ZZ Top's First Album [CASSETTE]

Product Details

Artist : ZZ Top
Format : Import
Binding : Audio Cassette
EAN : 0075992737944
Label : Warner Bros.
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1990-10-17
UPC : 075992737944

ASIN : B000002KJN

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree
2. Brown Sugar
3. Squank
4. Goin' Down to Mexico
5. Old Man
6. Neighbor, Neighbor
7. Certified Blues
8. Bedroom Thang
9. Just Got Back from Baby's
10. Backdoor Love Affair

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Customer Reviews

ZZ Top sound came before songwriting chops (2007-01-04)

The sound that ZZ Top make has survived intact through numerous changes of production style for over 35 years now; it seemed to arrive fully formed on this debut album even though they'd only been together a matter of months.Unfortunately, while the album sounds just like a blues-rock record should, the young (they were all about 21 on this) ZZ Top hadn't really become the distinctive songwriters they became later in their career - quite soon after in fact as their next album, "Rio Grande Mud", is a corker. Anyhow, the songs are all pretty forgettable - nothing desperately wrong with them, just not very interesting. I would only recommend this album to obsessives who have to have everything they did - you're really not missing much, particularly until they get round to releasing a remastered version.

Getting off to a great start (2004-08-08)

ZZ Top's 1970 debut remains one of their roughest and certainly bluesiest albums.It's a gritty little blues-rock record with lots of fuzzy guitar, rollicking barrelhouse rhythms and a raw, gutsy sound, and "ZZ Top's First Album" offers a handful of really excellent songs, like the tough "Brown Sugar" (not the Stones song), the swaggering, riff-driven "Goin' Down To Mexico", and the slow grind of "Just Got Back From Baby's".

Some may find that a number of these songs glide by on their tough, gut-bucket grooves without offering anything truly memorable, and while it is true that not every one of these ten songs is an instant all-time classic, the overall level is actually very high with several peaks and virtually no real let-downs.This is 34 minutes of tight, well-played blues-rock, as muscular as anything ZZ Top has ever put out. Less MTV-friendly than their 80s pop concessions, of course, but all the more gritty and authentic.Definitely recommended.

Brilliant! ....a classic album (2001-07-27)

This is by far the best album ZZ Top have released! If you like raw, driving, Texas blues (with a touch of wry humour.."Bedroom Thang', "The Squank") then this album is for you! ....really roots stuff!

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