In 2003, it was ranked number 498 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and in 2012 ranked at number 490 on a revised list. In 2000, the album was voted number 501 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. 'Poot yawl hans together' patter." The album peaked at number 8 on the Billboard 200.
Billy Gibbons plays a tasty Duane Allman lead with Dusty Hill and Frank Beard pounding out the funky bottom", and were "one of the most inventive of the three-piece rockers" but wondered when "audiences will get tired of hearing the same. He felt that ZZ Top had "the dynamic rhythms that only the finest of the three-piece bands can cook up. Steve Apple in a September 1973 review for Rolling Stone felt that while the "Southern rock & roll sound" was becoming popular, ZZ Top themselves were "only one of several competent Southern rocking bands", though they had "an advantage over most white rockers" because they "sound black". The album was released to a lukewarm reception.
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The song "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers" was released as a UK only single. The only international single released from the album in most countries was " La Grange" (backed with "Just Got Paid" from the band's second album Rio Grande Mud), which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974. In addition to the standard 2-channel stereo version, a four-channel quadraphonic version was also released in 1973 in the Quad 8 8-track tape and Q4 reel-to-reel formats. Subsequent releases on digital platforms such as iTunes have used the original mix as well. The 2006 edition is the first CD version to use Manning's original 1973 mix. A remastered and expanded edition of the album was released on February 28, 2006, which contains three bonus live tracks. The remix version was used on all early CD copies and was the only version available for over 20 years. The remix version created controversy among fans because it significantly changed the sound of the instruments, especially drums. Īt the height of ZZ Top's success in the mid-1980s, a digitally remixed version of the recording was released on CD and the original 1973 mix was no longer issued. The success was handwriting on the wall, because from that point we became honorary citizens of Memphis. The record became quite the turning point for us. We could tell that we had something special. but after several plays, it was obvious (to) everyone that there was no other way they could ever exist again." Release come together as one song, exactly as if played that way." Manning wrote that when he initially presented the edit, Billy Gibbons loved it but the album's producer Bill Ham was confused and wary of it, ". tried several things to see how those two (songs) would go together" when it dawned on him that they could ". counting time, feeling how different time sigs (signatures) go together, different keys, different feels. always looking very carefully at the timings between songs. Manning admitted that although it was not planned beforehand, as an engineer he was ".
The album's engineer Terry Manning, who performed the edit, counter-claimed in a 2017 blog post that it was no accident. Dansby claimed that the album's engineer was splicing tape and cut too much, leaving no gap between the songs. Houston Chronicle entertainment writer Andrew Dansby wrote in 2013 that this fusing of the songs was not the original plan. The track " Waitin' for the Bus" segues into " Jesus Just Left Chicago" almost seamlessly. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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