Just realized that Al Jourgensen borrowed Billy's vocal FX for a lot of Ministry.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
this is like the 5th best top album but it aint no dud it kicks fuckin ass
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
It's not my favorite ZZ Top music but it's not a bad reinvention either, far from it.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
The best I can say about it is that it didn't suck as much as the one after it did.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
The irony is that the only member of ZZ Top who didn’t play on Eliminator is named Frank Eliminator.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
... who also had a secretary named Bernadette!
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
(that was a good one, tteg. i can't compete.)
"Recycler? I hardly know her!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
Anybody who doesn't like Eliminator is out of their fuckin' mind.
Anybody who likes any of the albums they released between Eliminator and La Futura is also insane, of course.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
My ranking:
tres hombrestejasrio grandedeguelloeliminator
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:54 (one year ago) link
i had to dig this up re: ministry, remembered reading it awhile back, Gibbons was asked to name ten records that changed his life
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Al Jorgensen is a guy whose commitment is total and this is the album where he really found his footing. It paves the way to the possibilities offered by it’s rich and dark, industrial approach. The wicked application of hands-on electronics on that excursion are most substantive. What can I say? I’m a fan.
https://www.loudersound.com/features/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-the-10-records-that-changed-my-life
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:59 (one year ago) link
Tarfumes, thanks for a huge lol on a grim election night.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
Definitely grim news in their home state of Texas. I can't believe people keep voting for these people after all the shitty things they've done in the past term alone.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
"We like sitting in the cold dark and getting shot at!"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
Wow Billy's albums list is cool
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Found this cool thread with alot of comments by Terry Manning from Argent Studios on working on all of the ZZ Top albums they recorded (which is really most of the really good ones).
http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/mv/msg/3849/0/0/0/
― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
This old thread thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine is still out there and kind of gives a look at the same record through Terry Manning's memory. I put it here as ILMusic does it's Roshomon look at ZZ Top's Eliminator.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110123215118/http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/mv/msg/3849/0/0/0/
― earlnash, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link