Anytime anybody asks me the dreaded all-time, all-star, desert-island album question, my answer is almost always ZZ Top’s breakthrough album Eliminator. Why? Because it has everything. It’s blues. It’s metal. It’s tex-mex, swamp rock, disco, and power-pop all in one package. If I was headed to a party and I didn’t know the crowd
there, bringing this one album would make almost everyone happy. The “remember the 80s” crowd loves the videos and the band’s pop culture cache. The metal crowd (some of them anyway, the rest are jerkoffs) enjoy Billy Gibbons’ smooth leads, while blues purists know he’s done more for the genre than anyone since Muddy Waters. And even disco freaks like the heavily produced, simple and rhythmic beats on here. And car nuts love that cherry ‘33 Ford on the album cover,one of many classics that Gibbons chopped, channeled, and restored in his spare time outside the band. Read the rest of this entry »

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