The most buttrockin' song on Buddy Blue's list of the top 50 Butt Rock Anthems (search term: buttrock)

I like other songs more but in the category of buttrock it's one of:
Bad to the Bone
Mississisisipspsppiii Queen
Slow Ride

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, February 7, 2020 10:10 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh i totally would have voted for mississippi queen if it were an option. voted for grand funk from the poll options

it is!

There's a whole generation of butt rock that this list ignores: buckcherry, matchbox 20, better than ezra, 311, sublime, creed, kid rock

kind of regretting not voting for "Rocky Mountain Way" now

"Her Strut" even has a butt double entendre in it

it is!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, February 7, 2020 11:02 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, haven't had my coffee yet

xp, I personally believe buttrock ended in 1979, and anything later is something else. Maybe that Pat Travers song is grandfathered if it was recorded before '80.

Wasn't buttrock supposed to be like, Pearl Jam and stuff? Theory of a NickleCreed?

cosign on 1979 being the Last Year Of Buttrock

Foghat’s cover of “I Just Want to Make Love to You” is even more buttrock than “Slow Ride”.

it's not even totally a decade boundary thing with 79, so much as by that point, new wave couldn't be ignored, and it blunted the swagger.

Wasn't buttrock supposed to be like, Pearl Jam and stuff? Theory of a NickleCreed?

― ascai, Friday, February 7, 2020 2:43 PM bookmarkflaglink

not at all. the term came from greasy dudebros who listened to "nothing but rock".

stricly a 70s genre imho

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great thread, i needed to hear 'slow ride' and 'tush' this morning haha

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yes I know, NOT BUTTROCK, but still

What's Greta van Fleet's signature butt-rock song?

this is definitely the most buttrockin' movie ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PVmoGKKNQs

(does not feature nearly enough actual buttrock, but does feature a Charles Bukowski cameo!)

gotta be some buttrock bleed (sorry) over into the 80s right? def a time and place thing so GnR or Metallica or later Aerosmith feels wrong.

Billy Squire tho...

3. black betty
2. mississippi queen
1. slow ride

I love Billy Squire, but there's a Mutt Langiness to his sound that's un-butt. Mutt stole the Butt.

"Hot Blooded" will always be the Platonic form of butt-rock, IMO. At least, its the one that immediately makes me feel the most embarrassed for everyone involved.

when anything resembling buttrock is played in her hearing, my wife makes a face and says "This sounds like Foghat!"

ergo Slow Ride ftw

Voted for my favourite, which was "Highway Star". Rigorous attempts to define "butt rock" certainly helpful, though.

I always thought butt rock was hard rock with the edges kinda blunted, like Foreigner definitely being my idea and prob Grand Funk Railroad, but I like dancing to a lot of these. My personal favorite here is "Mississippi Queen".

what is it about Brits that they were able to do effortlessly master something that feels so American

I still don't get why anybody would call Black Betty butt rock. It's crazy showoff syncopated and tricky. Should you be able to dance to butt rock?

and not like in the way the stones or dusty Springfield did American R&b. foreigner and Foghat et al feel so “American” that i think ppl are often shocked when they realize thats not the case

"Hair of the Dog," though, that should be called "Hair of the Butt." It's got cowbell *and* talkbox. And it's awesome.

hell yeah. Massive oversight

lol didn't know Foghat wasn't American. in my defense I've prob thought about them a grand total of 22 seconds in my life.

their three big hits rule


ok well apparently Lou Gramm guess American, but the rest of the band was UK. didn’t know that.

I disagree with one of the points upthread - there was a lot of butt rock made in the 90s under the grunge flag

Very little butt rock in the 80s though

Buttrock has as much to do with British Blues as American music. Also I think most of these bands were pretty skilled and limber, even if the point was lumbering riffs, having played a variety of genres growing up. Especially compared to their descendants in hair metal and cock rock, who just grew up playing this stuff.

damn, i didn't know foghat were english

Xp, naw that’s post-butt and post-butt revival.

xp I never knew that either

nu-butt

Re: '90s butt rock, would argue that 'Sex Type Thing' is butt, for better or worse.

butt type thing

my personal buttrock heuristic tells me that, while many of these are excellent songs and some are buttrock-adjacent, the listed tracks with the highest buttrock scores are American Woman, Funk #49, I Don't Need No Doctor, Mississippi Queen, Slow Ride, Takin' Care of Business, Tush, and We're an American Band

points were subtracted for excessively fast tempos, metallic guitar tones, funkiness, organ or piano too high in the mix, hard-to-play solos, insufficiently simple arrangements, or being released later than 1975

The Machine Head LP is a great-sounding record imho. Crisp, drums so clear and live.

Good butt plug

I call BS on “Funk #49” as butt rock!

(Though admittedly I am not a scholar of the butt genre)

yeah, on further consideration, "Funk #49" is little too smart and funky, fake buttrock