Chrome, Smoke & BBQ Tracklist
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ is a 4-CD box set by American rock band ZZ Top. Released in 2003, it is a compilation album of material from the band’s tenures with London Records and Warner Bros. Records, recorded from 1967 to 1992.
An abbreviated 2-CD version of this compilation, Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top, was released the following year.
At the time of its release in 2003, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ was noteworthy because it was the only CD release, except for the greatest hits album The Best of ZZ Top, which used the original mixes of tracks from the band’s first five studio albums.
Other track or whole album CD releases for those five albums used remixed versions from 1987, like the box set Six Pack These remixed versions displeased many fans because they significantly changed the sound from the original albums.
Before this box set, the greatest hits album The Best Of ZZ Top published in 1977 was the first CD that uses the original mixes (Because was published in 1984, while the infamous remix versions of the songs was made in 1987), this was until the year 2006 when the expanded editions included a remastered versions of the original mixes of the albums.
The album includes for the first time, anything related to the album Tejas published in 1976.
In 2013, Warner Bros. Records released the CD box set The Complete Studio Albums 1970–1990, which includes the first ten ZZ Top studio albums, all with their original remastered mixes.
The timeframe of that ten album box set corresponds basically with the timeframe of Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, that is, the London Records and Warner Bros. Records years.
