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[Fou-Lu]

I hear the term used on so many different types of gaming soundtracks that I can't discern any one meaning.

 

[Pathfinder]

Poison.
Guns 'n' Roses.
Winger.
White Snake.

 

[Segaholic2]

Everything by Crush 40 for any Sonic game.

 

[Truant]

Foo Fighters

 

[Regiruler]

I am pretty quick to generalize stuff but I've never really understood the label.

Everything by Crush 40 for any Sonic game.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

 

[5taquitos]

Nothing but rock.

Really.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

Nothing but rock
But rock
Buttrock

 

[cramoss]

Riffs that come out of your butt

 

[Cenn]

slang term for your standard radio rock. Think nickelback

 

[dead souls]

Poison.
Guns 'n' Roses.
Winger.
White Snake.

Yep. The soundtrack of my elementary school days.

 

[Data West]

stuff youd hear at a bar

 

[Spiritwalker]

I've heard people use this term to describe J-Rock

 

[Segaholic2]

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

It's not a bad thing!

 

[Sub_Level]

stuff youd hear at a bar

I wish.

 

[HoodWinked]

when you hear it you just know.

Propeller Arena on dreamcast is one of the best examples of it. game was never released despite being complete.

 

[Haroon]

Everything is a butt rock if you try hard enough.

 

[Huge Succeeded]

buttrock: the sort of riffs that nobody who didn't have a poster of the band on their childhood bedroom wall would ever remember or care about

think of how the word 'generic' is used on GAF.

buttrock is that, but rock.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

slang term for your standard radio rock. Think nickelback

This right here.

To explain a bit further, usually catchy and very simple in terms of song-writing and musicianship.

 

[Gaspard]

It's the most mundane and mediocre songs and artists of a genre. This also applies to buttrap.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Saw the title and pictured someone sitting on a guitar, trying to get comfortable, and recording the sounds that play. You know, like butt dialing.

 

[Arkeband]

Everything Butt Metal.

(It's rock that does basically nothing creative - it's so plain and unengaging that you can't even tell which band plays it. It's music from the ass.)

I've heard people use this term to describe J-Rock

A lot of J-Rock is very samey, for instance the band Nightmare's drummer basically phones in his performance every CD, on some songs you'd think they took away his drumset and only gave him a hi-hat. And then you juxtapose that with their ridiculous outfits and the drummer's totally unnecessary eyepatch and yeah, it's buttrock.

 

[AgentLampshade]

The Dynasty Warriors soundtrack. Bearable enough to listen to, but instantly forgetable.

 

[Mechazawa]

It's basically any rock or metal anyone doesn't like and wants to disparage.

There's no real definition for it.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

If you can put a $100 dollar bill between your bum cheeks and squeeze so hard that no one can take it without ripping it, then you've got butt rock.

Also, this is the proper planking technique.

 

[T.Slothrop]

Used to be called cock rock in my day.

 

[Lkr]

What is it? Shinedown

 

[freethoughtbubble]

Not sure but I first heard the term in connection with F-Zero X. So I like butt rock, I guess.

 

[MCN]

It's fucking awesome, is what it is.

 

[CartridgeBlower]

lol at people listing GnR as butt rock. C'mon now, be a little more informed than that if you're going to start putting lists together.

 

[Hakkelus]

It's this rock that you shove up your butt, so that next time someone tells you to "Check this shit out, you'll shit bricks when you see it" about a meme or some shit like that you can go take a dump with the door open and shit the rock, making really loud noises and then you can jokingly say "Yeah, you're right, I am shitting bricks!"

 

[Dolobill]

Almost all radio-rock.

 

[L Thammy]

DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL

 

[norm9]

Rock n roll music with shredding riffs, hard rock beats, lyrics about partying, drinking, and girls. You'll know you're near butt rock when you're jeans start ripping automatically.

 

[bobawesome]

Play Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and it'll become clear.

 

[Pathfinder]

lol at people listing GnR as butt rock. C'mon now, be a little more informed than that if you're going to start putting lists together.

How are they not? Enlighten us.

 

[Persona7]

load up sonic adventure and listen to the song on the title screen

 

[Jawbreaker]

lol at people listing GnR as butt rock. C'mon now, be a little more informed than that if you're going to start putting lists together.

Yeah, they're cock rock.

 

[MaximumSpider]

EVERY SINGLE DROP OF ALL YOU HAVE
EVERY SINGLE DROP OF ALL YOU HAVE
EVERY SINGLE BIT OF ALL YOU HAVE
EVERY SINGLE BIT OF ALL YOU HAVE

 

[Ibuki]

Crush Motherfucking 40

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Based on use around here, it pretty much seems to be any music that is guitar oriented. I've seen Metallica, Foo Fighters, and the Final Fantasy Crisis Core soundtrack all referred to as butt/dad rock.

 

[Breads]

Breaking Benjamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTwBF7dM7g

 

[Teeth]

Further proof that it refers to "rock that I don't like" is the multiple definitions in this very thread that often conflict with each other.

 

[EvilKatarn]

Anything that sounds like Metal Gear Rising but isn't Metal Gear Rising.

 

[yanipheonu]

I always figured it meant over-the-top rock with nonsense/shallow lyrics. I'm no music expert through.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Poison.
Guns 'n' Roses.
Winger.
White Snake.

You take that back, those bands are fucking awesome.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Nickelback.
Seether
Creed
Staind
Winger
Poison
Grand Funk Railroad

 

[CartridgeBlower]

How are they not? Enlighten us.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Butt Rock

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gu...s-landmark-400th-week-on-billboard-200-chart/

Enlightened?

 

[tuna_love]

if metallica is butt rock, spit on it and jam it up my coight right now

 

[Thoraxes]

Imagine if someone used their butt to strum a guitar so hard that you could hear the grunge-iness.

 

[jett]

generic guitar wankery