Eliminator (studio album)
by ZZ Top
ZZ Top bestography
Eliminator is ranked as the best album by ZZ Top.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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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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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 21 hours ago | classicjoe | 134 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:13 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 18:21 | Exist-en-ciel | 1,497 | 69/100 |
| ! | 10/30/2025 20:56 | AledJames | 1,425 | 68/100 |
| ! | 10/29/2025 04:32 | MaxStorm98 | 3,782 | 89/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.5/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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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.
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.
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.
down to earth straight-ahead rock and roll
spigelwii 11/26/2020 13:46 | #261434
One of the key rock albums of the early 80's, "Eliminator" was vital in ushering in an era of phony rock cheesiness, glitz, glamor, and most importantly, style over substance. The soul of ZZ Top can still be heard if you listen hard enough, but it's bloated with the excess of sound that would become the style of the times.
Favorite Tracks:Bad Girl
Fischman 01/02/2019 04:16 | #228535
Slick overproduced faux ZZ. It's not quite a complete abandonment of all that was right and holy about ZZ Top, but close.
nocturnaldelight 09/06/2018 18:58 | #220670
ZZ Top acending to the top of their carreer with a mix between blues and rock. This album contains the top hits "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All Your Lovin" and "Legs". 9 good songs from 11 tracks provide a good listening experience. (album rating: 68,64 %)
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