ZZ Top – the Studio Albums 1970 – 1990 is a 10 CD boxset of the band’s classic studio albums from their Warner Bros. Years. This compact, clamshell boxset features each album in a mini, vinyl replica card sleeve with original artwork, including replicated original gatefold sleeves for Tres Hombres and Tejas. Most importantly the original audio tape versions will finally be available, for the first time, on CD for three of the albums: First Album, Rio Grande Mud, and Tejas, and the original masters for Tres Hombres and Fandango will also be included. Much discussion has been had on the quality of the mixes released on CD in the 1980s but now the original audio will be available once and for all in an amazing boxset!
Track Listings
Disc: 1 ‘First Album’ 1970
1 (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree
2 Brown Sugar
3 Squank
4 Goin’ Down to Mexico
5 Old Man
6 Neighbor, Neighbor
7 Certified Blues
8 Bedroom Thang
9 Just Got Back from Baby’s
10 Backdoor Love Affair
Disc: 2 ‘Rio Grande Mud’ 1972
1 Francine
2 Just Got Paid
3 Mushmouth Shoutin’
4 Ko Ko Blue
5 Chevrolet
6 Apologies to Pearly
7 Bar-B-Q
8 Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell
9 Whiskey’n Mama
10 Down Brownie
Disc: 3 ‘Tres Hombres’ 1973
1 Waitin’ for the Bus
2 Jesus Just Left Chicago
3 Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
4 Master of Sparks
5 Hot, Blue and Righteous
6 Move Me on Down the Line
7 Precious and Grace
8 La Grange
9 Shiek
10 Have You Heard?
Disc: 4 ‘Fandango’ 1975
1 Thunderbird
2 Jailhouse Rock
3 Backdoor Medley: Backdoor Love Affair/Mellow Down Easy/Backdoor Love Af
4 Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings
5 Blue Jean Blues
6 Balinese
7 Mexican Blackbird
8 Heard It on the X
9 Tush
Disc: 5 ‘Tejas’ 1976
1 It’s Only Love
2 Arrested for Driving While Blind
3 El Diablo
4 Snappy Kakkie
5 Enjoy and Get It on
6 Ten Dollar Man
7 Pan Am Highway Blues
8 Avalon Hideaway
9 She’s a Heartbreaker
10 Asleep in the Desert
Disc: 6 ‘Degüello’ 1979
1 I Thank You
2 She Loves My Automobile
3 I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide
4 A Fool for Your Stockings
5 Manic Mechanic
6 Dust My Broom
7 Lowdown on the Street
8 Hi Fi Mama
9 Cheap Sunglasses
10 Esther Be the One
Disc: 7 ‘El Loco’ 1981
1 Tube Snake Boogie
2 I Wanna Drive You Home
3 Ten Foot Pole
4 Leila
5 Don’t Tease Me
6 It’s So Hard
7 Pearl Necklace
8 Groovy Little Hippie Pad
9 Heaven, Hell or Houston
10 Party on the Patio
Disc: 8 ‘Eliminator’ 1983
1 Gimme All Your Lovin
2 Got Me Under Pressure
3 Sharp Dressed Man
4 I Need You Tonight
5 I Got the Six
6 Legs
7 Thug
8 TV Dinners
9 Dirty Dog
10 If I Could Only Flag Her Down
11 Bad Girl
Disc: 9 ‘Afterburner’ 1985
1 Sleeping Bag
2 Stages
3 Woke Up with Wood
4 Rough Boy
5 Can’t Stop Rockin’
6 Planet of Women
7 I Got the Message
8 Velcro Fly
9 Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury)
10 Delirious
Disc: 10 ‘Recycler’ 1990
1 Concrete and Steel
2 Lovething
3 Penthouse Eyes
4 Tell It
5 My Head’s in Mississippi
6 Decision or Collision
7 Give It Up
8 2000 Blues
9 Burger Man
10 Doubleback