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Rancho Texicano: The Very Best Of ZZ Top | 
| Artist: ZZ Top
Label: Warner Bros.
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 2134
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 78908
UPC: 081227890827
EAN: 0081227890827
ASIN: B0001ZXM54
Release Date: June 21, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Brown Sugar | | • | Goin Down To Mexico | | • | Just Got Back From Babys | | • | Francene | | • | Just Got Paid | | • | Bar-B-Q, La Grange | | • | Waitin For The Bus | | • | Jesus Just Leftchicago | | • | Beer Drinkers Hell Raisers | | • | Mexican Blackbird | | • | Tush | | • | Thunderbird | | • | Blue Jean Blues | | • | Heard It On The X | | • | Its Only Love | | • | Arrested For Driving While Blind | | • | I Thank You | | • | Cheap Sunglasses | | • | Im Bad, Im Nationwide | | • | A Fool For Your Stockings |
Disc 2
| • | Tube Snake Boogie | | • | Pearl Necklace | | • | Gimme All Your Lovin | | • | Sharp Dressed Man | | • | Legs | | • | Got Me Under Pressure | | • | Sleeping Bag | | • | Stages, | | • | Rough Boy | | • | Velcro Fly | | • | Woke Up with Wood | | • | Doubleback | | • | My Heads In Mississippi, | | • | Viva Las Vegas | | • | Cheap Sunglasses (Live) | | • | Legs (Dance Mix) | | • | Velcro Fly (12 Remix) |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 The ZZ Top compilation to buy as a present January 2, 2009
dangermash (Hartlip, Kent)
Before I start, I should point out that I don't own this CD. What I do have are all seven pre-Eliminator albums (albeit in the modern mix - I've never heard the originals), Eliminator and four or five post Eliminators. What that does do, though, is put me in a decent position to comment on ZZ Top compilations.
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br /Close your eyes and imagine.... Your father has asked you for a ZZ Top compilation for his birthday. Being old and not exactly with-it, all he's ever heard of ZZ Top is in the Eliminator era, accompanied by some great videos with sexy women, fancy cars and long beards. So he'swanting the modern stuff on his compilation. But, let's face it, we all know that ZZ Top's best stuff is pre-Eliminator in the Texas blues era. So we want to get him some of that stuff too.
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br /And this twin CD seems to be the one that keeps everybody happy. It has a mix of old and new, so you can give him the tracks he's after while also giving him the tracks that you want him to hear. Because, deep down, we all want to educate the rst of the world into liking the same music as us, don't we?
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br /Finally, if your father finds that he likes the old as well as the new, you could always get him One Foot in the Blues next year. There's only a small overlap between that playlist and the list on this CD package.
Amazing!!! July 1, 2009
Mr. M. WILSON
I love ZZ Top so it was no surprise that I would enjoy this album. Still can't get into their mid-80's pop style. Take me to the blues anyday!! Brown Sugar is a song to be turned up to 11 only!!
THE BEST OF THE BEST OF September 28, 2009
P. barton (LONDON)
IN MY OPINION THIS IS THE BEST, BEST OF ALBUM I HAVE HEARD FOR A WHILE NOW, IT HAS A GREAT SELECTION OF THE EARLY STUFF, WHICH I THINK IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE POST ELIMINATOR ALBUMS, WHEN THE BOYS WERE INTO DEEP DEEP GUITAR BLUES, FOR A THREE PIECE BAND THEY CAN KNOCK OUT THE DECIBELS, I`VE HAD THE JOY OF SEEING THEM LIVE ON THREE TOURS NOW AND I CANNOT MAKE WEMBLEY IN OCTOBER, GUTTED OR WHAT !!!!, ANYONE WHO IS GOING ROCK ONE FOR ME EH !!!!!
Flawed perfection August 7, 2004
Mr. S. K. Pomroy (Ipswich, UK)
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Make no mistake, this is a fantastic collection of the band's years on the Warner Bros label and very good value for money. It would be a certain five star rating for me had it not been for some rather bizarre selections on the second disc. It's the last three tracks that are the root of the problem, all being alternative versions of tracks already included in the collection. The first is a good live version of "Cheap Sunglasses" but it doesn't differ enough from the studio version (on disc one) to warrant inclusion when there are so many gems that have been missed. And then there are two "remixes" - a "dance mix" of "Legs" and a "12' Mix" of "Velcro Fly". While perhaps the inclusion of one such track (just to acknowledge ZZ's attempt to crossover to dancefloor credibility) could POSSIBLY be acceptable, to do it twice is verging on the criminal! Basically rock music and extended remixes were rarely comfortable bed-fellows, if indeed the idea of the extending and distrorting a song beyond it's natural length was ever a good idea for anybody! These duplications waste precious time that could have been given over to "Need You Tonight", "T.V. Dinners" or the always overlooked "I've Got The Message" to name just a few glaring omissions. All songs that represent ZZ far better than this re-cycled dancefloor tosh. What would have been absoultely ideal would have been to include some of the band's post-Warner material, but I guess that might be a compilation for another day. However, what does make this collection so special is it's selection of the pre-"Eliminator" material. While you can always argue about the selections of compilations, for me personally the earlier years of the band are covered extremely well. You have to wait to track 24 (out of 38) before you reach "Eliminator", which gives you some idea of the balance. In fact I would say that the post "Eliminator" era is posibly better served by 2002s "Greatest Hits" album, but those looking for a more substantial review of the Warner catalogue will be in Texan heaven with this set. All in all fantasic stuff and so very close to being a truly definitive statement
Great colection of classics July 5, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been listening to ZZ Top for nearly 20 years and this is the first compilation album of theirs that I have bought, mainly because most of my early collection is on vynil/tape. It is an excellent album, re-creating the old tunes with perfect clarity. The only tune which lets it down is 'Legs-dance mix'(track 16 disc 2). If you like the 70/80's american blues/rock sound this one should keep you happy.
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