BAD TO THE BONE

"'Bad to the Bone'" is a blues-influenced rock song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers released in 1982 on the album of the same name. It was a hit which some believe owes its success to its memorable video on MTV, which was in its infancy and had very few titles at the time.
The video intercut a live performance by Thorogood and his band with him playing a lengthy game of pool with blues guitar legend Bo Diddley. Pool legend Willie Mosconi was summoned from another room by a spectator and he wagers a large sum of money on Diddley. As Thorogood appears to be winning, a group of children outside celebrate while Diddley gets a dirty look from Mosconi. It ends with Thorogood making the 8 ball drop into a pocket by flicking a large quantity of cigar ash on the floor (Thorogood prominently smokes a fat cigar throughout the pool-playing sequence), implying the impact of some ash made the ball fall in.
The song was used in the bar scene in ''. "Bad to the Bone" can also be heard in the remake of ''The Parent Trap'' (featuring Lindsay Lohan) in the poker scene, the opening credits to Major Payne, in the first scene of Stephen King's ''Christine'', as well as multiple episodes of the sitcom ''Married... with Children'' and in the Super Nintendo classic game ''Rock 'n Roll Racing''. The song also serves to main theme to ''Problem Child'' - with its main riff appearing through the movie. The lyrics of Bad to the Bone fits perfectly into the protagonist Junior, as it tells about someone incorrigibly bad.
The song is also used by for Dennis Anderson's Grave Digger monster truck as entrance music and plays during his portion of the freestyle round at Monster Jam events.
The song is said to be one of the best-recognized songs of the 80s and is one of the most heavily licensed songs for commercials, TV shows and movies, along with Katrina and The Waves hit "Walking On Sunshine".
The song's roots can be traced back to Bo Diddley's song "I'm a Man", which uses the same guitar riff and vocal rhythm. The song also holds a very similar melody to AC/DC's hit "Whole Lotta Rosie", released on their 1977 album ''Let There Be Rock''.
In 2004 Motörhead played a song titled "You Better Swim" for ''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie'' Soundtrack based on "Bad to the Bone", the words were changed to being about fishes avoiding hooks, sharks, and killer whales who are "Bad to the Fin".^[1]

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1. Various Artists - Music from the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie