You know it, each and everyone of you wakes up some mornings thinking, "Damn, ZZ Top kicks some serious ass."

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You know it. Fuck, "Planet of Women" wasn't even a big hit, and it's still WAY better than anything on pop or modern rock stations today, not to mention "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" or "Legs" or "Cheap Sunglasses" or "La Grange".

Admit it. ZZ Top fucking rule and you love them. Motherfuckers.

― Hell to the muthafuckin Time, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty much

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll give it up for "La Grange".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Not a day goes by that I don't think to myself, "she don't love me, she loves my automobile..."

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

what are you rollin' broheems? benz or beamer?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

A V8 Fode an a Classy Cadee-lac.

(Really, a 91 New Yorker and a new Monte Carlo, but that shits beisdes the fact. ZZ Top RULES.)

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

neither; one of these...

http://eil.com/NewGallery/ZZ-Top-Gimme-All-Your-Lo-1264.jpg

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

All downhill after Tres Hombres, though.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

poppycock.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Awright, Milo, I don't bust on Decendents and ALL for their crappy later stuff, even though it deserves it. But I stick by my daily affirmations:

Black Flack rules all the way from the First 4 Years to In My Head, and likewise, ZZ Top rules from "First Album" to "XXX"

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Please Excuse Drunkeness, "Black Flag" I meant

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, I just can't stand to hear any of their MTV hits or "Cheap Sunglasses," et al.. Played to death and covered by every last bar band in Texas.

(and dude, I bust on the Descendants for late-period suckage. I want to pretend the last faux-Bad Religion album doesn't exist)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, you live in Texas. I did a stint there in San Angelo, so I can sympathise. Geez.

But I still maintain for you non-Texas-Bar-Band-Listening folk..

ZZ Top Fuckin RULES!

― Helltime, Saturday, 22 May 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Texans get a free pass on loving/hating ZZ Top, SRV and Willie Nelson.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 22 May 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Lucinda Williams loves ZZ Top. You should check her out.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 May 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Had to drive my dad's truck to pick up some stuff the other day. Got in and the classic rock station was playing "La Grange". I decided that song has to have caused more instant badass moments than any other. I'm a skinny white 20something who works on computers, but for those few minutes with the sun shining, windows rolled down, stereo cranked up, head nodding, etc. I felt like a badass. It's geeky, but I'll admit it. The song has that makes-you-feel-like-you're-in-a-movie quality to it.

I can't stand the "Legs" era, but early ZZ Top is great. And my nuts wholeheartedly agree.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Saturday, 22 May 2004 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I've actually never woken up and thought this.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 22 May 2004 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

It's fucking hot out, I just picked my car up after getting a tune up, and in one of those retroactive sartorial moments I thought "this moment needs some ZZ Top."

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

Favorites:

-Dusty Hill on the close of "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"
-The guitar line immediately after "I got to have a shot"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Beard on the end of "She Loves My Automobile" (is that the one with the abrupt BANG?)
Homage to Bobby Bland: "Good night, darling, *wherever* you are"
"Heaven, Hell or Houston"
"What was I doin' there?"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

The guitar break/bridge on "Sharp Dressed Man" makes me grin like idiot every time and I don't even like these guys all that much.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

w/ny new york brim
and my gold tooth displayed
nobody gives me trouble cause they know i got it made

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)

The "ZZ Top rules" thing doesn't tend to occur to me til I'm at least two beers down. Hence, early afternoon thing. Mornings belong to EBN OZN.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

you listen to emergency broadcast network in the morning??

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://fusionanomaly.net/ebn378dannykay.jpg

WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

We never really got ZZ Top in Britain until Eliminator, probably because we already had our own equivalent in Status Quo.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

*chortle*

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait you're serious?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

PH43R THE ROSSIMEISTER!!!!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

mark knopfler once asked billy gibbons how they got their guitar sound on eliminator.

billy: "we'd tell you, but we'd have to kill you."
mark: "haha! no, really, how'd you get that sound?"
billy: "no, really, we'd have to kill you."
mark: "(gulp)"

"money for nothing" was mark's approximation of said sound.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

better luck next time, mr knopfler!

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

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