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| ARTIST: | ZZ Top |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Brothers |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Thunderbird, Jailhouse Rock, Backdoor Medley: Backdoor Love Affair/Mellow Down Easy/Backdoor Love, Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings, Blue Jean Blues, Balinese, Mexican Blackbird, Heard It on the X, Tush |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 075992738224 |
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Customer Reviews of Fandango
***½. Good. Not quite great "Fandango" is a bit of a missed opportunity in more ways than one.
When it was first released, two years after ZZ Top's big breakthrough album, "Tres Hombres", the band must either not have had enough quality material for a full LP, or they couldn't decide between a live album and a regular studio release.
Thus, "Fandango" is split between three live songs (well, seven, actually, since one is a medley) and six studio cuts. The live portion is so-so, with somewhat mediocre sound, a good "Thunderbird", a pretty good "Jailhouse Rock", and a bland medley of four songs. Too bad, since ZZ Top already had enough excellent material in their catalogue to warrant a full live album.
The studio material is generally good. Vintage ZZ Top, with huge blooze-n-boogie riffs from the great Billy Gibbons, and a truly superb rhythm section.
"Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings" is good without being excactly memorable, "Blue Jean Baby" is an excellent slow blues, and "Balinese" is a sturdy mid-tempo rock number.
The groovy blues shuffle of "Mexican Blackbird", sung by bassist Dusty Hill, is highlighted by some smouldering slide guitar from Gibbons, and it is followed by the hardest rocker on the album, "Heard It On The X". This song is often metioned as one of ZZ Top's greatest. It's not one of my favorites, though...too fast and without feeling or groove, and with a hectic guitar riff and drum figure that becomes annoying after a very short while.
The album does end on a high note, though, with the classic "Tush" which has all the deep-dug groove you could wish for. Classic 70s blues-rock.
All in all, "Fandango" is a good album which could have been great, but the live cuts are a wasted opportunity, and there are only a couple of truly great songs among the studio material (although nothing is actually bad).
It doesn't live up to its predecessor, though.
Great album for us guys...
I guess they're out there, but women who like (and/or understand) that lil ol band from Tejas are few and far between. Now, us guys, we love those 3 cool SOBs. The live side of this CD--per the liner notes that came with it when it was an elpee--claimed that it was truly live, i.e., NO over dubs, no nothin' cept what you hear live (many of you will be disappointed to know, most "live" albums have overdubbed instruments on them). "Thunderbird," "Jailhouse Rock" and "Mellow Down Easy" make for good beer-drinkin' with you and your buds. Add "Mexican Blackbird" (how non-PC can you get??), "Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings" and "Tush" to the mix, and I have to ask, "what more could you want?"
A classic hell-raisin' album.
Great ZZ Top!!!
This album is one of ZZ Top's best!!! The first half is live and the other half is studio!!! Contains the great tracks:Tush,Heard It On The X,Blue Jean Blues,Mellow Down Easy,and Jailhouse Rock!!! A classic album(CD these days)!!! Five stars!!! A+