Retro Video of the Week: "Legs" by ZZ Top

This Friday will mark the 35th anniversary of the release of ZZ Top's seminal Eliminator album.  Already an established rock trio -- comprised of two guys with long beards and a third guy without a beard whose last name is, ironically, Beard -- ZZ Top used a combination of great, catch rock songs and memorable music videos to make Eliminator their best-selling album (it is certified Diamond by the RIAA, meaning it has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. alone).  Songs like "Legs," "Gimme All Your Lovin'," and "Sharp Dressed Man" became instant classics.  The album went Top 10 in the U.S., which wasn't a first for the group, but it was also the band's first true international hit album, cracking the top ten on the album charts in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Austria, and The Netherlands.

For this week's Retro Video of the Week, I'm going with "Legs" because it's the first ZZ Top song I remember hearing.  It was also the band's first top 10 hit in the U.S., getting up to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.  For me, it's right up there with "LaGrange" or "Tush" as the first song that comes to mind when I think of ZZ Top.  And, of course, there is the iconic video, in which the dowdy, yet attractive, shoe store clerk gets picked on by everyone, until she is saved by the Eliminator Girls, who transform her into an '80s hot vixen, who gains the confidence to confront her former harassers and take the one guy who was nice to her off into the sunset in what appears to be a very unsafe dune buggy. Man, I miss the '80s.