There’s also a song called Woke up with Wood about, yeah. There was Sleeping Bag, Stages, Rough Boy (proving that ZZ could throw down a serious ballad), and Velcro Fly from Afterburner.
There was even a cool track called TV Dinners, proving once again these guys could get away with writing about anything.Īfterburner and Recycler followed Eliminator, throwing off some really cool hits of their own while maintaining the style of the Eliminator album.
You simply could not go anywhere in the 80s without hearing Sharp Dressed Man, Gimme all Your Lovin’, Got Me Under Pressure, or Legs. It was a huge shift in ZZ Top’s sound, and while it may have lost them a few fans who had been listening to the dirty grind of their earlier Texas boogie sound, it gained them many fans who couldn’t get enough of that “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas.” Eliminator produced no less than 5 hit singles, with the rest of the album kicking as much ass as the hits did. ” should give you a little hint about what the band is referring to.Įliminator, of course, is one of their best known albums. She took it in her hand and this is what she had to say. The lyrics, “She was gettin’ bombed and I was gettin’ blown away. There’s Tube Snake Boogie, which isn’t too hard to figure out, and Pearl Necklace is a sexual reference I’ll let you look up. Just take a look at some of the tracks on El Loco. They write songs like no other band I know. When I started writing songs, I definitely took a lot of my influence from these guys. Their lyrics are dripping with humor, double entendres, and sometimes outright vulgarities. There are a lot of great songs on El Loco. El Loco was the perfect combination of ZZ Top’s sound before and after the Eliminator album. It still has some of that bluesy Texas boogie from their previous albums, but you could hear hints of what they would be doing on Eliminator. It was a pivotal album for the band because it was the album before Eliminator. I was hooked, so by the time Eliminator came out, I was already pretty damn familiar with the band and their style of writing songs.Įl Loco is a favorite of mine. I heard this album and immediately went in search of ZZ Top’s previous albums. They were looking for something a bit more fun. Let’s just say that the boys in the band weren’t looking for disapproval, impatience, or dismissal. The word means “expressing disapproval, impatience, or dismissal.” As most of us know, the word has another meaning that you can probably figure out by listening to the lyrics. One of the biggest songs on the album was Tush. It turned out to be a winning combination for us.” We had enough live material to make up one side of the disc, so we decided to go with the unusual move of making the album half live, half studio. Billy Gibbons, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band, said, “The live capture wound up being in the can first. The album was half live and half studio tracks.
I picked the album up because I’d been hearing the song Tush. They hit the “big time.” Except that ZZ Top had already hit the big time for fans that had been following the band since the beginning. That record as the first introduction to ZZ Top for a lot of people.
At least, everybody who listened to radio or watched MTV in the 80s. Everybody probably knows the Eliminator album.