RFI: What is Dadrock?

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.)

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

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".

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.

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.

or mums?

I would say most mums still have a rubbish taste. Celine Dion and Mariah Carey are hardly worthy :)

There is no such thing as "dadrock". It's called Britpop, and it was the best worst thing to happen to music for the entire 90s ever.

Now of course the best thing of all would have been if music had stopped developing forever in 1984 and the same genres that dominated the charts in 1984 would have done forever without any change. Then Britpop wouldn't have been needed either.

(And I am not talking Grandmaster Flash here)

http://media.nowpublic.net/images//a5/0/a50b6d0ba2b211317ce66b19e7154ca0.jpg

what kind of music do deadbeat dads listen to?

RATT

We got this guy in town who would set up amps and a PA in the park and perform his brimstone 'n' damnation songs with his middle-school aged kids as the backing band. He played a lime-green 80s Kramer, then. Looks like he's got a band with other Dads now:

http://www.prime.org/

I gotta say, Geir is in especially fine form, here.

I guess I have no idea what dadrock is. I always thought it referred to stuff like Tom Petty, Springsteen, and Bob Seger.

I would NEVER label any britpop group as dadrock.

You're right about American dads. I guess it would be Wilco.

British people don't have Dads

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.

Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller were not britpop. They were Dadrock.

xp ZS: Yeah that's what I thought of as dadrock - along with stuff like The Eagles, Chicago, Boston, Billy Joel ...

The Smiths are for people who like/need lyrics so a certain variety of critic spazzs out over them.

Cocteaus are for people who like music so Xgau and his ilk shit on them.

I remember listening to the first single and literally moaning, Oh fuck, I'm NEVER going to hear the end of this.

Cocteaus by a flanging mile.

American Dad Rock? Survey said!

Foreigner
Lou Gramm
Eagles
KISS
Fleetwood Mac
Steve Winwood
Eric Clapton
Paul Simon
Cat Stevens
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship
Willie Nelson
Glenn Frey
Cream
Toto
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
David Bowie
Queen
Jackson Browne
The Byrds
Bread
The Who
Journey

And that's from an actual dad's Lastfm chart, no less.

American "dadrock" already has a name. It's AOR. Most of those name fit into that term, and the rest don't fit in with the rest musically at all.

Sure, I'm just posting, for the sake of accuracy, what an actual "born in the 50s and stills loves the 70s" dad listened to regularly. And if you think some of the above bands really don't fit in with what dadrock is, let me warn you that Sixpence None the Richer barely missed the cut.

I still see nothing wrong in that, although the best way to get rid of Britpop would probably be for dads and teachers to get heavily into hip-hop. Then the kids would move on and find something else (and possibly better).

(Although then I guess the hip-hop kids would just join the metal kids bunch instead)

The main difference between Dadrock/britpop has to be that the former doesn't stretch to the art school/glam end of the latter (Pulp), nor the punkier stuff like Elastica. Supergrass would borderline perhaps? The second album displays definite dadrock tendencies, it sounds like a conscious attempt to aim for some sort of rock classicism. (Good record though). Not sure about Blur though.

FUCK OFF YOU NUTTER

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the best way to get rid of Britpop would probably be for dads and teachers to get heavily into hip-hop

Did someone say "BBC3 sketch show"?

Dadrock i dont think meant bands that dads were into, it meant kids making retro music that sounded like the bands dads listened to from 20+ years ago. So the actual 60/70s bands weren't "dadrock"
Obviously with mojo and Q jumping on the bandwagon some dads did get into 90s stuff because they sounded like the bands from their youth.

JIMMY BUFFETT.

No. If Jimmy Buffet is dadrock, I hate dadrock.

Jimmy Buffet is something else. Something horrible and lame.

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 (2 days ago) Permalink

Ed III, Ned, Southall OTMFM

― sorry for british (country matters), Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:20 (2 days ago) Permalink

THANKS for that opinion!

I had missed it the previous 20 times it was posted.

and well done Robin for bringing up the rear with the hell ditto yet once more.

I feel exactly the same way about Embrace lol

I know MANY 30-something dudes who like Super Furry Animals. I don't...

go on, tell us how overrated Nirvana and Radiohead are again please. Vintage Challops 10 years+, serve without "cool".

my dad: America + Simon and Garfunkel + Norah Jones + The Dark Side of the Moon

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, April 30, 2009 10:13 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God I miss this man.

Really, who cares!?

well, dad, for one

And Rock for another.

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dad and rock and snrub and geir.

depressing that what was dadrock only 9 years ago is firmly grandadrock now

There is no dad side of the rock; it's all dad, actually.