[atlantaprog] Re: "Dad Rock"

Even though he says "yeah the album sucks" it almost sounds like he has a grudging respect for it!

On May 5, 2006, at 4:36 PM, BK Broyla wrote:

The irony is that "Indie/Hipsters", with their backwards hair, PBR t-shirts, cds of Death Cab for Cutie and The Shins, Elvis Costello glasses, and renovated lofts, are far more pretentious and predictable than the prog they sneer at.  I see these fools all over my neighborhood; the EARL, in particular, is like flypaper to them... and so is Creative Loafing.

BK

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1400032016/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/002-5071308-4887244?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155



Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From deCONform magazine, a hipster indy/publication:

http://deconformmagazine.org/deconformv3l2.php?show=15

Dad Rock Pick of the Issue: Jethro Tull

Todd Woodlan

In the annals of rock and roll history, Jethro Tull reached its
greatest notoriety for stealing the innagural award for �Best Hard
Rock/Heavy Metal Performance� at the 1989 Grammy Awards, successfully
pissing off legions of semi-literate Metallica fans and becoming the
fodder for the biting quips of B-list comedians on countless VH1
formula shows. Such a designation is completely unfair for Ian Anderson
and the rest of his rockin� Rennaisance Fair cast-offs. No single band
has equalled the Tull�s importance within the artistically fertile
genre of �Dad Rock,� and Thick as a Brick stands as the counter-culture
soundtrack of so many male mid-life crisises.

�Dad Rock,� though somewhat self-explanitory, has deeper meaning
beyond the title itself. Overtaken by his kids� angsty teenage
bitching, the societal norms of masculinity and the wife�s facistic
�Michael Bolton� death grip on the home stereo system, WASP-y fathers
across the United States need to find release. Outside of
Neo-Conservatism and born-again Christianity, nothing provides sweet
salvation like driving around the neighborhood with the windows of the
Buick Century down while ingesting the sweet aural nectar of �Dad
Rock.�

While other artists within the genre, like Chicago (the early stuff),
Kansas, Eric Clapton (the solo stuff), and Steppenwolf (if feeling
extra-saucy), are more popular, Thick as a Brick is the ulitmate �Dad
Rock� album. Its (somewhat) driving beats convey the middle finger dad
wants to give to Mom for making him pull the weeds while she plays
mah-jong with her annoying friends and discusses with all of those cows
about her husband�s erectile problems. The flutes and prog-rock
pretentiousness reflects the father�s repressed artsy-side, which is
only revealed through sightseeing trips at museums during unbearable
family trips to Europe or the Baroque art prints in the master
bathroom.

Although the numbers may lie, this album resides in every WASP-y dad�s
album collection for a reason. Go ahead, check your dad�s record
collection! I bet it�s there, and for good reason. Yeah, the album
sucks, but you were a sucky kid.
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