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“Got Me Under Pressure” by ZZ Top

From the album Eliminator (1983)

“Got Me Under Pressure” by ZZ Top appears on 39 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 1994 and 2026. It was first released in 1983 on the album Eliminator. Its best result is #164 on The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #759 classic rock song of all time.

39countdowns
15stations
#164best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1994–2026years charted

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ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure (Live)

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"Got Me Under Pressure" is a lean, revved-up cut from Eliminator, ZZ Top's 1983 album; Bill Ham, the band's manager, produced it, and Terry Manning engineered and mixed. The official credit goes to Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, but David Blayney, the band's stage manager of many years, tells it differently in his book Sharp Dressed Men: Gibbons and Houston engineer and songwriter Linden Hudson worked up the whole song and taped a demo in a single afternoon, with Hudson supplying synthesizer bass, drum-machine beats and a hand with the lyrics, and neither Hill nor Beard knew about it.

Gibbons sings lead with Hill's voice alongside him, and on stage the two traded the vocal back and forth, phrase by phrase.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 509 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) 1000
1995 509 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) 1000
1996 704 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) 1000
1996 362 WNEW-FM WNEW Firecracker 500 (1996) 500
1997 181 104.5 KZEP KZEP Memorial Weekend Top 500 (1997) 500
1998 752 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) 1000
1999 606 KISW KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) 998
2010 164 97.9 The Loop The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) 500
2011 248 97.9 The Loop The Loop Rock N Roll 500 (2011) 500
2011 793 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) 1100
2012 796 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) 1200
2013 571 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) 1000
2014 679 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) 1000
2015 344 I-95 I-95 Memorial Day Weekend Top 500 (2015) 500
2015 492 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2015) 500
2015 574 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) 1007
2016 279 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2016) 500
2016 377 102.9 The Whale 102.9 The Whale Hartford 500 (2016) 500
2016 515 100.7 WZLX 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 1007
2017 367 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2017) 500
2019 433 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2019) 500
2020 233 Q105.7 Q105.7 Memorial Day 500 (2020) 499
2020 880 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) 1025
2020 472 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2020) 500
2020 491 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2020) 500
2021 380 WCSX WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) 499
2021 256 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2021) 500
2022 353 99.1 PLR 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) 500
2022 985 102.5 KZOK KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) 1025
2022 426 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2022) 500
2023 377 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2023) 500
2023 591 101.5 WPDH WPDH Top 1015 (2023) 1015
2024 376 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2024) 498
2024 387 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 500
2024 438 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2024) 499
2025 433 97 Rock 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2025 373 Qfm96 Qfm96 Memorial Day 500 (2025) 498
2025 397 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2025) 500
2026 407 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ Rock N Roll 500 (2026) 500

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