― Curt, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
You're joking! Mostly, it's the sound of a decent talent reduced to nowt - desparately trying to toady up to what was left of the Brit- pop crowd. 'Streets of Kenny' is particularly shameful - Head wallowing in his own self-made mire of underachievement and waste. Shocking.
― Dr. C, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Eh, no, actually, I'm not. Brilliant songs. Hugely emotional. Sad, yet optimistic. Battered but triumphant. I love it! Dadrock or otherwise!
But the good doctor has diagnosed you. Why do you not heed his words?
As it is, I'd rather listen to the Pale Fountains.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Cos he's wrong. I heart Shack 4eva!
"For some reason, "focuses heavily on songwriting" doesn't sound like a problem to me, but "display of songwriting" does. This might be from the hearing the Shack album and finding it kind of boring in a self-satisfied way."
The phrase "best display of song-writing" just means that the album's full of top tunes. Which makes me want to play it endlessly, so I do. Its not slf-satisfied, either, its moving and powerful.
― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Why bother? We all know Shack will win.
― g, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wouldn't know, don't have the Strands record. All I know is I love HMS Fable
"And I've had Waterpistol for years."
Good for you, never said you didn't.
There's only two tracks on HMS Fable thatI woudln't want to be without, and they're both John's rather than Michael's. Waterpistol is less immediate than HMS Fable, but more consistent, and has had greater longevity for me. The Strands album is just gorgeous though, stripped down, acoustic, folky and delicate. Something About You is one of my favourite singles of the last ten years.
― Nick Southall, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think mumpop is quite a fun idea, actually. St Etienne with their Dusty/70sMOR/girlgroup fetish are a good example. Actually mumpop is a good term for all those PSB/MarcAlmond/Smiths records reviving a Dusty/Pitney/Sandie.
Dad Rock = insufficiently Oedipal. mumpop = extravagantly so.
― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N., Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link
this is a good thread. british-centric, though. are bands like wilco, white stripes, strokes, etc dadrock?
― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Thursday, 30 April 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
It's funny what you think is "Dad rock". I suppose it's how old your dad is. I think of it as seventies.
― Kevin Yates, Phys. Ed. (u s steel), Thursday, 30 April 2009 10:03 (fourteen years ago) link
no, my dad is dad-aged. but dad rock doesn't have to be made by actual dads.
― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Thursday, 30 April 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess Wilco. Not White Stripes or The Strokes.
I think a band can be "dadrock" if it is (a) especially influenced by 70s-sounding classic-rock or country-rock and/or (b) overly-controlled or polite. Wilco falls into both categories. The others less so (White Stripes have too much rock energy; The Strokes too much of a snotty attitude). Having said that, I love Wilco, especially their last -- and especially "dadrock" sounding -- disc, Sky Blue Sky, while I'm ambivalent about The White Stripes and couldn't care less about The Strokes. I'm also a dad in my early 40s, so I have plenty of "dadrock" bona fides.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 30 April 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/D/DAD/Everything%20Glows/Everything%20Glows.jpg
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Thursday, 30 April 2009 10:56 (fourteen years ago) link
My dad seems to like Fleet Foxes. Not sure if they're what I'd typically think of as dad rock but he heard it on Radio 2, who are probably one of the gatekeepers of what is/isn't.
― try to fix the puffiness with some nolva and then go juicin' (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 30 April 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
dadrock never went away
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i like 'dadrock' now because its 'cool' to listen to it 'ironically' as a 'young man' but worry that it wont be 'cool' for me to listen to 'dadrock' when im actually a 'dad'
advice please
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder what Stepdadrock sounds like
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i think that once you're actually a dad it's impossible for you to be cool, no matter what you listen to
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
As a dad, I can say with absolute certainty that the litmus test for dadrock-entry is Animal Collective. If you love them and think everything they do is genius you're still hip. If you don't quite get what the fuss is about, welcome to the wonderful world of dadrock.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
is there any mumrock (apart from Bon Jovi) ?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
if hating animal collective is wrong I don't want to be right
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Múm Rock
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Aren't they exactly the sort of band an ageing ex-indie hipster who's now a dad in his mid-to-late 30s, or older, would listen to
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
FTW
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
They're exactly the sort of band an aging ex-indie hipster who's now a dad would feel they're supposed to like if they were still cool. And despite having given them a fair chance and even enjoying an EP's worth of material, they just don't get it.
Another sign of dadrock-entry: You can't tell all the various "Wolf" or "Mountain" bands apart and you don't really care.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
You can't tell all the various "Wolf" or "Mountain" bands apart and you don't really care.
ha ! you have me totally summed up in one easy to remember sentence.
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
lol this is some weird definitions of dadrock
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
why not just make it 'you dont get all yr music from mp3 blogs'
I know a couple of 30-something dudes who like Animal Collective. I don't feel uncool in the slightest for thinking they're turd.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Ed III, Ned, Southall OTMFM
― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
coolness was never an option in my world, before or after i became a dad, but i now feel very bad that i never listened to my promo of 'sung tongs' all the way through.
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck, I know a 50-something mum who likes them, and it was one of the 30-something blokes who got her into them.
She asked Em if we were going to see The Hold Steady the other day. (She's Em's section head at work.)
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Sung Tongs is better than the last two.
I guess The Lex's AC h8r posts were just subliminally pimping the dadrock he lives and loves all along then
― National Lampoon's Minimal House (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Having said that, I love Wilco, especially their last -- and especially "dadrock" sounding -- disc, Sky Blue Sky
tis a really good disc and i actually first heard this through my dad who said something along the lines of "wilco are kinda the only game in town for us old timers".
― QE II, Thursday, 30 April 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
There is no such thing as "dadrock". It's called Britpop, and it was the best thing to happen to music for the entire 90s.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
And there is of course nothing negative about being liked by dads. The majority of people with a musical taste that is not compete rubbish have become dads by now.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 April 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aY4fMVocj5o/UfWAaqmglJI/AAAAAAAAANM/5So4Rwntshc/s1600/Ian_Dury_One.jpgdad and rock and snrub and geir.
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
depressing that what was dadrock only 9 years ago is firmly grandadrock now
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
There is no dad side of the rock; it's all dad, actually.
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link