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

(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”

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I feel like Wilco have an "experimental" signifier those guys lack, which makes the difference somehow. It's that "difficult guitar playing" factor mentioned above.

51. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
52. Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff
53. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
54. Rod Stewart - Maggie May
55. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

oh so here's where they put all the actual dad rock

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

You mean you can't just compile rock hits from a 5-decade span?

It was tough but I voted for Natalie Imbruglia in the end.

"Difficult guitar playing" probably describes half of what I listen to btw. Maybe it's time to adopt.

Wilco is not quite of “today”, most people knew about them through yankee hotel foxtrot and that record is like 20 years old.

Great thread. Basically, dads suck and guitars are tools of the patriarchy.

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Most artists we're talking about here aren't exactly burning up the charts, though (even if still releasing new material).

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.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/businessman-playing-guitar-something-difficult-39504910.jpg

Full disclosure: I never cared for Wilco, at all -- I thought they were dull, sub-Petty MOR rock w/pretensions -- until their last two albums, which I think are terrific... and which HAPPEN to have been released in the time since I became a dad. So that seals it! They're dad rock, and I like 'em (...but still not their earlier stuff).

Ha, I'll stan for Nels Cline all day long but I honestly had no idea that Wilco has released four albums since Sky Blue Sky.

for a very long time, I have mulled over posting a TS: WFUV vs WFMU here, yet of course it would be no goddamn contest whatsoever on ILM. Notwithstanding sirius or Hot 97, that's what i listen to in the car. FUV is an excellent indicator of dad/ mom rock. It really is NO RAP OR HARD STUFF. once you come to terms with that, you hear Brandi Carlslie, The Record Company (truly hideously boring), and a constellation of very very correct triple A/neo classic rock that is deeply unfashionable, as well as the front rank of indie rock like Spoon, Arcade Fire and LCD and the most boring version of of the classic rock canon you can imagine …really anything that nice conscientious white people are supposed to like…BUT, aren't nice conscientious white folk supposed to listen to Kendrick and SZA? Maybe, but that's rap and R&B and that would freak out the listeners, who think that's all commercial crap…FUV plays the SHIT out of the Dap-Tone universe…black music is apparently okay when it is no longer innovating…I truly would be interested if any other ILMer in the NY area has anything to say about WFUV, which is absolutely indistinguishable from Sirius's Spectrum…

Is that a trick question?

L.A. version = KCRW vs. KXLU(?)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Should’ve voted for smoke on the water tbh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

You make a dad-man come

The best song won, says this dad

Great-granddad rock, more like.

3. U2 - With or Without Dad 3
17. Spin Doctors - Two Dads 2
29. Free - All Right Dad 2
34. The Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Dad) 2
33. Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith - Dad This Way 1
39. Robert Palmer - Addicted to Dad 1
35. Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Dad 1
32. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Dad 1
24. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be A Dad

Should Dad Stay or Should Dad Go

0 votes for toto - africa, sad day for millennial dads

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