When you hear the term 'dad rock' which band do you think of first?

[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

[Bono Nettencourt]

Nah they were all about 40.

Steely Dan was one of the 1st examples when the term surfaced.

[FreddyFender]

Grand Funk Railroad.

[pieceofme]

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.

[jhenders]

The Steve Miller Band

[Love_Industry]

Uriah Heep and Nazareth

[alexleehooker]

Oasis

Paul Weller

Ocean Colour Scene

[Rocker4Real]

The Doobie Brothers. Many dads liked them in the 80s and 90s. I never met one teenager that did.

[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.

[daveg]

Sirius has a Dad Rock Channel that's awesome, mostly 70s, 80, 90s classic/pop rock

[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.

[Brainy Lane]

The Grateful Dead

[Bono Nettencourt]

Seger yes, Adams no. Adams is chick pop, not dad rock.

[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

[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.

[Van Ailin']

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.

[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!!

[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!!

[dmbrocker]

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?

[alexleehooker]

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

[Sleek]

Metallica. I think they are the first band I heard this term used with, like, they were thrash, but became dad rock.

[Psychobolia.com]

Foo Fighters

[Hellsinkey]

Paul Weller

Ocean Colour Scene

These two, funnily nobody else.

[DonJuanDeMarco]

To me it’s the Eagles or Don Henley’s solo stuff. Songs that make you think about life a little.

[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

[alexleehooker]

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

[alexleehooker]

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

[tooth]

Steely 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?

[JizzySynatra]

Boston...first album

[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.....