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

oh and whoever said upthread that Kiss doesn't belong here is forgetting Love Gun.

UFO are a weird one because although their whole catalog reeks of buttrock, I question how popular or prominent they really were. Their albums sold pretty well, it looks like, but I don't honestly remember them from (US) AOR radio back in the day, which is the admittedly biased lens through which I came to know this "genre"... (maybe "Doctor Doctor" was played a little? It has a certain familiarity).

How could anyone hate Billy Squier?

JUST WATCH ME

xpost josefa, yr right but man i would hate to exclude UFO based on airplay.
i think if it sounds like it should be blasting from a camaro tape deck, it stays. :D

xpost to earl - I think the Scorps are too fastpaced for buttrock
also their sleaze is weirdly, um asexual? wrong word but idk how else to say it. i thought maybe something from Lovedrive but i couldnt find anything that gives the specific buttrock vibe

Ozzy's "Crazy Train"
Sammy's "There's Only One Way to Rock"
Montrose's "Rock Candy"
Blackfoot's "Train Train"
Uriah's "Easy Livin'"
April Wine's "I Like to Rock"

Reviewing my teenage FM radio ravaged brain cells, these are the others I came up to list. I spent waaay too much time listening to Q95 when I was a kid.

I grew up outside a neighborhood called 'Shedtown' with LOTS of dudes that looked exactly like Todd from Beavis & Butthead driving old beat up Nova's or Vega's with way too big a stereos or van's they airbrushed Miss Playboy 1979 on the side.

ozzy - ehh no for me, it’s too fast & flashy for buttrock

sammy YES
montrose oh hell yess
blackfoot fuck yes
uriah yep
april wine CMON CANADA

Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin'" for damn sure, that is a neglected classic

lol ~airbrushed miss playboy 1979~ is startling imagery that i had never considered before
wizard vans sure
nudie vans? whoa

She was more in lingerie but there was some definite nipplige visible. Dudes would bust on him as she kinda looked cross-eyed in the painting. Other than the eyes, it was some pretty impressive redneck airbrush auto-painting.

We used to have a dude in our hood that was older that was nicknamed by kids as I shit you not "Mr. Disco" that used to rip through the subdivision in a powder blue Nova. He had the big white dude curly fro and a handlebar mustache and probably was in his late 20s still living with his parents - this would have been probably 80/81 era. Moms would bitch at him (and his older mom) as he would tear through the streets with kids playing in the street.

We had one street that used to flood pretty bad after huge rains and kids would literally play in the flood water like was a swimming pond until it drained away. (I shudder at the thought at what was in that water now bacteria and chemically now.) Anyway the kids playing in this redneck street pool lured him to run through the waters to get a big wave going (as he done it before) but this time it was a bit deeper than normal and he got stalled. Dude had to evacuate and flooded his beloved Nova and there in the middle of this utter defeat for Mr. Disco was like probably 40-50 kids from 6 to 14 laughing their ass off and pointing at him including a couple of the Moms that saw it happen.

^I recognize that type of culture. That could have happened in my old neighborhood.

Dying at the cross-eyed airbrush queen.

When we moved there in '78 - our next door neighbor was a divorced sales guy for Pepsi that had like 4 teenage sons (no mom). The dad looked kinda like Herb Tarlek with the checkered leisure pans etc. Their house was complete madness, with tons of Pepsi on the shelf, HBO on the TV and dad not much around - which meant all sorts of crazy stuff going on.

The older brother looked pretty much like Wooderson, the two middle sons were twins Denny and Danny that had big curly fros and glasses and me and my buddies hung out with the youngest kid who was a couple years older than me (I was like 8-9 at the time). The twin brothers were geeky and were always like using those old metal tennis ball cans and building cannons with lighter fluid and using M80s to blow shit up. They literally got me high a few times as a kid like age 8-9. I remember well listening to the first Cars record on LP and like the world melting down.

Couple years later the dad started dating this redheaded English lady and they eventually got married and moved out. How the heck he met a English woman in Muncie in the that era, I still wonder how it happened.

Keep mind behind this neighborhood was a creek and then a cornfield - the road on the other side of the cornfield was CORNBREAD ROAD - the very road that Spielberg used for Richard Dreyfuss' first 'Close Encounter' in the movie. From what I understood, Spielberg was going to film in Muncie but the crooked ass politicians tried to shake him down for cash - so they passed.

In hindsight, it was a weird place in a weird time.

So that is my buttrock credentials in a nutshell.

using those old metal tennis ball cans and building cannons with lighter fluid

We called those "Polish cannons" (suburban South Florida circa 1980). We probably could've come up with a less disrespectful name, but that was the times. There seems to be a certain fundamental common ground connecting suburban culture across the US.

I think we all have to acknowledge that earlnash might be a buttrock authority.

I grew up in Southern Illinois and I might be slightly younger but I can totally relate to your posts.

There is something very midwest about buttrock, I feel.

so pleased at how much the butt thread expanded today

earlnash def has the bonafides
*stamps buttrock card*

ozzy still aint buttrock tho :)

Agreed. But why? One thought is it's not quite bro-y enough.

no sleaze

sleaze quotient must be 75% or higher

ozzy is too heavy to be buttrock, but "crazy train" is certainly a buttrock anthem

ok yr going to have to explain your logic because i do not see it at all

I don't think "Crazy Train" fits but something like "Flying High Again" is pretty butt. Camaro Rock.

ok but just picturing it playing in a camaro is not the only criteria

camaro must be driven by the 30 year old dude dating a high schooler or what are we even doing here

I feel like buttrock and “gas grass or ass nobody rides for free” bumper stickers are strongly correlated more so than any particular vehicle

otm

I feel like buttrock and “gas grass or ass nobody rides for free” bumper stickers are strongly correlated more so than any particular vehicle

point of comparison:

THIS is buttrock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TantJmKEQw

ok yr going to have to explain your logic because i do not see it at all

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idk i can picture wayne and garth banging their head to it. maybe they were more sophisticated than the average butt rockers. also, it's got a big dumb riff and a big dumb chorus ("metal wounds not heeeeealing"), and it inspired a big dumb rap song by trick daddy and lil jon.

The bass is so 80s sounding on that Babys track, but everything else is butt beyond belief!

buttrock can’t be just dumb or it’d be literally all of 70’s hard rock lol

also wayne & garth headbanged to queen & bohemian rhapsody is for sure not buttrock. wayne & garth are heshers, not buttrockers

sleaze is the key, music and or lyrics

music that makes creepy camaro dudes wiggle their butt

This revive and Dusty Hill's death has me contemplating the line between smart-dumb and stupid-dumb in rock once again. I have a hard time calling ZZ Top butt, but I can't pinpoint how their wit shines through in "Tush", so literally and figuratively buttrock head to bottom, and yet and yet and yet I can't quite call it that.

you cant think of it as a judgement. maybe it was intended that way but it’s easier if you just treat it like a fun theoretical subgenre

“oh this song is good/i like this band/ therefore it’s not buttrock” will get you nowhere

it’s the vibe that takes it there. buttrock ~is~ creepy & dumb & sleazy but it’s not just bad music that belongs here

plus it’s a vibe that has been at the heart of rock n roll since elvis waggled his pelvis

One sign of wit or at least winking in "Tush" is that you have this Texas boogie band using the Yiddish term for butt. That's pretty funny.

grand funk
bto
bad company
edgar winter band - “frankenstein”
some joe walsh?

yeah maybe joe!

alright guys the butt is getting a lil too greasy in here let's make sure we keep an eye on that

If there's one thing butt rock is generally not it's slick.

u_u

VG, what are your thoughts on Born in the USA as buttrock?

Head East were only mentioned briefly once in this thread, but I think they've got the goods. Earnest, sturdy, plodding meat and potatoes rock with no pretensions to metal. No pretensions to anything, except the joys of Gettin' Lucky with a Fly By Night Lady.

Aw, turn on your radio, and put your ear to the sweet sweet music
And take your baby and hold her in your arms and let the music go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTP4o1PdjMU

I guess I always thought it was a strictly 70s thing… maybe stretching back to 68 or so

When we moved there in '78 - our next door neighbor was a divorced sales guy for Pepsi that had like 4 teenage sons (no mom). The dad looked kinda like Herb Tarlek with the checkered leisure pans etc. Their house was complete madness, with tons of Pepsi on the shelf, HBO on the TV and dad not much around - which meant all sorts of crazy stuff going on.

The older brother looked pretty much like Wooderson, the two middle sons were twins Denny and Danny that had big curly fros and glasses and me and my buddies hung out with the youngest kid who was a couple years older than me (I was like 8-9 at the time). The twin brothers were geeky and were always like using those old metal tennis ball cans and building cannons with lighter fluid and using M80s to blow shit up. They literally got me high a few times as a kid like age 8-9. I remember well listening to the first Cars record on LP and like the world melting down.

Couple years later the dad started dating this redheaded English lady and they eventually got married and moved out. How the heck he met a English woman in Muncie in the that era, I still wonder how it happened.

This sounds a lot like the dirtbag brothers who lived across the street from me with their widowed dad. Their mom was alive when I moved to the neighborhood, but then she got cancer and after she died, he used to lock himself in their backyard shed and drink all day, so the two brothers basically took over the house. I was forbidden to hang out with them, but of course that's where I spent my afternoons when my mom was at work. They listened to some lunkheaded shit — Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, KISS — but they were also into Zappa, the Residents, ELP and Captain Beefheart, all of which I learned about over there.

xposts

Born In The Usa is 100% NOT buttrock

sleaze quotient = zero, for a start, along w a million other reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ScDz4Vj98

^^^^^ gets it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a58295TocB8

Born In The Usa is 100% NOT buttrock

Thanks, VG!

Is Mott the Hoople - "Sucker" too glam for buttrock, cause it makes me feel like I need a shower after listening to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXVowBOGU-k

I mean, having Bowie on sax by definition probably means it's not.