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| Artist: Zz Top
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $7.98
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5561
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 78965
UPC: 812278965222
EAN: 0081227896522
ASIN: B000CCD0HG
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Thunderbird | | • | Jailhouse Rock - ZZ Top, Leiber | | • | Backdoor Medley: Backdoor Love Affair/Mellow Down Easy/Backdoor ... - ZZ Top, Ham | | • | Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings | | • | Blue Jean Blues | | • | Balinese | | • | Mexican Blackbird | | • | Heard It on the X | | • | Tush - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy | | • | Heard It on the X | | • | Jailhouse Rock - ZZ Top, Leiber | | • | Tush - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy |
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Album Description
One of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll bands ever to strut the 50 States, these sharp-dressed Texas titans-Billy F. Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill-are a righteously hell rain' power trio boasting a 30-plus year hit-making legacy, both in the studio and at concert arenas. With their revved up blues 'n' boogie, they always make the most of their Texas birthright with with a distinctive sound that shakes up rock, blues, soul, garage-funk, Americana, and more. Nowhere is their force of nature musicianship better displayed than on these two album classics, revved up wtih red-hot bonus rarities. "You know what I'm talkin' about...an how how how how."
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| Customer Reviews:
 It changed my life! August 27, 2008
M. Erwin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK, maybe "Fandango" only had a profound influence on my taste in music. While I was stationed in Germany in the early 70s, a friend lent me "Fandango" and "Tres Hombres." (When we get together, he asks me when I plan to return them. I tell him there are two chances of that happening: Fat and none.) I've been a fan ever since. There are many purveyors of Texas-style rock, but none of the others make me just wanna to get up and boogie the way Billy Gibbons (& Pearly, mercy me!), Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard do. ZZ Top's pre-MTV stuff is raw, raunchy, straight to the gut, b**s-to-the-wall, kick-a** rock & roll. Unlike some fans, I think their MTV/RWG (Really Weird Guitars) output is great, too, but nothing matches the foundation they laid down on their early vinyl. So grab a Lone Star long-neck, crank it to 11, and boogie!
Gotta mella out....... August 18, 2008
thepitchpatch (Langley, AR USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
ZZ Top - Fandango, right till the end!!! Watch your speedometer when jammin' on this CD! I'm pleased!
Excellent CD October 17, 2007
K. Hoffmann
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The CD has excellent Sound qulaity. It has been remastered. Frankly I was l little concerned because I read other reviews that stated they went overboard with the effects. It just sounds clean and balanced to me. Plus you get previousley unreleased versions of Tush and Jailhouse rock.
Classic Old School ZZ Top August 5, 2007
therosen (New York, NY United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is classic Old School ZZ Top? How old school? They don't have the trademark beards on the album covers.
This album is so deep it could count as a Greatest Hits for many other bands. Jailhouse Rock covers the Elvis classic. Backdoor Medley, a compilation of John Lee Hooker blues tunes, is my favorite of the batch. Mexican Blackbird is another great tune - is she a lady or a car? Tush, I heard it on the X and Blue Jeans Blues are all true classics - they've survived the test of time and are still staples of their concerts, and classic rock airwaves.
The album's a must for any ZZ Top or Blues Rock afficianado!
 Look elsewhere June 18, 2007
Bryan A. Jackson
2 out of 17 found this review helpful
ZZ Top's Fandango album is pretty bad and not worth owning at all, in my opinion. Read on to find out why:
First of all, the first side is probably the most *boring* side to a hard rock record from the 70's I've ever heard. Normally a band comes out strong with worthwhile material to kick things off, but apparently ZZ Top wanted to be different. The "half live"/"half studio" idea didn't work.
Their cover of "Jailhouse Rock" is not only inferior to the original, but inferior to every version of the song I know. It's WAY too short, and not interesting. From there, a 9-minute jam is up next. It starts off like it's going to be a pretty rockin' tune, but then it begins annoying me when it eventually turns into a giant rambling mess. It seriously sounds to me like the final 6 minutes of the jam consists of just one single drum beat pounding over and over, with the singer going back and forth between whispering and screaming. It's really boring. It's SUCH a carelessly created jam. Probably some of the worst live music I've ever had the displeasure of hearing.
Things pick up a bit for the second side (the studio portion of the album). "Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings" has a nice funky beat, which was ZZ Top's trademark back in the day. The guitar solo fails, and the vocals go by harmlessly, but with hardly *any* excitement whatsoever. Actually that's a huge problem I have with early ZZ Top- their music is loud, certainly rocks and all the members of the band are competent musicians, but many of their vocal melodies consist of singing along to an upbeat funky rocker, with really no creativity involved to make the vocals stand out. As a result, their vocals are usually weak and uninteresting.
"Blue Jean Blues" is easily the best song on the entire album. It's a slow, bluesy number with pretty good guitar playing. Really the band is just copying what Led Zeppelin and countless other rock bands did better, but for what it is, it's acceptable. "Balinese" unfortunately is NOT acceptable. It sounds like a really bad attempt for a commercial hit. It's probably not, but nothing can save it from being horrible.
"Mexican Blackbird" is only worthwhile for the neat southern accent from the lead singer. That alone makes the song stand out, but it can't escape the reality of being just an above-average rocker. "Heard It On the X" is perhaps the best song on Fandango. It rocks convincingly, not carelessly like the rest of the album. "Tush" finishes off the album. Everybody knows it. It's pretty good, but overplayed thanks to classic rock radio. That hurts it only slightly.
Overall, ZZ Top had some good songs, but the majority of their career was spent on creating and releasing one spotty album after another. The thing that bothers me is how most of their songs have guitar solos, and not a single one of them is interesting almost 100% of the time.
Luckily Fandango is barely 30 minutes long, but I should have watched Jeopardy instead.
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