Recovery
Southern Rock, Boogie Rock, Blues Rock | Warner Bros. Records #3593-2 | US

El Loco is the seventh studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981. The title means "The Crazy One" in Spanish. The band's guitarist/singer Billy Gibbons has said that the recording of this album was the first time the three members of the band were isolated from one another in the studio, rather than recording simultaneously in the same room. It also foreshadowed ZZ Top's synthesizer-driven direction later in the decade, with early experimentations in synthesizer backing on certain tracks.

ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {3CD Box Set}

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ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {3CD Box Set}

ZZ Top - Goin' 50 (2019) {3CD Box Set}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 1,36 Gb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 464 Mb
Full Scans ~ 222 Mb | 03:11:55 | RAR 5% Recovery
Boogie Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Texas Blues
Warner Bros. Records #R2 591567 / 603497851614

The very title of Goin' 50 suggests ZZ Top are considering their 50th anniversary as an event to be celebrated with a sense of humor. That's appropriate. Good spirits and lascivious jokes always have been integral to the trio's appeal, and they can be heard in abundance on this triple-CD/five-LP set that tells their story from beginning to end (there is also a single-disc edition that rounds up the highlights). The set breaks down into three easy acts: the band's greasy early years, spanning from "La Grange" to "Pearl Necklace," are on the first disc; the second installment covers their MTV glory days; the third CD traces the aftermath of Afterburner, beginning with "Viva Las Vegas" and ending with the 21st century barnburner "I Gotsta Get Paid" (plus recent live versions of "Waitin' for the Bus" and "Jesus Just Left Chicago," which brings this full circle to the beginning).

VA - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2: 32 Guitar Ballads (2002) 2CDs

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VA - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2: 32 Guitar Ballads (2002) 2CDs

VA - While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2: 32 Guitar Ballads (2002) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 973 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 364 Mb
Label: Universal TV | # 069 254-2 | Time: 02:33:39 | Scans included
Classic Rock, Blues-Rock, Folk-Rock, Blues

32 tracks from guitar legends such as Mark Knopfler, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Fleetwood Mac, Ry Cooder, ZZ Top, Gary Moore, Chris Rea, Santana and more, all help make this 2 CD set a sure fire hit.

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (1992)

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ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (1992)

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 478 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 167 Mb
Label: Warner Bros. | # 7599-26846-2 | Time: 01:12:50 | Scans ~ 78 Mb
Blues-Rock, Boogie Rock, Hard Rock, Southern Rock

This isn't a perfect roundup of ZZ Top's superstar years of the '80s, but it comes pretty close. It dips back into the '70s for "Pearl Necklace" and "La Grange," with a couple of selections from the post-peak '90s, but this does offer the MTV-era basics: "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Rough Boy," "Tush," "My Head's in Mississippi," "Doubleback," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Sleeping Bag." What slows this record down are some new cuts and album tracks that don't deserve to be here, along with a remix, not the original version, of "Legs." Still, that may just be quibbling for some listeners, since the basics are all here, making this a good complement to the '70s-focused The Best of ZZ Top.

Billy F Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues (2018) *PROPER*

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Billy F Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues (2018) *PROPER*

Billy F Gibbons - The Big Bad Blues (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 323 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 97 Mb
Full Scans ~ 122 Mb | 00:40:19 | RAR 5% Recovery
Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Southern Rock | Concord Records #CRE00746

Perfectamundo, the 2015 solo debut from Billy F. Gibbons, found the ZZ Top majordomo indulging in his fascination with Cuban music, which meant that it felt fundamentally different than his main gig. The same can't quite be said of Big Bad Blues, its 2018 follow-up. Working with a band featuring drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Austin Hanks, harpist James Harman, and bassist Joe Hardy, Gibbons dives deep into blues and boogie that's been at the foundation of ZZ Top since their first album in 1971. Superficially, Gibbons is covering the same ground, but having Big Bad Blues as a busman's holiday does significantly change the feel, particularly in regards to rhythm. Sorum and Hardy provide a looser foundation than Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, which lets Gibbons slither a bit more, plus it's fun to hear him have foils in Harman and Hanks.

ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

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ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {1990, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - El Loco (1981) {1990, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 269 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 122 Mb
Full Scans | 00:37:28 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock | Warner-Pioneer Corp. #WPCP-3986

El Loco is the seventh studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981. The title means "The Crazy One" in Spanish. The band's guitarist/singer Billy Gibbons has said that the recording of this album was the first time the three members of the band were isolated from one another in the studio, rather than recording simultaneously in the same room. It also foreshadowed ZZ Top's synthesizer-driven direction later in the decade, with early experimentations in synthesizer backing on certain tracks.