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Why this album mattered
El Loco (1981) is a Zz Top album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #17 and charted for 22 weeks.
The music
1 
Tube Snake Boogie
- 2
I Wanna Drive You Home
- 3
Ten Foot Pole
4 Leila
- 5
Don’t Tease Me
- 6
It’s So Hard
7 Pearl Necklace
- 8
Groovy Little Hippie Pad
- 9
Heaven, Hell or Houston
- 10
Party on the Patio
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
Tap any week to open its place in the story.
Chart Journey
- Aug 8, 1981#42
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
