Dad Rock 100

Name 100 Dad Rock songs. More obscure or forgotten tracks especially.

1) Don Henley - Sunset Grill

Steve Winwood - Arc of a Diver

...is always a good jam.

Lol

When Wilco released their sixth studio album, 2007’s Sky Blue Sky, I wrote a scathing review for Pitchfork that introduced the world to the term dad-rock: “An album of unapologetic straightforwardness.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a29419783/what-is-dad-rock/

but let the dad-rock faction of the brit-pop blow off some steam between footie matches, they're all the same thing - just seperate twitches in the death throes of rock n roll

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 11:30 AM (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

doobie brothers - takin' it to the streets

absolutely no idea why this was the first song that popped into my head

Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson

The National - The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness

is not the entire The National catalogue dad rock

6 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dra86K502gQ

The National is single father successfully coparenting rock

Haha, here is Joe Walsh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zKGs9ZAOww

The National is single father successfully coparenting rock

well said

Bob Seger - Her Strut

i guess 'old time rock n roll' is now granddad rock

As is “Takin’ Care of Business.”

idk i figured her strut was more forgotten than old time rnr, i’m just trying to go alomg with the brief!

i was at a baseball game and millennials are like 40 now and let me tell you "Mr.Brightside" is definitely dad rock now

"Let's Go" by Lil Jon is dad rap

tbf i'm a) not a dad, and b) too old to even weigh in on current dads' preferences

apologies

Based solely on the amount of time I spent riding with my dad in the car:

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends

no need to apologize! that's the problem with the whole thing really, everyone thinks of their own dad. my pops (RIP) being a CCR man himself

Los Lonely Boys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkzoqQ5Oak

Pablo Cruise - Love Will Find a Way

very much agreed that Thunder Island and Her Strut are top tier dad rock, although also yes this is my dad's rock, the dads I meet closer to my own age all seem to either be super into Pantera or Death Cab for Cutie, no in-between

Never really sure what constitutes dad rock. For my dad it would have been classical with a bit of Beatles thrown in. Anyway…

Sniff ‘n’ the Tears - Driver’s Seat
Head East - Never Been Any Reason

Ditto--what is Dad Rock? Does it depend on your age, or is it a specific window in history?

lol i had never factored in my own dad to the equation, were that the case it would be more like
Johnny Horton’s Sink The Bismark & Joe Dolce’s Shaddup You Face

In my household, "dad rock" means "the music syncs on The Bear" except for one notable exception I won't spoil for those yet to see it.

oof yeah have not seen the bear but the soundtrack has some dad vibes for sure

I want to say that dad rock is a particular thing in time but is there a dad outside of time? Is there a perennial dad rock? I don't know what the throughline is and as a dad am afraid to ask

"Cat's in the Cradle" iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBlrYT4WJQ

The National is single father successfully coparenting rock

I saw that claim posted on The National thread, and I was surprised that that was the band’s image in their own country. In Eastern Europe, fans of The National tend to be single hipsters in their twenties, and perhaps more females than males. Brooklyn got exported as the spiritual homeland of hipsters worldwide (alongside Berlin), and The National are regarded as a Brooklyn band par excellance.

Now That’s What I Call Dad Rock

In my cohort I would say Pavement are very dadsy

Crowd watching at Oneohtrix Point Never I did wonder if Dad SynthJamming was an emergent demo

Mojo basically Dad Rock in magazine form. Of course I subscribe.

21. "Couldn't Get It Right" - Climax Blues Band
22. "Hold on Loosely" - .38 Special
23. "Fire" - Jimi Hendrix
24. "Any Major Dude" - Steely Dan
25. "You Make Lovin' Fun" - Fleetwood Mac
26. "Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs

I object to the nomenclature of “dad rock” on the following grounds:
1) it’s gendered
2) it relies on reproductive status
3) even if you accept the premise that it is “a thing” it’s subjective and reductive to the point of being meaningless as a category.

Therefore I propose that the term should not be used. The end.

Yeah this concept falls apart pretty quickly because there are a lot of dad demographics.

I'm a 50ish dad who likes Ella Fitzgerald and Talking Heads; my own personal father is 80ish and likes Elvis Costello and Jacques Offfenbach.

Also as LL points out, the gender essentialism is a bit thorny

I always thought Dad Rock was rock made by non-boomer artists that appealed to boomers

27. The Wallflowers- One Headlight
28. Counting Crows- Mr. Jones
29. The Black Crowes- Twice as Humble
30. Oasis- Wonderwall
31. Kings of Leon- Use Somebody
32. Lenny Kravitz- Always on the Run

when people say "dad rock" I always wonder who's dad we talking about here? like is it stuff my Dad would like, or things I like now that I am a Dad? either way I will say "The Distance" by CAKE

Dad's going for speed

Right now, 12-13 year olds are being annoyed by the music from their dads' high school/college days--so basically stuff from 1997-2005.

The White Stripes are prime dad rock at the moment.

Not to be obtuse, but looking at the compilation linked to above--Now That’s What I Call Dad Rock--it's still hard for me to figure out what it is. A quick glance at the first few songs made me think "this is just Classic Rock," but that broke down quickly. What genre encompasses the Stooges, Simple Minds, Europe, and Avril Lavigne? I don't get it.

Dad Rock is not really a genre. It's roughly stuff Homer Simpson or Tony Soprano would sing along to in the car.

To clarify: Is Phil Collins/James Taylor/Michael Bolton Dadrock?
Mystery Bonus Question....Fave "Dadrock Record"/Least Fave "Dadrock Record"?

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:00 PM (twenty-one years ago) bookmarkflaglink

No, they aren't really I don't think.

Paul Weller solo records are Dadrock. Records which are a bit like Paul Weller solo records are also Dadrock. Records which are trying to be like classic Sixties rock but were recorded in the 90s and 00s are generally Dadrock but not always.

― Tom, Sunday, April 28, 2002 8:00 PM (twenty-one years ago) bookmarkflaglink

My loathing for this term grows with each passing day

I wish ILX would talk less about "Dadrock" and more about "Datarock"

like songs about Star Trek?

or meter data

When Diane Court's dad sang along with Steely Dan in Say Anything that felt like a primo dad rock moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI

...but that was, alas, 30+ years ago. Dads and dadness and rock have all shifted in meaning.

Music enjoyed by vampires = vladrock

uh no there's a band called Datarock and I think I'm the only one on ILX who likes them

Rock: Classic or Dad?

Dads and dadness and rock have all shifted in meaning.

This term was conceived in the 90s, AKA the end of history, when critics thought time would never catch up with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdFqIDhGfzQ

Daddy Mac or Mac Daddy?

cw: Louis CK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iKPvFv53I

and even before I remembered that clip, I think of the Who's big bombastic hits from Who's Next & beyond as ultimate Dad Rock - Won't Get Fooled Again, Bargain, etc.

oh yeah here's another good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5KJF3ylH_k

Natural habitat of Dad Rock: midtier sedan

lol now we need James Franco singing Weezer in a Tesla

This is a top-notch Dad Rock hit that never was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw-0-pppgDs

John Fogerty's concerts have literally become Dad Rock simply because his now-adult sons are backing him. It's actually pretty sweet - the one newish song he plays is a song he wrote for his wife of over 30 years, and it's accompanied by a slide show of personal family photos, showing him and his family as they grow and get older. He really comes off like a family man, and one highlight is when he jams on guitar for a few minutes with one of his sons.

Bad-Dad Rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1MnJD7Efbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8IE8UGGiI

https://www.dadbrandapparel.com/products/white-lotus-theme-song

(Insta served that up to me, lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZx19wtRIQ

I am perhaps unnecessarily disturbed that Louis CK and I have shared that exact experience.

had to glance at the article linked in Pres Keyes text which nearly begins with:

I heard {dad rock} from Chris Ott, a fellow Pitchfork writer and legendary curmudgeon

and i'm just, that dude that got sonned in a bennys beef? or was that someone else? i been around here too long.

For all the Canadian dads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jSdyDt-Ync

What does the Son of Dad Rocker playlist look like?

I'm listening to Neil Young's "This Notes For You".

I need more 80's dad rock comeback tracks.