Artist: ZZ Top
Album: La Futura
Bitrate: 261kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: American Recordings
Genre: Rock
Size: 77.49 megs
PlayTime: 0h 39min 22sec total
Rip Date: 2012-09-07
Store Date: 2012-09-07
Track List:
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01. I Gotsa Get Paid 4:03
02. Chartreuse 2:57
03. Consumption 3:48
04. Over You 4:30
05. Heartache In Blue 4:09
06. I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You 4:21
07. Flyin' High 4:17
08. It's Too Easy Manana 4:48
09. Big Shiny Nine 3:11
10. Have A Little Mercy 3:18
Release Notes:
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The first ZZ Top album for nine years opens with the most remarkable rock'n'roll
song of the year. Gotsta Get Paid is an adaptation not of some old blues or
boogie, but of the Houston hip-hop classic 25 Lighters by DJ DMD with Lil' Keke
and Fat Pat. It doesn't sound like hip-hop, naturally û it's reconfigured as a
dirty, lazy, heavy groove, Billy Gibbons's growling guitar and voice front and
centre. It's simply brilliant. In fact, their 15th album would sound amazing
even if the songs weren't up to scratch û Gibbons and co-producer Rick Rubin
have done a remarkable job in making the band sound both timely and timeless,
and fiercer than at any time in their career. But the songs hit the mark pretty
consistently, too: on Consumption, with its hiccups and pauses, ZZ Top sound
like an engine coughing and spluttering and roaring into life; Chartreuse picks
up where Tush left off; I Don't Wanna Lose, Lose You could have been buffed up
for Eliminator, but is all the better for being unpolished. It's an unexpectedly
wonderful return from an undervalued band.