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Studio album by ZZ Top
Released October 16, 1990[1]
Recorded May 1989 – July 1990
Studio Memphis Sound Productions (Memphis, Tennessee)
Genre Blues[2][3]
Length 39:49
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top chronology
The Six Pack
(1987) Recycler
(1990) Greatest Hits
(1992)

Recycler is the tenth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in October 1990. It was their last album to utilize the synth-driven production style, which began on Eliminator and marked a return to the band`s blues roots.[3]

The band had a cameo in the 1990 movie Back to the Future Part III playing an `old west` version of `Doubleback` along with some local musicians. (The regular version of the song plays over the credits.) The music video for `Doubleback` also had clips from the movie and was included on the DVD. There were five hit singles from the album: `Doubleback` (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for five weeks), `Concrete and Steel` (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for four weeks), `Burger Man`, `Give It Up`, and `My Head`s in Mississippi` (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for six weeks).

Music videos were also made for `My Head`s in Mississippi`, `Burger Man` and `Give It Up`.

In the UK, it was the band`s third album to be certified by the British Phonographic Industry attaining Silver (60,000 units) in 1990.

Production and recording
In a 2008 interview, Billy Gibbons stated, `Recycler was interesting to make, because initially we planned to follow the lineage established in Eliminator and Afterburner. We had written a couple of highly structured pop tunes in our studio in Houston. Then we went out to Los Angeles for a couple of months and got into the whole sequencer, everything-in-its-place thing. But when we arrived in Memphis to finish the record, we slid into a different mode. While we were waiting for all of our high-tech gear to arrive, we set up in a circle and started playing and jamming as a band. The sound, even though it was rougher and looser, felt right in every way. The results of some of those sessions can be heard on cuts like `2000 Blues` and `My Head’s in Mississippi.` Both are reminiscent of our earlier music, which is why we call Recycler our Tres Hombres/Eliminator album.`

He continued, `We didn’t abandon the ground we covered on Eliminator and Afterburner—you can still hear the sequencers and synthesizers—but they’re much more unobtrusive. We allowed some of the rougher elements of the band to come shining through. `My Head’s in Mississippi,` which was one of the first completed tracks on the album, is a great example of how we mixed the new with the old. Initially, it was a straight-ahead boogie-woogie. Then Frank stepped in and threw in those highly gated electronic drum fills, which modernized the track. Not counting the preproduction time in Houston and Los Angeles, it took us four months to make. Recycler was one of our longer projects. I think it took extra time because we moved to Memphis Sound studios on Beale Street. That area is chock full of distractions.`[5]

The sessions ultimately saw the band returning to their blues roots, and would be the last ZZ Top album to utilize the synthesized production style of their previous two albums, which was subsequently completely abandoned in favor of a more roots-oriented style on their later albums.[3]

All songs by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.

Side one
No. Title Length
1. `Concrete and Steel` 3:45
2. `Lovething` 3:20
3. `Penthouse Eyes` 3:49
4. `Tell It` 4:39
5. `My Head`s in Mississippi` 4:17
Side two
No. Title Length
6. `Decision or Collision` 3:59
7. `Give It Up` 3:24
8. `2000 Blues` 4:37
9. `Burger Man` 3:18
10. `Doubleback` 3:53
Personnel
Billy Gibbons – guitars, lead vocals
Dusty Hill – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Frank Beard – drums, percussion
Production
Bill Ham – production
Terry Manning – engineering
Barry E. Jackson – artwork