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Sunday, September 20, 2020

ZZ Top-"Eliminator" (1983)

By the early 1980s, ZZ Top had released eight albums, all of them chart-topping and multi-million dollar sales, yet the trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard still wanted much more prominence.
All his early albums were characterized by a style of southern rock, boogie rock and high voltage blues rock, among which "Tres Hombres" (1973) "Fandando" (1975) and "Deguello" (1979) stood out.
But after this adventure Gibbons decides to experiment with synthesizers and as a result of this came "Eliminator" and later "Afterburner", both works in which the band would jump with all the predictions to the first positions with a style based on their dusty rock seasoned with electronics, or what is the same dance rock.
"Eliminator" contained succulent examples of his hard rock-disco with such attractive themes as "Gimme All Your Lovin´", "Legs"or "Sharp Dressed Man".
However, they all had something in common and it was their lyrics focused on women, supported by video clips with images of beautiful young women and classics cars that would catapult them to the point of reaping sales of more than 17 million copies and high positions in the charts.

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