are we all on board with this one?

["BING E BONG"]

[DarknessFish]

The quote in your signature sums it up for me.

[loveless]

I think this band has done some uniquely good/fine work.

But, Dear Lord, I cannot get with this song/period one bit.

These music videos were UBIQUITOUS on MTV at the time (and, in my age demographic, we were all completely strung out on the channel...plugging in as soon as we got home from school every afternoon)..."Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man", and this one...quaint, naff, and unlikely as I find it all now, there's a bit of Proustian recall. They (on the basis of this album/period) were the favorite band of a beautiful girl from 8th grade on whom I had the hugest fumbling adolescent crush (I can still remember her name and face, despite not having seen her - nor heard ANYTHING about her - in the intervening forty years).

So...yeah, strangely evocative, but...for me, personally - Reagan-era ZZ Top is some unlovable shit.

["BING E BONG"]

*plods off to Tesco with a tear in his eye*

[fange]

A big HELL YEAH for me.

I get your reaction, loveless, as the ubiquity of the Top videos was truly a thing in my mind too, and they were the dumbest type of music videos to boot... and yet the sharpness of music still shone through.

[Charlie O.]

I voted "Yes" but I'm pretty much right between loveless and fange here.

[riggers]

It was my way in. Loved the hooks and the crunchy guitars. I don't think I ever heard Eliminator all the way through, , but it sent me back to those early albums, which I'm a pretty big fan of.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

I suppose it's my favourite of the hits from 'Eliminator', but that album is pretty damn low on my list of ZZ Top LPs.

[sloopjohnc]

Oct 23, 2024 12:19:16 GMT loveless said:

I think this band has done some uniquely good/fine work.

But, Dear Lord, I cannot get with this song/period one bit.

These music videos were UBIQUITOUS on MTV at the time (and, in my age demographic, we were all completely strung out on the channel...plugging in as soon as we got home from school every afternoon)..."Legs", "Sharp Dressed Man", and this one...quaint, naff, and unlikely as I find it all now, there's a bit of Proustian recall. They (on the basis of this album/period) were the favorite band of a beautiful girl from 8th grade on whom I had the hugest fumbling adolescent crush (I can still remember her name and face, despite not having seen her - nor heard ANYTHING about her - in the intervening forty years).

So...yeah, strangely evocative, but...for me, personally - Reagan-era ZZ Top is some unlovable shit.

I think this is probably the first (and last) time "Proustian recall" is used to describe anything to do with ZZ Top.

[fonz]

They’re fun.

Old hairy geezers trying it on with the laydeez.

Daft. No one took them seriously. Entertainment.

[toomanyhatz]

Meh.

It's no "La Grange."