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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
War on Drugs
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
xpI 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.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:00 (six years ago) link
Aging Gen X guy into rootsy realness, earnest ballads, etc.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
(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.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link
(Just realized Paul Rudd & Paul Rust are only two letters apart, and it's making me question both names)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
"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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
Eh, the line "you make a dead man come" is not very dad rock. (But maybe "You make a dad man ... ").
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Is any of it "bad" music?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Ocean Colour Scene is bad.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Never heard 'em!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
only dad ears can pick up their frequency
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
everybody's scared of aging
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
i just heard my dad say “Alexa play Jefferson Starship”
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
LOLOLOL
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
Went with eye of the tiger 🐯
― Ross, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
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).
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
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
Ghost is at #1 on the mainstream rock chart = that is clearly the superior format
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
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’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
I think at least one band member needs to wear a hat and/or beard (if not both).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
(haha, there's the "Record Company" that Josh mentioned, though -- I thought he made up that name. They have beards...)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Death Cab, Beck, Decemberists
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
my dad bought that Keane album for some reason
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
45. Avril Lavigne - Complicated46. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
lol
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
8. Hozier - Take Me to Church
also lol
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
i feel like they are casting too broad a net here. do separate comps for different generations of dads imo
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
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
― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, July 11, 2018 5:27 PM (fifty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dad otm
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
xxxpI feel like Wilco have an "experimental" signifier those guys lack, which makes the difference somehow. It's that "difficult guitar playing" factor mentioned above.
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:27 (six years ago) link
51. Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet52. Eric Clapton - I Shot the Sheriff53. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling54. Rod Stewart - Maggie May55. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
oh so here's where they put all the actual dad rock
― No organ. (crüt), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
You mean you can't just compile rock hits from a 5-decade span?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
It was tough but I voted for Natalie Imbruglia in the end.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
"Difficult guitar playing" probably describes half of what I listen to btw. Maybe it's time to adopt.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
Wilco is not quite of “today”, most people knew about them through yankee hotel foxtrot and that record is like 20 years old.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:31 (six years ago) link
Great thread. Basically, dads suck and guitars are tools of the patriarchy.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
xpMost artists we're talking about here aren't exactly burning up the charts, though (even if still releasing new material).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
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
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
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).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
Is that a trick question?
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:19 (six years ago) link
L.A. version = KCRW vs. KXLU(?)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 23 July 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
Should’ve voted for smoke on the water tbh
― No angel came (Ross), Monday, 23 July 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
You make a dad-man come
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
The best song won, says this dad
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
Great-granddad rock, more like.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link