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Studio album by ZZ Top
Released March 23, 1983
Recorded 1982
Studio
Frank Beard`s home studio, Quail Valley
Ardent Studios, Memphis
Terry Manning`s home studio, Memphis
Genre
Hard rock[1]blues rock[2]new wave[1]synth-rock[3]
Length 45:00
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top chronology
El Loco
(1981) Eliminator
(1983) Afterburner
(1985)

Eliminator is the eighth studio album by American rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Records, and rose high on the charts in many countries. Four hit singles were released—`Gimme All Your Lovin" which reached the American Top 40, `Sharp Dressed Man`, `TV Dinners` and their most successful single, `Legs`. Eliminator is ZZ Top`s most commercially successful release, with sales of 11 million and diamond certification in the US.[4]

Since El Loco in 1981, the bandleader, Billy Gibbons, had been moving ZZ Top`s boogie and blues rock style towards the popular new wave style. For Eliminator, he increased the tempo and used more synthesizers and drum machines, producing a `tighter` album with a steady, driving beat.[1] The pre-production engineer Linden Hudson collaborated with Gibbons in Texas on the tempo and songs. The producer Bill Ham and the engineer Terry Manning joined Gibbons in Memphis, Tennessee, to edit the songs, replacing much of the contributions of bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard. Ham claimed the album was solely the work of ZZ Top, but in 1986 Hudson won a lawsuit establishing himself as composer of the song `Thug`.

Music videos for `Gimme All Your Lovin", `Sharp Dressed Man` and `Legs` received regular rotation on MTV and helped ZZ Top gain popularity with a younger base. A customized 1933 Ford coupe, depicted on the album cover, appeared in the videos. Following Eliminator`s release, ZZ Top embarked on a worldwide concert tour.

The video for `Legs` earned the band the MTV Video Music Award for Best Group. Rolling Stone named Eliminator number 398 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[5] It was listed at number 39 in The 100 Greatest Albums of the 80s, and it was also included in Robert Dimery`s book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[6] A remastered version was released in 2008.

Background
In 1977, ZZ Top went on hiatus, weary of constant touring. Bandleader and guitarist Billy Gibbons traveled around Europe, and bassist Dusty Hill vacationed in Mexico; both grew their beards longer. Drummer Frank Beard checked into Palmer Drug Abuse Program, a Houston detox community, for his addiction to hard narcotics. To help finance Palmer, Beard organized a benefit concert and an album titled Freeway, working with engineers Steve Ames and Linden Hudson at Rampart Studios in Houston.[7] Returning to action and newly signed to Warner Bros. Records, ZZ Top recorded and released Degüello in 1979, certified Platinum in early 1980.[8]

Getting clean in 1979, Beard bought a large house on the outskirts of Houston, in Quail Valley overlooking a golf course where he often played as a way to stay off drugs.[9][10] The band wanted to have a private rehearsal studio, so Beard invited Hudson to move in and supervise a recording studio in his home. Hudson designed the studio and oversaw its construction, centered on an isolation booth holding Beard`s drum kit, with more booths for guitar and bass amplifiers. Microphone signals ran through the mixing console and some outboard gear to the band`s semi-pro 1-inch 16-track Tascam tape recorder. ZZ Top used this studio in 1980 to work on material for their next album, El Loco, professionally recorded in Memphis and mixed by the band`s established engineer Terry Manning. Hudson played on several early song demos, including a synth line on `Groovy Little Hippie Pad` which was carried to Memphis on tape and mixed into the album by Manning. Hudson was not credited for this work but was promised future compensation.[11] Hudson also introduced Gibbons to drum machines during these rehearsals.[12] Gibbons later called Hudson `an influential associate... a gifted songwriter... He brought some elements to the forefront that helped reshape what ZZ Top were doing, starting in the studio and eventually to the live stage.`[10][13]

From this point forward, the band was not able to reproduce certain songs in concert without using pre-recorded tracks.[10] The band carried a small tape player to each concert, with a technician hitting the `play` button to give Beard a click track cue in his headphones to start any song requiring such augmentation. The tape held synthesizer parts, drum samples and other advanced elements of album production.[14][15] None of this was made public; Bill Ham, the band`s manager, was closely controlling the image of the band to create a `mystique` of self-sufficiency and authenticity.[4][16]

Track listing
On the album, credits for songwriting were assigned to Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Linden Hudson co-wrote several with Gibbons, and wrote `Thug` alone.

Side one
No. Title Lead vocals Length
1. `Gimme All Your Lovin" Gibbons 3:59
2. `Got Me Under Pressure` Gibbons 3:59
3. `Sharp Dressed Man` Gibbons 4:13
4. `I Need You Tonight` Gibbons 6:14
5. `I Got the Six` Hill 2:52
Side two
No. Title Lead vocals Length
1. `Legs` Gibbons 4:35
2. `Thug` Gibbons 4:17
3. `TV Dinners` Gibbons 3:50
4. `Dirty Dog` Gibbons 4:05
5. `If I Could Only Flag Her Down` Gibbons 3:40
6. `Bad Girl` Gibbons[51] 3:16
Personnel
The official album credits lists:[52]

Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals
Dusty Hill – bass, vocals
Frank Beard – drums
The actual musicians working on the album include the following:

Billy Gibbons – guitar, harmonica, vocals, bass guitar, keyboard bass, synthesizers, production, arrangements[22][24]
Dusty Hill – bass guitar, vocals
Frank Beard – drums, especially tom-tom drums and cymbals
Linden Hudson – synthesizer, production, arrangements[4]
Terry Manning – drum machines, electronic drums, bass guitar, keyboard bass, synthesizers, backing vocals, production, arrangements
Jimi Jamison – backing vocals
Production

Bill Ham – producer
Terry Manning – engineer
Linden Hudson – pre-production engineer, songwriter[7][11][18]
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Bob Alford – art director[52]
Tom Hunnicutt – cover illustration