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

also, at least here in the midwest, I would say that at least like in the suburbs my sis and bro in law live in, dad rock is actually big country stuff like kenny chesney, luke bryan, garth brooks, miranda lambert, faith hill/tim mcgraw etc etc

ums what did u think my “white dads” post was referring to xp

That ain’t rock, dude! (xp)

Current country radio sounds more like 80s rock radio than it does 80s country radio

ums what did u think my “white dads” post was referring to xp

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 9:50 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

didn't see it!

That ain’t rock, dude! (xp)

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, July 11, 2018 9:50 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the difference between a lot of modern country and mid-80s heartland "dad rock" is like...hatwear basically....plus i know tons of dudes that went straight from 80s hard rock to loving country (word to xhuxk e.)

actually tho seems like new guys are even just wearing baseball hats like springsteen not even cowboy hats!

well yeah it's very apparent that country radio exists to present a version of pop radio with no rap influence

there's pretty big rap influence on a lot of country songs--rap from like 1987.

For the people I grew up with, those who didn't really explore music (or much culture at all, really) beyond their early 20s, dad rock would be Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene etc. It's a moveable feast, isn't it?

A moveable feast of meat and potatoes.

For the people I grew up with, those who didn't really explore music (or much culture at all, really) beyond their early 20s, dad rock would be Weller, Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene etc. It's a moveable feast, isn't it?

― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:06 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this is what really defines "dad rock": the (probably) popular music of the last section of your life before you had family responsibilities and the music is essentially enshrine in amber as the pinnacle of music ever and all other music is total garbage because it doesn't instantly transport you to a time when you could have a cig and a beer in the shower.

In this case the correct answer to this poll is of course, "Two Princes"

^^^ I think of it as part this, and part "Here's a newish band that I've heard on the radio and will pay for expensive tickets for a night out: i.e. Coldplay.

Or, "whoo hoo, let's go out and wear a silly hat and have too many beers" music: Jimmy Buffett.

Cant decide if buffet is dadrock or pathetic old bachelor/divorcedold rock. There’s an added level woo/sadparty/desperate need in that library. Im not even sure it’s in the music as much as the fanbase

currently listening to Thin Lizzy and wondering why they aren't on here (probably the grandad-rock factor)

Currently going over electrical stuff at work, and the 60ish project foreman noticed a bike in the office and made a quick quip about Disraeli Gears and glanced at me to see if I got it.

Cant decide if buffet is dadrock or pathetic old bachelor/divorcedold rock.

is there a difference

Genesis - Duke

hell yeah, dadprog

is there a difference

not taking the bait (that's the difference)

man! I'm a fairly new dad, presently sitting in the home of my own father for a family visit to Louisville KY for a week. And I cannot tell you how grateful I am that he, a 79 year old man, only listens to show tunes and John Philip Sousa and has very little to do with any popular culture whatsoever. makes enjoying every variety of music other than what he likes super easy, unconflicted etc etc…

There's this whole subset of I assume younger people rock that to me epitomizes dad rock. Like The Head and the Heart, Lumineers, The Revivalists, Mumford & Sons et al., these random bands I hear sometimes with names like the Record Company. Or, you know, the Black Keys, shit like that. Basically music for people so far removed from peak hipness that they just don't realize it's the least hip music in the world. Middle of the Dial.

Wilco would be in there, but I think like Pearl Jam they just pull in so many different types of (white) fans, from dads to white cap bros to jam band fans to hipsters to weirdos ("Woo, Nels Cline, yeah!") to NPR listeners.

War on Drugs

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I think Paul Rudd's character in This Is 40, and the boutique-y record label he runs, exemplifies what you're talking about. Or maybe even Apatow soundtracking in general.

Aging Gen X guy into rootsy realness, earnest ballads, etc.

My dad saw Charles Mingus' group (the lineup with Eric Dolphy) two nights running at the Five Spot in late 1963. He generally didn't/doesn't listen to "rock," and would likely find much on that list underwhelming.

(xp) Paul Rust (a young guy) jamming on McCartney's "Jet" with the guy from Eels, in a house party scene from the Apatow-produced series Love, is very dad-rock.

(Just realized Paul Rudd & Paul Rust are only two letters apart, and it's making me question both names)

"Start Me Up" was made by actual 40ish dads and a big hit showing dads still got it. Does that make it daddest, or is recalling the songs of wild youth more dad?

This was my approximate reasoning in voting for it. The guitar riff and lyric both sound like an actual middle-aged dad trying to get going in the morning, or in the bedroom, whichever.

Eh, the line "you make a dead man come" is not very dad rock. (But maybe "You make a dad man ... ").

I preferred dadrock when it was a way to take the piss out of bad music rather then a way to take the piss out of middle aged men enjoying stuff.

Is any of it "bad" music?

Ocean Colour Scene is bad.

Never heard 'em!

only dad ears can pick up their frequency

everybody's scared of aging

i just heard my dad say “Alexa play Jefferson Starship”

LOLOLOL

Went with eye of the tiger 🐯

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

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.

I'd love to see a US version of this comp (wilco, jack white related stuff, walkmen, vampire weekend).

This format, basically?: https://www.billboard.com/charts/triple-a

Ghost is at #1 on the mainstream rock chart = that is clearly the superior format

I don't know a lot of those AAA songs/artists, but most the ones I do know don't seem to quite fit. Not "rock" enough, maybe?

I think at least one band member needs to wear a hat and/or beard (if not both).

(haha, there's the "Record Company" that Josh mentioned, though -- I thought he made up that name. They have beards...)

Yeah, Death Cab, Beck, Decemberists

my dad bought that Keane album for some reason

45. Avril Lavigne - Complicated
46. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

lol

8. Hozier - Take Me to Church

also lol

i feel like they are casting too broad a net here. do separate comps for different generations of dads imo

i just heard my dad say “Alexa play Jefferson Starship”

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, July 11, 2018 5:27 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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