GUN REFERRED TO IN ZZ TOP'S 'GUN LOVE' NOT MADE OF METAL

If memory serves me correctly, remembering I am in chill mode here and too lazy to check (laugh), the ZZ TOP song GUN LOVE was one of two or three new tracks on the band's 1992 greatest hits release, I know another new track was their cover of the Elvis Presley 70`s classic VIVA LAS VEGAS.

Especially in the 90`s, the conventional but dumb wisdom was for bands to record two or three new songs and tack them onto a compilation of older songs to market an album as being 'new'. Why not just wait an extra six months and record an album of all new material would be my way of thinking.

Plus I reckon it takes away the identity of new songs when you plonk them amongst a batch of other songs which often have diffrent recording sound levels. But really, what does it matter, not the end of the world.

GUN LOVE is a classic piece of southern rock, very much a back to basics recording for ZZ TOP following the bearded brother's flirtation with high gloss production in the early to mid 80`s on the albums ELIMINATOR and AFTERBURNER.

My absolute favourite ZZ song is I would have to say MY HEAD'S IN MISSISIPPI, a blistering piece of rootsy southern rock off the 1990 album RECYCLER. GUN LOVE of course is double entendre to the max, no guessing that the gun they are referring to in this song is not made of metal (laugh).