Tracklist front / back album covers
Side one
1. "Tube Snake Boogie" 3:02
2. "I Wanna Drive You Home" 4:44
3. "Ten Foot Pole" 4:19
4. "Leila" 3:13
5. "Don't Tease Me" 4:19
Side two
1. "It's So Hard" 5:12
2. "Pearl Necklace" 4:01
3. "Groovy Little Hippie Pad" 2:40
4. "Heaven, Hell or Houston" 2:31
5. "Party on the Patio" 2:49
ZZ Top Band Members / Musicians
Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals
Dusty Hill – bass, vocals
Frank Beard – drums, percussion
Producer – Bill Ham
Engineer – Terry Manning
Pre-production engineer - Linden Hudson
Mastering – Bob Ludwig
Design – Bob Alford
Photography – Bob Alford
El Loco is the 7th studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981. The title means "The Crazy One" in Spanish. The band's guitarist/singer Billy Gibbons has said that the recording of this album was the first time the three members of the band were isolated from one another in the studio, rather than recording simultaneously in the same room. It also foreshadowed ZZ Top's synthesizer-driven direction later in the decade, with early experimentations in synthesizer backing on certain tracks.
