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ZZ TOP

 A sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas, ZZ Top specialized in down-and-dirty blues-rock during the '70s, then scored colorful MTV hits during the 1980s. Formed in Houston in 1970 by Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums), the trio came from a pair of rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). Their first two albums reflected the strong blues roots and Texas humor of the band. Their third album (Tres Hombres) gained them national attention with the hit "La Grange," a signature riff tune to this day, based on John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen." Their success continued unabated throughout the '70s, culminating with the year-and-a-half-long Worldwide Texas Tour

"LA FUTURA"

2012    2LP       AMERICAN RECORDINGS  RECORDS       B0017381-01

PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.     ORIGINAL PRESSING

IN SHRINK GATEFOLD SLEEVE + HYPE STICKER

NOTES:  Shrink Wrap Square Sticker Text: 

"ZZ Top is the best power trio of all time" - Spin.com

First new studio recordings in nine years    Produced by Rick Rubin & Billy F Gibbons

Pressed on 180 gram vinyl    B0017381-01

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 6 02537 14114 2

LABEL: AMERICAN RECORDINGS -  BLACK/SILVER LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (sticker, spine, rear) B0017381-01

Catalog on labels: B0017381-01

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BG B0017381-01LP01-A Ⓤ RS

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BG B0017381-01LP01-B Ⓤ

Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): BG B0017381-01LP02-A Ⓤ

Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): BG B0017381-01LP02-B Ⓤ

On labels: a STEREOPHONIC experience

Produced by Rick Rubin & Billy F Gibbons

℗© 2012 Universal Republic Records.........

On back cover: Tracklist

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tracklisting

Side A: GOTSTA GET PAID - CHARTREUSE - CONSUMPTION

Side B: OVER YOU - HEARTACHE IN BLUE

Side C: I DON'T WANNA LOSE, LOSE, YOU - FLYIN' HIGH - IT'S TOO EASY MANANA

Side D: BIG SHINY NINE - HAVE A LITTLE MERCY

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RECORDS EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

ZZ Top have long been a prime candidate for a Rick Rubin-led comeback, having long ago settled into an insular digital rut that paid back increasingly small dividends. La Futura is that long-awaited ZZ Top record, their first full-length in nearly a decade (the last was 2003's Mescalero) and, more remarkably, their first-ever album to bear a production credit by somebody who is neither Billy Gibbons nor longtime manager Bill Ham, who left the organization in 2006. Gibbons sits at the mixing board with Rubin and together they revive the Top's dirty '70s boogie, never quite forgetting the coolly propulsive stylized rock of Eliminator. Certainly, La Futura is the best album from ZZ Top since that '80s landmark but it flips Eliminator on its head, using synthesized elements as accents, not as a skeleton. Rubin returns real drums to ZZ Top but doesn't entirely strip away drum machines, giving La Futura just enough of a futuristic shimmer to live up to its name, just enough of the present to make it feel of the moment. And there's no mistaking that this lil' ol' band from Texas is indeed old -- and its age is part of the pleasure of La Futura. ZZ Top have the weathered interplay of vets who've been doing this for almost their entire lives and Billy Gibbons' gravelly growl has now withered into a gnarly, strangled croak, almost primal in its ugliness. Far from hiding his ragged singing, Gibbons and Rubin have it battle the thick blasts of fuzz guitars throughout the whole of the album, noise that even splatters the slow 12-bar form of "Heartache in Blue." It's a thick, tactile sound that's invigorating -- the smack of Frank Beard's snare is infectious -- and that alone would make La Futura a success, but what makes it a triumph is the coolly efficient songwriting. ZZ Top cleverly reference past glories without succumbing to recycling: "I Gotsta Get Paid" could have wallowed in the Rio Grande Mud, "Chartreuse" boogies as relentlessly as "Tush," "Have a Little Mercy" winks at "Waitin' for the Bus," and they revive the arena rock of the '80s with "Flyin' High." What makes these songs really cook is how ZZ Top are celebrating everything that they've taken for granted for decades -- they're embracing the sleazy boogie, the dirty jokes, the locomotive riffs, the saturated blues, the persistent lecherous leer, and by doing so they finally sound like themselves again...(AllMusic)