- blues rock, rock, southern rock, boogie rock
- 37 min
- 10 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
El Loco is the seventh studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981. It foreshadowed the band's extensive usage of synthesizers on Eliminator, Afterburner, and to a lesser extent, Recycler, by way of employing a synthesizer on a couple tracks, played by an uncredited Linden Hudson.
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Classical in form, spare, warm and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- AllMusic3/5 ★
- Robert ChristgauB+
- Tom HullB+
- (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Tube Snake Boogie3:06
- 2I Wanna Drive You Home4:49
- 3Ten Foot Pole4:24
- 4Leila3:17
- 5Don’t Tease Me4:24
- 6It’s So Hard5:12
- 7Pearl Necklace4:07
- 8Groovy Little Hippie Pad2:45
- 9Heaven, Hell or Houston2:34
- 10Party on the Patio2:49
10 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- ZZ Top
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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