POLL: the daddest song on the Now That's What I Call Dad Rock! compilation

What was the article I read where a not particularly old music writer (was it Petrusch?) played a bunch of music for teens and the teens though Black Flag sounded dad rock. That was awesome.

CSNY! Hendrix! VAN FUCKING MORRISON!

Does this list even know any dads?

dad with baby in a stroller and a craft IPA rock xxp

gen x still thinks its dads are the dads when actually the dads are calling from inside the house

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Trying to get my head around the idea of this as Dadrock.

My parents are in their late 50s, early 60s. They both went to an Imagine Dragons concert a few years ago.

That being said, when I think of my dad I tend of think of Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, and that's not on here.

Does this list even know any dads?

Yes, British dads.

It's a UK comp.

I always tend to think of Bon Jovi more as "Mom Rock" than "Dad Rock".

okay wait how is there no zeppelin? that's ur-dad rock. licensing issue?

Bon Jovi is from Venus, Bon Scott is from Mars (xp)

Yeah Zeppelin only licenses their tunes to "Thor" movies now.

I hate to repeat myself, but it's a UK compilation.

Is the point that Brit-Dads do not dig Zep(?)

There's no tradition of Classic Rock stations in the UK, and most of these were UK hit singles, Led Zeppelin never had any hit singles.

In fact I'm pretty sure all of these were hit singles.

voted Ace of Spades for no dadly reason whatsoever other than its an amazing song.

think i'm gonna vote for 50, mainly cause of rod. who's more dad than rod?

my concept of Dad Rock based on my own dead Dad is Irish Showbands, The Wolfe Tones, Max Boyce tapes - all wrong probably!

My dad overdid it on edibles at Red Rocks Dub Fest, got disoriented/zoned out, and had to call for a ride home. True story (that he's too embarrassed to talk about).

My (UK) dad likes Ry Cooder, Steve Earl, John Martyn, he would not enjoy this compilation, though I did hear him once complain that Smashy & Nicey had ruined 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' so maybe there is a glimmer of something there.

my concept of dad rock is ABBA

this comp has to be trolling, there's no other way

I see what you did there #baggydads

I’m a dad and I love “Start Me Up.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmJE2O4uIU

If my dad liked rock he'd probably be into Blue Oyster Cult so I'm voting for Reaper. + They feel like the daddiest band on this list.

Honestly I think of today's dad rock as being more like Wilco.

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 July 2018 21:20 (one hour ago)

Yes. When I started hearing the term dad rock Wilco was the headlining act. Dad rock was known to be that mellow adult alternative/indie sound that would often appeal to smart (dressed nicely) types because of difficult guitar playing.

Dad Rock for me was Chubby Checker.

i don't like the term "dad rock" on account of how gendered it is
lots of moms & grandmas & women who have not reproduced like these songs too
it's just a way of making fun of old people :(

if we can't make fun of people who aren't us for enjoying things we also like, are we even talking about music

i don't find it necessary but whatever floats yr boat i guess

I thought it was sort of understood to be a silly term and ppl here are just having fun w/it...

my concept of Dad Rock based on my own dead Dad is Irish Showbands, The Wolfe Tones, Max Boyce tapes - all wrong probably!

Yeah, my own Dad wouldn't last five seconds into any of these songs. I mostly try to form conclusions from my observations of white Dads.

White Dads has prob'ly been used a few times as a band name

It's also in the title of the compilation album this poll is based on, so kind of hard to avoid using it?

i'm not accusing anyone of wrongdoing i just think it's a shitty term
i don't care if you want to discuss this continuously for a year or even longer

the dads i know were mostly young punks so i guess i'd vote for the clash song (bonus if it segued directly into the BAD song)

Btw, I wasn't suggesting that it's impossible for older men to like Imagine Dragons. (It wouldn't surprise me if my fiancée's Mum listens to them fwiw.) I just doubt that's the primary demographic of their audience, which is what "Dadrock" implies to me.

I'm still sort of "gobsmacked" (if I'm using that properly) to learn that Led Zeppelin are not really popular in the UK...

Like even without the "Classic Rock" radio format -- they weren't popular at the time? As an "album band"?

As an album band of course, but the Now That's Blah Blah Blah comps are based on Top 40 singles afaik.

I first remember the term Dadrock being used to invoke latter day Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene and sort of earnest grunting 'authentic' meaningful stuff with copious tasty guitar solos beloved of sundry ageing indie/mod types. It seems it might be different in the US though. I don't know where it came from originally.

ILX, 2002:

RFI: What is Dadrock?

Is any genre "proveably real"?
― Tom, Sunday, April 28, 2002 5:00 PM

luv it!

fwiw as the creator of my thread my mom likes all of these songs and my dad likes ABBA and Blondie

My dad's favourite songs were "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by Ian Dury and "Love Is In the Air" by John Paul Young (a particular favourite of dads I've found) and some Scottish folks, Irish rebel songs.

(Scottish folk songs, not Scottish folks)

I have 3 kids and on road trips in our Honda Odyssey I make my kids listen to Can and Faust. My 6 year old daughter loves Amon Duul II, particularly the Yeti album.

― kornrulez6969

will it be a sad day for you when one day she matures enough for "wolf city" to be her favorite

my strongest memory of my dad is being in the car with him and frankie ford's "sea cruise" coming on the radio and him suddenly howling like a banshee

i was very scared, thought he got his hand stuck in the car door or something

now that i am his age i can kind of get behind his reaction

he also owned a lot of flatt & scruggs and janis joplin records

As a mid-50s dad I voted Deep Purple with confidence.

Ultimate dad rock movie scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFBR162mo7Q

My dad overdid it on edibles at Red Rocks Dub Fest, got disoriented/zoned out, and had to call for a ride home. True story (that he's too embarrassed to talk about).

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is haunting me for some reason

He was there to see Thi3very C0rporation (if that makes it more or less haunting)

glad i wasn't the only vote for beastie boys, pretty daddish song imo

0 votes for toto - Africa

it's nothing that a hundred dads or more could ever do

Dad-rock is a bad term.

Sweet Home shoulda won

Your dad may vary

my dad woulda called most of the dad-rock on this thread noise and listened to some limp-dicked Eagles shit

why are there no Eagles

Eagles are Uncle Rock

Uncle California

I feel like Kravitz deserves special mention for bridging multiple generations of dads.

The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.