35 Years of ZZ Top’s “Eliminator”

Posted on March 21, 2018

Friday, March 23 marks the 35th anniversary of one of the greatest American rock albums.

Eliminator was an album that saw the band expanding their sound with more synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers. Bruno MacDonald, co-editor of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, referred to the album as “an electro-boogie masterpiece.” Eliminator would go on to sell over 10,000,000 copies in the US alone and about 14,000,000 copies worldwide.

Gimme All Your Lovin’ (#2 US Mainstream Rock, #37 Billboard Hot 100)
Got Me Under Pressure (#18 US Mainstream Rock)
Sharp Dressed Man (#8 US Mainstream Rock, #56 Billboard Hot 100)
I Need You Tonight
I Got the Six
Legs (#3 US Mainstream Rock, #8 Billboard Hot 100, #13 Hot Dance Music/Club Play)
Thug
TV Dinners (#38 US Mainstream Rock)
Dirty Dog
If I Could Only Flag Her Down
Bad Girl

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