What makes an artist dad-rock? Is it just that they're old, or do they need to be sufficiently masculine or cheesy...

What makes an artist dad-rock? Is it just that they're old, or do they need to be sufficiently masculine or cheesy. Are stuff like Joy Division, Violent Femmes, and Television dad-rock?

Those are Cool Uncle-core

It's just whatever they routinely play on classic rock stations.

For me, dad rock is just generic classic rock
Just because a dad listens to a band doesn't make it dad rock

holy shit is that Drake Bell

Any rock band from the 60s-80s that has too much testosterone for soyboys to handle

shit, that image was everywhere back in like 2011

I always wondered about this guy's story. He did it to copy Bieber, which is odd enough, but he did it when Bieber was the consistently mocked. It's like some guy thinking everybody will think he's a super tough and badass dude if he becomes trans because Caitlin Jenner's on the cover of Vanity Fair and he thinks publicity = envied. That plus the age difference.

Generally it implies a level of commercial orientedness

Yeah, except that one extremely prolific genre in the 70s where everyone dressed in eyeliner and sequins.
Stop LARPing.

Led Zeppelin and such don't sound all that "manly", they just sound kinda goofy imho

Cool it pops

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Don't you have viagra to be taking?

leave president lincoln alone

If dadrock is just "music dads old enough to have their kids in college listened to", then we ought to count The Smiths, Talking Heads and New Order in, honestly. I'm 19 and those are my dad's favorite bands and he's pushing 50.

Isn't it just typical classic rock that's kind of shit? Good music isn't dadrock just because it's old

ur fucking dumb

see Achilles Last Stand

Damn so stuff like Weezer and Pavement are dad-rock now

>ageism
I don't get ageism. Like, we're all gonna be old fucks one day. Unless you're an edgy retard who promises they're gonna kill themselves.

Not quite, but roughly if we're going off that.
This has been repeated often, there's a need for a good definition of dadrock.

Joy Division isn't dad rock its hipster music. Violent femmes count as dad rock but they are amazing. You qualify as dad rock if you

>sing along to queen
>cover 2 or more foo fighters songs in your cover band
>play dire straits or weezer (yes weezer is now dad rock)

For each good track like this, they have 2 or 3 retarded sounding goofy ass song coming right after it, this is the case for any of their records.

That is wrong and you are a pleb.

"testosterone-filled manly 70s rock"

i really hate that term, its so passive aggressive and completely discounts a whole genre of music because the person using it has daddy issues

And it specifically targets rock for being old, as if jazz, or classical, and country arent ancient


Im saying it really grinds my gears.

even like that, they'd probably be able to beat up the likes of thom yorke

An artist becomes dadrock 25 years after putting out their first recording. Thus the Rolling Stones became dadrock in 1989, Metallica in 2008, and Pearl Jam last year.

this post is all over the shop mate

Weezer fans are too beta to reproduce though; none of them are dads.

I don't know Thom always looks like he's ready to slap something.

All I know is this -
used to hang out with George Harrison = guaranteed dad-rock

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