Cheap Sunglasses

Cheap Sunglasses
"Cheap Sunglasses"
Single by ZZ Top
from the album Degüello
Released 1980
Format 7"
12"
Recorded 1979
Genre Rock
Length 4:46
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"I Thank You"
(1980)
"Cheap Sunglasses"
(1980)
"Leila"
(1981)

"Cheap Sunglasses" is a 1980 single by ZZ Top from their 1979 album Degüello. It is one of their most famous songs and includes the use of some odd instruments[clarification needed]. The song captures many of the sounds and beats that ZZ Top is famous for. It is also featured on the greatest hits collections ZZ Top's Greatest Hits, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ and Rancho Texicano. In addition, a live version of the song appears on Chrome, Smoke & BBQ and Rancho Texicano.

In a Guitar World article, lead guitarist Billy Gibbons said that he used a Marshall Major amplifier and a Maestro ring modulator on this song, and that the amplifier had a blown tube during recording which added to the tonal character of the song.[1] The Marshall Major is a 200 watt version of the classic Marshall 100 watt head made slightly taller.

Contents

Charts

Chart (1980) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 89

Other versions

The Warren Brothers released a country version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top.

Personnel

Footnotes

  1. ^ Alan Paul "Prime Cuts: ZZ Top." Guitarworld.com, December 3, 2009.



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