ZZ Top - Chrome, Smoke & BBQ (2003) [FLAC] 88
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ZZ Top Chrome, Smoke & BBQ (2003) FLAC LOSSLESS 16Bit-44.1kHz Contains Album Art & ID Tags allmusic... Prior to 2003's Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, ZZ Top's catalog was crying out for a comprehensive retrospective. Not that the band hadn't been anthologized before: they had two hits collections, with notably different track listings, and in 1987's Six Pack, they even had a makeshift box set, but all three of these were hampered by limited focus and haphazard execution. Chrome, Smoke & BBQ addresses both of these concerns by focusing on the trio's 20 years at Warner -- from 1970's ZZ Top's First Album to 1990's Recycler -- picking the best 70 or so songs from these ten albums and spreading them over the course of a lavish four-disc, 80-track box set. This is the first logical approach to ZZ Top's career yet, and while it isn't a perfect collection, it comes tantalizingly close to that ideal. The primary problem is that by the time the fourth disc rolls around, the collection has lost considerable momentum -- and that's without even touching any material from the forgettable albums the band waxed for RCA in the '90s. With its robotic beats and flattened production, Recycler pointed the way toward those RCA records, yet it did have some excellent songs -- "Give It Up," "My Head's in Mississippi," and "Doubleback" -- that harked back to the group's strengths, something that would have been more apparent if these songs appeared at the end of disc three, after the Afterburner material. Instead, they're stranded on the fourth disc, along with four other songs from Recycler, for a grand total of seven of ten songs from that album, to which are added six "Medium Rare" tracks -- the obligatory obscurities that are included on each box set, this time being a pretty cool Spanish version of "Francene," an OK live take on "Cheap Sunglasses" from a 1980 promo single, and four 12" remixes, none of which are very good. This disc is required listening only for diehards. Fortunately, the other three discs are damn near perfect, containing six to seven songs from each of their albums except their debut (nearly all of those records had a mere ten tracks, making this a very generous sampling) along with three tracks from guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons' first band, the Moving Sidewalks, and a single, "Miller's Farm"/"Salt Lick," from the "embryonic" ZZ Top, before bassist Dusty Hill or drummer Frank Beard joined forces with Gibbons. All the hits and classic rock radio staples are here, of course, along with a wealth of album tracks that illustrate that even if the band didn't have much range -- whether the production was raw and greasy as it was on "La Grange" or clean and sleek, like the Police playing the Rolling Stones, as on "Pearl Necklace," they rarely strayed from either fast blues boogie or slow blues -- they did have strong songwriting chops, witnessed by such buried treasures as the raucous "Brown Sugar" and "Just Got Paid," the monster groove of "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide," the sweet "Leila," the crawling "Blue Jean Blues," and the unspeakable sleaze of the oozing "Mexican Blackbird" and smirking "I Got the Six." All this and more (including a radio commercial for Deguello) spread out over three addictive discs that truly do condense ZZ Top's records to their very best. It would be nice to have the good Recycler songs sandwiched onto the third disc and top the set off at three discs -- it would have been a nice symmetry, with one disc for each band member -- but it's easy enough to ignore the last disc and revel in how good the rest of the set is. Basically, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ is all the ZZ Top you'd ever need. Tracklist: CD 1 01. You Make Me Shake (The Moving Sidewalks) 02. Joe Blues (The Moving Sidewalks) 03. Crimson Witch (The Moving Sidewalks) 04. Miller’s Farm 05. Salt Lick 06. Brown Sugar 07. Goin’ Down To Mexico 08. Just Got Back From Baby’s 09. Francene 10. Just Got Paid 11. Ko Ko Blue 12. Chevrolet 13. Bar-B-Q 14. Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell 15. Whiskey’n Mama 16. La Grange 17. Waitin’ For The Bus 18. Jesus Just Left Chicago 19. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers 20. Master Of Sparks CD 2 01. Precious And Grace 02. Shiek 03. Thunderbird (Live) 04. Jailhouse Rock (Live) 05. Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings 06. Heard It On The X 07. Blue Jean Blues 08. Mexican Blackbird 09. Tush 10. It’s Only Love 11. Arrested For Driving While Blind 12. El Diablo 13. Enjoy And Get It On 14. She’s A Heartbreaker 15. Asleep In The Desert 16. I Thank You 17. Cheap Sunglasses 18. I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide 19. A Fool For Your Stockings 20. Degüello Album Radio Spot 21. Manic Mechanic 22. She Loves My Automobile 23. Leila 24. Tube Snake Boogie CD 3 01. I Wanna Drive You Home 02. It’s So Hard 03. Pearl Necklace 04. Heaven, Hell Or Houston 05. Gimme All Your Lovin’ 06. Got Me Under Pressure 07. TV Dinners 08. Sharp Dressed Man 09. Legs 10. I Got The Six 11. Dirty Dog 12. If I Could Only Flag Her Down 13. Sleeping Bag 14. Stages 15. Woke Up With Wood 16. Rough Boy 17. Can’t Stop Rockin’ 18. Planet Of Women 19. Velcro Fly 20. Delirious CD 4 01. Concrete And Steel 02. Lovething 03. Penthouse Eyes 04. My Head’s In Mississippi 05. Give It Up 06. Doubleback 07. 2000 Blues 08. Reverberation (Doubt) 09. Viva Las Vegas 10. Gun Love 11. Francene (Spanish) 12. Cheap Sunglasses (Live) 13. Legs (Dance Mix) 14. Viva Las Vegas (12" Remix) 15. Give It Up (2,800 Mile Remix) 16. Velcro Fly (12" Remix) Support the artists... Buy it if you like it! Sharing since 2010 Thanks for Seeding! Cheers ;) 88