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

don't think you can out-buttrock Tush

Was just gonna say!

Feelin' good, feelin' right, it's Saturday night
The hotel detective, he was outta sight!

Slow Ride is so buttrock it can fart its way into the cosmos

I keep scanning through the list and feeling like I have a handle on how 'butt rock' is being used in this context but then it keeps slipping away. Like okay: 'Black Betty', 'Mississippi Queen', 'Frankenstein'. I get it! But then 'Hold Your Head Up'? 'Enter Sandman'? I don't get it!

I heard 'Hocus Pocus' the other day for the first time in a while and, man, that is a hot fucken jam. A jam with some weird-ass yodeling and scatting tacked on here and there, but a jam nonetheless.

Black Betty is proper. Enter Sandman isn't butt rock

Sorry for butt rockin

voted Slow Ride

Torn between "Tush," "Black Betty," "We're An American Band" and "American Woman."

"Black Betty" sounds like a song that was written solely for automotive repair waiting rooms

it's credited to Leadbelly but likely dates to the pre Civil War times

Georgia Satellites kinda only feels butt rock adjacent.

Wow! Didn't know that.

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I didn't know that either!

I don't even care that the band was basically manufactured after 'Black Betty' dropped, that Ram Jam album can get it.

highway star and born in the usa are probably the best songs, but they aren't buttrock imo (space truckin' and glory days are much buttier songs by the respective artists).

radar love also feels weirdly out of place, not easy enough to sing along (tho it rocks hard).

black betty and tush are the buttiest, but i think i'm gonna have to go with black betty cause i still get amped when that song drops lol

You are spot-on with your butt rock replacements for Deep Purple and Bruce. I would suggest that 'Twilight Zone' is a much butt-ier choice than 'Radar Love'.

dope butt-rockin video too

Butt rockin lead

(Ram Jam)

"Tush" just barely over 'American Woman"

No “Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet”????????????? come on!! the only song truly within wiggling distance of it in this list is Takin Care Of Business imo

pretty dope list tbrr

If someone says buttrock I'm thinking "Slow Ride" right off the bat

Still, I'm going for "Highway Butt" by Butt Purple

this is harder than just about any poll I've seen

kick out the jams isn't buttrock tho

Shouldn't Free "All Right Now" be here

Moreso than 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Can't Get Enough' for sure.

I like other songs more but in the category of buttrock it's one of:
Bad to the Bone
Mississisisipspsppiii Queen
Slow Ride

"is this Freedom Rock?? Well turn it up!!"

Yea GNR is cockrock but not butt

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godbless the internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio

xpost butt rock has to be popular MC5 is not popular

Lol at One Tin Soldier being on that comp

BRB; comparing the songs in the poll to the track listing of this compilation:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81f+vIcEpIL.jpg

Suspect compilation creator saw "Soldier" im the title and says IT FITS

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also MIA: “Jesus Is Just Alright” (Doobie Bros version obv)

Shouldn't Free "All Right Now" be here

― ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Friday, February 7, 2020 1:08 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes

"Spirit in the Sky" kinda Jews for Jesus buttrock

BOC - "Godzilla"?

American Woman feels like the buttiest.

As someone with a lot of love for corn a lot of this shit is way too corny for my enjoyment.

Conspicuously absent butt:

Billy Squier - 'Stroke'
Heart - 'Barracuda'
Hombres - 'Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)'
Black Sabbath, period

Maybe Cafferty - 'On the Dark Side'? Surely Mellencamp had something appropriately butt-y. .38 Special?

Basically if I can picture a 50-something biker with a bandana that thinks Jeff Foxworthy is funny vibin to it, it's the buttrock I don't like

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I mean yes, of course, there is good butt rock and lame butt rock but(t) in the interests of science we should set our prejudices aside in determining which songs fit. All I am saying is give butt a chance.

why won't you just butt out of this

My friend and I tried to whittle down a definition, and what we concluded was it had to have a certain lack of ambition (ymmv). That is, it can't be funny on purpose ("Godzilla"), it can't have a clear unified artistic vision (AC/DC, Van Halen, ZZ Top), it just has to be butt-stupid blues-riff based rock. So, like, BTO's "Tacking Care of Business" is a yes, but in our opinion "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is a no, since it's got some cool chords in it. "Black Betty" is a no, because that thing is complicated as hell, and we didn't included stuff like Kiss, because Kiss is lame. Boogie always helps hit the buttock sweet spot, but our top picks were stuff like "Smoke On the Water" and for sure "Mississippi Queen" and "We're An American Band." Bad Company's "Feel like Makin' Love" deserves some, er, love, too. We considered stuff like Sabbath and specifically "Iron Man" as kind of honorary ur-butt rock.

Nazareth "Hair of the Dog" also missing

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

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 30, 2021 1:57 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.

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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.

Good one. Mommas Little Jewel too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jjr7KxTeB4

So buttrock it needs to be cancelled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBSUALhpce8

Mott’s a bit too glam, piano-y, too “bright”? Not nasty-sounding enough.

Definitely Grand Funk though, they are automatically a shoo-in for buttrock

also pkbr raises a good criteria

“if it would get you cancelled ….it MIGHT be buttrock”

butt beyond belief!

<"Black Betty" riff plays>

"Hey man, is that Butt Beyond Belief?"

"Yeah man!"

"Well, turn it up man!!!"

lmao

Time-Life infomercial co-hosted by Sammy Hagar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU19noOmkaM

i wanna vote in this Suzi Quatro jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XUG9GIqPo

https://triblive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2762802_web1_ptr-SHagar-062420.jpg

"Hi, I'm Sammy Hagar. Remember the days when you could ball a girl in the back of your metalflake flame Econoline in the parking lot of a Molly Hatchet concert?"