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“Down Boys” by Warrant
From the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1988)
“Down Boys” by Warrant appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2022. It was first released in 1988 on the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. Its best result is #151 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,601 classic rock song of all time.
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"Down Boys" was the song Warrant used to introduce themselves, the first single from their debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, released on Columbia in 1989. Jani Lane wrote it on his own, Beau Hill produced and John Jansen mixed, and it's glam metal with real muscle under the hairspray: it has been called about as tough and heavy as any of their hits.
It went to 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 13 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and its video, the band's first, later made a New York Times list of essential hair-metal clips. The title stuck to the band as a nickname, and they recorded it again in 1999 for Greatest & Latest.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Classic Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 151 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 516 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2022 | 448 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
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