Butt Rock

♫ Roadrunner, roadrunner / Goin' faster miles an hour / Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop / With the radio on ♫
User avatar
WolfofWords
Moderator
Moderator
Pirate
Posts: 2863
Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:22 pm
Location: Charm City

Fandoms

Arts & Crafts

Sports

Lifestyle

Butt Rock

Post by WolfofWords »

Butt Rock is a genre that recently comes up and like "Yacht Rock" is a somewhat obscure genre. It refers to a collection of post-grunge bands that tried to imitate the edgy sound of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The term is said to come from radio station promos where they say they play "Rock. Nothing but rock."

This song is the first time I heard the term:



These are better examples:





User avatar
scooter
Administrator
Administrator
Scooter
Posts: 3596
Joined: Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:38 pm
Location: Planet Earth, occasionally

Fandoms

Arts & Crafts

Sports

Lifestyle

Re: Butt Rock

Post by scooter »

I mean, that first song is pure 70s power chords, not exactly grunge...but yeah, I get the picture.
This has been another bit of brain shrapnel from...
SCOOTER :cthulhu:
Professional Dilettante (reasonable rates) :thumb:
skramer@atlantic-computingREMOVETHIS.com

QotM: "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson