'ZZ Top had reached the top of the charts before, but that didn't make their sudden popularity in 1983 any more predictable. It wasn't that they were just popular -- they were hip, for God's sake, since they were one of the only AOR favorites to figure out to harness the stylish, synthesized grooves of {new wave}, and then figure out how to sell it on MTV. Of course, it helped that they had songs that deserved to be hits. With Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, and Legs, they had their greatest set ...   [ read more ]

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ZZ Top had reached the top of the charts before, but that didn't make their sudden popularity in 1983 any more predictable. It wasn't that they were just popular -- they were hip, for God's sake, since they were one of the only AOR favorites to figure out to harness the stylish, synthesized grooves of {new wave}, and then figure out how to sell it on MTV. Of course, it helped that they had songs that deserved to be hits. With Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, and Legs, they had their greatest set o...   [ read more ]

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Before they sweated their image down to beards, babes and hot rods, ZZ Top were a down 'n' dirty blues-rock trio with a bonafide hot guitar player in Billy Gibbons. On this 14-track offering, Warner goes back through the back ZZ catalog and cobbles together an interesting collection of the Texas trio's bluesier sides that originally appeared on their earliest albums. Highlights include "Brown Sugar," "A Fool for Your Stockings," "My Head's in Mississippi," "Apologies to Pearly" and Gibbons' ...   [ read more ]

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