Bosso, Joe (June 3, 2013). "Billy Gibbons talks ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums (1970-1990)". MusicRadar. Archived from the original on July 12, 2014 . Retrieved October 30, 2020.

ZZ Top – Billboard 200 Albums (Year end)". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media . Retrieved April 8, 2013.That said, this is still an enjoyable album. "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man", "Got Me Under Pressure", "I Got The Six", "Dirty Dog" and "Bad Girl" bounce along with all the verve of a sweaty roadhouse on a Saturday night but "Legs" has become a victim of its own success; over-exposure has completely removed any enjoyment. a b Manning, Terry (March 6, 2005). "The Big ZZ Top Thread". ProSoundWeb. p.3 . Retrieved September 1, 2021. Category 84: Best Music Film" (PDF). The Recording Academy. November 20, 2020. p.53 . Retrieved November 30, 2020.

Of course there are always those that do not trust men with beards and this is a great shame, as history has proven that men with beards have been responsible for many great things throughout history. In Western civilization, many of our saints and prophets are often depicted with beards, indeed God himself is often assumed to be bearded. In the arts as well beards tend to be favoured, with the likes Van Gogh and Da Vinci being some of the most iconic bearded men in history. A famous bearded playwright also wrote "What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him…", though admittedly, he was probably biased. As the story goes, Eliminator, a true steel car, was bought by Gibbons from the car’s original owner in Tucson, Arizona before being transformed into the iconic ZZ Top car. Image: Pintrest If the album starts with wishing for the company of a lustful woman, the next song, “Got Me Under Pressure” is a textbook case of “be careful what you wish for.” In this case, the woman’s lusts aren’t confined to him, as he sings in the third verse: “She don’t like other women/She likes whips and chains/She likes cocaine/And flipping out with Great Danes”. King of the Hill" Hank Gets Dusted (TV episode 2007)". Internet Movie Database. 2007 . Retrieved July 28, 2014.Top Selling Albums of 1985 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved February 3, 2022. Which, if you want to feel old, the line now would be about a crime being pulled successfully off in 1996.

Gibbons had to learn how to play with it on the fly which suited him fine.“The intrigue of these new-found contraptions was by then just starting to catch on, but we didn’t have a teacher or guide, we didn’t even have an instruction manual. I was just pushing buttons and found something that sounded kind of trashy,” he told Louder in 2013. Fairlight advertisement (Image: WordPress) Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de . Retrieved February 19, 2022. There’s a knowing sense of humor in lines like “Twenty year old turkey/In a thirty year old tin/I can’t wait until tomorrow/And thaw one out again.”The album was named for a drag racing term after Ham said the band should feature Gibbons's newly customized 1933 Ford coupe. An early suggestion for the album title came from filmmaker Mike Griffin who proposed Top Fuel, but Ham shifted the idea to Eliminator—the term for any category of race cars competing against each other. [4] Offiziellecharts.de – ZZ Top – EEliminator" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved July, 8 2023.

West, Mike (1982). Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Omnibus Press. pp.19, 42. ISBN 0-7119-0149-X.Buried deep on side two, Dirty Dog is the shoulda-been hit of the bunch. On any other album, it would’ve been a smash, but it just had too much competition here. Effortlessly groovy, hook-heavy, riding on a riff that sounds like chopper blades cutting through the smoke in some fiery jungle, Dirty Dog is one of the most fun and satisfying songs on the album, and still sounds a couple years ahead of its time. a b c Bosso, Joe (June 3, 2013). "Billy Gibbons talks ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums (1970–1990)". MusicRadar. p.8 . Retrieved August 31, 2021. Musically, it’s more uptempo, but follows the same synth-and-riffs before extended tasty soloing formula. Coinciding with the Gimme All Your Lovin’ video debuting on MTV, ZZ Top opened their Eliminator tour in Lake Charles, Louisiana on 7 May. It would stretch out for nine months and cover the US and Europe. It also set the band the painstaking challenge of replicating their multi-layered new sound on stage.