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

Styx, "Renegade"?

“Renegade” is kind of Broadway Butt Rock.

Is there indie butt rock? Or would that be a category error?

most butt is AOR butt

the indie negates the butt; there is definitely indie rock with butt inspirations, but it would require like, whatever the musical equivalent of those silicone implants are, in order to be buttrock.

the label heads are right up in there

lol xhuxk covered this in the last butt rock thread

Cock Rock is more about blatantly trying to get laid, while Butt Rock is more about partying and just having fun in general.

― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, February 9, 2020 2:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

^co-sign

also with cock rock, the emphasis is often on not having to try very hard to get laid.

"music that buttrock audiences like" but is not buttrock

^important distinction

Like bohemian rhapsody is something they'd listen to when sober and tapping into their arty side. True butt rock is what they switch to when they're on their buddy's pontoon boat and on their 20th natty light

“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a suite with one Butt Rock movement (iii.).

On the indie side, The Hold Steady, like Springsteen and Mellencamp, nods to Butt Rock, just as their audiences do.

what about "Never Been Any Reason" by Head East

i'm actually testing this by going on the youtube pages of all these songs and just writing "butt rock" and seeing which one has the fans that get the most angry. those, my friend, are the butt rock songs.

Ask the angry fans if they subscribe to reception or auteur butt-rock theory.

they subscribe to pizzagate theory

Damn it, have to change my vote to Funk 49.

This listicle has this thread’s number.

buttrock is lumpen proletariat

cock rock is unbridled decadence

well said

I would argue that the artist's refusal to allow the song's use in a car commercial is a sign it is not butt rock. I guess ultimately I subscribe to the auteur theory of butt rock.

Also worth noting that J.Lo used the song in her Super Bowl performance (with the artist's permission) to call attention to the US's neglect of Puerto Rico. I can't see "Hot Blooded" being put to the same use.

"Cum On Feel The Noize" by Quiet Riot

I just read this as "Cum Feels Good On My Nose"

oh you did not

J.Lo used the song in her Super Bowl performance (with the artist's permission) to call attention to the US's neglect of Puerto Rico. I can't see "Hot Blooded" being put to the same use.

well, considering the lyrics to "Hot Blooded" seem totally irrelevant in that regard, I agree, I can't see it being put to the same use

I mean:

Well, I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded
You don't have to read my mind, to know what I have in mind
Honey you oughta know
Now you move so fine, let me lay it on the line
I wanna know what you're doin' after the show
Now it's up to you, we can make a secret rendezvous
Just me and you, I'll show you lovin' like you never knew
That's why, I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I feel a fever burning inside me
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded (I'm hot)
Now it's up to you, can we make a secret rendezvous? oh
Before we do, you have to get away from you…

significant elision at the end there lol

i mean, you can see it as opposite to illustrating the US relationship to Puerto Rico, as Hot Blooded is about wanting to be fucked, and the US has already seriously fucked Puerto Rico.

i thought it was about a guy hallucinating in his last hours before dying of influenza

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Not much Butt Rock on this tho.

Oops

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i almost copied and pasted some of this buttrock theory into a facebook post about California labor law and taxes. I just wanted everyone to know this.

Meter data

I'm kinda sad this didn't happen

Also, has no-one here ever heard of Status Quo?

― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:05 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, was just thinking 'Rain' is quintessential buttrock.

reverse meter data

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

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ahh memories

so what constitutes butt rock, anyway?

(J/K)

Ok, this is wild. Just looked, and the Nazareth album featuring "Hair of the Dog" (it's called "Hair of the Dog") features some really surprising cover songs: in addition to "Love Hurts" (Everly Brothers), there's "Guilty" by Randy Newman and a song called "Beggars Day" written by Nils Lofgren, drawn from the sole Neil Young-free Crazy Horse record! Weird. (The bonus tracks on the expanded edition include covers of Joni Mitchell, Little Feat, Frank Zappa and Tomorrow, the band featuring Steve Howe before he joined Yes.)

Whereby premiering in February of the decade and announcing Yes, the Seventies are here and here is cowbell; and
Whereby forming as a musical combo on Long Island and probably only knowing Vicksburg from high school history class (as is true of myself); and
Whereby aforementioned cowbell being played by a guy named Corky; and
Whereby being and American combo, yet associated with Cream, the John the Baptists of buttrock; and
Whereby begging our pardons, as if we do not know what is meant, when there is no doubt; and
Whereby seeming like a much longer song, long overstaying its welcome, yet running only two-and-a-half minutes; I
Therefor, have settled on Mississippi Queen

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I need to come back to this thread and read your takes on buttrock. I voted black betty because it’s one of those one-size-fits-all-butts kind of song.

Good results! Top 5 are all top butt-rockers in my book. Noting though that 4 of the 5 are blues-rock to some degree, and only one is flat out butt-rawk imo. I missed voting, but it woulda been Grand Funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lgnitdPdc

“Black Betty” is too fast for the genre, rest of the top 5 is pretty much accurate. “Tush” clearly the winner in a perfect world.

ZZ Top is butt-rock defined, even if they’re too good for the label

"We're An American Band" owns, not sure i consider it butt rock personally tho I see others here consider it a centerpiece of the canon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsIrKjSM6Y

I don't understand how "We Will Rock You" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" are butt rock

What if it were called "Hit Me with Your Butt Shot?" Either way, the guitar solo in that one is waaaaaay too slick for butt rock.