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- ZZ Top's First Album
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ZZ Top
Released 1970

Brown Sugar
05:21
7,203 plays

Goin' Down To Mexico
03:23
4,273 plays

(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree
02:29
4,025 plays

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- 1
- (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree
- 02:29
- 4,025 plays

- 2
- Brown Sugar
- 05:21
- 7,203 plays

- 3
- Squank
- 02:48
- 3,278 plays

- 4
- Goin' Down To Mexico
- 03:23
- 4,273 plays

- 5
- Old Man
- 03:31
- 3,317 plays

- 6
- Neighbor, Neighbor
- 02:19
- 3,598 plays

- 7
- Certified Blues
- 03:27
- 3,592 plays

- 8
- Bedroom Thang
- 03:52
- 3,666 plays

- 9
- Just Got Back From Baby's
- 04:12
- 3,869 plays

- 10
- Backdoor Love Affair
- 02:41
- 3,818 plays

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album review

ZZ Top's First Album may not be perfectly polished, but it does establish their sound, attitude, and quirks. Simply put, it's a dirty little blues-rock record, filled with fuzzy guitars, barrelhouse rhythms, dirty jokes, and Texan slang. They have a good, ballsy sound that hits at gut level, and if the record's not entirely satisfying, it's because they're still learning how to craft records -- which means that they're still learning pacing as much as they're learning how to assemble a set of indelible material. Too much of this record glides by on its sound, without offering any true substance, but the tracks that really work -- "(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree," "Backdoor Love Affair," "Brown Sugar," and "Goin' Down to Mexico," among them -- show that from their very first record on, ZZ Top was that lil' ol' blues band from Texas. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide