Eliminator
by ZZ Top
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Eliminator is ranked as the best album by ZZ Top.
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Eliminator track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Eliminator rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 44 minutes ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum artists | 90/100 | - |
| 2026 | byuzak | Greatest Music Albums 100-200 | 31/51 | - |
| 2026 |  Purplepash | Top 39 Music Albums of 1983 | 25/39 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ERadio | Top 55 Music Albums of 1983 | 15/55 | 4 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 41 Music Albums of 1983 | 40/41 | 0 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 50 Music Albums of 1983 | 38/50 | 1 |
| 2026 | Rm12398 | Top 17 Music Albums of 1983 | 14/17 | 1 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 66 Music Albums of 1983 | 6/66 | 5 |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 88/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | panapsal | Top 99 Music Albums of 1983 | 55/99 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 352 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,502 | |||
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Eliminator ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/24/2026 04:54 | LammyTS1 | 1,078 | 59/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2026 16:37 | Steppenwolf666 | 10,021 | 89/100 |
| ! | 04/03/2026 09:11 | markl73 | 631 | 78/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.6/100, a mean average of 74.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Forum mentions
pedro1976 03/17/2025 09:56 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Eliminator comments
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Even though massively polished and commercially pushed with a heap of singles and heavily MTV friendly, this is a great album stacked with top tunes. I was one who didn't really give it a fair hearing at the time due to the commercialism, but it's hard to overlook the quality of nearly every song. A lot better than what the critical purists preach. (Edited)
AAL2014 02/07/2023 03:38 | #293670
I’ve got a lot of respect for ZZ Top but the sound of this album is pretty awful. To rate this as the band’s best album is outlandish and unfortunate. Their early albums are so much more interesting than this one.
Eliminator has a handful of great, classic tracks and some not so great (to say the least) tracks, all backed by a soulless drum machine to suck dry any sense of likability through authenticity which normally comes with ZZ Top albums prior to this one. (Edited)
Has the big hits that make it an enjoyable listen but it is a bit formula driven
VictorVale 07/14/2022 00:23 | #287374
Blues rock com synths que deu o tom na década.
Jboy56 01/28/2022 05:29 | #280202
4 bangers and the rest of the album is kinda samey rockers with nothing special to offer.
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