ZZ Top - Greatest Hits | 
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| Artist: Zz Top
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy Used: $3.19
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 417
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: 075992684620
UPC: 075992684620
EAN: 0075992684620
ASIN: B000002LSV
Release Date: April 14, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Gimme All Your Lovin' | | • | Sharp Dressed Man | | • | Rough Boy | | • | Tush | | • | My Head's In Mississippi | | • | Pearl Necklace | | • | I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide | | • | Viva Las Vegas | | • | Doubleback | | • | Gun Love | | • | Got Me Under Pressure | | • | Give It Up | | • | Cheap Sunglasses | | • | Sleeping Bag | | • | Planet Of Women | | • | La Grange | | • | Tube Snake Boogie | | • | Legs |
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One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision; even in the side-long-jam era of the '70s, the Texans almost always fit 10 cuts on their albums. Surveying two decades of their output, Greatest Hits isn't the perfect overview you might expect, but it's still a pretty darn good driving album. The disc goes easy on the pre-Deguello stuff surveyed on their earlier best-of, and seems to digitally boost the drums on tracks like the 1975 "Tush." Still, later cuts like "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" and "My Head's in Mississippi" are full-on triumphs of this trio's very weird, very blues-drenched sensibility. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews:
 ZZ Top Excellence! August 28, 2008
R. MCKENZIE (USA)
There is no one else like them. An absolute must have for fans of the unique style of none other than ZZ Top!
ZZ Top August 27, 2008
James A. Vikse (Blythe, CA)
Listen to it everyday. It gets my work done faster & I'm rockin the whole time. Love these guys
 Solid, but not a great compilation August 25, 2008
Johnny Boy (Hockessin, DE)
Okay, I confess, I am not much of a fan of the ZZ Top of the '80s-MTV era. They are a great band, no doubt, but since I am not a huge fan of the MTV years of ZZ, I had trouble really getting into 1992's 'Greatest Hits.'
Any fan looking to seek out their '80s MTV classics will be very satisfied with this disc. 'Sharp Dressed Man,' 'Gimme All Your Lovin',' 'Rough Boy,' a remix of 'Legs' and 'Pearl Necklace' are all here.
Fans of the seventies ZZ Top will also discover 'Cheap Sunglasses,' 'La Grange,' 'Tush' and 'I'm Bad I'm Nationwide' are all on here.
But don't fooled! 'La Grange' and 'Tush' are mediocre remixes. The original drum mix is completely destroyed, with Frank Beard reworking and filtering the drum parts to make these '70s ZZ Top classics sound more "modernized." Argh! How annoying!
Also, the new tracks (for a '70s ZZ Top fan, anyway) aren't anything to get really excited about. ZZ Top's take on 'Viva Las Vegas' is not great. 'Gun Love' is better than 'Viva Las Vegas,' but it is still not anything extraordinary.
I am not criticizing the selections on this disc. For fans of the MTV years of ZZ Top, this is a great collection to own and quite possibly all you will need.
But, if you are like me and want a summary of their '70s classics, pick up 'The Best of ZZ Top.' That has 'La Grange' and 'Tush' in their album versions without the reworked/filtered drums.
Overall, I strongly recommend this to any '80s ZZ Top fan. But, I also strongly recommend for the '70s ZZ Top fans to check out 'The Best of ZZ Top.' While this has 18 and that one has 10, that one is full of the "good stuff" for the '70s fans.
Highly recommended for the '80s ZZ Top fans. I did buy this, and I was disappointed. But for the '70s fans, I'm warning you: pick up the studio albums or the 1977 compilation 'The Best of ZZ Top.' That's the best advice I can offer you.
GREAT DOING BUSINESS August 24, 2008
John G. Yeager Jr. (USA)
It was a great experience. I got my cd when I was suppose to. It was on back order and the company kept me updated the whole time. I knew when it was on back order, when it came in, and when it was shipped. I will def. use this company again.
Awsome album! July 16, 2008
Michael R. Mathy
Great album by a great band, with lots of the big hits as well as some not so well known ones. If you're into ZZ Top, it's a must have.
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