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2. The Who: “Baba O’Riley”
At as soon as rockin’ and wistfully nostalgic, “Baba O’Riley” — like a lot of the 1971 album it kicks off, “Who’s Next” — belongs squarely within the fatherly canon. In the phrases of the comic Joe Pera, in his great sketch celebrating the glory of this observe, “Maybe I simply don’t get it, but it surely looks like they realized they’d written the proper music after which panicked, so then they added a violin solo.”
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3. Steely Dan: “Barrytown”
I may have chosen nearly any Steely Dan music, so why not go together with considered one of my favorites, this tuneful ditty from the group’s nice 1974 album “Pretzel Logic.”
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4. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”
Just about any Tom Petty music qualifies as dad rock, too, however I’ve picked this 1993 hit for private causes: My dad performed this music within the automobile lots when it got here out, and my sister and I might at all times giggle when Petty sings “underwear.”
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5. Bruce Springsteen: “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
Dads don’t cry, after all, however they do get somewhat choked up on the line “when the change was made uptown and the Big Man joined the band,” as a result of they’re desirous about the gorgeous friendship between Bruce Springsteen and his late saxophonist Clarence Clemons.
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6. The National: “Fake Empire”
Mitchum recognized the National in 2019 as “purified dad-rock in band type.” Its members are a few of the youthful, second-generation practitioners of the style, now of their late 40s to mid-50s. (Just don’t inform Dad they’ve labored with Taylor Swift.)
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7. Pink Floyd: “Us and Them”
Dads will be unable to really assess the standard of a set of audio system or headphones till they’ve carried out an important check: “How does ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ sound on them?”
