Live - Greatest Hits From Around The World

not much needs to be said about this live ZZ Top album, solid performance from one of the best live bands and its great to have Jeff Beck as guest.BUT why oh why do they need to fade in and out on tracks and pick sets from differing venues. I buy a live album to experience the band and atmosphere of the concert and buy the studio album to appreciate the production values of the band and such treats should be "warts and all" as that is the nature of playing live.

Before I listened to this cd is didn't think it would beat the live in Germany cd,how wrong could I be it's excellent even with the between tack fading.Just one minor disapointment is it doesn't tell you the dates each track was recorded, just the venue. But I still give a five.Oh & I don't think there's any need to insult doctor x

Seems to me Doctor X needs to listen to their albums pre Eliminator as he is missing out.mGreat collection but I hate live albums that fade in and out between tracks but heh.I also think the Eliminator tracks aren't as well produced as the rest of the album.I have everything that they have done and I am pleased with this.Not as good as Live From Texas though.Just a personal opinion.

This is a solid collection of live songs from ZZ Top. It's pretty well recorded and by that I mean it's superior to the recording of Live From Texas.The idiot below who clearly only owns Eliminator has no idea what he's talking about. Tush and La Grange being fantastic songs by ZZ.This is a must have for ZZ Top fans!

An awesome album from an awesome band.

Perfect!

Great album with all ZzTracks

Jimi Hendrix jammed with Billy Gibbons when Gibbons was a budding 17-year-old guitarist and apparently said he was the best upcoming guitarist that he'd heard.When Eliminator was released it was my first real exposure to the Zs and I became an immediate fan. I saw them at Castle Donington in 1983 and thought they were brilliant. I then sought out their 70s albums which I found patchy and mostly enjoyable but went off them later in the 80s when they became unnecessarily 'synthy'.I ignored them throughout the 90s and noughties. However, in recent years I've discovered some of their albums from that time. Most impressed!! Not so much 'back to their roots', but more like 'providing the dirt for the roots to grow in'. Better and dirtier than anything I'd heard from them before. And it's almost like they went back in a Tardis to sow the seeds of the blues.I'm wondering where it all went wrong with this album. The guitar on the first track is far too shrill and bass-light. Most of the rest are more balanced but generally insipidly-produced for the genre. Some tracks sound great but the album lacks coherence --- yes, I know it's a live compilation from many venues, but it doesn't 'gel' as a listening experience, and the gaps between tracks destroy any sense of continuity.The band sound tired, as though the fire has burned out. ZZzzzz Stop.......?? In the final track "Sixteen Tons" Billy's voice sounds like a subdued death rattle, which hopefully isn't predictive. By contrast Lemmie kept it going to the last.I'm disappointed with this album and wondering if I wasted my money.I will remember the guys at their best.Best of luck to them in the meantime.