ZZ top are one of the very best rock bands of all time. So, it’s time for a GOAT. But with several platinum albums under their beards as well as over a lots huge hits, exactly how to pick just one? Well, I started broad as well as went narrow.
Deguello is the very best ZZ top album. There were others that had more hits, many more hits, as well as made them much more famous. There were others that had much slicker production. however Degüello, which was the term for the bugle phone call of the Mexican army utilized during the siege of the Alamo, is the perfect example of the muscular, guitar-driven blues that ZZ top did so well. The album led off with an incredible cover of Isaac Hayes’ “I say thanks to You,” which left such an perception on me that for many years I believed Hayes wrote I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide. Those two tunes from Deguello are so incredible I’d flip them in my memory.
But no, I’m Bad, I’m nationwide is 100 percent Billy Gibbons, dusty hill as well as Frank Beard. The album likewise featured terrific tunes like She loves My Automobile, inexpensive Sunglasses, as well as a rocking cover of Robert Johnson’s dust My Broom. The entire record is a masterpiece. as well as “I’m Bad…” is the very best tune on the record.
Further listening: great deals of great ZZ top tunes out there, however candidates for one of the biggest Of All Tunes would have to include I say thanks to You as well as inexpensive Sunglasses, off Deguello, as well as these: Tush, Gimme All Your Lovin’, Sharp dressed Man, as well as La Grange.
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ZZTOP Ep Tribute by Stevie Anders