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

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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm kinda sad this didn't happen

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

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

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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.

I would say neither are, but I’m just being a butt.

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

Suzi Quatro, "Can the Can"? Has the double (double) entendre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio

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

it's not stankrock

now this is where a venn diagram would really come in handy

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

otm and well put

yeah, that was such a good post

list is much better without "Black Betty" imo

I agree with this:

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, February 7, 2020 2:33 PM (one week ago)

applying the looser criteria of polyvalence to buttrock: you can include Born in the USA because there are plenty of people who hear it and think, "I was born in the USA! Yay! USA!" ... and hear "Slow Ride" and think "Slow Ride! Cars cruising! Yay! Slow Ride!" idk

There's definitely something to this- unintended butt-ness. Locomotive Breath is butt, because "Got him by the balls, YEAH!" even if it is Tull's only throughly buttrock moment.

voted for black betty, but woulda voted for hair of the dog if it were an option.

Sorry to go way upthread, butt:

foreigner and Foghat et al feel so “American” that i think ppl are often shocked when they realize thats not the case

Butt iirc the thing about Foreigner was by having both American and Britishes members, the name would be true everywhere they went.

Foreigner bridged '70s butt rock to '80s Mutt rock.