Cheap Sunglasses

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"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. Records
Writer Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Arrested For Driving While Blind"
(1977)		 "Cheap Sunglasses"
(1980)		 "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"
(1980)

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. 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 songs appears on Chrome, Smoke & BBQ and Rancho Texicano.

In Guitar World, Guitar Legends, Billy Gibbons indicates he used a Marshall Major on this song. The Marshall Major is a 200 watt version of the classic Marshall 100 watt head made slightly taller. The amplifier had a blown tube during recording which added to the tonal character of the song. In addition he cites the use a Maestro ring modulator.


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ZZ Top
Billy Gibbons • Dusty Hill • Frank Beard
Albums ZZ Top's First Album • Rio Grande Mud • Tres Hombres • Fandango! • Tejas • Degüello • El Loco • Eliminator • Afterburner • Recycler • Antenna • Rhythmeen • XXX • Mescalero
Compilations The Best of ZZ Top • The ZZ Top Six Pack •Greatest Hits • One Foot in the Blues • Chrome, Smoke & BBQ • Rancho Texicano
Singles Salt Lick • (Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree • Francine • Waitin' For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago • La Grange • Tush • It's Only Love • Arrested For Driving While Blind • Cheap Sunglasses • I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide • I Thank You • Leila • Pearl Necklace • Tube Snake Boogie • Gimme All Your Lovin' • Got Me Under Pressure • Sharp Dressed Man • TV Dinners • Legs • Can't Stop Rockin' • Sleeping Bag • Stages • Delirious • Rough Boy • Velcro Fly • Woke Up with Wood • Concrete and Steel • Doubleback • Give It Up • My Head's in Mississippi • Decision or Collision • Viva Las Vegas • Breakaway • Fuzzbox Voodoo • Girl in a T-Shirt • Pincushion • Bang Bang • She's Just Killing Me • What's Up with That • Rhythmeen • Fearless Boogie • 36-22-36
Related articles Bill Ham • Moving Sidewalks • American Blues
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