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ZZ Top – Afterburner

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Well, if you just had your biggest hit ever, you’d probably try to replicate it, too. And if you were praised for being visionary because you played all your blues grooves to a slightly sequenced beat, you’d probably be tempted to not just continue in that direction, but to tighten the sequencer and graft on synthesizers, since it’ll all signal how futuristic you are. While you’re at it, you might visualize how space age this all is by turning your signature car into a space shuttle. If you look at things that way, then Afterburner, ZZ Top’s follow-up to their blockbuster Eliminator, makes sense — they’re just giving the people more of what they want. Problem is, no matter how much you dress ZZ Top up, they’re still ZZ Top. Sometimes they can trick you into thinking they’re a little flashier than usual, but they’re still a lil’ ol’ blues band from Texas, kicking out blues-rockers. And blues-rock just doesn’t kick when it’s synthesized, even if ZZ Top’s grooves always bordered on robotic. So, Afterburner, their most synthetic album, will not please most ZZ Top fans, even if it did go platinum several time over and reached number four. That’s all just a sign of the times, when even hard rock bands had to sound as slick as synth pop, complete with clanging DX-7s and cavernous drums. As an artifact of that time, Afterburner is pretty good — never has a hard rock album sounded so artificial, nor has a nominal blues-rock album sounded so devoid of blues. Apart from the chugging “Sleeping Bag,” not even the singles sound like ZZ Top (though “Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury” is a blatant “Gimme All Your Lovin'” rewrite): the terrific post-new wave rocker “Stages” is the poppiest thing they ever cut, the ballad “Rough Boy” is far removed from slow blues, and the full-fledged synth dance of “Velcro Fly” is a true mind-bender. All this means that Afterburner is merely a product of its time — the only record ZZ Top could have made at the time, but it hardly exists out of that time.

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Warner Bros. Records,  Lone Wolf Productions 925 342-1, WX 27 LP, Album UK & Europe 1985-10-28

A1. Sleeping Bag 4:02
A2. Stages 3:32
A3. Woke Up With Wood 3:45
A4. Rough Boy 4:50
A5. Can’t Stop Rockin’ 3:01
B1. Planet Of Women 4:04
B2. I Got The Message 3:27
B3. Velcro Fly 3:29
B4. Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury) 3:11
B5. Delirious 3:41

Credits:

Art Direction – Ayeroff, McManus*, Somers
Bass, Vocals – Dusty Hill
Design – Jeri McManus
Drums – Frank Beard
Engineer – Bob Ludwig, Joe Hardy
Guitar, Vocals – Billy Gibbons
Illustration [Cover And Label Illustrations] – Barry Jackson
Producer – Bill Ham
Written-By – Gibbons, Hill, Beard

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

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Inner label’s information:
A Lone Wolf Production.
Published by (G.B. only) Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
© 1985 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
℗ 1985 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S.
Made In Germany by WEA Musik GmbH

Back-cover’s information:
All selections © 1985 Hamstein Music Co.
© 1985 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
℗ 1985 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. & WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH. Alsdorf

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 0 7599-25342-1
Barcode 075992534215
Label Code LC 0392
Other WX 27
Price Code Ⓧ
Price Code WE 381
Rights Society GEMA BIEM
Other W [Warner logo]
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Additional information

Weight0,5 kg

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