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

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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.

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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.

I can buy "Hot Blooded" and "Jukebox Hero" as butt rock.

Much of the rest of Foreigner's output has a thorny/spiky/icy quality that I don't think associate with butt. "Cold as Ice," "Head Games," "Urgent" - synthy nervous songs rather than joyously dumb power-chord guitar songs. They are underlain by paranoia and attempted sophistication.

Put concisely: they are not keg-party singalongs. Note: Not all keg-party singalongs are butt rock, but all butt-rock songs are keg-party singalongs. It's sort of in the DNA of the genre.

My definition of butt rock definitely has to do with the intended audience and said intended audience's reaction, but it's very rooted in a specific time and a specific way of life. So for me, a true butt rock track must have engendered a certain kind of response from that specific audience at that specific place and time.

When a butt rock song comes on the stereo at a party in a wood-paneled basement, a butt rocker will either lift his beer in the air and say FUCKEN A or FUCK YEAH. Alternatively, he can keep his beer hand close to his chest and raise the other hand in a devil-horn gesture.

The arch-butt-rocker has a used El Camino or Firebird purchased with earnings from Trak Auto. He owns and wears a Confederate-flag headband. He lives in his parents' basement but it has a separate entrance so chicks can come in and out without being introduced to his parents. There may or may not be a black-light poster of a panther.

In this view butt rock is a musical genre that reflects a lifestyle, indeed a state of mind.

> Does The Cult fit in here?

Rick Rubin kept the flame going didn't he? Buttrock's tangential legacy was bringing the wallop to early Def Jam, so much of which had a "FUCK YEAH" quality to it. He then spent the 90s attempting to elevate a lot of Foghat/Nazareth type bands of varying levels of self-awareness.

license to ill is buttrock for gen x

buttrap.

(Not to be confused with, like, 2 Live Crew)

“No Sleep till Brooklyn” (that riff at that tempo) is perfect post-Rubin butt for the mid to late 80s

the correct answer is Bertha Butt Boogie by Jimmy Castor Bunch

https://youtu.be/4LQJYgs1sxc

all my life I thought Foreigner were German, a bit like The Scorpions

What is "License to Ill" if not the spiritual meeting place of Jimmy Castor Bunch and butt rock?

all my life ...

And while I know the line starts "In my life ...," I nonetheless immediately started humming "I Want to Know What Love Is."

lol at Black Betty winning this -- clearly an example of the votes for songs based on ilxors' tastes in music as opposed to "voting for the most butt song" (the Nick Cave verson of Black Betty slays btw, first version I heard). Still, congrats to a significant portion of voters keeping it real by voting for actual butt jams like Slow Ride, American Band, and Butt to the Bone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaQv3Cl06ow

Slow Ride voter here

Slow Ride voter here

― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, February 22, 2020 1:09 PM (one hour ago)

my man!

lol didn’t know nick cave covered but black Betty”. but like omg of course he did

here's how this poll's top finishers placed in ILM's never-to-be-forgotten Classic Rock Tracks Poll:

"Black Betty" by Ram Jam 100
"Slow Ride" by Foghat 5
"Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood Did not place
"We're An American Band" by Grand Funk Railroad 218
"Tush" by ZZ Top 276
"American Woman" by the Guess Who 268
"Mississippi Queen" by Mountain 51
"Hot Blooded" by Foreigner Did not place
"Highway Star" by Deep Purple 369

does Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" count, or is it too pop, or too nerdy?

idk but I want to call it out as the nadir of rock music