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
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
also with cock rock, the emphasis is often on not having to try very hard to get laid.
― sarahell, Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
"music that buttrock audiences like" but is not buttrock
^important distinction
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
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
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
“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.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
what about "Never Been Any Reason" by Head East
― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 February 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― dad genes (morrisp), Sunday, 9 February 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
they subscribe to pizzagate theory
― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 February 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
Damn it, have to change my vote to Funk 49.
― calstars, Monday, 10 February 2020 00:34 (four years ago) link
This listicle has this thread’s number.
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 10 February 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
buttrock is lumpen proletariatcock rock is unbridled decadence
― brimstead, Monday, 10 February 2020 03:01 (four years ago) link
well said
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 10 February 2020 03:15 (four years ago) link
"Cum On Feel The Noize" by Quiet Riot
I just read this as "Cum Feels Good On My Nose"
― frogbs, Monday, 10 February 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
oh you did not
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
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 seeI got a fever of a hundred and threeCome on baby, do you do more than dance?I'm hot blooded, I'm hot bloodedYou don't have to read my mind, to know what I have in mindHoney you oughta knowNow you move so fine, let me lay it on the lineI wanna know what you're doin' after the showNow it's up to you, we can make a secret rendezvousJust me and you, I'll show you lovin' like you never knewThat's why, I'm hot blooded, check it and seeI feel a fever burning inside meCome 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? ohBefore we do, you have to get away from you…
― sarahell, Monday, 10 February 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
significant elision at the end there lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 10 February 2020 04:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Monday, 10 February 2020 05:02 (four years ago) link
i thought it was about a guy hallucinating in his last hours before dying of influenza
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/BWonEZCyNHGyayatFkgBqnBk1Dk=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-5522773-1420255025-1528.jpeg.jpg
Not much Butt Rock on this tho.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 February 2020 05:34 (four years ago) link
Oops
https://img.discogs.com/IHgB94rMaLYpePExzmpWcn239rY=/fit-in/600x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2102790-1512914355-7595.jpeg.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 February 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― sarahell, Monday, 10 February 2020 05:39 (four years ago) link
Meter data
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 February 2020 05:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 10 February 2020 05:53 (four years ago) link
reverse meter data
― sarahell, Monday, 10 February 2020 06:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNMgENyMUo
― billstevejim, Monday, 10 February 2020 06:42 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
ahh memories
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
so what constitutes butt rock, anyway?
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
(J/K)
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
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.)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
Whereby premiering in February of the decade and announcing Yes, the Seventies are here and here is cowbell; andWhereby 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; andWhereby 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
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Thursday, 20 February 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 21 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 February 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lgnitdPdc
― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
“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.
― thewufs, Friday, 21 February 2020 01:18 (four years ago) link
ZZ Top is butt-rock defined, even if they’re too good for the label
― thewufs, Friday, 21 February 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link
"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
― equam phillips (crüt), Friday, 21 February 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
I don't understand how "We Will Rock You" and "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" are butt rock
― equam phillips (crüt), Friday, 21 February 2020 02:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
I would say neither are, but I’m just being a butt.
― A perfect transcript of a routine post (Dan Peterson), Friday, 21 February 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
ironically it's easier for a female singer to channel the sexual aggressiveness of cock rock than it is for her to channel the tedious male homosociality of butt rock. I respect Joan Jett and Pat Benatar's efforts to run with the butt boys, but I don't think either of them has produced a whole-ass butt rock staple that you can grunt along to at the bar with your shithead bros without feeling the need to unleash a string of "no homos" afterwards. sad case of a genre failing to live up to the inclusiveness of its name (everyone has a butt!) and growing even more male-dominated in its '00s post-grunge incarnation
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
Suzi Quatro, "Can the Can"? Has the double (double) entendre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 21 February 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
butt? ✔️rock? ✔️buttrock? maybe if you ignore the breathy/sexy/clean vocals in the bridge. you can almost imagine her bathing every once in a while, which is a definite no-no for the genre
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:49 (four years ago) link
it's not stankrock
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:50 (four years ago) link
now this is where a venn diagram would really come in handy
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Friday, 21 February 2020 03:56 (four years ago) link
otm and well put
― Lily Dale, Friday, 21 February 2020 05:58 (four years ago) link