Eliminator
Studio album by ZZ TopWikipedia
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Sep 8, 2026
DirkHOST
Well, shout out to the Shirley guys, Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
DirkHOST
They had an episode just recently about ZZ Top's Eliminator, and I had a good conversation with them after listening to that, and what we were talking about is it's interesting how MTV had their own rules.
DirkHOST
So you could have a song that may not even do anything on the Billboard, and yet we all knew the song because of MTV.
DirkHOST
MTV was our Billboard.
Chad FergerstromHOST
David Bowie, Let's Dance.
Chad FergerstromHOST
ZZ Top, Eliminator.
Chad FergerstromHOST
journey frontiers these are non-hard rock and heavy metal records that all came out in this year and heavy metal was king now becoming king there's three times that many in our genre so rusty this was really difficult for me how difficult was it for you there was a lot of
Rusty CochranHOST
albums like you said this is an insane list to come out in one year and then narrow it down to four but i did it
speaker_1NARRATOR
ago,
Michael BerryHOST
that before ZZ Top went mainstream and big time and MTV and Eliminator, which took them to a more commercial audience and moved their music more from blues to traditional rock, that they toured the state.
Michael BerryHOST
And I saw pictures of this tour, the national tour of Texas.
Michael BerryHOST
And it was really more a traveling zoo than anything else.
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Michael BerryHOST
But they hosted ZZ Top before anybody knew them, just before anybody knew them, and they didn't have the big beards at their homecoming.
Michael BerryHOST
And they were very proud of that, or maybe it was their prom.
Michael BerryHOST
There's great stories about ZZ Top before they became nationally famous nationwide, and MTV and the Eliminator album had a lot to do with that.
Michael BerryHOST
Before that, they were traveling the state as this amazing zoo on wheels, and Ralph Fisher was handling the animals for that.
Brandon TaylorHOST
She was.
Brandon TaylorHOST
Frank Beard, you know, with ZZ Top, with Eliminator, and Afterburner were big in the 80s.
Jeremy GoldenHOST
Absolutely.
Jeremy GoldenHOST
Little legs, baby.
Michael BerryHOST
I heard from... people associated with the band, with the tour, with MTV, you name it.
Michael BerryHOST
And I had learned some number of years ago, not so long ago, that before ZZ Top went mainstream and big time and MTV and Eliminator, which took them to a more commercial audience and moved their music more from blues to traditional rock, That they toured the state.
Michael BerryHOST
And I saw pictures of this tour, the national tour of Texas.
Michael BerryHOST
And it was really more a traveling zoo than anything else.
8 MINS LATER
Michael BerryHOST
They didn't have the big beards at their homecoming, and they were very proud of that.
Michael BerryHOST
Maybe it was their prom.
Michael BerryHOST
There's great stories about ZZ Top before they became nationally famous nationwide, and MTV and the Eliminator album had a lot to do with that.
Michael BerryHOST
Before that, they were traveling the state as this amazing zoo on wheels, and Ralph Fisher was handling the animals for that.
DeeHOST
Very similar situation, I think.
DeeHOST
So I'm really anxious to see how that plays out with ZZ Top Eliminator versus our competitor, which we will do next week, which is Rebel Yell by Billy Idol.
JasonHOST
Now, I had MTV growing up.
JasonHOST
We've talked about this, how I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Tulsa was one of the pilot programs for MTV.
DeeHOST
the band just before this album starts getting recorded.
DeeHOST
So I can't wait to jump into it.
DeeHOST
Before we jump into Eliminator track by track, tell me your top three non-Eliminator songs.
JasonHOST
Non-Eliminator songs.
Mick WallHOST
And that wasn't part of their mystique or their appeal.
Mick WallHOST
And I include musically up to 1983 when they released Eliminator.
Mick WallHOST
And after that.
Mick WallHOST
I don't know if Dusty or Frank ever played on a record again, to be honest.
Mick WallHOST
i'm talking about pink floyd how their last couple of albums as the original pink floyd were essentially roger walters solo albums which means the wall and the final whatever the the last one was called uh they were essentially roger walters solo albums the band had withdrawn.
Mick WallHOST
Rick Wright had already been fired before the war.
Mick WallHOST
So what I'm trying to say to you is that there often comes a time in a band's trajectory where, and I think with ZZ Top this happened with Eliminator, Where Billy Gibbons is now, you have to, you need more of what he just did for you.
Mick WallHOST
Well, then let him go do it.
Justin FryGUEST
I'll leave it there.
Jason DonsisHOST
Well, for me, ZZ Top, that was the first time I ever appeared on the R4 podcast was Eliminator.
Jason DonsisHOST
I did that one.
Jason DonsisHOST
we recorded it on Christmas Eve.
Jason DonsisHOST
to experience, like, what is this band for real? And It's a really interesting history with different versions of things and how they remix stuff.
Jason DonsisHOST
And are there actually, you know, because of Frank Beard passing away, you know, we got to have the conversation of how much Frank Beard is there in the whole mix of the thing.
Jason DonsisHOST
Once Eliminator hit and probably even in that greatest hits, they did a lot of taking Frank Beard out and replacing him with drum machines.
Jason DonsisHOST
But at least in this world, we still have plenty of Frank Beard to celebrate.
speaker_1HOST
One of my favorites of all time.
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Released on their 1983 album, Eliminator.
speaker_1HOST
The song was produced by band manager Bill Hamm and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.
speaker_1HOST
Pre-production recording engineer Lyndon Hudson was very involved in the early stages of the song's production.
Jimmy PalumboHOST
Music that was big in 1983.
Jimmy PalumboHOST
The Police, Def Leppard, Bowie, Quiet Riot, ZZ Top, Eliminator album came out.
Jimmy PalumboHOST
That was a big album my senior year.
Dave SturchioHOST
Madonna and Billy Idol.
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