Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top

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Total Tracks: 38   Total Length: 153:29

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Awesome Download

EMUSIC-Sebastian

Without a doubt this is an Awesome Download and for the price the best collection of ZZ Top songs together. Great music and Billy Gibbons is a VERY cool and humble in person - a true gentleman.

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A Few Ripe Ones

Progressive-Hobo

Just cherry pickin a couple of great songs... Too many songs album only.. I'll be glad when eMusic just puts a price on all their songs and starts selling music.. It wouldn't force me to their competitors that have a price on nearly everything... Wake up.. It's called retail sales....

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Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top

capools

I love the sounds - Great music

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More than I expected

RockClimber53

I've always liked ZZ Top, didn't really know how much until I listened to Ranchero from beginning to end.... Wow.

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Great overview

1scarylarry

A lot of the early tracks are very reminiscent of the sound of the James Gang, but the later tracks are where the boys' individuality shows through and they really start to boogie. They've been around for a while and hopefully they will be around for a lot longer.

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Great Music

geoffreylee

All the hits and other good songs. Get it.

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A Great Collection

OSBURNKA

I admit that I mostly enjoyed their hits as I heard them on the radio. This is a good collection that is giving me some new perspectives on other songs that made them loved by so many.

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A bunch of great songs

justus58

This is a great deal. I own 2 other earlier greatest hits collections from ZZ Top and still downloaded this collection.

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great deal

kpcorn

outstanding value for the credits....

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Since Rhino released an exhaustive four-disc ZZ Top box in October 2003, some may question the appearance of a double-disc retrospective in June 2004, a mere eight months after the box set. The two may be released awfully close to each other, but they do play to different audiences — in other words, there are a bunch of fans who want all the hits, but not a full box set, and that’s what the 38-track Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top delivers. Not that it gets everything right — there are a few classic album cuts, like “Leila” and “I Got the Six,” that probably should have been included, and ending the set with a live version of “Cheap Sunglasses” and 12″ remixes of “Legs” and “Velcro Fly” leaves a bad aftertaste — but it gets it close enough, containing all of their biggest hits and a great cross-section of album tracks and AOR favorites. And apart from the aforementioned bewildering final three tracks, it’s sequenced well, with the down-n-dirty ’70s material on the first disc, and the MTV hits from the ’80s on the second. There’s still a need for a single-disc that has all the biggest hits, but until that comes along, Rancho Texicano is the best and most concise overview of that lil’ ol’ band from Texas. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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