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Track Listings
| 1. Rhythmeen |
| 2. Bang Bang |
| 3. Black Fly |
| 4. What's Up With That |
| 5. Vincent Price Blues |
| 6. Zipper Job |
| 7. Hairdresser |
| 8. She's Just Killing Me |
| 9. My Mind Is Gone |
| 10. Loaded |
| 11. Prettyhead |
| 12. "Hummbucking, Part 2" |
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After "Eliminator" and "Afterburner", the two albums released in the mid-1980s that finally established ZZ Top on a global level, the band possibly took the clinical production values of that era a little too far in releasing the two albums that followed: "Recycler" and (to a lesser extent) "Antenna" suffered from sounding too over-produced and electronic, not to mention being a million "multi-track" miles from the band's original stripped down bar-blues sound. The release of "Rhythmeen", however, has seen ZZ Top come full circle, and represents an awesome return to form. Perhaps eschewing chart based ambitions, the album has a resolutely low-fi but BIG feedback-ridden sound that gives a live feel to the proceedings, especially the heavy-fuzzy-voodoo-low-down-and-dirty sound that emanates from Billy Gibbons' guitar. The songs are all of obvious quality, without exception - not a case of an couple of obvious singles augmented with some other lesser quality songs that make up the numbers - this is an album to be heard in its' entireity. Standout tracks include the menacing title track "Rhythmeen", the catchy "What's Up With That", the distinctly sinister and brooding "Vincent Price Blues", and the stomping riff-laden "She's Just Killing Me" (which was also a shrewd choice for the soundtrack to the vampire flick "Dusk till Dawn").
Best of all, though, is the incredibly gruff "Humbucking Part II" in which Gibbons' voice almost becomes a rhythm instrument itself.
All this packaged in an excellent Voodoo style cd-inlay that puts the seal on a release that rates with their best releases - a list that (in my humble opinion) is headed by "Tres Hombres" (Incidentally, for the English people amongst us, does this mean "Three Geezers"?!) and "Deguello". But then I'm getting into another reveiw there, huh? Suffice to say: Buy it, enjoy it, and then go and check out some material by the UK's equivalent band, namely: Dr Feelgood.
Best of all, though, is the incredibly gruff "Humbucking Part II" in which Gibbons' voice almost becomes a rhythm instrument itself.
All this packaged in an excellent Voodoo style cd-inlay that puts the seal on a release that rates with their best releases - a list that (in my humble opinion) is headed by "Tres Hombres" (Incidentally, for the English people amongst us, does this mean "Three Geezers"?!) and "Deguello". But then I'm getting into another reveiw there, huh? Suffice to say: Buy it, enjoy it, and then go and check out some material by the UK's equivalent band, namely: Dr Feelgood.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the meanest lowest snarling album I've heard from ZZ Top. It's fantastic low down n' dirty texas style blues rock! When I put this album on the lawn turned brown, the cat over the road had a heart attack and my neighbour's hair turned white.
Billy Gibbons never dissapoints, Humbucking pt II, Prettyhead and Vincent Price Blues are my favourite tracks, but the guitar writing and song writing is superb throughout, and this band is unbelievably tight, there's tight bands, but this band is like a well oiled (oil from texas!) machine.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Never a band to stay static this album goes back to the earliest days,only this time it's loaded with serious tone.No synthesizers no samples -plug-in and GO!.Seriously downtuned guitars ,SEVEN tones to be precise, this is the Aural equivalent of Chocolate Fudge Sundae.Heavy rich and Deep. This is Tres Hombre more than Eliminator and much better for it,The humour is there in Hairdresser Mr G bemoaning the state of his locks.The insanely strange Vincent Price Blues and the thought provoking ,sex-change inspired, Zipper Job. There isn't a natural single here but there doesn't have to be this is like a book with chapters one thru twelve there is a solid consistency that makes each track unique but utterly different. Expect the unexpected and you won't be disappointed ,like the lightweight 'Legs'? then think again ...
Regards Pete
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It's good.......but there's something missing.
This 1995 release is a return to form with traditional "oil sump" blues that ZZ Top do so well.
The first seven tracks are quality stuff with the opener "Rhythmeen" moving... Read more
The first seven tracks are quality stuff with the opener "Rhythmeen" moving... Read more
Published 2 months ago by N. Fitzgerald
sharply dressed rhythm.
yes, a return to original form. hello to great low down blues rock. This cd will have you cartwheeling your air guitar a la zz top videos. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Bendy
Return to original form
At last, ZZ Top return to their original form. This album belongs with the first seven (First to Deguello) in style and content. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Sedge
Not bad,but not good
I bought this album on the strength of some of the reviews. It's ok but when it's compared to Tres Hombre or the studio side of Fandango,I don't think it's anywhere near as good. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Zulu 24
A glorious slab of sound
I have owned this album for several years now & it is still perhaps my favorite album of the last 10 years. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2010 by A. H. Jezzard
My faith has been restored!
I own everything they have released.THIS IS THE BEST SO FAR.PERIOD.
Gibbons guitar is always projected in your face-you can hear every sound
from the chords,the... Read more
Gibbons guitar is always projected in your face-you can hear every sound
from the chords,the... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2007 by I. S. K.
Goodbye Groove............Hello Angry white boy rock !!!!!!!
ZZ Top's long-awaited return to the blues became more apparent in 1996, well over a decade after they abandoned their simple three-chord boogie for a Metal-synth and electric drum... Read more
Published on 12 May 2007 by Carl Michael Fredrick
Chunky, barely liquid, bottom-of-the-engine sludge......
....I mean that in a good way. This is a true return to form.
In 1996, long after their 80s MTV nadir, ZZ Top ditched the gloss and the synthesizers to record a back-to-basics,... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2006 by Mr. Rgs Draycott
Not at their best, but good enough.
This album has to be the meanest, dirty, toughest and nastiest sounding album the Top have released. Afterburner was where I kinda lost the plot, it being to far, well just yuk! Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2004 by SimonD
Low Down and Dirty
To many this came as a surprise. Not what was expected at all. The 4 albums from Eliminator onwards basically covered the same ground musically. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2003 by David Cranson
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