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When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:26 pm
by pieceofme
Deep purple for me. They even looked like really old geezers in 84 with the perfect strangers album. They were probably only in their late 30s at the time. They music goes with watching top gear, going to the pub, and watching Leicester tigers.
Video of perfect strangers where they are hanging out looking old and playing footy back in the 80s.
https://youtu.be/gZ_kez7WVUU?si=LmgWWPj31PQAycUO
Honourable mention: status quo
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:29 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Nah they were all about 40.
Steely Dan was one of the 1st examples when the term surfaced.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:40 pm
by FreddyFender
Grand Funk Railroad.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:41 pm
by pieceofme
Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:29 pm
Nah they were all about 40.
Steely Dan was one of the 1st examples when the term surfaced.
Just checked.
Jon Lord was in his 40s. All the others were in their 30s. Three of them were 39.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:07 pm
by jhenders
The Steve Miller Band
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:28 pm
by Love_Industry
Uriah Heep and Nazareth
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:29 pm
by alexleehooker
Oasis
Paul Weller
Ocean Colour Scene
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:31 pm
by Rocker4Real
The Doobie Brothers. Many dads liked them in the 80s and 90s. I never met one teenager that did.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:46 pm
by Spongie
Guns ‘n Roses
Motley Crue
Metallica
Any of these is every dad’s go-to band when they want to impress their kids with how hard they were “when I was your age.”
It’s these same dads that keep these awful bands on tour. Embarrassing AF.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:48 pm
by daveg
Sirius has a Dad Rock Channel that's awesome, mostly 70s, 80, 90s classic/pop rock
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:03 pm
by kytepunches
I have to go with Bob Segar and Bryan Adams , with Summer of 69 and Old Time Rock and Roll . The Mount Rushmore of dad rock.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:08 pm
by Brainy Lane
The Grateful Dead
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:09 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Seger yes, Adams no. Adams is chick pop, not dad rock.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 3:27 pm
by LAglamrocker
Grandma Rock-Def Leppard
Dad rock- Sum 41
Mom rock- raised horrible no life Five Finger Death Punch
Best - most fun people to hang out with are only aware of Jay Uso because of Yeet era ..with his entrance through the crowd with 10+ camera work
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:34 pm
by Van Ailin'
I hear it as a British term, not a US term, so it has to be a British group that had success in 70s or 80s but then had a resurgence touring or recording in the 90s or 00s.
That would be Paul Weller.
So by extension, other "dad rock" but of different ages might be things like Oasis.
For American or Canadian bands, I'm thinking:
Grand Funk
B.T.O.
Bob Seger
John Mellencamp
Bruce Springsteen
Billy Joel (but he's more like "Mom Rock")
Billy Squier
Boston
Although Oasis came in the 90s and sound like "Dad Rock," they are really too young to be that. It is remarkable how much time has passed though. To those of us who were teens in the 80s, loving the Shrapnel players or Sunset Strip rock, 30 years prior would have put us into the time of Elvis and the very birth of rock 'n roll. Go back 30 years from now, and we are at 1994, when Alice In Chains was already 4 projects deep. At that point, Motley Crue was already a veteran band felt to be long past their prime.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:36 pm
by Van Ailin'
Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:29 pm
Nah they were all about 40.
Steely Dan was one of the 1st examples when the term surfaced.
Steely Dan is its own genre . . . and is easily better than the entire sum total of the LA Sunset Scene rock years by at least a factor of 2. Steely Dan was better than Elvis, better than Led Zeppelin, and better than The Beatles.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 7:39 pm
by EzyRider
first band I think of is Winery Dogs
I like 'em for sure, but it's definitely dad rock (possibly even grandpa rock?)
Another band that comes to mind is Foo Fighters, I don't hate them, but it's not something I'd put on to rock out with my sock out.
There's some good dad rock, right? Like the older 70's bands people are mentioning.
If Dad rock is defined by primarily listened to by older males with kids it seems like there is a HELL of a lot of Dad rock!!
Please explain what you think Dad rock is!!
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 7:46 pm
by EzyRider
Hang on, did Van Ailin' just say Steely Dan is better than Elvis, Led Zeppelin, and the The Beatles?
Tha' phuck?!?
I always thought Howard Stern showed his musical ignorance by bashing them, but you got some 'splaining to do on this one!!
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 7:48 pm
by dmbrocker
Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 1:29 pm
Nah they were all about 40.
Steely Dan was one of the 1st examples when the term surfaced.
Yeah, but I've always labeled Steely Dan as yacht rock. Could be that there's a lot of overlap between yacht rock and dad rock, I guess?
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:20 pm
by alexleehooker
Van Ailin' wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:34 pm
I hear it as a British term, not a US term, so it has to be a British group that had success in 70s or 80s but then had a resurgence touring or recording in the 90s or 00s.
That would be Paul Weller.
So by extension, other "dad rock" but of different ages might be things like Oasis.
For American or Canadian bands, I'm thinking:
Grand Funk
B.T.O.
Bob Seger
John Mellencamp
Bruce Springsteen
Billy Joel (but he's more like "Mom Rock")
Billy Squier
Boston
Although Oasis came in the 90s and sound like "Dad Rock," they are really too young to be that. It is remarkable how much time has passed though. To those of us who were teens in the 80s, loving the Shrapnel players or Sunset Strip rock, 30 years prior would have put us into the time of Elvis and the very birth of rock 'n roll. Go back 30 years from now, and we are at 1994, when Alice In Chains was already 4 projects deep. At that point, Motley Crue was already a veteran band felt to be long past their prime.
Yes see above that was my logic too, I said weller, oasis, ocean colour scene
I’m 46 and those bands span anyone now aged 45-55 so squarely in the dad rock bracket
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 12:33 am
by Sleek
Metallica. I think they are the first band I heard this term used with, like, they were thrash, but became dad rock.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:22 am
by Psychobolia.com
Foo Fighters
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 5:17 am
by Hellsinkey
alexleehooker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:29 pm
Paul Weller
Ocean Colour Scene
These two, funnily nobody else.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 6:48 am
by DonJuanDeMarco
To me it’s the Eagles or Don Henley’s solo stuff. Songs that make you think about life a little.
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:39 am
by IREEKOFAWESUMNES
Sammy Hagar wins this easily for me
i picture some out of touch dad with his son/daughter and their friends in the car, and he puts in a cassette tape of 'theres only one way to rock' before he pulls out of the driveway while the humiliated children try to squirm into obscurity
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:48 am
by alexleehooker
DonJuanDeMarco wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 6:48 am
To me it’s the Eagles or Don Henley’s solo stuff. Songs that make you think about life a little.
By now that’s Grandad rock
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:49 am
by alexleehooker
IREEKOFAWESUMNES wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 7:39 am
Sammy Hagar wins this easily for me
i picture some out of touch dad with his son/daughter and their friends in the car, and he puts in a cassette tape of 'theres only one way to rock' before he pulls out of the driveway while the humiliated children try to squirm into obscurity
Again, that’s Grandad rock
It’s now 2024
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 8:43 am
by tooth
Van Ailin' wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2024 4:36 pmSteely Dan was better than Elvis, better than Led Zeppelin, and better than The Beatles.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but how are we defining "better" for the sake of this argument?
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 10:36 am
by JizzySynatra
Boston...first album
Re: When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 11:05 am
by Wild Obsession
Steely Dan sucks (and blows). Not even "Dad rock", more "Elevator muzak rock". Only way your going to get your girl to a Rush concert is if you tell her it's either that or Steely Dan.....