Antenna

ZZ Top | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 18, 1994)
• Original Release Date: January 18, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WPD
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A return to form, April 22, 2003

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Martin Lemos (Millbrae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antenna (Audio CD)

On ANTENNA, ZZ TOP try to return to their pre ELIMANATOR style. By that I mean, more blues riffs and a more blusey sound instead of trying to be so polished. While this is not a great ZZ TOP album, it is by no means a bad one. The album has some good riffs to it and has some good rocking songs. I like the songs PINCUSHION, WORLD OF SWIRL, FUZZBOX VOODOO, COVER YOUR RIG, LIZARD LIFE. If you found about this group from thier videos, then I suggest this album for you so you can get an understanding of what the group was about before than. They are just a little ol' blues band from Texas that continues to make some good music. How can you argue with a group that has been together and still has the same members after 30 years. I think that this album should be a welcomed addition to your CD collection.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fuzzbox Voodoo, December 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Antenna (Audio CD)

This a really good ZZ Top album, a noticeable improvement over Recycler. Antenna is a bit of a return to their earlier, bluesier sound. Billy Gibbons cranks up the amp on this one, and the album rocks pretty hard, but there's still a few remnants of that '80s pop sound. Mostly good guitar rockers here, with plenty of Gibbons' trademark pinch harmonics. Pincushion, World of Swirl, Antenna Head, Cover Your Rig and Deal Goin' Down are all great songs that rock hard.

Antenna isn't quite as hard as the follow-up, 1996's Rhythmeen, but it's a step in that direction. If you like Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres-era ZZ Top, then do check out Antenna and Rhythmeen. I don't think you will be disappointed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Top returning to a stripped-down trio sound, January 30, 2002

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Chuck Hilton (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Antenna (Audio CD)

I had this release on tape back when it came out in Fall of '94 and wore it out to the point where the tape fell out of the case. Now, I'm doing the same with the CD, if it's possible to wear out a CD. Just rediscovered this gem and was not sorry I did. Having been a Top fan since '83 and catching them live on the Rhythmeen tour and being a guitarist that has copped many a Gibbons lick, it is refreshing to hear that this CD has pushed away from the keyboardy, synthish, electric drummy, polished & glitzy sound of old. The trio is thumping heavily in true Top style. For one thing, Gibbons sports a real dry, punchy, meaty, crunchy guitar sound that is surprisingly soothing to the ears. A few solos knock me back in my shoes, particularly the solo to "Breakaway". I personally feel the man is incapable of playing an incorrect note. Guitarists call this gift "phrasing" and Billy has it to give away. To put it mildly, he has a tone that I feel will never and cannot ever be duplicated, if only by him. Hill is on bass, old faithful with a wall of thump and bump and growl and more than ably holding down the bottom solidly. Beard is highly active on the skins and cymbals, without being abrasive and overplaying, then plodding and stable at other times. This shows the true talent of a drummer who has gone from bar-fight blues to rocket boogie to techno-styled dashings back to commanding the foundation of the song. They seem to all 3 be tight and locked in. There are one or two tunes on here that I can live without, but that would be lyrically, not musically. One would think that after 24 years of being RECORDED artists (at this release date, anyway) that they would go stale with songs about women, drinking, partying, cars, compromising situations, and hell-raising, but they always find a way to make the tried and true sound new and ear-opening. They do it well and nobody can ride it as long and successfully as they have. They haven't been together for over 3 decades for nothing. This is not a disappointment by any means. A good CD to pop in with the windows down on a long road trip. Enjoy.