ZZ Top - Rhythmeen
RCA/Lone Wolf Production Comapny  (1996)
Blues-Rock, Rock

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CD    12 tracks  (53:55) 
   01   Rhythmeen             03:53
   02   Bang Bang             04:28
   03   Black Fly             03:31
   04   What's Up With That             05:19
   05   Vincent Price Blues             06:04
   06   Zipper Job             04:14
   07   Hairdresser             03:48
   08   She's Just Killing Me             04:55
   09   My Mind Is Gone             04:06
   10   Loaded             03:47
   11   Prettyhead             04:37
   12   Hummbucking, Part 2             05:13
Personal Details
Purchase Date 08.12.1996
Details
Extras Digitalisiert
Musicians
Drums and Percussion Frank Beard
Bass Guitar Dusty Hill
Guitar-Electric Billy Gibbons
Unlisted Instrument Billy Gibbons
Unlisted Instrument Dusty Hill
Unlisted Instrument Frank Beard
Vocals Billy Gibbons
Vocals Dusty Hill
Credits
Songwriter Billy Gibbons; ZZ Top
Producer Bill Ham; Billy Gibbons
Engineer Lizz Harran; Joe Hardy
Notes
ZZ Top's long-awaited return to the blues finally arrived in 1996, well over a decade after they abandoned their simple three-chord boogie for a synth and drum machine-driven three-chord boogie. Like Antenna before it, Rhythmeen is stripped of all the synthesizers that characterized the group's albums since Eliminator but the key difference between the two albums is how Rhythmeen goes for the gut, not the gloss. It's a record that is steeped in the blues and garage rock, one that pounds out its riffs with sweat and feeling. Though ZZ Top sounds reinvigorated, playing with a salacious abandon they haven't displayed since the '70s, they simply haven't come up with enough interesting songs and riffs to make it a true return to form. For dedicated fans, it's a welcome return to their classic "La Grange" sound, but anyone with a just a passing interest in the band will wonder where the hooks went.