Hard Charger is a single by Porno for Pyros. The song was composed by Perry Farrell and released on February 1997.

Dave Navarro and Flea played guitar and bass guitar on the track, which would later lead them to join Jane's Addiction later that year.

Hard Charger was featured as the first single from Private Parts: The Album, the soundtrack to Howard Stern's 1997 film Private Parts.

Porno for Pyros was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1992, following the break-up of Jane's Addiction. The band comprised former Jane's Addiction members Perry Farrell (vocals) and Stephen Perkins (drums), and Peter DiStefano (guitar) and Martyn LeNoble (bass).

The band released two studio albums, Porno for Pyros (1993) and Good God's Urge (1996), before parting ways in 1998.