ZZ Top

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}  Music

Posted by popsakov at March 28, 2024
ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - The Best Of ZZ Top (1977) {1986, Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 202 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 86 Mb
Scans Included | 00:34:32 | RAR 5% Recovery
Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, Southern Rock | Warner-Pioneer Co. #32XD-537

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

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 11, 2023
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 - Afterburner (1985) {Japan 1st Press}  Music

Posted by popsakov at May 3, 2024
ZZ Top - Afterburner (1985) {Japan 1st Press}

ZZ Top - Afterburner (1985) {Japan 1st Press}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 270 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 92 Mb
Scans Included | 00:37:35 | RAR 5% Recovery
Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Synth Rock | Warner-Pioneer Corp. #32XD-374

Afterburner is the ninth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1985. Afterburner was a financial success, going several times platinum and launching several hit singles, the most successful of which was "Sleeping Bag" which peaked at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, it was the band's second album to be certified by the British Phonographic Industry, attaining Gold in 1985. In 1990, it was certified Platinum in the UK.

ZZ Top - The Very Baddest Of ZZ Top (2014)  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 22, 2022
ZZ Top - The Very Baddest Of ZZ Top (2014)

ZZ Top - The Very Baddest Of ZZ Top (2014)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Warner Bros., 8122795864 | ~ 1028 or 360 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 45 Mb
Southern Rock / Blues Rock

Following 2004's Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top by a decade, The Very Baddest of ZZ Top comes in two different styles: a single-disc compilation with 20 tracks and a set that doubles it. The single disc is good, racking up most of the MTV-era hits – "Gimme All Your Lovin," "Sharp Dressed Man," "Legs," "Got Me Under Pressure," "Rough Boy," "Velcro Fly" – while doubling back for "La Grange, "Tush," "I Thank You," "Waitin' for the Bus," "Jesus Just Left Chicago," "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide," and "Cheap Sunglasses."…

ZZ Top: Non Remastered CD Collection (1970 - 2012)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Nov. 6, 2021
ZZ Top: Non Remastered CD Collection (1970 - 2012)

ZZ Top: Non Remastered CD Collection (1970 - 2012)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
16CD | Label: Various | ~ 4649 or 1859 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 174 Mb
Southern Rock / Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Classic Rock

ZZ Top is an American rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The band consists of guitarist and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, bassist and co-lead vocalist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard. The band and its members went through several reconfigurations throughout 1969, achieving their current form when Hill replaced bassist Billy Etheridge in February 1970, shortly before the band was signed to London Records…

ZZ Top - Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top (2004)  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 25, 2022
ZZ Top - Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top (2004)

ZZ Top - Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top (2004)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Warner Bros., 8122-78908-2 | ~ 1057 or 364 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 48 Mb
Blues Rock / Hard Rock / Southern Rock

Since Rhino released an exhaustive four-disc ZZ Top box in October 2003, some may question the appearance of a double-disc retrospective in June 2004, a mere eight months after the box set. The two may be released awfully close to each other, but they do play to different audiences – in other words, there are a bunch of fans who want all the hits, but not a full box set, and that's what the 38-track Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top delivers…
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972) Non-Remastered, German Press [Re-Up]

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 263 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 114 Mb | Scans included
Southern Rock, Blues-Rock, Boogie Rock | Label: Warner Bros. | # 7599-27380-2 | 00:36:57

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 - Antenna (1994)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 8, 2023
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.

ZZ Top: Live From Texas (2008) Re-up  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 31, 2022
ZZ Top: Live From Texas (2008) Re-up

ZZ Top: Live From Texas (2008)
Rock/Blues Rock/Hard Rock | Blu-ray | BDMV | ~22.10 Gb | Scans
Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i (1920x1080, 16:9) | Audio: LPCM Stereo, 2250Kbps/DD 5.1, 640Kbps/DTS HD Master Audio 5.1

That Little Ol’ Band from Texas comes up big in ZZ Top: Live from Texas, a concert recorded in Dallas in November, 2007. The hirsute trio (guitarist Billy Gibbons, bass player Dusty Hill, drummer Frank Beard) has been at it for nearly four decades now, and notwithstanding their synth-tinged commercial breakthrough in the ‘80s, they haven’t changed a whole lot in that time–not that that’s a bad thing, as ZZ Top is still essentially a fine, gut-bucket blues band. In the course of this 80-minute gig, they dig deep into the back catalogue, mixing in tunes from ‘70s albums like Tres Hombres, Rio Grande Mud, and Fandango, as well as more recent items from the multi-platinum Eliminator…

ZZ Top - Degüello (1979) {Reissue}  Music

Posted by popsakov at Nov. 13, 2023
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.