...( Info )...

ZZ Top
Eliminator (1983)
FLAC LOSSLESS 24bit-96kHz
PBTHAL Vinyl Rip


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ZZ Top had reached the top of the charts before, but that didn't make their sudden popularity in 1983 any more predictable. It wasn't that they were just popular -- they were hip, for God's sake, since they were one of the only AOR favorites to figure out to harness the stylish, synthesized grooves of new wave, and then figure out how to sell it on MTV. Of course, it helped that they had songs that deserved to be hits. With "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," and "Legs," they had their greatest set of singles since the heady days of Tres Hombres, and the songs that surrounded them weren't bad either -- they would have been singles on El Loco, as a matter of fact. The songs alone would have made Eliminator one of ZZ Top's three greatest albums, but their embrace of synths and sequencers made it a blockbuster hit, since it was the sound of the times. Years later, the sound of the times winds up sounding a bit stiff. It's still an excellent ZZ Top album, one of their best, yet it sounds like a mechanized ZZ Top thanks to the unflaggingly accurate grooves. Then again, that's part of the album's charm -- this is new wave blues-rock, glossed up for the video, looking as good as the omnipresent convertible on the cover and sounding as irresistible as Reaganomics. Not the sort the old-school fans or blues-rock purists will love, but ZZ Top never sounded as much like a band of its time as they did here.


foobar2000 1.4.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2020-11-10 08:13:24

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Analyzed: ZZ Top / Eliminator
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DR     Peak     RMS   Duration Track
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...( TrackList )...

DR12   -2.83 dB  -17.09 dB   4:03 01-Gimme All Your Lovin'
DR13   -2.25 dB  -17.45 dB   4:04 02-Got Me Under Pressure
DR14   -1.00 dB  -16.70 dB   4:18 03-Sharp Dressed Man
DR14   -3.14 dB  -19.13 dB   6:18 04-I Need You Tonight
DR13   -3.44 dB  -18.43 dB   2:56 05-I Got The Six
DR14   -1.00 dB  -16.23 dB   3:36 06-Legs
DR14   -2.70 dB  -19.55 dB   4:19 07-Thug
DR14   -2.08 dB  -18.37 dB   3:52 08-TV Dinners
DR13   -2.62 dB  -17.70 dB   4:06 09-Dirty Dog
DR15   -3.06 dB  -20.22 dB   3:42 10-If I Could Only Flag Her Down
DR13   -2.75 dB  -17.76 dB   3:16 11-Bad Girl

Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR14

Samplerate:    96000 Hz
Channels:     2
Bits per sample:  24
Bitrate:      3071 kbps
Codec:       FLAC