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!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 7 February 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oWFsmtwqP7s/maxresdefault.jpg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
I like other songs more but in the category of buttrock it's one of: Bad to the BoneMississisisipspsppiii QueenSlow 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
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
it is!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
There's a whole generation of butt rock that this list ignores: buckcherry, matchbox 20, better than ezra, 311, sublime, creed, kid rock
― enochroot, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
kind of regretting not voting for "Rocky Mountain Way" now
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
"Her Strut" even has a butt double entendre in it
― Josefa, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
― 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
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
Wasn't buttrock supposed to be like, Pearl Jam and stuff? Theory of a NickleCreed?
― ascai, Friday, 7 February 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
cosign on 1979 being the Last Year Of Buttrock
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
Foghat’s cover of “I Just Want to Make Love to You” is even more buttrock than “Slow Ride”.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
― ascai, Friday, February 7, 2020 2:43 PM bookmarkflaglink
not at all. the term came from greasy dudebros who listened to "nothing but rock".
― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
stricly a 70s genre imho
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
https://occ-0-92-1723.1.nflxso.net/dnm/api/v6/9pS1daC2n6UGc3dUogvWIPMR_OU/AAAABU5w9I0fy5GDK9W5LPQKHkV2Bpm66qRACDk0mmsdw2n32FIYEZTy8z-nmdMZVxuZNOEs9he_KU0bbY6UuC8nZcG6LtpGP9BJNRlT2vxFeN0Zw3jj.jpg?r=744
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link
https://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/1970s-custom-van-couple.jpg?w=700&h=604
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
https://bradybunchreviewed.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/agents.jpg?w=567
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
great thread, i needed to hear 'slow ride' and 'tush' this morning haha
― i am a horse girl (map), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/styx-van-am-ad_billboard-feb-1979.jpg
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
yes I know, NOT BUTTROCK, but still
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
What's Greta van Fleet's signature butt-rock song?
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
this is definitely the most buttrockin' movie ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PVmoGKKNQs
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
(does not feature nearly enough actual buttrock, but does feature a Charles Bukowski cameo!)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 February 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
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...
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
3. black betty2. mississippi queen1. slow ride
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 February 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
I love Billy Squire, but there's a Mutt Langiness to his sound that's un-butt. Mutt stole the Butt.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:13 (four years ago) link
"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.
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
when anything resembling buttrock is played in her hearing, my wife makes a face and says "This sounds like Foghat!"
ergo Slow Ride ftw
― Brad C., Friday, 7 February 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
Voted for my favourite, which was "Highway Star". Rigorous attempts to define "butt rock" certainly helpful, though.
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
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".
― Here I Sit, Buns a FleXor, Givin' Birth to Another... (I M Losted), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
what is it about Brits that they were able to do effortlessly master something that feels so American
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
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
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
"Hair of the Dog," though, that should be called "Hair of the Butt." It's got cowbell *and* talkbox. And it's awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
hell yeah. Massive oversight
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
their three big hits rule ok well apparently Lou Gramm guess American, but the rest of the band was UK. didn’t know that.
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
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
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
damn, i didn't know foghat were english
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
Xp, naw that’s post-butt and post-butt revival.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:09 (four years ago) link
xp I never knew that either
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
nu-butt
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
Re: '90s butt rock, would argue that 'Sex Type Thing' is butt, for better or worse.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
butt type thing
― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
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
― Brad C., Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
The Machine Head LP is a great-sounding record imho. Crisp, drums so clear and live.
― With considerable charm, you still have made a choice (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link