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

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.

voted Slow Ride, woulda voted All Right Now but I agree that it's more than butt. its solo is very unbutt even.

I have listened to roughly a million hours of classic rock radio and adjacent and have come to the conclusion that until this thread I have never heard Nazareth's Hair of the Dog. I thought this was going to be one of those classic rock songs like "Black Betty" that I've heard a million times but didn't associate the artist/title . . . but I don't think so.

Wow, to hear that song with fresh ears ...

As I told my wife just a couple of weeks ago, when you hear "Hair of the Dog" on the radio first thing in the morning, you know it's going to be a good day.

As a matter of fact, I literally just asked my wife what makes a song butt rock, and she summed it up best: "if they just farted it out, it's butt rock."

we have a couple of good threads on this if I could figure out how to link to a thread in Zing

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.

I'm convinced.

Another great thing about "Hair of the Dog" is the pun in the title:

Hair of the dog = heir of the dog = son of a bitch, as in, "Now you're messin' with a..."

absolutely "bad to the bone"

a lot of these songs are great!

"pure butt cheese" sounds like a fungal condition

xxpost puns you had missed!

I love "Hair of the Dog" btw. Exodus actually briefly played it as a joke on the cruise and it was cool as hell.

it's just fun to sing "Son of a Bitch" in beavisvoice

I can't decide whether to vote for the butt-rockiest song I like the most ('American Woman') or for my favourite song on this list ('Highway Star', preferably the Made in Japan version).

Bad to the Bone is amazing. and extremely cool tbrr w you guys

Bad to the Bone is rock badassery for CPAs with coke-bottle glasses that just ain't vibin to REO anymore

"Bad to the Bone" was extremely cool to me when I was 4 years old

Tbf 4 year-olds know a thing or two about butts.

i always associated music like that with Baywatch

speaking of which, that theme song is almost buttrock, but it has too much 'other' crap in it

i couldn't finish "hair of the dog", there's only room for one butt rock song with way too much cowbell and it ain't "hair of the dog"

aw

don't fear the reaper is too proggy to be butt rock

Hair of the Dog owns

yeah Reaper is poppy, maybe one could argue it was buttpop, but i don't concur

Wondering if "Flirtin' with Disaster" by Molly Hatchet fits here. Or is it somehow too Southern? Or too fast?

Is CCR proto butt?

And how does swamp rock fit in? Totally separate genre? Is there swamp butt??

From the list (which obv contains a lot of bogus butt) it would seem it's OK to be from Texas, but the Deep South only gets "Freebird" - fine, that's a monster - and the Black Crowes, which is clearly post-butt if butt at all

Is there such a thing as neo-butt? And how is it that a cursory search for 'butt rock' primarily yields results about post-grunge acts from the late 90s whereas almost everyone itt is pushing for a completely different chronology?

if there is a little Ohio Players feel to the buttrock, does that make it buttfunk?

dunno

does Jacksonville count as Deep South? because another dead-cert first-ballot entry to the butt-rock canon comes from there:

FLIRTIN WITH DISASTER by molly hatchet

Jacksonville is deep somethin'. if you go to downtown Jax on a Monday night and shout "hello!", it'll bounce back like you're in a canyon

Molly Hatchet kinda seems built for this genre

All of north Florida is Deep South ime. Strong historical ties to the CSA.

"Freebird" is too well played and too intricately arranged to pass the butt rock test imo

I'm not sure about "Bad to the Bone" ... blues are a basic ingredient of butt rock, specifically cheesy ill-played loud blues, but once a certain level of blues content is exceeded, we're moving out of the butt rock sector of the Venn diagram

I feel the same way about the Black Crowes track -- the lingering traces of Otis' genius are soulful enough to disqualify it

Agree with that fwiw

to me buttrock basically equals bar band blues rock

ah no

There needs to be a kind of stiff-hipped auteur boogie element to it imo

well, supposedly the term butt rock is a 90s term that came from radio stations that proclaimed they played 'nothing but rock' so it referred to the type of fare that appeared the most on hard rock stations, and not necessarily referring to 'new' music

I think a good butt rock song should trigger a little rump shakin.’ I’m voting VH

I like the "nothing but rock" etymology, never heard that before

but "stiff-hipped" is more descriptive of butt rock as I comprehend it ... it must rawk but it can't be too groovy or swinging

So is Dazed and Confused the movie with the most butt rock soundtrack? does have some ballads and butt rock adjacent tunes but D&C has a number of iconic butt rock songs/scenes.