It was tough but I voted for Natalie Imbruglia in the end.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 22:56 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Great thread. Basically, dads suck and guitars are tools of the patriarchy.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 23:32 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link
Is that a trick question?
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
L.A. version = KCRW vs. KXLU(?)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 23 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Should’ve voted for smoke on the water tbh
― No angel came (Ross), Monday, 23 July 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
You make a dad-man come
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
The best song won, says this dad
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Great-granddad rock, more like.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
3. U2 - With or Without Dad 317. Spin Doctors - Two Dads 229. Free - All Right Dad 234. The Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Dad) 233. Run-DMC ft. Aerosmith - Dad This Way 139. Robert Palmer - Addicted to Dad 135. Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Dad 132. Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Dad 124. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be A Dad
― calstars, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:26 (five years ago) link
Should Dad Stay or Should Dad Go
― Brad C., Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:27 (five years ago) link
0 votes for toto - africa, sad day for millennial dads
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
glad i wasn't the only vote for beastie boys, pretty daddish song imo
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
0 votes for toto - Africa
it's nothing that a hundred dads or more could ever do
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 10:37 (five years ago) link
Dad-rock is a bad term.
Sweet Home shoulda won
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 January 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
Your dad may vary
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 January 2020 03:26 (four years ago) link
my dad woulda called most of the dad-rock on this thread noise and listened to some limp-dicked Eagles shit
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 January 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
why are there no Eagles
Eagles are Uncle Rock
― Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Friday, 3 January 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
Uncle California
― Mark G, Friday, 3 January 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
I feel like Kravitz deserves special mention for bridging multiple generations of dads.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 3 January 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link