ZZ Top "The Heaviest"

The Heaviest is a 2015 Taiwanese compilation from American Hard Rock/Blues Rock band ZZ Top.

Track list:

1. Sharp Dressed Man
2. Gimme All Your Lovin’
3. Over You
4. Give It Up
5. Sleeping Bag
6. Blue Jean Blues
7. Chartreuse
8. Rhythmeen
9. Black Fly
10. I Gotsta Get Paid
11. Old Man
12. Pincushion
13. 2000 Blues
14. Consumption
15. She’s Just Killing Me

This CD is compiled up of a survey of the audience HitFM Network.

ZZ Top "One Foot In The Blues"

One Foot in the Blues is a compilation album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). The album contains a selection of the band's songs which fall into the blues genre. With the exception of the songs taken from the Degüello, El Loco, Eliminator and Recycler albums, the 1987 digital remixes were used.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard except where noted.

1. "Brown Sugar" Billy Gibbons ZZ Top's First Album (1971) 5:17
2. "Just Got Back from Baby's" Billy Gibbons/Bill Ham  ZZ Top's First Album 4:07
3. "A Fool for Your Stockings" Degüello (1979) 4:11
4. "I Need You Tonight" Eliminator (1983) 6:14
5. "She Loves My Automobile" Degüello 2:22
6. "Hi Fi Mama" Degüello 2:22
7. "Hot, Blue and Righteous" Billy Gibbons Tres Hombres (1973) 3:14
8. "My Head's in Mississippi" Recycler (1990) 4:16
9. "Lowdown in the Street" Degüello 2:48
10. "If I Could Only Flag Her Down" Eliminator 3:37
11. "Apologies to Pearly" (Instrumental) Billy Gibbons/Dusty Hill/Frank Beard/Bill Ham Rio Grande Mud (1972)  2:43
12. "Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell" Billy Gibbons Rio Grande Mud 6:46
13. "Bar-B-Q" Billy Gibbons/Bill Ham   Rio Grande Mud 3:19
14. "Old Man" ZZ Top's First Album (1971) 3:28
15. "Certified Blues" Billy Gibbons/Frank Beard/Bill Ham   ZZ Top's First Album 3:24
16. "2000 Blues" Recycler 4:36
17. "Heaven, Hell or Houston" El Loco (1981) 2:31

Total length: 65:15

ZZ Top "The Six Pack"

The Six Pack is a box set released in 1987 by the American blues rock band ZZ Top. The compilation consisted of the first five albums by the band, digitally remixed to add newly recorded contemporary-sounding drum machine and rhythm tracks, digital reverb and distortion, and the original mix of the band's seventh album, El Loco. The remixing gave these releases a sound similar to Eliminator. The resulting remixes were also reissued on the standalone compact disc releases of the albums. The remixing was criticized as being "a disaster". Until 2006, these remixes were the only versions of these albums available.

The box set encompasses the first five studio albums by ZZ Top plus El Loco into a three-disc set. All of the albums, except El Loco and the live tracks from Fandango! were remixed with 1980s percussion. This was done due to the success of the albums Eliminator and Afterburner, on which the band had found success by using such percussion. These were used for the single CD versions of the albums as well.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic retrospectively gave it 2 stars out of 5, stating: "If Six Pack just delivered the original albums, it'd be a good investment, but the studio tinkering makes this a disaster."

In 2006, the original mixes of Tres Hombres and Fandango! were released on CD. Several tracks from the remaining albums appeared on the box set Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, and its companion compilation release Rancho Texicano until 2013 when the albums were re-released on CD with the original mixes restored.

Track listing

Disc 1 - ZZ Top's First Album & Rio Grande Mud

1. "Somebody Else Been Shaking Your Tree" Billy Gibbons 2:29
2. "Brown Sugar" Gibbons 5:20
3. "Squank" Gibbons, Bill Ham, Dusty Hill 2:49
4. "Goin' Down to Mexico" Gibbons, Ham, Hill 3:23
5. "Old Man" Frank Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:31
6. "Neighbor, Neighbor" Gibbons 2:19
7. "Certified Blues" Beard, Gibbons, Ham 3:26
8. "Bedroom Thang" Gibbons 3:53
9. "Just Got Back from Baby's" Gibbons, Ham 4:10
10. "Backdoor Love Affair" Gibbons, Ham 2:42
11. "Francine" Kenny Cordray, Gibbons, Steve Perron 2:53
12. "Just Got Paid" Gibbons, Ham 3:48
13. "Mushmouth Shoutin'" Gibbons, Ham 3:45
14. "Ko Ko Blue" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:23
15. "Chevrolet" Gibbons 3:19
16. "Apologies to Pearly" Beard, Gibbons, Ham, Hill 2:45
17. "Bar-B-Q" Gibbons, Ham 3:22
18. "Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell" Gibbons 6:47
19. "Whiskey’n Mama" Beard, Gibbons, Ham, Hill 3:20
20. "Down Brownie" Gibbons 2:26

Disc 2 - Tres Hombres & Fandango!

1. "Waitin' for the Bus" Gibbons, Hill 2:59
2. "Jesus Just Left Chicago" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:29
3. "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:23
4. "Master of Sparks" Gibbons 3:33
5. "Hot, Blue and Righteous" Gibbons 3:14
6. "Move Me on Down the Line" Gibbons, Hill 2:30
7. "Precious and Grace" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:09
8. "La Grange" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:51
9. "Shiek" Gibbons, Hill 4:04
10. "Have You Heard?" Gibbons, Hill 3:14
11. "Thunderbird" (Live) Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:49
12. "Jailhouse Rock" (Live) Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller 1:56
13. "Backdoor Medley" (Live - "Backdoor Love Affair"* / "Mellow Down Easy"** / "Backdoor Love Affair No.2"*** / "Long Distance Boogie"****) *Gibbons, Ham / **Willie Dixon / ***Gibbons / ****John Lee Hooker 9:23
14. "Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:42
15. "Blue Jean Blues" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:42
16. "Balinese" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:37
17. "Mexican Blackbird" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:06
18. "Heard It on the X" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:23
19. "Tush" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:14

Disc 3 - Tejas & El Loco

1. "It's Only Love" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:24
2. "Arrested for Driving While Blind" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:05
3. "El Diablo" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:20
4. "Snappy Kakkie" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:56
5. "Enjoy and Get It On" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:23
6. "Ten Dollar Man" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:42
7. "Pan Am Highway Blues" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:15
8. "Avalon Hideaway" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:07
9. "She's a Heartbreaker" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:02
10. "Asleep in the Desert" Gibbons 3:24
11. "Tube Snake Boogie" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:02
12. "I Wanna Drive You Home" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:44
13. "Ten Foot Pole" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:19
14. "Leila" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:13
15. "Don't Tease Me" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:19
16. "It's So Hard" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 5:12
17. "Pearl Necklace" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:01
18. "Groovy Little Hippie Pad" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:40
19. "Heaven, Hell or Houston" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:31
20. "Party on the Patio" Beard, Gibbons, Hill 2:48

ZZ Top "Legs (Single & Video)"

"Legs" is a song performed by the band ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was released as a single in 1984 and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (their highest charting single on the chart). The dance mix version of the song peaked at number thirteen on the dance charts.

Although all three members of ZZ Top are credited with playing on the track, only Gibbons was actually present; engineer Terry Manning was responsible for all the musical parts save the lead guitar. However, David Blayney (ZZ Top stage manager for 15 years) explains in his book Sharp Dressed Men that the pumping synthesizer effect in "Legs" was introduced in pre-production by Linden Hudson. During the final tracking sessions, Terry Manning (final Eliminator tracking engineer) called Linden Hudson and asked how he did the synth effects for "Legs".

The single remix of "Legs" is much more synthesizer-driven than the album version (although a synthesizer can be heard throughout the latter, it is toned down). There is also a three-note guitar riff heard throughout most of the album version of "Legs", and it is a minute longer than the single version.

The "Legs" video was the third and last of the Eliminator series of videos that introduced the now-iconic 1933 Ford, "Eliminator girls", and ZZ Top-as-benevolent-spirits tropes, all of which have become firmly established aspects of the band's iconography. "Legs" was important in this regard as it diversified the subject of transformation from man ("Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Sharp Dressed Man") to woman.

After stepping in a mud puddle and bumping into tough-looking but polite bikers at a crosswalk, a pretty salesgirl (Wendy Frazier) enters a burger joint. She places a take-out order but suffers harassment by everyone there except a handsome young cook (David Wakefield) who is also bullied by his co-workers. The salesgirl takes her order, escapes the place and her tormentors, but in her haste leaves her glasses and a food container. The cook retrieves the items and runs after her to the shoe store where she works.

At the shoe store, the store owner and the senior salesman both shove the salesgirl around, while a customer laughs raucously at her misfortune. The cook dashes into the shop and then to the stock room to return the girl's items. She thanks him shyly, but the owner and the salesman burst in, and heave the cook out of the store. ZZ Top's trademark showcar, the Eliminator, pulls up with the Eliminator girls (Jeana Tomasino, Kymberly Herrin, and Danièle Arnaud). The Three help the cook to his feet, dust him off, then slip into the shoe store through the back door. The Eliminators find the dejected salesgirl, put her abusers in their place, then present the salesgirl to ZZ Top, who magically appear to bestow her the Eliminator's keys.

The three women whisk away the salesgirl for a complete makeover: new hairstyle, makeup, and sexy new wardrobe (pink stockings and garters, a matching short skirt, lace-trimmed ankle socks with spike heels). The Eliminator arrives at the burger joint, where the salesgirl debuts her confident new self. She strides into the restaurant with the Eliminator Girls and, with the help of the friendly bikers, uses muscle to keep the more aggressive men at bay. Taking her fella, the cook, by the hand the happy pair leaves the restaurant and ride a dune buggy into the distance. The burger joint's female owner and the rowdy customers watch them leave, sullen over being put in their place. The Eliminator girls invite some of the friendly bikers to join them and the Eliminator drives away as ZZ Top magically appear one last time to wave at the camera.

This was the third music video directed by Tim Newman.

The video marked the debut of Gibbons and Hill's fur-covered Dean guitars, which have been used for live performances of "Legs" ever since.

The video won the 1984 MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video. This was the first year the award was given. The commercial and music video director, Tim Newman, provided direction and cinematography for this as well as the ZZ Top music videos "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," and "My Head's In Mississippi" (as well as "I Love LA," for his cousin Randy Newman). Sim Sadler and Bob Sarles edited "Legs," for which both received nominations for Best Editing in the first MTV Video Music Awards, in the Billboard Music Video Awards, and in the American Music Video Awards that year.

ZZ Top "Sharp Dressed Man (Single & Video)"

"Sharp Dressed Man" is a song performed by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning. Pre-production recording engineer Linden Hudson was very involved in the early stages of this song's production.

The guitar solo in the song was chosen by Guitar World as #43 in their list of The 50 Greatest Guitar Solos Of All Time; when asked, Gibbons revealed that the solo is actually a composite of two solos played on two different guitars in two different tunings.

At 2007's VH1 Rock Honors, Nickelback covered the song as a tribute (Billy Gibbons had earlier made a guest appearance on Nickelback's own song "Rockstar" & "Follow You Home"). ZZ Top played this song at halftime of the 2008 Orange Bowl college football bowl game.

In 2012 the song was chosen to be the opening theme song for the A&E reality show Duck Dynasty. The show ran on A&E from 2012 until 2017.

In 2020, the song reentered the Billboard charts following the release of the documentary ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas.

The video for "Sharp Dressed Man" continues the "male fantasy come to life" of the "Gimme All Your Lovin'" video released earlier in 1983. As in the previous video, an attractive man (dancer/model Peter Tramm) who is experiencing frustration in his menial job is assisted in gaining social stature and prowess by a triad of very attractive and somewhat mysterious women traveling in ZZ Top's signature red car. ZZ Top themselves play a role in the narrative, both by playing themselves as performing band members and as rather ethereal spirits who encourage and assist the young man by providing him with the car keys that enable him to go for a very long drive with the women. The young man returns to the site of his previous frustration (his workplace, a nightclub) and empowered both by his new-found status and by both the women's and ZZ Top's encouragement, embarks on a new romantic adventure with another attractive young woman (actress Galyn Görg) who has previously abandoned her date. The red car is the Eliminator, a 1933 Ford Coupe Hot rod.

ZZ Top "Gimme All Your Lovin' (Single & Video)"

"Gimme All Your Lovin'" is a song by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator. It was released as the album's first single in 1983.

Initially unsuccessful in the UK upon its August 1983 release, in the wake of the band's American success (the single reached No. 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart), it was promptly re-released, and reached No. 10 on the UK Singles Chart. It ties with the band's 1992 cover of Elvis Presley's "Viva Las Vegas" as their highest-charting single in the UK. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.

Directed by Tim Newman, the video features ZZ Top playing at a gas station, along with actor/model Peter Tramm playing a young gas station mechanic, and introduces classic ZZ elements such as the red "ZZ Eliminator Car," the "ZZ Keychain" and the "Three ZZ Girls" as heroines. It is the first of a ZZ Top music video series. Tramm returned in their later music video for "Sharp Dressed Man".

In addition to Eliminator, "Gimme All Your Lovin'" appears on the following compilations:

• Rancho Texicano
• Chrome, Smoke & BBQ
• Greatest Hits

ZZ Top "Goin' 50"

ZZ Top are celebrating 50 years of beards, blues, hot cars, and fuzzy guitars this year with a new, Texas-sized compilation "Goin' 50" that includes the 50 songs that helped transform "that little ol' band from Texas" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame standard bearers they have become in the 21st century.

Track list:

Disc One

1. "La Grange"
2. "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers"
3. "Tush"
4. "Salt Lick" 
5. "Miller's Farm" 
6. "(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree" 
7. "Francine"
8. "Heard It On The X"
9. "It's Only Love"
10. "Arrested For Driving While Blind"
11. "Enjoy And Get It On"
12. "I Thank You"
13. "Cheap Sunglasses"
14. "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"
15. "Leila"
16. "Tube Snake Boogie"
17. "Pearl Necklace"

Disc Two

1. "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
2. "Got Me Under Pressure"
3. "Sharp Dressed Man"
4. "TV Dinners"
5. "Legs"
6. "Sleeping Bag"
7. "Can't Stop Rockin'"
8. "Stages"
9. "Rough Boy"
10. "Delirious"
11. "Woke Up With Wood"
12. "Velcro Fly"
13. "Doubleback"
14. "Concrete And Steel"
15. "My Head's In Mississippi"
16. "Give It Up"
17. "Decision Or Collision"

Disc Three

1. "Viva Las Vegas"
2. "Gun Love"
3. "Pincushion"
4. "Breakaway"
5. "Girl In A T-Shirt"
6. "Fuzzbox Voodoo"
7. "She's Just Killing Me"
8. "What's Up With That"
9. "Bang Bang"
10. "Rhythmeen"
11. "Fearless Boogie"
12. "36-22-36"
13. "Piece"
14. "I Gotsta Get Paid"
15. "Waitin' For The Bus" (Live)
16. "Jesus Just Left Chicago" (Live)

ZZ Top "The Very Baddest"

‘The Very Baddest’ marks the first time that all three of their previous labels are represented in one package. The two-disc VERY BADDEST version doubles down on the band’s music with 40 tracks that form a more detailed snapshot of the trio’s stellar career. In addition to including every song heard on the single disc collection, VERY BADDEST digs deeper into early albums to uncover killer tracks like “Pearl Necklace,” “Just Got Paid” and “(Someone Else Been) Shaking Your Tree.” The collection also spotlights later albums like XXX (1999) and Mescalero (2003) with “Fearless Boogie” and “Que Lastima.” Appropriately, the collection closes with ZZ TOP’s unique take on the immortal “As Time Goes By,” a song made famous by the 1942 movie Casablanca and a tacit commentary on the group's unparalleled longevity.

Track list:

CD1:

1. Gimme All Your Lovin' 3:31
2. Sharp Dressed Man 2:59
3. La Grange 3:52
4. Tush 2:16
5. (Someone Else Been) Shaking Your Tree 2:35
6. Francine 3:33
7. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers 3:25
8. It's Only Love 4:23
9. Arrested For Driving While Blind 3:06
10. I Thank You 3:01
11. Cheap Sunglasses 2:40
12. Tube Snake Boogie 3:05
13. Pearl Necklace 4:06
14. Just Got Paid 4:27
15. Waitin' For The Bus 2:52
16. Jesus Just Left Chicago 3:30
17. Heard It On The X 2:26
18. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 4:52
19. Dust My Broom 3:08
20. Velcro Fly 2:54
21. Party On The Patio 2:48

CD2:

1. Viva Las Vegas 4:02
2. Pincushion 4:33
3. Legs 3:36
4. Got Me Under Pressure 4:02
5. Sleeping Bag 4:06
6. Rough Boy 3:50
7. Doubleback 3:56
8. My Head's In Mississippi 4:25
9. Give It Up 3:32
10. Just Got Back From Baby's 4:10
11. Blue Jean Blues 4:44
12. She Just Killing Me 4:57
13. What's Up With That 5:20
14. Rhythmeen 3:53
15. Loaded 3:48
16. Fearless Boogie 4:01
17. Mescalero 3:49
18. Que Lastima 4:26
19. As Time Goes By 4:30