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

Basically if I can picture a 50-something biker with a bandana that thinks Jeff Foxworthy is funny vibin to it, it's the buttrock I don't like

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I mean yes, of course, there is good butt rock and lame butt rock but(t) in the interests of science we should set our prejudices aside in determining which songs fit. All I am saying is give butt a chance.

why won't you just butt out of this

My friend and I tried to whittle down a definition, and what we concluded was it had to have a certain lack of ambition (ymmv). That is, it can't be funny on purpose ("Godzilla"), it can't have a clear unified artistic vision (AC/DC, Van Halen, ZZ Top), it just has to be butt-stupid blues-riff based rock. So, like, BTO's "Tacking Care of Business" is a yes, but in our opinion "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is a no, since it's got some cool chords in it. "Black Betty" is a no, because that thing is complicated as hell, and we didn't included stuff like Kiss, because Kiss is lame. Boogie always helps hit the buttock sweet spot, but our top picks were stuff like "Smoke On the Water" and for sure "Mississippi Queen" and "We're An American Band." Bad Company's "Feel like Makin' Love" deserves some, er, love, too. We considered stuff like Sabbath and specifically "Iron Man" as kind of honorary ur-butt rock.

Nazareth "Hair of the Dog" also missing

That song might be the best butt rock song of all time. It's like the butt rock "Day Tripper."

Them Changes

Josh I hate to break it to you but butt-rock is a feeling

also a smell

I dunno, when I see that list above I think, no, butt rock is (er) more than a feeling. Like, Dude Looks Like a Lady, it sucks, but Aerosmith is like 90% butt rock and that is not it. And Enter Sandman is not butt rock. And Welcome to the Jungle sure ain't butt rock.

Now, if we were trying to distinguish butt rock from freedom rock, that's tougher ...

That's French rock, don't be a bigot

"Hair of the Dog" indeed an egregious omission. Related: cowbell seems to add a little buttness generally speaking

Josh let’s just agree to, well not exactly disagree, but that I’m completely right about “Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet” and you’re completely wrong

Very sad, the Bob Seger track should have been Her Strut.

also MIA, Heart - Barracuda

Old Time Rock n Roll is just dadrock

It's between Black Betty and Slow Ride. Slow Ride has the advantage of two tempos: double buttin'. But I think I gotta go Ram Jam.

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

Oh shit, "Her Strut" is such butt rock. I saw Seger at MSG a few months ago, and not only had I not heard that song since it was on the radio, I think I thought it was ZZ Top!

Does anybody know where I can download the "Hey man is that Freedom Rock?" "Yeah man!" "Well TURN IT UP, MAN!!" commercial?

I swear you kids these days have no idea how good you have it. Back in MY DAY you couldn’t just go to YouTube and type “freedom rock commercial”, oh no.

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In leaving out Nazareth, this list is clearly willing to mess with a son of a bitch. Which is a pretty buttrockin' thing to do, but not as buttrockin' as the song itself.

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

https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/styx-van-am-ad_billboard-feb-1979.jpg

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

<"Black Betty" riff plays>

"Hey man, is that Butt Beyond Belief?"

"Yeah man!"

"Well, turn it up man!!!"

lmao

Time-Life infomercial co-hosted by Sammy Hagar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU19noOmkaM

i wanna vote in this Suzi Quatro jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XUG9GIqPo

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"Hi, I'm Sammy Hagar. Remember the days when you could ball a girl in the back of your metalflake flame Econoline in the parking lot of a Molly Hatchet concert?"