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Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« on: October 22, 2018, 08:24:27 AM »
Who invented this term, when and why? True meaning of it?
Your thoughts?







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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2018, 08:32:07 AM »
Who invented this term, when and why?

Who invented the term 'hippy'? Or 'millennial'? Or 'Generation X'?

When? Doesn't matter.

Why? To define something.

True meaning of it?

Does there need to be a 'true' meaning? See link above.

Your thoughts?

I think you could have looked it up yourself, instead of asking on the forums. I'm pretty sure everybody has some idea of what 'dad rock' is whenever somebody feels like using that term.
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2018, 08:37:20 AM »
Why is the sky blue?  What is google?
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2018, 10:06:41 AM »
The true meaning of dad rock is whatever Stadler loves.  :biggrin:
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2018, 10:07:32 AM »
Tell me about it.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2018, 10:16:24 AM »
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.” - Bob Newhart
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2018, 10:29:47 AM »
we call it fogeycore nowadays

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2018, 10:37:58 AM »
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2018, 10:43:33 AM »
we call it fogeycore nowadays

No way.  Our cores are really bad. 
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2018, 10:53:34 AM »
Mom Rock?
Mom Pop?
Cousin Rock?
Uncle Rock?
BFF Rock?

most of the terms are lame, including "Indie" and "Alternative" which are about as generic of terms as anything used in the last 40 years.

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2018, 11:46:12 AM »
I prefer Eskimo rock and Zulu rock.  :metal

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2018, 11:51:32 AM »
Does Dad Rock beat Dad Scissors and lose to Dad Paper?

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2018, 11:54:10 AM »
Personally, I think the term dad rock is pointless.


But "Guy who isn't my uncle by blood but was best friends with my dad and basically like my uncle anyway rock" is a genre worth experiencing.
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2018, 12:32:10 PM »
Just wait til Post-Dad Rock gets in. Then Post-Proto-Hardcore Progressive Dad Punk Reggae.

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2018, 01:50:47 PM »
Guymymotherbangedaftermeetinghiminabar rock.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2018, 02:09:38 PM »
What I want to know is, what is the true meaning of Wild Ranger? I mean, is he really wild? Is he a real ranger? DId he make up his own Dungeons & Dragons class that walks around polling party members?

Does he really exist, or is it a group of people?

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2018, 03:43:11 PM »
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2018, 03:44:10 PM »
What I want to know is, what is the true meaning of Wild Ranger?

Wo thought of WildRanger first? When? And why?

Your thoughts?

Also objective truth & quality. And is it a genre, anyway?
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2018, 03:45:30 PM »
So anybody want to form a band called Wild Rangers?

We only play cover songs from Wild Stallions and The Lone Rangers.
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2018, 03:51:16 PM »
So anybody want to form a band called Wild Rangers?

We only play cover songs from Wild Stallions and The Lone Rangers.

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2018, 03:55:56 PM »
So anybody want to form a band called Wild Rangers?

We only play cover songs from Wild Stallions and The Lone Rangers.

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not your bogus misspelling

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Fine, then we can just change his name to WyldRanger then?
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2018, 05:27:27 PM »
So anybody want to form a band called Wild Rangers?

We only play cover songs from Wild Stallions and The Lone Rangers.

Wyld Stallyns*
not your bogus misspelling

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Fine, then we can just change his name to WyldRanger then?

We may have to start a poll first to gauge interest and start a discussion...

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2018, 03:13:38 AM »
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #24 on: October 23, 2018, 04:03:28 AM »
How about, DadProg?

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #25 on: October 23, 2018, 05:30:50 AM »
any rock can be made to roll

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #26 on: October 23, 2018, 07:58:45 AM »
I noticed that 'Dad rock' is a quite used term on the site RateYourMusic.


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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #27 on: October 23, 2018, 08:15:43 AM »
Anyway, before looking it up on Urban Dictionary, I was sure that "Dad rock" would refer to rock music so tame and commercial, that even your dad, pictured as a mild mannered aging guy with glasses and few hair left, could enjoy and think to himself "wow, I like music that kids today listen to!"  :D
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #28 on: October 23, 2018, 08:41:49 AM »
So anybody want to form a band called Wild Rangers?

We only play cover songs from Wild Stallions and The Lone Rangers.

Wyld Stallyns*
not your bogus misspelling

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Fine, then we can just change his name to WyldRanger then?

We may have to start a poll first to gauge interest and start a discussion...

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #29 on: October 23, 2018, 09:00:36 AM »
It usually means awesome music that millennials ignore or put down because it's not as good as the latest Ed Sheeran or Nicky Minaj song.  ::)

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« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2018, 10:01:58 AM »
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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2018, 10:18:42 AM »
Who invented this term, when and why? True meaning of it?
Your thoughts?

You'd be surprised at how difficult this is to answer. The earliest confirmed reference to it I could find on ye ol' Interwebs was a Pitchfork review in 2011, which seemed to acknowledge that it was already an emerging term (with some disdain). The term really started picking up speed around 2014 it seems, since most of the usage of the term I saw in Google news searches were 2014 or later. USA Today also has a podcast called "Dad Rock" apparently. Global Google search data shows a few searches stretching as far back as of 2004, and it seems to be more popular in the UK than the US. There's a HUGE jump in searches in June of this year, since that's where the biggest portion of searches come from.

I couldn't find any actual info on where the term comes from. Most likely, it comes from critics. A lot of names start as derogatory terms by critics which the genre then adopts over time. Like "baroque" classical (which literally means "Gaudy") or the "hipster" movement, for example.

Also, interestingly enough, some places list it as the one word "dadrock". Weird.

Dad rock essentially refers to music your dad would like. Almost always rock bands from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but there doesn't seem to be a specific genre that it always references. I've seen 90s alternative rock and post-grunge bands like Foo Fighters described as dad rock, prog bands like Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and even punk described as dad rock. 90s rap groups like A Tribe Called Quest are sometimes called dad rock, weirdly enough. Basically, it's a derogatory term that means "old fashioned". The most obvious example of this is rock music, since it hasn't really been an important part of our modern culture for about a decade, outside of the Indie Rock Fluke Hit Sweepstakes(TM) winners. These kind of things are almost natural, and the youth of previous generations had the same reaction to disco, jazz, classical, whatever. It'll go away eventually, rock will probably exit the popular consciousness, and enter into academia as a form of "classy" music. That seems to be what happens.

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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2018, 10:58:01 AM »
Basically, it's a derogatory term that means "old fashioned".

If this is true, that's a reason for me to find that term to be pretty lame.
So-called Dad rock rules over today's mainstream music and it seems 'dads' obviously had/have a better taste and bigger knowledge in music than youngsters today, on average.












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Re: Why a term "Dad rock" exists and what is its true meaning?
« Reply #33 on: October 23, 2018, 11:32:12 AM »
Guymymotherbangedaftermeetinghiminabar rock.

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« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2018, 11:34:02 AM »
The true meaning of dad rock is whatever Stadler loves.  :biggrin:

Blow.  Me.   ;D :tup 

To me, it's just another snarky way to show how superior we are by making fun of something that isn't in our wheelhouse.