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What the hell is 'butt rock'?
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Pathfinder
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Check definition #5 there, Sparky.
I never said those bands aren't awesome.
That urban dictionary page absolutely nails it.
UD works on consensus. The consensus is always the first definition. The fifth entry has less than 10% of the upvotes of the first.
No.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Well, I don't think this is one of the high points of Sonic rock, but it certainly is memorable.
Laevateinn
Member
Butt Rock doesn't go away. There will always be modern butt rock. Glam shit was the butt rock of the 80's.
Frozenprince
Banned
Play a musou game and watch Power Rangers.
Then you shall know.
Then you shall know.
Pathfinder
Member
Uhh, then why does Definition 7 have more upvotes than Definition 1?
CartridgeBlower
Member
Check definition #5 there, Sparky.
I never said those bands aren't awesome.
Do you know how urban dictionary works? I take it you don't since you just quoted the least up-voted definition when it comes to the musical definition.
Regardless, there is a difference between the likes of Poison and Warrant and then Guns N Roses, but if you really need that explained to you you'll probably never get it.
texasairhead101
Member
Early 2000s rock. rock as a genre hasn't been redeemed for me. Indie rock or metal have evolved more into the growing genres than rock for myself.
Creed
Nickelback
Breaking Benjamin
Three days grace.
I enjoy some of these bands to an extent but I use the term butt rock for them.
Creed
Nickelback
Breaking Benjamin
Three days grace.
I enjoy some of these bands to an extent but I use the term butt rock for them.
Do I need to explain how jokes work too?
Mass Effect
Member
Pathfinder
Member
First thing I thought of was the end of 'death to all but metal' music video and the little discussion with the teacher.
But yeah, any kind of rock that you know how it's going to sound like several verses in advance.
According to this thread, butt rock is simultaneously so generic that you'd never remember it and ultra catchy poppy ear worms. Both rock that is about party anthems and crybaby emo-metal core. It's both 80s hair metal and radio friendly modern rock. It is both screeching vocals and dad rock.
It is everything.
It is meaningless.
It is everything.
It is meaningless.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I view buttrock as that loud but catchy guitar roaring cheesy yet gritty kind of rock which lays things on real thick, kind of a roaring rockier type of grunge and often with lyrics that are on the nose especially when tied to a property, ie Power Rangers or Crush40's Sonic music. This is the context I've most seen it used in.
They can be enjoyable in a cheesy way.
They can be enjoyable in a cheesy way.
Rare case of first reply being wildly inaccurate. Puddle of Mud, Staind, Nickelback, Slipknot etc is what you are looking for. Basically the worst of the worst.
Basically anything you'd see someone wearing a TapOut shirt and/or jeans with some stiched pattern/jewels on the pockets listening to.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Guns N' Roses isn't butt rock.
The term is generally applied to that era of rock from the early 00's. Breaking Benjamin,Staind, 3 doors down, that sort of thing. That "heavy" but radio friendly 3.5 minute thing that came after the grunge era faded out.
This is butt rock in 1 song. Compared to rock of the 60-90's these guys are older, balder, not setting fashion trends. Show they have feelings but their music is heavy. 3.5-5 minutes built for radio with 1 censored word in the chorus. Not terrible but it certainly isn't the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, GN'R, Pearl Jam, and the other people who defined each decade.
The term is generally applied to that era of rock from the early 00's. Breaking Benjamin,Staind, 3 doors down, that sort of thing. That "heavy" but radio friendly 3.5 minute thing that came after the grunge era faded out.
This is butt rock in 1 song. Compared to rock of the 60-90's these guys are older, balder, not setting fashion trends. Show they have feelings but their music is heavy. 3.5-5 minutes built for radio with 1 censored word in the chorus. Not terrible but it certainly isn't the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, GN'R, Pearl Jam, and the other people who defined each decade.
Pathfinder
Member
Heh, if you were born in the 90's, sure.
THANK YOU.
I think it's really just two conceptually similar things, which might be split into "butt metal" versus "butt rock". The highly commercialized metal music in the '80s which was cheesy, poppy, and radio friendly. Then the highly commercialized soft rock later which was cheesy, whiny, radio friendly. Not the same to listen to but essentially the same beast for different times.
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Dragon Ball Z american music.
Pathfinder
Member
That's what I always thought it was, too. Like glam rock where their jeans are so tight and ripped that you can see their butts.
However, I can also see it being used for the more gruff kind of rock of the 90's as well.
Jesus Carbomb
From Water into Guinness
Big Tits
Tight Leather
Piles of cocaine
And a Wife that's ready to leave you
Tight Leather
Piles of cocaine
And a Wife that's ready to leave you
Incitemaybe
Member
I always referred to butt rock as generic late 90's/ 2000 bands with that "rock sound", canned lyrics, nothing in particular stand out except it's derivative.
The bands listed were popular in their time and defined a sound.
If Crush 40 is butt-rock, you can call me a butt lover.
Real talk, here:
Butt rock over this was the raddest fucking thing when I was a kid
Nocturnowl
Member
Exactly, when applied to video gaming OSTs then it's basically the Dynasty Warriors tradition, I'd be shook if I ever played one without the butt rock.
Kagero
Member
Haha! Right?!? Mentioning GnR in the same line as Butt rock is embarrassing.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I always thought of buttrock as being kind of like power metal. Lots of ridiculous shredding and goofy lyrics.
Mass Effect
Member
You mean people have different interpretations of what a musical label is and have different opinions on which bands classify as said label, just like virtually every other musical genre/label?
With that logic, might as well just get rid of the idea of genres for everything really.
Jawbreaker
Member
You're probably thinking of cock rock, which some people use interchangeably with hair/glam stuff.
