I must say that Antenna is growing on me, but I also
must say that...of all ZZ Top albums I've heard, this
one is the weakest. Pincushion is cool, but I prefer
the Sin-Pusher version on XXX. Antenna Head is fun...
but not in the great category. The CD, in my opinion,
has one fantastic track, and that is the song that could
save your life: Cover Your Rig...an ode to safe sex.
That song is excellent slow blues in the best ZZ tradition.
So I would recommend this CD to ZZ fanatics, just don't have too high hopes for it.

Antenna has to be one of ZZ Tops, top five albums of all time and its one of my personal favorites. Billy Gibbons guitar is so amazing here, its better then usual. The songs are great in the ZZ Top fashion, and its not all 80's tchno and MTV friendly crap either, its just good old American rock and roll.

Antenna has some powerful songs to work with. 'Antenna Head' being the best song on the album, its got a killer solo great feel and an all around great sound everything just fits together really well. It has to be one of the bands all time best songs, or at least in my openion anyways. 'Cherry Red' is annother great song, its one of the better tracks. Its has a really cool groove to it. Really nice. 'Pincushion' is a great song as well, and one of the best opening tracks I have ever heard. 'FuzzBox Voodoo' is a cool song and as you might have guessed Billy Gibbons uses a lot of FuzzBox in his guitar playing. The album ends with 'Deal Goin Down' and all I have to say is that is the perfect song to end the album.

All the other songs on the album are great, well they are better then great but those are the songs you will be listening to over and over and ovevr again. Pick up this awsome album!

It seems ZZ Top was done messing with sequencers and programmed "synthesized" drums by the time '94 rolled around. That's not to say this album is a total return to the sound that made up their earliest albums. No, because the production and song-writing on Antenna just won't allow for that. But having said that, it is the blusiest release by the boys since at least Deguello or perhaps even Tejas. Gibbons guitar tone is low-down and dirty, making one forget all about those glittering (Slide It In-era) Whitesnake-style riffs and solos that so generously filled Afterburner and occassionally still reared their commericial head on Recycler. Even the likes of "My Head's In Mississippi" from Recycler can't compete with the rejuvenated passion in the blues Gibbons had displayed throughout Antenna. "Breakaway" is the first real clue here that the boys mean business, and the spirit is maintained well thru "World of Swirl" and "Fuzzbox Voodoo." "PCH" begins with a devastatingly down and dirty Gibbons lick, and just forces the tried and true Top fan to crack a smile and leaves them ready for more. The upbeat tempos of the previous three outings are mostly maintained here, but at least it appears to the naked ear that Beard is actually rappin' on the skins once again.
Top seems destined to roll along with relative ease, changing their sound a bit here and there, while rolling up and taking back down bits of the future as well as the past in the process. At this point, they seem incapable of putting out an unenjoyable release. Just having some fun while poppin' the "Top" down and soakin' up the sun...

On ANTENNA, ZZ TOP try to return to their pre ELIMANATOR style. By that I mean, more blues riffs and a more blusey sound instead of trying to be so polished. While this is not a great ZZ TOP album, it is by no means a bad one. The album has some good riffs to it and has some good rocking songs. I like the songs PINCUSHION, WORLD OF SWIRL, FUZZBOX VOODOO, COVER YOUR RIG, LIZARD LIFE. If you found about this group from thier videos, then I suggest this album for you so you can get an understanding of what the group was about before than. They are just a little ol' blues band from Texas that continues to make some good music. How can you argue with a group that has been together and still has the same members after 30 years. I think that this album should be a welcomed addition to your CD collection.

This a really good ZZ Top album, a noticeable improvement over Recycler. Antenna is a bit of a return to their earlier, bluesier sound. Billy Gibbons cranks up the amp on this one, and the album rocks pretty hard, but there's still a few remnants of that '80s pop sound. Mostly good guitar rockers here, with plenty of Gibbons' trademark pinch harmonics. Pincushion, World of Swirl, Antenna Head, Cover Your Rig and Deal Goin' Down are all great songs that rock hard.

Antenna isn't quite as hard as the follow-up, 1996's Rhythmeen, but it's a step in that direction. If you like Rio Grande Mud and Tres Hombres-era ZZ Top, then do check out Antenna and Rhythmeen. I don't think you will be disappointed.