Recycler

About Recycler

Recycler is the tenth studio album by the American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in October 1990. The band had a cameo in the 1990 movie Back to the Future Part III playing an "old west" version of "Doubleback" along with some local musicians. (The regular version of the song plays over the credits). The music video for "Doubleback" also had clips from the movie and was included on the DVD. There were three hit singles from the album: "Doubleback" (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for five weeks), "Concrete And Steel" (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for four weeks) and "My Head's In Mississippi" (No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks for six weeks). Music videos were also made for "My Head's in Mississippi", "Burger Man" and "Give It Up". In the UK, it was the band's third album to be certified by the British Phonographic Industry attaining Silver (60,000 units) in 1990. To date, this is the last studio album to achieve UK certification. more »