Monday, August 19, 2019

The 1985 Listening Post - ZZ Top - Afterburner

ZZ Top - Afterburner


#405/1041
October 26 1985
ZZ Top
Afterburner
Genre: ZZTopisDisconotRock
3.25 out of 5


Highlights:
Stages
Can’t Stop Rockin’


“Dis-co Sucks! Dis-co Sucks!”

Right? Amirite?

Except that, as I said before and reinforced here: ZZ Top is not a rock band. They are a boogie dance disco band. With guitars. 

And America loved it. This was a huge seller for the band. 

It’s fine for what it is, I guess, but what it is is four on the floor and guitar breaks separated by monotone lyrics sung with about as emotion as can be mustered through that bees nest of a beard. 

Here’s the thing about ZZ Top that I have come to learn:

They wrote one song. Every other track is a variation of that one song. Or two. Sometimes there’s another.



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