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

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?

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.