Rocktober '00s Song #6: "Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry (2006)

The second week of our aural journey through the rock of the aughts shows us that the 2000s weren't just about pop punk, post-grunge, and indie rock.  There was also some good, old-fashioned rock and roll floating around too.  Buckcherry formed in the mid '90s and released their first two albums in 1999 and 2001.  They were a refreshing throwback to the hard rock of the '80s and early '90s.  Their songs "Lit Up" (which has the line "I love the cocaine / I love the cocaine") and the more ballady "For the Movies" were mainstream rock radio staples, but didn't breakthrough to the Billboard Hot 100.  The band broke up in 2002, but then reformed in 2005 and put out their third album, 15, in 2006.

15 would be the band's highest-charting album to date, reaching #39 on the Billboard album charts and eventually going double platinum in the U.S.  It featured the band's first two songs to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, "Crazy Bitch," which went to #59, and another power ballad, "Sorry," which went to the Top 10 (#9) and remains the band's only Top 40 song in the U.S.

The band got filthy on "Crazy Bitch," which is a straightforward hard rock song, inspired by the 2004 Paris Hilton sex tape.  It's an unapologetic, in-your-face, blistering ode to having great sex with someone who's crazy.  We can all relate.  Well, maybe not, but, you know, you can imagine.