ZZ Top - Chrome Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box '2008

Tracks list

 

Tracklist:

[3:02] 01. Gibbons Billy - You Make Me Shake
[7:35] 02. The Moving Sidewalks - Joe Blues
[3:02] 03. Gibbons Billy - Crimson Witch
[2:35] 04. ZZ Top - Millers Farm (Album Version)
[2:45] 05. ZZ Top - Salt Lick (Album Version)
[5:22] 06. ZZ Top - Brown Sugar (LP Version)
[3:20] 07. ZZ Top - Goin Down to Mexico (LP Version)
[4:09] 08. ZZ Top - Just Got Back from Babys (LP Version)
[3:33] 09. ZZ Top - Francene (LP Version)
[4:27] 10. ZZ Top - Just Got Paid (LP Version)
[4:32] 11. ZZ Top - Ko Ko Blue (LP Version)
[3:20] 12. ZZ Top - Chevrolet (LP Version)
[3:26] 13. ZZ Top - Bar-B-Q (LP Version)
[7:18] 14. ZZ Top - Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell (LP Version)
[3:20] 15. ZZ Top - Whiskeyn Mama (LP Version)
[3:53] 16. ZZ Top - La Grange (1999 Remaster)
[2:53] 17. ZZ Top - Waitin for the Bus (LP Version)
[3:30] 18. ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago (LP Version)
[3:23] 19. ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers (LP Version)
[3:30] 20. ZZ Top - Master of Sparks (LP Version)
[3:10] 21. ZZ Top - Precious and Grace (LP Version)
[4:04] 22. ZZ Top - Sheik (LP Version)
[3:04] 23. ZZ Top - Thunderbird (LP Version)
[1:54] 24. ZZ Top - Jailhouse Rock (LP Version)
[2:43] 25. ZZ Top - Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings (LP Version)
[2:25] 26. ZZ Top - Heard It on the X (LP Version)
[4:39] 27. ZZ Top - Blue Jean Blues
[3:06] 28. ZZ Top - Mexican Blackbird (LP Version)
[2:17] 29. Dusty Hill - Tush (LP Version)
[4:23] 30. ZZ Top - Its Only Love (LP Version)
[3:06] 31. ZZ Top - Arrested for Driving While Blind (LP Version)
[4:21] 32. ZZ Top - El Diablo (LP Version)
[3:24] 33. ZZ Top - Enjoy and Get It On (LP Version)
[3:03] 34. ZZ Top - Shes a Heartbreaker (LP Version)
[3:26] 35. ZZ Top - Asleep in the Desert (Instrumental LP Version)
[3:24] 36. ZZ Top - I Thank You (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:47] 37. ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:47] 38. ZZ Top - Im Bad, Im Nationwide (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[4:15] 39. ZZ Top - A Fool for Your Stockings (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[1:00] 40. ZZ Top - Deguello Album Radio Spot (Remastered Version)
[2:37] 41. ZZ Top - Manic Mechanic (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[2:23] 42. ZZ Top - She Loves My Automobile (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[3:15] 43. ZZ Top - Leila (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:03] 44. ZZ Top - Tube Snake Boogie (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:47] 45. ZZ Top - I Wanna Drive You Home (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[5:12] 46. ZZ Top - Its so Hard (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:06] 47. ZZ Top - Pearl Necklace (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[2:32] 48. ZZ Top - Heaven, Hell or Houston (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[3:58] 49. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:58] 50. ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[3:51] 51. ZZ Top - TV Dinners (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:13] 52. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:35] 53. ZZ Top - Legs (2003 Remaster) (Remastered Album Version)
[2:52] 54. ZZ Top - I Got the Six (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:02] 55. ZZ Top - Dirty Dog (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:40] 56. ZZ Top - If I Could Only Flag Her Down (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[4:02] 57. ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:32] 58. ZZ Top - Stages (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:46] 59. ZZ Top - Woke up with Wood (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:51] 60. ZZ Top - Rough Boy (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:03] 61. ZZ Top - Cant Stop Rockin (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:03] 62. ZZ Top - Planet of Women (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:29] 63. ZZ Top - Velcro Fly (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:41] 64. ZZ Top - Delirious (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:48] 65. ZZ Top - Concrete and Steel (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:25] 66. ZZ Top - Lovething (LP Version)
[3:48] 67. ZZ Top - Penthouse Eyes (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:19] 68. ZZ Top - My Heads in Mississippi (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP
Version)
[3:30] 69. ZZ Top - Give It Up (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:57] 70. ZZ Top - Doubleback (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[4:42] 71. ZZ Top - 2000 Blues (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:00] 72. ZZ Top - Reverberation (Doubt)
[4:44] 73. ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[3:40] 74. ZZ Top - Gun Love (2003 Remaster) (Remastered LP Version)
[2:57] 75. ZZ Top - Francene (Spanish Version)
[5:15] 76. ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses (Remastered Live Version)
[7:51] 77. ZZ Top - Legs (Remastered Dance Mix)
[8:40] 78. ZZ Top - Viva Las Vegas (Remastered 12 Remix)
[6:25] 79. ZZ Top - Give It Up (Remastered 2,800 Mile Remix)
[6:38] 80. ZZ Top - Velcro Fly (Remastered 12 Remix)



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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 80 track(s)
Total length: 05:12:23
Main artist: ZZ Top
Label: Rhino - Warner Records
Genre: Pop/Rock, Rock
(c) 2003 Warner Records Inc. 
(p) 2003 Warner Records Inc.

Prior to 2003s Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, ZZ Tops catalog was crying out for a
comprehensive retrospective. Not that the band hadnt been anthologized before:
they had two hits collections, with notably different track listings, and in
1987s 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 trios 20 years at Warner -- from 1970s
ZZ Tops First Album to 1990s 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 Tops career yet, and
while it isnt 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 thats 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 Heads in
Mississippi, and Doubleback -- that harked back to the groups strengths,
something that would have been more apparent if these songs appeared at the end
of disc three, after the Afterburner material. Instead, theyre 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, Millers 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 didnt 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 Im Bad, Im 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 Tops 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 its 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 youd ever need. [Chrome, Smoke & BBQ was released
in two editions, both containing a terrific book, filled with great photos --
including early shots of Gibbons in the Moving Sidewalks, without the beard --
testimonials by the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Ann Richards,
and of all people, David Lynch (who immortally proclaims ZZ Top = the fast track
to cool), an excellent history by Tom Vickers, and track-by-track notes by
Gibbons, Hill, and Beard, as told to Bob Merlis. The limited edition is quite
fancy in its own right, encased in a mock roadhouse shack and containing a
booklet shaped as a menu, a sheet of ZZ Top paper dolls (no perforations,
however; this is for display purposes only), and a flipbook that finds the trio
doing their signature twirling guitars and hand gestures. Its a little
elaborate, but its fun, particularly because the four discs are in jewel cases
and can be transported while this sits on the set, next to the other
impractical, oversized box sets, such as that Charley Patton box designed as a
fake album of 78s, in your collection.]

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