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The Talking Heads - Remain in Light Arcade Fire - Funeral Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin |
Dude...no to Psychocandy? I'm just going to assume that there's something wrong with you ears.
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Title: Tres hombres Artiste: ZZ Top Year: 1973 Chronological position: Third album Previous experience of this artiste: "Eliminator", "Afterburner", the Greatest Hits, "La futura" and some singles. Why is this considered a classic? This was ZZ's breakthrough album (first time) and their first hit single, "La Grange" was on it My thoughts One minute (or thereabouts in) ---- Good, great, bad, meh, still waiting or other? Ger-eat! One track in --- Great! Halfway through --- Great! Finished --- Great! Comments: I'd love to tell you I was one of those people who was into ZZ at the start, long before they kicked the **** out of the charts with "Legs", "Gimme all your lovin'" etc and made having a beard cool and synonymous with sexy girls in leather minis (ahhh!) but no, I can't. Although I had heard "Tush" previously, and that only on the basis of wanting to know what the original sounded like having heard the Girlschool version, I knew nothing of the tres hombres prior to the explosion that was "Eliminator". I also got to hear Jesus just left Chicago, as it was the B-side of Tush, if I recall correctly. But now I can hear them in all their glory, before fame, before videos, before synthesisers and drum machines. I did however know that ZZ were all about the blues, and this certainly shows on their third album, widely regarded I believe as one of their finest. Unknown Soldier, correct me if I'm wrong! This is just pure blues heaven all the way through, and while some of the tracks are a little weaker compared to giants like Jesus just left Chicago and La Grange it's a solid album with pretty much nothing on it I don't like. Favourite track(s): Jesus just left Chicago, Hot blue and righteous, La Grange, Have you heard?, Move me on down the line Least favourite track(s): Non Sequitor, Senor! Final impression --- ZZ as they were meant to be, as they started out, before all this electronic nonsense made them pop stars. Ah yeah, I loved "Eliminator" but this is REAL music! Do I feel, at the end, A) I wish I had listened to this sooner B) I'm sorry I bothered C) I might end up liking this D) Have to wait and see Definitely a big A! |
Cool sounding album eh! The sound of the band around this time is described usually as being boogie blues rather than a straight-up blues rock. ZZ Top were highly distinctive especially with Billy Gibbons' strangled sounded vocals. What's so good about Tres Hombres is that it was the album where the band finally released a studio record to match their live reputation.
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Which version of Tres Hombres did you listen to?
Up till 2006 you could only get the awful 80s remixed album on CD. |
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Z.Z. Top scares the hell out of me. They're scarier than psychotic circus clowns riding around in midget cars. :eek: Scarier than truck stop waitresses with beehive hairdos and rhinestone studded eyeglasses. Scarier than guys with snake tattoos all over their faces. Okay... that's it... I've covered everything that scares me. |
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Maybe I should try the hat, shades, long beard combo.
You look at pictures of them from 30 years ago and they look exactly the same. |
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