'Eliminator'

Some time in the early 1980s (possibly 1982) the members of Texas blues-rock group ZZ Top -- Dusty Hill, Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard -- got together and made some career decisions.

They decided to completely sell out and write a shitload of hit songs and make even more money.

The execution was simple: Let's keep the beards ("Except you Frank Beard!" Gibbons yelled), buy some fuzzy guitars, become completely infatuated with busty, young girls, the old-timey car on the cover, synthesizers and flashy clothes.

In 1983, this marketing plan took the world by the testicles with the album "Eliminator." If you want 1980s rock-schlock of the highest order, buy this album.

It teems with hits ("Got Me Under Pressure," "Legs," "Gimme All Your Lovin'," "TV Dinners" and "Sharp Dressed Man") and sold a boatload -- it hit "Diamond" status in 1996.

More than decade after "Eliminator" and they were longer as popular, mainstreamwise, ZZ Top then tried to go back to being the organic, Texan, guitar-grinding rockers that they turn their backs on in the early 1980s.