Butt Crack Rawk USA! More workin'! Less thinkin'! YEAAH!
Hey, Workin' Stiffs! This album is dedicated to you!
1. Gimme Three Steps (Lynyrd!)
2. Ol' Time Rockin' Roll (Bob!)
3. Big Ol' Jet Airliner (Steve!)
4. Smoke on the Water (Deep!)
5. She's Got Legs! (ZZ!)
6. All We Are is Dust In the Wind (Kan!)
7. We're an American Band (Grand!)
8. Dead or Alive (Bon!)
9. More Than a Feeling (Bos!)
10. Centerfield (John!)
11. Pianoman (Billy!)
12. Margaritaville (Jimmy!)
13. Born in the USA (Bruce!)
Butt-Crack Raaaawk--Rockin' Round the Woooooooorld
1. Takin' Care Of Business (BTO, Canada)
2. Highway to Hell (AC/DC Australia)
3. Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who, UK, England)
4. Boys Are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy, UK, Ireland)
5. Maggie May (Rod, UK, England)
6. Start Me Up (Rolling Stones, UK, England)
7. We Will Rock You (Queen)
8. Radar Love (Golden Earring)
9. Whole Lotta Love (Led, UK, England)
10. Little Help from my Friends (Beatles, UK, England)
11. Cocaine (Eric, UK, England)
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I don't care what anyone says: "Piano Man" is NOT and never will be "raaaawk," or even rock for that matter. It is wussy music, and the same case could be made for that wimp-assed "Dust In the Wind." And does anything by the Beatles really count in this category? I grew up in suburban Connecticut so I know far more about this genre than I really need to, and while my friends thrived on "butt-crack raaaawk" the Beatles were in a separate area altogether. The Beatles' stuff, for the most part, was too thoughtful to be considered B.C.R.
ReplyDeleteTo me, B.C.R. is the stuff that gets cranked up while cruising around the neighborhood in a pothead haze, FM classic rock radio a-blarin', while on a futile hunt for easy, tight-jeaned girls with big tits whose idea of a good time is getting pawed in the back of a van by you and your equally useless buddies. Lot's of guitar riff masturbation — Yngwie Malmsteen's unintentionally hilarious "I Am a Viking" springs to mind — drum solos and self-aggrandizing lyrics are the order of the day for this genre, fist-pumping anthems made mostly for adolescent males, and "affectionately" referred to as "cock rock."
So going by that criteria, the following songs should be excised from the posted playlists:
"Gimme Three Steps"-gurk gurk rock, yes, but not quite B.C.R.
"Jet Airliner"-the Steve Miller song that should be here is the surefire beer bong classic "Rock 'n' Me."
"Dust in the Wind"-the Kansas song that fits the criteria would be "Carry on, Wayward Son;" a major late-'70's Top 40 guitar-heroism landmark.
"Centerfield"-not one Fogerty solo record would make this list; stick to CCR and either "Traveling Band" or "Fortunate Son."
"Margaritaville"-Jimmy Buffett is NOT rock 'n' roll, but the soundtrack for all-day girl-drink alcoholics; put on this song and you will instantly be able to spot the rockers in the room. Buffett's music is perhaps the most polarizing to music fans next to that of the Grateful Dead, definitely a love it or hate it scenario.
"Maggie May"-too intelligent to be on this list, and it doesn't feature any guitar heroism or the histrionics that usually fuel this sort of crap.
"Start Me Up"-who needs latter-day Stones when "Satisfaction" fits the bill perfectly?
"Radar Love"-too obscure for the average listener, and the Vegas-style horns take it out of the category. And they're Dutch.
"A Little Help From My Friends"-the Beatles ain't B.C.R.
"Cocaine"-the Clapton song that should occupy this space is "Layla," which is technically Derek & the Dominoes, but why quibble?
And how could you forget the AC/DC song that really belongs on the list, namely that air guitar classic "You Shook Me All Night Long?"
Overall, you have a decent cross-section of the genre, but one of these days I must send you my own carved-in-stone Top 40 Butt-Crack Raaawk classics list. I guarantee that you will cringe.
Bunche, I can't wait to see your Cock Rock Top 40, but the thing with BCR is that its for an older, less exciting crowd...think "Limp Cock Rock." These people have already done their drinkin' and their thinkin'...and now it's all gone..
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