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if your band never wore eyeliner and never touched a can of aqua net, you’re not butt rock
Bluesky 2025
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For those of you who don’t know what butt rock is, it’s a term that refers to bands like Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Shinedown, and Godsmack. These bands get tons of rotation that advertise themselves as playing “NOTHING BUT ROCK”, so that’s where this style of music gets its name.
The Mysterious Popularity of Butt Rock smokeweed21 2025
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Not exactly grunge but not exactly metal, they fell under the umbrella term “butt rock,” a name the bands loathed but the fans have adopted more earnestly over the years.
Bros, Budweisers, and Divorced Dads: Butt Rock Is Back, Baby Brittany Spanos 2025
peregrina commented on the word butt rock
(but-rk) rock n' roll music produced from the mid 70's to present that has the following characteristics: four or five male members with long, feathered hair (bangs are common, but not necessary) or mullets, wailing guitar solos, distorted guitars, and lyrics about women, sex, drugs, Satan, and fast cars.
Typical butt-rock bands are Winger, Scorpions, Dio, Ted Nugent, The Marshall Tucker Band, Metallica (1990-present), Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Journey, Krokus, Accept, W.A.S.P., Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Slash's Snakepit etc.
http://www.mulletsgalore.com/other/vocabulary/index.html
November 9, 2007
yarb commented on the word butt rock
Shurely this is cock rock? (See wikipedia).
November 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word butt rock
I've certainly heard both. They're synonymous. But I've always preferred this one, for some reason. ;-)
November 9, 2007
peregrina commented on the word butt rock
Uselessness, do you recall more or less when you first heard this term used? I am checking out a theory regarding the origin of this term.....great use of my time, to be sure.
November 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word butt rock
Hmm, probably in the late '90s. As I recall at that time it was used in reference to cheesy video game music of the butt-rock variety. :-)
November 10, 2007