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Originally Posted by Big Ears
Tres Hombres and Fandango are ZZ Top's best albums in my view. I would go as far as to say Tres Hombres is one of the all-time great blues rock albums. It does not contain one single weak track. In the eighties, when the band started to use synthesizers, released Gimme All Your Loving and made pop videos, it was a shock from which I still haven't recovered and I don't think I will ever hear them in the same way again!
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I first saw ZZ Top on "The Tube on channel 4 in the early 1980s (I'm sure you remember The Tube) I was amazed with their boiler suits and beards! I then bought Eliminator and fell in love with the band. I loved the idea that here was a blues based rock band, playing with a more synth based sound, but in essence those songs were still the songs of rockers and the videos with stunning chicks and cars kind of proved that. I've always had a soft spot for ZZ Top no matter what they did.