Buckcherry (1999)

Coming on like the Black Crowes by way of AC/DC, this L.A.-based band is at its best blasting its way through hard-hitting riff-rockers like ''Lit Up,'' with its wonderfully crass lyrics (''I love the cocaine/I love the cocaine''). But Buckcherry come in other flavors, too: ''For the Movies'' shows that these fellas can see eye to eye with the Third Eye Blind crowd, while ''Check Your Head'' demonstrates that even drug-and-sex-crazed scoundrels have their sensitive moments. B