Who could have predicted the enormous success of ZZ Top's 1983 album 'Eliminator'? The "Little Ol' Band from Texas" made it to five singles and 10 million copies sold by fusing their blues and boogie with an array of synthesizers and sequencers, then putting it all in the back of a 1933 Ford Coupe and heading to wherever the MTV programmers were hiding at the time.
When the time came for a follow-up, the band made the smart business decision to give their new fans more of the same - more keyboards, more drum machines, more songs with even more euphemisms for sexual activity. And then, when they were done with that, they added more keyboards. These were definitely not your uncle's ZZ Top - the guys they envisioned as blues-heavy rodeo escapees chugging through the dusty roads of Texas roadhouses, soaked in mescal, tuned to frontier radio and exhaling barbecue smoke. 'Afterburner' presented ZZ Top as dystopian blade riders, ascending into the sterile environment of their space compound instead of running around killing varmints in the desert.
Contains the hits 'Sleeping Bag' and 'Rough Boy'
CD version
Tracklisting:
1. Sleeping Bag
2. Stages
3. Woke Up With Wood
3. Rough Boy
4. Can't Stop Rockin'
5. Planet Of Women
6. I Got The Message
7. Velcro Fly
8. Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury)
9. Delirious
