I'm sorry but, it's not just this site. I work with mostly 20 somethings and, to them, anything with guitars that isn't obviously metal is "Dad Rock". MC5 - Dad Rock. Stooges - Dad Rock. electric eels - Dad Rock. Can - Dad Rock. Doors - Dad Rock. Beatles - Dad Rock. Who - Dad Rock. Joy Division - Dad Rock. Everything I listen to excepting vaporwave and witch house - Dad Rock.
To them,. there's no difference in that group above; they're playing guitars and that's for old people. A few bands get the pass: Swans get the green light, but that's just rank hipsterism, christened as they are by Pitchfork. Arcade Fire, Smiths, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, most indie pop.
They like hip-hop, primarily, with EDM making HUGE inroads. Some people like indie pop. Everything else is lame. Loud guitars not in the metal idiom is definitely OUT.
Well, I work at a hip bar with mostly dudes in the kitchen, but the women up front are into either indie pop or the same commercial hip hop and EDM like everyone else.
Maybe it's Atlanta. What's weird is the bar plays mostly old school hardcore and 90's post-hardcore (there is one guy who is a die-hard pop punker and a 90's screamo dude in the FOH). I saw some late middle-aged business fatties having a pleasant lunch to the strains of "Damaged I" once. No reaction whatsoever.
Jet are another thing - definitely good (exactly what I mean when I claim that punk is just glam hitting the reset button) but, damn, I'm having trouble with Andy Ellison's ultra affected brat-o vox. If I didn't know John's Children, it'd be no big deal but, man!
Still, listening again. It's somewhere between Sparks and Roxy, with prog hints, but still with that "Heavy Metal Bubblegum" sound that I'm totally addicted to. Gimme a few more listens to absorb it.
Very true - not big on first wave punk from either shore.
Sorry - not feelin' AFP. I'm not big on the arty glam - I'm on the T.Rex side of big, dumb fuzzed out r&r over the Bowie side of epic tales from alien sex gods. I like Bowie, obviously, because he did it all, but I'm pretty limited in my love for Roxy, Sparks, Cockney Rebel. I like Eno, hypocritically enough!
To them,. there's no difference in that group above; they're playing guitars and that's for old people. A few bands get the pass: Swans get the green light, but that's just rank hipsterism, christened as they are by Pitchfork. Arcade Fire, Smiths, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, most indie pop.
They like hip-hop, primarily, with EDM making HUGE inroads. Some people like indie pop. Everything else is lame. Loud guitars not in the metal idiom is definitely OUT.
I could go on about reasons but, not here.
Maybe it's Atlanta. What's weird is the bar plays mostly old school hardcore and 90's post-hardcore (there is one guy who is a die-hard pop punker and a 90's screamo dude in the FOH). I saw some late middle-aged business fatties having a pleasant lunch to the strains of "Damaged I" once. No reaction whatsoever.
Times have changed!
Jet are another thing - definitely good (exactly what I mean when I claim that punk is just glam hitting the reset button) but, damn, I'm having trouble with Andy Ellison's ultra affected brat-o vox. If I didn't know John's Children, it'd be no big deal but, man!
Still, listening again. It's somewhere between Sparks and Roxy, with prog hints, but still with that "Heavy Metal Bubblegum" sound that I'm totally addicted to. Gimme a few more listens to absorb it.
Sorry - not feelin' AFP. I'm not big on the arty glam - I'm on the T.Rex side of big, dumb fuzzed out r&r over the Bowie side of epic tales from alien sex gods. I like Bowie, obviously, because he did it all, but I'm pretty limited in my love for Roxy, Sparks, Cockney Rebel. I like Eno, hypocritically enough!