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

the other s/nine/ten songs:

50. Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's
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
56. Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
57. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again '87
58. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
59. Roxy Music - Love is the Drug

7. Stereophonics - Dakota

the only good stereophonics song (no one correct me)

29. Free - All Right Now

this is prob what i'd identify as daddest

teens still love "stacy's mom"

5. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

Trying to get my head around the idea of this as Dadrock.

white dads

All Right Now is truly the sound of a dad putting on his sunglasses as he emerges from his car, casting a frosty gaze around the parking lot before walking into the Target for the hand sanitizer he forgot earlier in the day.

I think my pick is actually The Clash though. Maybe the Lenny K tune.

as a dad I think I genuinely like ... idk a quarter of these songs? mostly feel like this is an insult to dads everywhere.

*puts on sunglasses, leaves Target emptyhanded*

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

Ha, yeah. I was still teaching "Radioactive" to young (and tbh female) teenagers 3-4 years ago. P confident in guessing they're not parents yet.

noted dad rock legend avril lavigne

voted for 50. because it's hard to get more dad rock than "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

weird that there's no Bob Marley

"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?

voted for 50. because it's hard to get more dad rock than "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

― gman59, Tuesday, July 10, 2018 4:05 PM (fourteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unfortunately poll options only go up to 50 leaving off imo the most dadtastic stretch of songs

If the song is more than 40 years old it's granddad rock at this point.

Imagine Dragons is the clear winner, because today's dads like to stay current and keep up with the kids, good music for lacross practice.

I voted for Rocks imagining Bobby Gillespie's face should he find out his song is deservedly on this compilation.

51-56 is peak Dadrock, almost included 57 but late period Whitesnake are just a bit too flash really.

Sum41? Avril Lavigne? The Lumineers? so sad millenial dads

my dad has been in dad rock bands for 10+ years, they play AC/DC, ZZ Top, Skynyrd, Floyd, all the classic rock stuff, and occasionally some lame 90s grunge knock offs. nothing as lame as the Spin Doctors tho.

they did play Robert Palmer so i'll vote for that. that song rules.

daddest song here is U2

where is "The Distance" by Cake

I’m a dad and I love “Start Me Up.”

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.

Worst song probably Lumineers Hey Ho

I wish I had a dad

Not sure I understand the dadness of The Sound and Kids. Voted for the former without rereading the question lol. Maggie May is probably the daddest and also the best.

weird list. the daddest has to be Boston, right?

my dad doesn't like boston, but whatever

My dad wasn't much of a rock fan, more a jazzbo, folk and classical guy, but he bought the Boston album because he heard there was a guy from MIT on it, and he thought that was hilarious. MIT guy in a rock and roll band! He ended up playing it tons and bought the follow up.

daddest song here is U2

― Brad C., Tuesday, July 10, 2018 1:17 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

26. The Fray - How to Save a Life

...is from the "Grey's Anatomy" sndtrck, and thus not at all dad rock.

i'm playing boston for my daughter tonight because of this thread

where is "The Distance" by Cake

otm

voting start me up; very dad to select a good band's 50th-best track

"Smoke on the Water" feels like ur-dad rock to me, I dunno this is kind of a lame list. Where's the Dead C? Now THAT's What I Call Dad Rock

this list needs more steve miller band

is canonical 'dad rock' eternally late 70s/early 80s due to the boomer zeitgeist that still holds sway over this country or is it a timeless and malleable concept

Until we kill the original boomer, yes

that's what i thought. where's BTO then

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

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)

all the small things

omg at them throwing in avril lavigne and natalie imbruglia

When I think of my dad I think of Scorpions' The Wind of Change so it gets my vote even though it's not in the list.

Avril and Natalie are Something For The Dads innit

Christ, who cares!?

Those people up there ^

Everyone but Turrican.

Hotel California

lmao what are The 1975 doing there

CSNY! Hendrix! VAN FUCKING MORRISON!

Does this list even know any dads?

...

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

I find it oddly charming how this is one of the central disconnects of this thread (and related discussions). Especially since the thread is nearly old enough to be a dad itself.

Of course in 1988 "dads" to me meant "my dad, and the dads of my peers." Thirty years later, it's silly for "dads" to still mean "my dad, and the dads of my age-peers." The guys who might plausibly have avoided the brown acid at Woodstock are granddads and their rock is only "dad rock" if you're in Generation Dad yourself.

And then there's the regular pulse of people learning and re-learning about the UK/US divergence. This is so ilx it hurts

i mean my dad is my dad. he's not my granfather. he's not my uncle. he's my dad. im not peddling some grand conspiracy. im not saying younger dads don't exist.

Where's all the '90s alt? I'm no dad but I'm certainly dad-aged, and those are my go-to sad old man jams.

(This might be the first time I've had cause to consider whether the '90s alt-rock staples in the US even made a dent overseas.)

This list makes every rock artist fall under the dad-rock umbrella. Which I suppose it’s technically true since any rock fan can have kids but what’s the point of the tag then? I’ve always assumed it was more as a baby boomer dig to classify music they love from the 60s/70s like Eagles, America or Elton John.

my dad likes ABBA and Blondie

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 00:09 (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mine too! At a guess I'd say he also likes maybe half a dozen of these songs, I recently gave him my 45 of Don't Fear the Reaper after he mentioned hearing it on the radio, so I'm voting for that.

my dad likes exactly one of these songs:

2. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

It's hard for me to not vote for "Sweet Home Alabama" no matter what the poll.

turn it up!

My dad likes old folk music records. the Limelighters, the Weavers, etc. Everything on here would be a bit too much for him.

As a dad myself, I voted for Avril Lavigne. Probably the best thing on here other than Stooges and Motorhead, but I don't know what any of it is doing here.

I went to my daughter's friend's birthday party a few weeks ago and after the Moana soundtrack was done the dad-in-charge just played 3 straight hours of Dave Matthews Band, which no other dad there seemed to mind.

To those in the overnight crew taking the fun out of this thread —

“I’m very disappointed in you, son”

I am a dad. There are 23 songs on the list I would listen to all the way through on purpose. There are I think 15 that would make me change the channel. There are I think 11 I have literally never heard of.

To those in the overnight crew taking the fun out of this thread —

to be fair taking the fun out of things is classic dad

Puns are classic dad. Taking the puns out is classic bad.

Havent completed reading commentary but there are some weird momrock interpositions in here that dads would only allow to be played to keep mom happy or maybe get with mom.

Of course in 1988 "dads" to me meant "my dad, and the dads of my peers." Thirty years later, it's silly for "dads" to still mean "my dad, and the dads of my age-peers." The guys who might plausibly have avoided the brown acid at Woodstock are granddads and their rock is only "dad rock" if you're in Generation Dad yourself.

I'd love to see a US version of this comp (wilco, jack white related stuff, walkmen, vampire weekend). Ahhh, just the thought of it makes me want to put a record on my vintage turntable, slip off my casual brown loafers, kick back on the couch with a locally-sourced microbrew, and lecture the kids about how great the pixies used to be.

Havent completed reading commentary but there are some weird momrock interpositions in here that dads would only allow to be played to keep mom happy or maybe get with mom.

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, July 11, 2018 10:04 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at least with stacy's mom

maybe it's just me but a song about being a kid and lusting over someone's mom is immune to ever being dad rock just by nature

to be fair, she's got it going on.

^Dad joke.

The question implied by some of this discussion is does all music automatically becomes dad rock with the passage of time. I don't think that's true.

The papas of peak dadrock liked sentimental swing for slow dancing and country ballads. Skrillex will be dadEDM of the 2028.

i'm a dad, my recently played on spotify is
Genesis - Duke
Drake - Scorpion
Lungish - The Unanimous Hour
Ace - How Long (song radio)
Rap Caviar playlist
Gold School
John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once
Black Flag - My War

so anyway that's what dad rock is, please feel free to ask any questions.

Skrillex will be dadEDM of the 2028.

It may be already here. No bullshit, my 73-year old father is a big fan of "deep house" (his words) and exclusively listens to The Pulse, one of the electronic channels on Sirius XM satellite radio. He even has a favorite DJ, Armin van Buuren. In the 80s I remember him playing the proto techno stations on long car rides. I couldn't stand it but it was all he listened to.

may be a father but sure ain't a dad

has anyone brought up this whole concept as kinda racist? or at least very exclusionary

desus and mero were talking about outkast "the way you move" as "uncle music" so maybe that's what dad rap is

There is maybe something inherently “dad–ish” about techno — solitary dudes making functional music.

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

dad otm

xxxp
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

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.