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

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

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.