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~ ZZ Top
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  • Audio CD (13 April 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B000002LSV
  • Other Editions: Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,448 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Gimme All Your Lovin'
2. Sharp Dressed Man
3. Rough Boy
4. Tush
5. My Head's In Mississippi
6. Pearl Necklace
7. I'm Bad I'm Nationwide
8. Viva Las Vegas
9. Doubleback
10. Gun Love
11. Got Me Under Pressure
12. Give It Up
13. Cheap Sunglasses
14. Sleeping Bag
15. Planet Of Women
16. La Grange
17. Tube Snake Boogie
18. Legs

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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision; even in the side-long-jam era of the 1970s, the Texans almost always fit 10 cuts on their albums. Surveying two decades of their output, Greatest Hits isn't the perfect overview you might expect, but it's still a pretty darn good driving album. The disc goes easy on the pre-Deguello stuff surveyed on their earlier best-of, and seems to digitally boost the drums on tracks like the 1975 "Tush". Still, later cuts like "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" and "My Head's in Mississippi" are full-on triumphs of this trio's very weird, very blues-drenched sensibility. --Rickey Wright

CD Description
Although it began as an album-oriented, hard-edged blues band, ZZ Top had amassed quite a number of Top 40 hits by the early '90s. All are featured on 1992's 18-track GREATEST HITS compilation, making it a more comprehensive career overview than 1977's shorter THE BEST OF ZZ TOP. The only problem is that it doesn't contain a single selection from such earlyZZ Top classics as ZZ TOP'S FIRST ALBUM, RIO GRANDE MUD, orTEJAS.
But if you're searching for the best known ZZ Toptracks, GREATEST HITS is your best bet. Just about every radio staple that the trio penned is represented here, such asthe '80s synth-meets-blues-rock classics "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Legs", "Pearl Necklace", and "Sleeping Bag", plus such older favourites as "Tush", "Cheap Sunglasses", and "La Grange".

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars From greatness to decline, 8 Aug 2006
By D. J. H. Thorn "davethorn13" (Hull, UK) - See all my reviews
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There's no doubt that from day one ZZ Top were a class act. Billy Gibbons had already shown his teeth as a guitarist in the late 1960s before helping found this formidable trio. Perhaps, though, they just became fed up with blowing bands off every stage in Texas and earning a reputation. With the "Eliminator" album they went for the commercial jugular, a mission that this collection represents.

The first few bars of "La Grange" offer a glimpse of the style that earned their initial reputation, earthy blues with the devil looking on. What little 1970s material is on show here however seems to have been buffed up so as not to make it sound too incongruous. More typical is the cover of "Viva Las Vegas", the title of which aptly describes their new-found gloss. In short, they decided to cash in. There's nothing wrong with courting the chart scene, of course. Tracks like "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Got Me Under Pressure" are irresistible chunks of hard driving boogie. But when ZZ Top don't hit the bullseye with this stuff they tend to be way off target.

"Legs" is a fine track, but the programmed rhythms are ominous. After this recording came tracks like "Sunglasses" and "Planet of Women", which are killed stone dead by that awful flat, synthetic 1980s influence. They should have steered well clear of it. "Eliminator" contains all you need of this kind of approach and is a better purchase, as are ZZ Top's early albums.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant - as far as it goes ..., 25 Sep 2003
By David Cranson (Hereford, UK) - See all my reviews
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Now, by that I mean this. On a world-wide scale, things broke with Eliminator. Yet for 15 or so years before that they had been releasing good solid blues/rock albums. Selling loads in US and not much elsewhere.

This album - with a couple of exceptions - ignores the early/earleir years, and concentrates on 1984 onwards. SO alothough it's a fine compilation, I can only hope that we can get a fuller 'Best of' one day which includes all the years.

So, of this stuff we have everything which is expected. "Gimme All Your Loving", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Legs", "Sleeping Bag", "Gun Love" etc . . . There's a couple from Deguello, incl "Cheap Sunglasses" and a couple from El Loco, incl "Tube Snake Boogie".

So from a world-wide perspective it is the greatest hits; but oh for an all-encompassing "Best Of" to include the early years.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ClasZZic cuts from those mavens of style and flair, 30 April 2005
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This review is from: Greatest Hits [CASSETTE] (Audio Cassette)
I actually remember when we thought ZZ Top was going to be a one hit wonder. They had "La Grange" and then that seemed like it was going to be the end of the road as the Seventies fizzled out. Then 1983's "Eliminator" came out with "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and suddenly ZZ Top exploded as a rockin' blues based power trio. When it comes to putting your pedal to the metal and having a driving beat nobody beats ZZ Top. In fact, in one of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" books one of Roland's crew recognizes the bass line from a ZZ Top song coming from an evil city. See? Even in fictional dimensions the servants of the Dark Man know the value of ZZ Top. Some people say they cannot tell the difference between "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs," but that is their headache; people like that probably cannot tell who has the longer beard, Billy Gibbons or Dusty Hill (ironically its not Frank Beard, LOL). ZZ Top has been keeping me awake at night grading student papers for almost two decades and if I am not mistaken, a vehicle that looks a lot like their snaZZy red vehicle was car of the year or something like that. Even if you are not inclined to have their entire oeuvre on your shelf, then you have to at least have this "Greatest Hits" collection. Remember: "they've got a lot of nice girls out there."
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good compilation
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice beards
Good to boogie to, energetic and mindless; that's ZZ Top in a nutshell. Signature tune 'Gimme all your lovin' was arguably the best thing they ever did and a millstone around... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars zz top's greatest hits rocks!!
I think that ZZ Top are a very good band and they remain one of my favorite bands of all-time. this is one great collection and they made great blues music in the 1970s and the... Read more
Published 21 months ago by for whom the bell tolls

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good but Not Great Collection
ZZ Top, Mr Beard and the two with the beards were at first a gritty Texas rock band and in their latter days a pop rock chart success. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2006 by Mr. A. E. Hall

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost 5 star
Put this on while eating your TV Dinner (which is actually not on this album)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A CD full of power.
The greatest singles of ZZ Top's long career. A cd that all fans of rock should have in their collection whether they are fans of ZZ Top or not. Read more
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