Audio CD review:
ZZ Top - Antenna

ZZ Top - Antenna

Band: ZZ Top Title: Antenna Rating: Release Date: 1994-01-18 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Pin Cushion - ZZ Top, Beard, Rube 2: Breakaway - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy 3: World Of Swirl - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy 4: Fuzzbox Voodoo - ZZ Top, Beard, Frank 5: Girl In A T-Shirt - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy 6: Antenna Head - ZZ Top, Beard, Frank 7: PCH - ZZ Top, Beard, Rube 8: Cherry Red - ZZ Top, Gibbons, Billy 9: Cover Your Rig - ZZ Top, Beard, Frank 10: Lizard Life - ZZ Top, Beard, Frank 11: Deal Goin' Down - ZZ Top, Beard, Frank

Starts Off Excellent...Ends Okay With Some Dud Melodies I loved all three of those songs. Before having bought this album, I had seen the music videos for PINCUSHION, WORLD OF SWIRL, and BREAKAWAY. So I bought the album, hoping that I would hear more like them. However, it didn't turn out to be all that I hoped for. Here's what I can say: PINCUSHION--Great rock song, with some very cool drum beats that compliment the guitar sound coming with them. Very good tune, fantastic song. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. BREAKAWAY--This song is slow rock, but I find it very meaningful, and the singing has very strong emotion in it. However, the guitar solos sounded better in the music video than in the actual song. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. WORLD OF SWIRL--I would say that this addictive song ties with BREAKAWAY for best on the album. Once again, Dusty Hill proves his great taste in what songs he chooses to sing. Excellent song. Featuring vocals by Dusty Hill, Billy Gibbons, and Frank Beard. FUZZBOX VOODOO--The singing featured in this song isn't quite like anything you've heard from ZZ Top yet. I would probably consider it bad if it didn't work so well with the tune. The tune saves it, and transforms the final product into a very good song. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. GIRL IN A T-SHIRT--The worst song yet on the album. This time, the singing doesn't blend with the tune, the tune isn't that great, the guitar sound is cracking, and there's an odd ringing noise in the background the whole time. One song definately worth skipping. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard. ANTENNA HEAD--This song starts out pretty good, but ends up going on too long with some extremely unnecessarilly long guitar solos. Would be a very good song if the patterns in the beginning of the song were kept throughout the whole song. Featuring vocals by Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. PCH--This song is quite good, even though I haven't listened to it in a while. It starts out sounding a bit dull, but once you've gotten to the chorus, you'll really start to enjoy the song. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. CHERRY RED--This song is a bit better than GIRL IN A T-SHIRT, but nothing besides that. I can't say what exactly makes it so, but I certainly found myself not enjoying it last time I listened to it. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. COVER YOUR RIG--This song is along the same lines as BREAKAWAY, but I find it way too long. Also, the guitar solos in this song just don't have the same meaningfullness that BREAKAWAY does, nor do the singing or lyrics. But it's still an okay song. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill. LIZARD LIFE--This is also a pretty long song, but this time it's rock, so I don't mind. Overall, it's pretty good. Not amazing, but a good choice of song to listen to whenever you feel like it. Featuring vocals by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard. DEAL GOIN' DOWN--The cheerful entry to this song would make one almost classify this song as pop music. But as soon as Dusty Hill's rough voice enters the song, it turns into ZZ Top rock. Good lyrics and enunciation. Featuring vocals by Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. A Must for ZZ Top fans Even on the ZZ Top website. All I can say is that it is sold out, unavailable, where ever you try to find it. Some reviewers may say it is just so-so, old hat. . . but fans say otherwise. . This is one of my favorite albums by ZZ Top Billy Gibbons guitar is so amazing here, its better then usual. Antenna has to be one of ZZ Tops, top five albums of all time and its one of my personal favorites. The songs are great in the ZZ Top fashion, and its not all 80's tchno and MTV friendly crap either, its just good old American rock and roll. Antenna has some powerful songs to work with. 'Antenna Head' being the best song on the album, its got a killer solo great feel and an all around great sound everything just fits together really well. It has to be one of the bands all time best songs, or at least in my openion anyways. 'Cherry Red' is annother great song, its one of the better tracks. Its has a really cool groove to it. Really nice. 'Pincushion' is a great song as well, and one of the best opening tracks I have ever heard. 'FuzzBox Voodoo' is a cool song and as you might have guessed Billy Gibbons uses a lot of FuzzBox in his guitar playing. The album ends with 'Deal Goin Down' and all I have to say is that is the perfect song to end the album. All the other songs on the album are great, well they are better then great but those are the songs you will be listening to over and over and ovevr again. Pick up this awsome album!. Well..... I must say that Antenna is growing on me, but I also must say that. . of all ZZ Top albums I've heard, this one is the weakest. Pincushion is cool, but I prefer the Sin-Pusher version on XXX. Antenna Head is fun. . . but not in the great category. The CD, in my opinion, has one fantastic track, and that is the song that could save your life: Cover Your Rig. . . an ode to safe sex. That song is excellent slow blues in the best ZZ tradition. So I would recommend this CD to ZZ fanatics, just don't have too high hopes for it. Should Be Called Re-Recycler..... Return to form? What form is that? The low-down natural blues rock sound of "Tres Hombres" & "Fandango" or the synthesized, electronic "transistorized" sound of more recent vintage albums like "Afterburner" & "Recycler"? When is ZZ finally gonna go back to the tube amps and the real drum kit? This release is even a step below the worn sounding "Recycler" album. The same old riffs and same processed music. This is a purchase for diehard ZZ Top fans only. Newcomers are best to start with the new 2 cd set "Rancho Texicano", then work their way thru the ZZ Top catalog from there. You can see a complete list of all ZZ Top discography, or go back to the ZZ Top tabs