First three records are immense. "ZZ Top's First Record". "Rio Grande Mud" and "Tres Hombres". I was turned off by their cheesy 80's MTV stuff, but this early stuff is great.

some of their 80s stuff is solid too man, don't overlook it because of cheesy videos

In 1969 in an interview with Dick Cavett, Jimi Hendrix said that Billy Gibbons was teh best young guitarist in America.

If you have an account on Dime, I highly recommend you to pick the 1980's Rockpalast concert torrent (dont remember exactly the date but you can surely find out). Really great show and you'll discover that Fandango, Tejas and Deguello are pretty awesome albums too

just got paid is one of the finest rock-n-and-or-roll songs ever

ZZ's early stuff just doesn't get enough credit.

I have the ZZ Top box set and it rules. IT RULES!

I was just talking about this recently. They were a fantastic dirty-bar-blues band. Anything from the 70s is solid gold, awesome stuff.

I have been listening to these same three albums for about 3 months now non-stop.....

If you do not like these albums you suck, plain and simple.

Blue Jean Blues
Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers
Jesus Left Chicago
Just Got Paid

These guys were AWESOME before that 80's trash. I can not stand that shit.

Tejas rocks too.

There are still some good songs on the '80s albums, if you get past the horrific production (I need You Tonight for example)