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

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

Don't genre shame, fake or not it's beautiful the way it is

it's magnificent, my judgment was clouded by its grandeur, but is it a butt rock anthem? let us not be fooled again

I would say the same to the nomination of “All Right Now” – it’s too limber and subtle to qualify.

(Tho the Leland Stanfurd Junior College marching band playing it is pure butt)

i disagree that buttrock can be neither funky or limber

i'll give you smart and subtle tho

I think by definition, butt, it has to be dumb and stupid, which means not clever or funky or anything.

Do the Scorpions buttrock?

I own this CD (which doesn’t seem to be listed on Discogs — I may have to rectify that)... it seems to be an attempt to cash in with the “butt-rock market,” even though a full disc’s worth of such tunes were not available for licensing (so they had to pad it out with other stuff).

Scorpions ... like, their hits are too metal or hair metal. Hurricane is kitsch butt, like, I dunno, Boston.

"black betty" gets props for literally copying and pasting the start of the song twice (original version by "starstruck" on "truckstar records" has more rockin', less butt), but this is like... all primeval. i believe that butt rock wasn't truly perfected until the '00s.

i'm just off to listen to that compilation of every thin lizzy guitar solo strung together now, thanks

still not sure what this term means but many of these songs are intolerable

many of these songs are intolerable

That's one of the criteria

Also, interminable.

most buttrockin' rhythm section - Tush
most buttrockin' lead vocal - Highway Star
most buttrockin' lead guitar - American Woman

Scorpions are such an amazing band, masters of their craft

I really like the guitars on "Sails of Charon".

Another great recording.

Bad to the Bone is pure butt cheese and always will be. Humanity could exist for a billion more years and that song will never be cool. So that’s my vote.

Missing “Oh Well” here. Kinda want to go with “Hot Blooded.” And then “Welcome to the Jungle” is on the shoulders of what came before it, creating post-butt rock.

"Just Between You and Me" by Lou Gramm is Post-Butt Rock

i respect your categorization but mostly this is insanity

"Godzilla" is perfect butt rock (it even has a bass solo!) but because it's done with a wink it's only sort of ... half-assed.