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ZZ Top - Greatest Hits | 
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| Artist: Zz Top
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 624
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: 075992684620
UPC: 075992684620
EAN: 0075992684620
ASIN: B000002LSV
Release Date: April 14, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Gimme All Your Lovin' | | • | Sharp Dressed Man | | • | Rough Boy | | • | Tush | | • | My Head's In Mississippi | | • | Pearl Necklace | | • | I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide | | • | Viva Las Vegas | | • | Doubleback | | • | Gun Love | | • | Got Me Under Pressure | | • | Give It Up | | • | Cheap Sunglasses | | • | Sleeping Bag | | • | Planet Of Women | | • | La Grange | | • | Tube Snake Boogie | | • | Legs |
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One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision; even in the side-long-jam era of the '70s, 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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 75 more reviews...
 Great CD September 29, 2008
My family and I are going to see ZZ Top soon. I wanted my daughter to here their music as she is not familar with them, so this CD was perfect for her to listen to ( her dad and I too )Thanks fot the quick shipping!
(4.5 stars) GIMME ALL YOUR MTV GREATEST HITS ! (by no means a complete ZZ Top collection, but still an enjoyable one) September 25, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
ZZ Top is the eclectic Texas blues/boogie and hard rock band that features the two front men (Billy Gibbons on guitar, Dusty Hill on bass) with trademark dark sunglasses and very long full beards. Drummer Frank Beard has no beard. All three are original members from the band's inception as a cosmic cowboy blues/hard rock trio in 1969. Billy Gibbons is widely respected as one of the best electric blues/rock guitarists in the business.
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits (1992) mostly covers the Texas trio's 1980s techno-boogie working-class chic MTV years, but that doesn't mean that this collection isn't worthy. On the contrary, this is great stuff that any true ZZ Top fan would like. Sure, they use drum machines and electronics on a lot of these songs, but Billy Gibbons' loud and bluesy guitar and humorously sly vocals are still front and center, and everything here is unmistakably ZZ Top.
The collection does briefly touch on the band's early years. La Grange, Tush, Cheap Sunglasses, and I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide are all from the band's Tex-Mex blues and boogie years in the seventies, but unfortunately the classic Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago wasn't included, and that is why I docked this collection 1/2 star. That's an unforgivable oversight, but it doesn't suck all the joy from this set. There is still a lot of good ZZ Top music here. Gimme All Your Lovin', Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, My Head's In Mississippi, Rough Boy, Tube Snake Boogie and much more. They even threw in a couple of new songs, Gun Love and their version of Elvis' Viva Las Vegas.
ZZ Top - Greatest Hits includes eighteen songs, and if you're in the mood for hearing ZZ Top music from their highly successful MTV years, this covers the era as well as it really needs to. I'm a fan of the band's early years (Tres Hombres is my favorite ZZ Top album), but I like this era as well. So while I mostly listen to the early stuff, every now and then I'll break out ZZ Top - Greatest Hits and recall all of those cool ZZ Top videos that were on MTV in those days and rock out Tejas style.
ZZ Top Excellence! August 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is no one else like them. An absolute must have for fans of the unique style of none other than ZZ Top!
ZZ Top August 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Listen to it everyday. It gets my work done faster & I'm rockin the whole time. Love these guys
 Solid, but not a great compilation August 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, I confess, I am not much of a fan of the ZZ Top of the '80s-MTV era. They are a great band, no doubt, but since I am not a huge fan of the MTV years of ZZ, I had trouble really getting into 1992's 'Greatest Hits.'
Any fan looking to seek out their '80s MTV classics will be very satisfied with this disc. 'Sharp Dressed Man,' 'Gimme All Your Lovin',' 'Rough Boy,' a remix of 'Legs' and 'Pearl Necklace' are all here.
Fans of the seventies ZZ Top will also discover 'Cheap Sunglasses,' 'La Grange,' 'Tush' and 'I'm Bad I'm Nationwide' are all on here.
But don't fooled! 'La Grange' and 'Tush' are mediocre remixes. The original drum mix is completely destroyed, with Frank Beard reworking and filtering the drum parts to make these '70s ZZ Top classics sound more "modernized." Argh! How annoying!
Also, the new tracks (for a '70s ZZ Top fan, anyway) aren't anything to get really excited about. ZZ Top's take on 'Viva Las Vegas' is not great. 'Gun Love' is better than 'Viva Las Vegas,' but it is still not anything extraordinary.
I am not criticizing the selections on this disc. For fans of the MTV years of ZZ Top, this is a great collection to own and quite possibly all you will need.
But, if you are like me and want a summary of their '70s classics, pick up 'The Best of ZZ Top.' That has 'La Grange' and 'Tush' in their album versions without the reworked/filtered drums.
Overall, I strongly recommend this to any '80s ZZ Top fan. But, I also strongly recommend for the '70s ZZ Top fans to check out 'The Best of ZZ Top.' While this has 18 and that one has 10, that one is full of the "good stuff" for the '70s fans.
Highly recommended for the '80s ZZ Top fans. I did buy this, and I was disappointed. But for the '70s fans, I'm warning you: pick up the studio albums or the 1977 compilation 'The Best of ZZ Top.' That's the best advice I can offer you.
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