It’s a little unsettling how well Apple’s Dad Rock playlist seems to know me, a hopelessly unreformed Dad Rock Dad. I didn’t even know Dad Rock was a thing beyond the hurtful snark of young kids on the internet these days, but apparently it’s a legit genre.
I completely concur. I live and breathe a Dad Rock play list and I am loud and proud of it. My tastes are wide and varied but they are nearly always mainstream and I am fully OK with that. I reckon the most obscure I get is Tenpole Tudor from the early 80s. I listen to a lot of late 60s stuff as well as 70s rock. And I say with pride that this has been passed down to my teenage offspring.
Interestingly, we had a 17th birthday party at ours 3 weeks ago with 80 kids and maybe 20 adults. The music started out with stuff I do not know, and TBH, do not like. WAP was played and I just cannot get it. However, as the night went on and kids became looser, the music went older - 60s, 70's, 80's and even a bit of country. Then the parents/adults joined in and it was totes awesome.
I've decided I want a Billy Joel tribute act to play 'I've loved these days" at my funeral. It has always made me feel better when things weren't going so well. Such exquisite FML energy.
You speak truth, JB. I'm older than you so I missed Khe Sanh by only a year or so rather than a generation, but the effect is the same.
And yes, it's weird how all of those 70s and 80s popular tunes have wormed their way into your brain without you knowing it, but they have, despite the super obscure Norwegian indie grrrl bands in your case, or the even more obscure Eastern European ritual dark ambient dreamscapes I try to work to.
But I have found another indicator of this Dad Rock phenomenon. Bruce Springsteen concerts.
I'm not a hardcore fan but I do consider myself a mid-level fan. I've been one since the days of The River album- I'm familiar with most the albums and can recognise most of the songs.
But go to a concert. As soon as the E-Streeters hit the stage Max's kickdrum and Gary's bass will hit you in the gut and remind you that you are expected to sing along, and no matter the setlist that night, a switch closes in your subconscious and you suddenly know all the words to the lyrics. I don't know how they do it, but they've done it to me every time.
what the actual whatting what ... like all self-respecting over 50s I like both kinds of music: hard house AND trance, but you've totally lost me there ... If it's not > 125 BPM it can't _possibly_ be Dad rock; it must be some kind of classical music
I completely concur. I live and breathe a Dad Rock play list and I am loud and proud of it. My tastes are wide and varied but they are nearly always mainstream and I am fully OK with that. I reckon the most obscure I get is Tenpole Tudor from the early 80s. I listen to a lot of late 60s stuff as well as 70s rock. And I say with pride that this has been passed down to my teenage offspring.
Interestingly, we had a 17th birthday party at ours 3 weeks ago with 80 kids and maybe 20 adults. The music started out with stuff I do not know, and TBH, do not like. WAP was played and I just cannot get it. However, as the night went on and kids became looser, the music went older - 60s, 70's, 80's and even a bit of country. Then the parents/adults joined in and it was totes awesome.
I've decided I want a Billy Joel tribute act to play 'I've loved these days" at my funeral. It has always made me feel better when things weren't going so well. Such exquisite FML energy.
"We drown our doubts in dry champagne
And soothe our souls with fine cocaine
I don't know why I even care
We'll get so high and get nowhere
We'll have to change our jaded ways
But I've loved these days"
You speak truth, JB. I'm older than you so I missed Khe Sanh by only a year or so rather than a generation, but the effect is the same.
And yes, it's weird how all of those 70s and 80s popular tunes have wormed their way into your brain without you knowing it, but they have, despite the super obscure Norwegian indie grrrl bands in your case, or the even more obscure Eastern European ritual dark ambient dreamscapes I try to work to.
But I have found another indicator of this Dad Rock phenomenon. Bruce Springsteen concerts.
I'm not a hardcore fan but I do consider myself a mid-level fan. I've been one since the days of The River album- I'm familiar with most the albums and can recognise most of the songs.
But go to a concert. As soon as the E-Streeters hit the stage Max's kickdrum and Gary's bass will hit you in the gut and remind you that you are expected to sing along, and no matter the setlist that night, a switch closes in your subconscious and you suddenly know all the words to the lyrics. I don't know how they do it, but they've done it to me every time.
what the actual whatting what ... like all self-respecting over 50s I like both kinds of music: hard house AND trance, but you've totally lost me there ... If it's not > 125 BPM it can't _possibly_ be Dad rock; it must be some kind of classical music