ZZ Top 
The best album credited to ZZ Top is Eliminator which is ranked number 1,108 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,564.
ZZ Top is ranked number 458 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 4,077.
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ZZ Top best albums
The following albums by ZZ Top are ranked highest in the greatest album charts:
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ZZ Top bestography composition
ZZ Top best tracks
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ZZ Top ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 06/17/2025 18:43 | Johnnyo | 3,101 | 74/100 |
| ! | 05/17/2024 09:21 |  Purplepash | 2,658 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2023 09:55 | MaxStorm98 | 542 | 92/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2023 10:09 | Stevo796 | 980 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/11/2023 11:32 | LosWochos | 7,603 | 79/100 |
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This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 15.0.
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ZZ Top comments
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jeremy9 09/06/2019 15:39 | #242278
The older albums are very good , new are only good
TheDude85 04/12/2019 14:34 | #234832
One of the bands that were majorly effected by the emergence of MTV, much to the detriment of their music. Still their early work puts ZZ Top amongst my favorites.
Fischman 01/02/2019 04:09 | #228534
The epitome of Texas blues rock boogie delivered with a very solid attitude... then degenerated into MTV schlock.
A great band who didn't stick to their original sound and got away with it.
AAL2014 02/22/2016 19:23 | #160542
While I'm not any big fan of ZZ Top, I have a ton of respect for any band (3 piece or otherwise) who stays together with the same lineup for essentially their whole career. ZZ Top is a very solid and influential Texas blues band and they don't pretend to be anything else. If this was a US-based website, they would probably be rated a little higher, even though they aren't everybody's cup of tea.
best little ol' boogie band from Texas
Overall, good. Not great, but worth a listen on occasion.
(but La Grange is AMAZING)
junodog4 10/08/2012 22:54 | #51951
I like the bar-boogie ZZ Top over the MTV superstars.
Once they got into the MTV era,their albums became over produced. If you buy any of the early CDs, make sure they are the original mix versions. They were
remixed with more echo when they first came out on CD, to try and make them sound like the newer stuff. The result sounds like they are being broadcast on an early 60's, boss jock AM radio station. AWFUL!
Got to agreed (mostly) with the previous comments. The early albums are far superior to the later ones but check out Rythmeen which is a return to the early stuff.
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