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ZZ Top - Eliminator (Collector's Edition) (CD/DVD) Audio CD

A fair review of the ZZ Top "Eliminator (Collector's Edition) (CD/DVD)" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all ZZ Top reviews here, or go back to the ZZ Top tabs.

ZZ Top Band: ZZ Top
Title: Eliminator (Collector's Edition) (CD/DVD)
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Release Date: 2008-09-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Gimme All Your Lovin 2: Got Me Under Pressure 3: Sharp Dressed Man 4: I Need You Tonight 5: I Got The Six Legs (Original Album 6: Thug 7: TV Dinners 8: Dirty Dog 9: If I Could Only Flag Her Down 10: Bad Girl 11: Legs (Single Version) 12: Gimme All Your Lovin (Live) 13: Sharp Dressed Man (Live) 14: I Got The Six (Live) 15: TV Dinners (Live) 16: Got Me Under Pressure (Live) 17: Legs (12" Dance Mix) 18: Gimme All Your Lovin Video 19: Sharp Dressed Man Video 20: Legs Video 21: TV Dinners Video 22: Got Me Under Pressure 23: Gimme All Your Lovin 24: Sharp Dressed Man 25: Tube Snake Boogie

Awesome ZZ Top
Excellent videos and music. ZZ Top is way beyond their years, back when their music videos were produced.


Order not filled
To say that I am dissatisfied is an understatement. I ordered this item on 3/14/2009 as of this date (4/14/2009) I have not received my order and have had no communication from the seller (Legacy). I am in the process of trying to obtain a refund from Amazon.


Great Remastering
You probably already know about Eliminator and nothing I can tell you will change your opinion or add anything substantial. I'm not writing this review to comment on the album. The reason I bought this was because as is the case with a lot of CDs released in the mid/late 80s, the mastering on the original CD release was terrible. If you have a decent stereo and speakers, it sounded bad. . . no bass, shrill treble. . . blah. I have to say that I'm very happy with the mastering on this release. "Gimme All Your Lovin" starts out with the thumping bass you'd expect. "Thug" is phenomenal. The rest of the tracks are much, much better than the original. Granted they don't sound like recently recorded music that is correctly mixed and mastered, but it isn't bad. The live tracks don't sound great, but that is kind of to be expected considering when and how they were recorded.


ZZ Top at the top!
It's still a great album to listen too. When you listen to this remastered CD, you know why it was the great breaktrue for ZZ Top around the world. And the DVD shows all the classic videoclips and some great live stuff.


Music is Fantastic! Extras, not so, why it's only 4 stars.
This came out originally my senior year of high school, and with it's combination of music and stylish videos, it was a MAJOR hit at the time. This is a 25th anniversy re-issue of ZZ Top's seminal album, Eliminator. I owned this as a pre-recorded cassette when it was new, and held onto that for a long time. I likely dumped it when I dumped all my old tapes years ago.

But the music has always carried on. It's been cleaned up for this issue, which is a two disc release. The first is the album. The remastering work is really quite good. It sounds great to my ears, and given that I never owned this on CD, it's nice to hear some of the songs that don't get the usual airplay again. Possibly the most well known track from the album "Legs" appears here in it's original form. What I didn't realize is that the version that most people know - the one on the album that most people had was not the original. Apparently the original album version (which is here) was replaced with the slightly different mix for the single/video. Both are here - and I have to say I prefer the single version, the "original" version feels like it is missing something.

There are also some live tracks which don't sound terribly up to snuff recording wise. The second disc has the four videos (Gimme All Your Lovin, Sharp Dressed Man, Legs, & TV Dinners) from the classic days, as well as some live concert footage from November 1983.

While this is a double disc, I can't imagine myself listening to the extras more than a couple of times. The album itself - yeah. But the extra live tracks are a snooze, and I've seen the videos more times than I care to remember. :) Still, having said that the actual Eliminator album is fantastic. This could have been a single disc release and been far more streamlined.


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