It's kind of terrifying to me that Slipknot's debut is as old now as Hotel California was when the Slipknot album came out. Really puts the dad-ification of my youth into perspective.
Don't worry man, Finn's taste in music is clearly sus. Tool is great. I just saw them in Omaha a few weeks ago. Definitely needed more old stuff in the mix though. -a 35yo non-dad
Tool has a few songs that for a lot of people hit you in the feels like a semi truck. The problem is they are few and far between and most people find the rest of their music hard to digest. Myself included.
That’s probably true. Sad. It’ll come back big at some point though when the kids of all the rap and hiphop fans don’t want to listen to their dad’s music🤞
Only because homosexual commie critics in New York have told you to say 'dad rock' and convinced you to pretend that rap has some nonzero amount of merit.
This man has horrible taste in music. Foo Fighters is the most boring band of life and Guns N' Roses is just of bunch of cringy 80's hysterical b.s. I can't watch anymore.
This guy’s taste is terrible. Listening to him shit on indie rock and associate it with hipsters while he’s trying so hard to keep up with the trends of today’s angsty teenagers is laughable. Stunted growth for this man
I think if people went through their whole discography, they’d see they’re, at the very least, more creative than a big portion of granddad/dad rock bands.
Boomers: We wish younger generations would listen to, and play, the kind of music we like. GVF: Hey, we're Greta Van Fleet, and we play the kind of music you like. Boomers: F___ off, and stop trying to get famous by copying our music.
I'd say copying is the key word here, taking inspiration is one thing, sounding like a Led Zep tribute band is another. Similarly derivative Kingdom Come caught the same flack way back in the 80's. But the guys in Greta are pretty young, think they'll come into their own sound in time.
The funniest part is that when GVF started, they insisted that they had never even listened to Led Zeppelin before and the sound was just coincidence. 😂
Foo Fighters, the most bland dad rocking band ever, at S tier. And he has Pink Floyd at the same tier as Creed, and Greta Van Fleet equal to or better than QotSA, Megadeth, and Tool. This guy is the buttrock connoisseur.
@@pendantairplane I kinda think that argument goes without saying. Grohl literally wrote every song and played every instrument on the first two Foo albums. Grohl IS The Foo Fighters. To this day he the principle song writer for that band. So to say that they would be nothing without Dave Grohl is about as obvious a statement as can be made.
@@xraygamer9895 on the spectrum of dad rock, that is not the case. If it is within the consideration of general rock, your assessment is accurate. Although, to me, converge is forever S tier.
To me Pink Floyd has always been boring. All of their songs are the same exact tempo, and they recycle the same chords and riffs on all their records. Unimaginative and uninspiring IMHO.@@xraygamer9895
I had no idea. He was legit one of my favorite drummers and favorite people in the industry. This threw me for a loop dude. Foo fighters ain’t gonna be the same without him
When I was in my early 20s, I told myself that I wouldn't be one of those out of touch guys that shuns modern music and wraps themselves in a cocoon of music from "their day." Now my streaming list is dominated by 80s and 90s music. And I'm totally OK with that. Today's music blows. Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe it just doesn't speak to me. At all.
Finn is just a shit talker. You can’t take anything seriously half the time he is talking crap about things he likes and people just like him. It’s just fun not a college lecture.
"No one that likes Megadeth has ever had sex"" Also, Megadeth is "dad rock" Finn Mckenty does not understand basic biology confirmed?!?! Credibility ruined!!!!
Whenever Finn gets surprised to learn that young people (teens to early 20s) enjoy stuff like prog and classic rock, it never fails to make me smile. There’s no shortage of “born in the wrong generation”/old-music appreciators in any age group, man 😉 As a 20 year old who’s been an avid Pink Floyd fan since high school, I can tell ya lol
Aye!! I'm 30.. in my teens I was into nu metal, pop punk and alt rock of the late 90's early 2000's (and yes, Tool as well lol) until I started digging into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Megadeth in my early college years. These days more so hard-core metal, goth rock and new wave with a little sprinkling of pop just for the hell of it and because it's fun
Yeah me too i enjoyed classic rock and prog, looks like there's prejudices against other musical approaches than punk, metal and stuff like that on this channel.
@@nmontano7626 Idk how he said that they were great up to BSSM...Californication, By The Way and Stadium were hits. Even One Hot Minute had some heat in it lol
I'm 27, not a dad, Foo Fighters is my favorite band. I'm genuinely sad about Taylor Hawkins. Also I love Pink Floyd, I regularly listen to several of their albums start to finish. Never consumed weed in any way in my life
Great list. Don't know how you missed Metallica though. I've had multiple conversations with my 40 something year old neighbor about that time in 1996 when him and his buddies saw Metallica at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and I always think this is the most dad rock conversation ever.
I walked out of a Metallica show in 96. I'd seen then several times prior but not since the black album was released. The crowd was violent, angry,and full of kooks that never would have been at a metal show 10 years earlier. They opened with Creeping Death and fights started breaking out all over the floor. I grabbed the two girls I was with and bounced before the first song was over. Metallica was a joke by 96.
Damnit, I'm a dad. 28 year old woman who apparently took a lot of music influence from my dad when I was in high school. I listen to a lot of these bands regularly today in 2022.
It would depend on if you took out the ones who say they are big in Europe, and those that actually are. Being able to sell well in Norway and Denmark doesn't really mean all that much. You could be big in Germany and all but unknown elsewhere.
@@johnmartin1870 I'm not sure there are any 'like Oasis' bands - at least none that are that well known in the UK. There were a few strummy-dreary indie bands, but not really the same style.
37 year old Dad with a teenage daughter, Foo Fighters we’re my favorite band in High School. They are the definitive dad rock band. My daughter tells me “all rock is dad rock” and every time she says that a little piece inside of me dies.
I went out and bought Appetite for Destruction about 1 hour after I saw the video for Welcome To The Jungle. I grabbed what was left of my allowance and walked across the field behind my house and across the street to the video rental store . They had a small section of music you could buy on cassette and they miraculously had Appetite. Bought that fucker and had listened to entire album about 4 times over by the end of the day.
Tool is dad rock and I’m 49 and tons of my friends or coworkers in my age group love to love Tool. Man I think you’re wrong about Pink Floyd- they for one don’t have one defined sound, but you can pick a PF song just listening to a few sec of the song- we have our biases, and using wish you were here as an example that’s an iconic song- S tier completely.
Dropped some donations off at Goodwill yesterday. I was wearing a Dream Theater hoodie. The kid that took my donations asked if I was a DT fan and said her dad just went to see them. I was there too ha ha ha
@ghost mall oh for sure. I tend more toward the metal side of things but yeah I embrace all of this and don’t take it as being insulting. I find it rather funny
1) yes, for those who are oblivious to how old metal and hardcore crowds are getting 2) it's jsut to poke fun, not a big deal. seriously so many tours are full of old artists, glad this gets joked about somewhere
I feel like in order to qualify to be dad rock you have to be accessible music by most dads. I know converge has an audience that is dad age but let’s be honest 95% of dad‘s would tell you to turn that shit off. Automatically disqualified
Converge is a hot take but 100% correct. 1 - one of my professors was a huge Converge fan, and he absolutely had a receding hairline and absolutely picked his daughter up from Montessori school after class and 2 - I went to a Converge show last weekend and it was like 80% ppl ages 35+
Yeah the Converge take was surprisubg but makes so much sense. All my 90s hardcore kid friends who had kids later in their life are still huge Converge fans
New generations continue to listen to Pink Floyd for the same reason new generations continue to listen to Beethoven. Genius level music has no expiration date.
That Queens of the Stone Age song used to play at my Kroger that I worked at all the time(I heard they changed the instore canned audio last year) Definitely dad rock if it plays at your local grocery store during daytime shifts.
I think it's telling that pretty much everything Tom Morello has done since RATM basically sounds like RATM but without Zach, and nothing has ever been nearly as big.
What does it say about me that Take It Easy was my most played song on Apple Music in 2022 and I was 27? To be fair, I do live in the mountains and am outdoors a lot so it gets played daily May-September. Also the longer this video goes on the more my life is flashing before my eyes…not me getting a tattoo for GnR and RHCP when I was 19. Was I okay??? The answer is no.
Great list, Finn! I’m 39 years old and am basically at peace with the fact that a lot of the bands I love (or loved) are now considered “dad rock.” I don’t even think there’s any real shame in the label, since from what I’ve witnessed (and contrary to popular belief), a lot of teenagers like the music their parents listen(ed) to. A couple thoughts on your specific choices: I’m a longtime fan of Queens Of The Stone Age. But, in hindsight, I kind of agree with your assessment of them. They turned a lot of heads in the early aughts for being a mainstream hard rock band that sounded different from Creed or Nickelback. But, in retrospect, they really weren’t as distinct or innovative as a lot of boomer critics and rock elitists made them out to be. I still like the band a lot, but I think the way they were being heralded as “Saviors Of Rock!!!!” was, in hindsight, a little overblown. Regarding Megadeth: if I’m being perfectly honest, their corniness/campiness was what I always found most appealing about them! Everybody talks about their technical skills and socio-political awareness (and I don’t dispute either of those). But, for me, Megadeth always stood out by taking themselves a little less seriously than Metallica and Slayer. There was a goofiness/silliness in songs like Sweating Bullets and Hangar 18 that the latter two bands seemed to deliberately avoid. And I always appreciated that about them.
....but what makes you think we'd stop listening because of something being labeled dad rock? i have a feeling a lot of us are just having a laugh at this and ourselves but then turn right back around and dad rock out to our "dad rock"
You're absolutely 100% right with your first pick haha. The Foo Fighters ARE the definitive pick for dad rock. As a dad myself (30) even when I heard the new songs Love dies young, Waiting on a war and Shame shame I was like man this is sounding like old man music. And I mean.. Dave Grohl is 53. I stopped and wrote this right after I saw Foo at #1. I assume Red Hot Chili Peppers will be on here somewhere that's how I knew I was getting old when I heard them on a classic rock station🤣 Keep up the good work.
Literally saw Rob Zombie with my dad at Rockville 😂 Also got to see the Foo Fighters with him. Love you, Dad. Sending love your way, Finn! Thanks for all the laughs 🤘
F's in the chat for Taylor Hawkins... one of my biggest influences when it comes to my style of playing lol I remember trying to copy his exact style when I first started the drums (even the "using the mouth as a metronome" aspect to drumming 😂) F. RIP LEGEND
18:19 the more north you go in Michigan, the more south it gets up until the UP, where it becomes Wiscanada lol Edit: Greta van fleet & QOTSA in the same tier is BRUTAL. I pray you’ve gotten to hear more than just QOTSA’s singles by now, bc they have something for everyone.
I’m so happy you just happened to open with Foo Fighters, perfect timing. R.I.P Taylor. To me they are mom rock. We had tickets to see them this July.😔 I’m not super into them but it was something fun to look forward to. On Friday my mom sent me a video from her phone of her screaming at Foo on stage😅 She’s 57, and got me into ALL the dad rock growing up. Including Pearl Jam, who you did not mention. Waiting on Part 2. Also, Primus.
I absolutely love that you aren't a tool fan, I'm on that wagon with you, I've just never got into them, though I am a huge Dance Gavin dance fan, I have my toxic traits for sure, but we're all working on it
I feel like we forgot skate punk. My 62 year-old 30 year Navy veteran dad loves NOFX; my 64 year old legal secretary mom loves Bad Religion. To this day they are both jealous that I saw those bands at Warped Tour in 2009.
Saw Greta Van Fleet over the summer and was actually kinda shocked by the audience. A ton of really hot girls mostly college aged. Was not expecting that at all going into the show.
I'm in my late 30's and my wife and I will always be childless, but wow, some of these realizations were BRUTAL. Your rundown on Converge fans in 2022 had me laughing my ass off. Local craft brewery hoodie could easily be used in place of the local coffee roaster hoodie. When you went into that rant, I seriously felt like you were talking about me! Too real.
oh cmon, creed over QOTSA????? i saw them 2 times and boy, when they open the show with feet dont fail me now it was just incredible, even the deaf cripple would jump.. one of best live performances i could saw.
He literally judges them based off of one song which is honestly pretty annoying considering they have 7 great and diverse albums. If you’re going to tier a band at least be familiar with more stuff like Fantano. You can’t listen to Era Vulgaris and call them “boring.”
As I've gotten older, I think I've realized that I'm a bigger fan of the musicians in Megadeth than the band itself. I have a huge respect for Mustaine's playing and riff-writing, and so many of my favorite guitarists have made their name in the band: Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Kiko Loureiro, etc. But when I sit and think about it, there isn't a ton of their stuff that I can sing back. Not to mention, outside of Mustaine, Friedman, and to an extent Poland, most of the musicians I admire from the band don't get to stretch their legs as much as I'd like.
Big facts, they only have a few songs I dial up here and there. I'll never listen to a whole album though. But you could take the 2 worst guitarist to play for megadeth and they'd be a super group.
Wait….so when Rage was mentioned, everyone was given credit, but Morello wasn’t mentioned as one of the most innovative guitarists of all time? He was what made rage. Him and Zack. Definitely the opinion of a music fan and not a musician. Still love you Finn and all your content
I used to listen to a lot of dad rock and 'rockist' garage rock bands when I was drinking and partying a lot. Now, approaching 2 years of sobriety, I rarely listen to bands in those categories - I hear certain bands and see their fanbase's behaviour and cringe so much. Each to their own taste but I think a lot of people attach this "I listen to real music" personality on to themselves because they're wildly insecure and need something to convince themselves that they're 'better' than casual listeners who don't put so much 'righteous' weight on an art form. I saw that in the people I was around, and I felt like that too. Ironically being more present mentally has gotten me into present day music a whole lot more instead of embarrassingly living in the past.
@@bombercountyblues I don't dismiss any artists based on age, I listen to lots of old and new music. I just said ever since sobering up I've gone off of a lot of "real rock" music, because it only offered me affirmations and general good feelings when intoxicated.
Same, but I always liked some new music while preferring older music. Those old classic rock and southern rock bands are perfect drinking music and to this day I still think about drinking when I hear some of those old songs.
40 year old Dad here, middle schooler at home…. I mean…. Look at my channel name. I’d disagree with you, but your right soooooo….. I’m just gunna sit here and listen to Symphony of Destruction.
Greta Van Fleet is Grandpa rock for millennial dads. And because they came up in the chat quite a lot and they're my favorite band. Green Day isn't dad rock. They're mom rock. Like 80% of dads hate Green Day, but moms love them.
Dad rock rules, it's hard we pass the rock along. I grew up loving my dad's rock, then that got me to find my own stuff in the late 80, 90s and 00s. Now my boys love my dad rock, when they hit their teens they will find their own bands and the cycle shall continue 4ever.🤟🤣
I'm 43 almost 44, & this is the first time that I've ever heard of the band Converge. Also, I'm surprised that both Nickleback & Pearl jam didn't make the list.
shout out to the Photoshop chart function. that's dad design! respect! I think of dad rock as the kind of music that gets comments like, 'no one makes music like this anymore.' I'm okay with liking bands that are older and appeal to the older crowd. but then I'm older, and the bands I grew up with are parents with kids in college.
dad rock is also music that a 12 year old who listened to teen spirit and bohemian rhapsody once and who thinks all the other kids at his middle school still listen to justin bieber
Really good list , I'd agree with most ,I'm 43 and got into it when around 15 and do listen to the older stuff but try to keep up with the new stuff/bands ,allways on the look out ,lov of metal only gets stronger the older I get ,I just don't want to drop into that zone like some of my friends that seem to be stuck in 1996 and not progressed no matter how many songs I try and share it's just weird lol
I love Pink Floyd though, and im not smoking weed, sure they have obnoxious young fans, that listens to The Wall and goes "Im deep, im 20 and love this, god I was born in the wrong generation" But in all fairness the band were extremely good, music composition wise and lyric wise
You should make a butt rock tier list part 2 also RIP to Taylor, my condolences to his family/friends and rest of foo fighters. Respect to fin also for showing his condolences
Imagine thinking Kid Rock was ever good, but all of Tool's music is bad? Or that Creed's music is more inventive and less boring than Queens Of The Stone Age? Someone quick, get this guy some help.
"But Dad rock isn't a sound, it's not an age, it's a state of mind". I died🤣 Edit: Also, I'm 20 and I love Pink Floyd and a lot of other older bands and artists as well as newer artists. And no, I don't smoke weed much at all. I smoke maybe once or twice a year.
I went to an Eagles gig recently with my dad, and it was by far the oldest audience I've ever seen. The standing section had chairs to accommodate for the age. Definitely Grandad rock.
RHCP and especially Pink F'ing Floyd 2 levels below Foo Fighters? Have you even heard of Dark Side of the Moon? Insanity... I respect ur view on RHCP but their best 2 albums are Californication and Stadium Arcadium.
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Mom Rock tier list
@@wetbeaversandwich9236 I second that.
Metallica’s black album is the dad rock gold standard, which more currently is only succeeded by Death Magnetic and Hard Wired.
@@apl2606 def Leppard seems like mom Rock what music do you like so your one of the cool Mom's I'm 38 my name is James I live in Oregon
@@wetbeaversandwich9236 Faith no More, Alice in Chains and Nirvana for me. Regards from a 43year-old mum from Vienna/Austria!
It's kind of terrifying to me that Slipknot's debut is as old now as Hotel California was when the Slipknot album came out. Really puts the dad-ification of my youth into perspective.
And for me, dad rock was Journey, Kiss, Foghat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. Wonder what will qualify as dad rock 30 years from now.
Tbf I don’t know hardly anyone in that age that listens to IOWA
@@misfitkid3926 But they should, because Iowa goes hard
@@robwalsh9843 attack attack , I see stars and bring me the horizon will def be considered dad rock
I expect a lot of Metalcore bands, Architects, Whitechapel, and the like
I’m a 35 year old dad who was literally offended by TOOL being so low 😂
Thus proving all the stereotypes of TOOL fans, and I’m ok with that 🔧 🤣
Don't worry man, Finn's taste in music is clearly sus. Tool is great. I just saw them in Omaha a few weeks ago. Definitely needed more old stuff in the mix though.
-a 35yo non-dad
Tool has a few songs that for a lot of people hit you in the feels like a semi truck. The problem is they are few and far between and most people find the rest of their music hard to digest. Myself included.
He put Creed over Tool!! I'm with you. Also Red Hot Chili Peppers is literally S tier no question
You're not alone!
This dude has notoriously shit taste in music lmao, how tf is Tool beneath Greta Van Fleet 😂😂😂
Let's be real, at the national cultural level, ALL rock is now dad rock.
Hits me right in the feels man. Sucks getting old.
That’s probably true. Sad. It’ll come back big at some point though when the kids of all the rap and hiphop fans don’t want to listen to their dad’s music🤞
That is a very real statement
Only because homosexual commie critics in New York have told you to say 'dad rock' and convinced you to pretend that rap has some nonzero amount of merit.
in 25 years Drake will be considered Dad rap
I can't imagine anyone putting Greta Van Fleet above Tool and Medadeth wtf lol
Finn has an obvious bias against those bands
This man has horrible taste in music. Foo Fighters is the most boring band of life and Guns N' Roses is just of bunch of cringy 80's hysterical b.s. I can't watch anymore.
I like GVF more than The Tool
@@AportesKike I respect your wrong opinion.
This guy’s taste is terrible. Listening to him shit on indie rock and associate it with hipsters while he’s trying so hard to keep up with the trends of today’s angsty teenagers is laughable. Stunted growth for this man
Pink Floyd is granddad rock, but isn't subjective. It's masterpiece.
I think if people went through their whole discography, they’d see they’re, at the very least, more creative than a big portion of granddad/dad rock bands.
@@thecreatedvoid117 wish you were here is still one of my favorite albums and I'm 24
Dark Side of the Moon on shrooms.
just sayin
Dark side is a Masterpiece weather Sober, High, Drunk or your in a mental institution.
Prefer Meddle.
There’s no way Finn is a zoomer. He’s dead on Gen X. He’s the definition of Gen X.
nah millennial
Boomers: We wish younger generations would listen to, and play, the kind of music we like.
GVF: Hey, we're Greta Van Fleet, and we play the kind of music you like.
Boomers: F___ off, and stop trying to get famous by copying our music.
I'd say copying is the key word here, taking inspiration is one thing, sounding like a Led Zep tribute band is another. Similarly derivative Kingdom Come caught the same flack way back in the 80's. But the guys in Greta are pretty young, think they'll come into their own sound in time.
The funniest part is that when GVF started, they insisted that they had never even listened to Led Zeppelin before and the sound was just coincidence. 😂
wdym, boomers love gvf Because they are a zep copy
@@scottdaniels8129 Yeah Led Zeppelin didn't copy, they stole
People have no issue with Airbourne though. It's about how you do it.
Foo Fighters, the most bland dad rocking band ever, at S tier. And he has Pink Floyd at the same tier as Creed, and Greta Van Fleet equal to or better than QotSA, Megadeth, and Tool. This guy is the buttrock connoisseur.
@@pendantairplane I kinda think that argument goes without saying. Grohl literally wrote every song and played every instrument on the first two Foo albums. Grohl IS The Foo Fighters. To this day he the principle song writer for that band. So to say that they would be nothing without Dave Grohl is about as obvious a statement as can be made.
@@pendantairplane yeah, pink floyd is way too high. Tbf, none of these bands would be higher than b tier.
@@xraygamer9895 on the spectrum of dad rock, that is not the case. If it is within the consideration of general rock, your assessment is accurate. Although, to me, converge is forever S tier.
Nah, you just have bad opinions
To me Pink Floyd has always been boring. All of their songs are the same exact tempo, and they recycle the same chords and riffs on all their records. Unimaginative and uninspiring IMHO.@@xraygamer9895
Rip Taylor, the guy wrote a smile and made everyone happy
I had no idea. He was legit one of my favorite drummers and favorite people in the industry. This threw me for a loop dude. Foo fighters ain’t gonna be the same without him
@pottopic420 not now but I did the past few days haha
Dave must be sad, I'd be surprised if Foo Fighters make it through this
"Yesterday's edgy sub-culture, is today's Dad Rock" 😆 Put that on a T-shirt!
I would buy one! Please make it happen Finn!!
right on
i love when Finn says "Hell Yeah Brother" also rip Taylor Hawkins :(
Oh me too. Its one of his signature catchphrases. Also when he goes all quiet whispering into the mic 🤣🤣
*Heck Yeah Brother
Hell yeah bruther!
My favorite part of these streams is Finn being jealous of hot dudes.
hes totally gay
When my son referred to The Beastie Boys as a boy band for 40 year olds. It reconfirmed I had aged out of popular music.
OOOOOOOOFFFFF
Savage af
Bodied
Just open your mind and check out many things of today (not just pop, of course), the aging out will be gone.
When I was in my early 20s, I told myself that I wouldn't be one of those out of touch guys that shuns modern music and wraps themselves in a cocoon of music from "their day."
Now my streaming list is dominated by 80s and 90s music. And I'm totally OK with that. Today's music blows. Or maybe it doesn't. Maybe it just doesn't speak to me. At all.
The sheer amount of times Finn contradicted himself in this vid lol
cmon, you know who you're watching lol
It's Finn
Finn is just a shit talker. You can’t take anything seriously half the time he is talking crap about things he likes and people just like him. It’s just fun not a college lecture.
He was doing good till Tool came up...then not so much
That's why I watch his videos 😂😂😂
Megadeth, clutch and tool below Greta Van Fleet? How dare you sir, how dare you.
I know Megadeth better then Metallica.
Nope, he's right on that one. I don't even like the first 3 😁
Agreed!
He's a hipster. Lol. More popular mean less value. More renown means less integrity. ☺. Apparently.
Finn coulda saved some time by just going through the guitar hero catalog
"No one that likes Megadeth has ever had sex""
Also, Megadeth is "dad rock"
Finn Mckenty does not understand basic biology confirmed?!?! Credibility ruined!!!!
Almost as hypocritical as him having room to call Tom Morello cringe. lol
Yet he likes Diet Zeppelin and boyfriend country. Two of the most awful things to exist.
Dead beat uncle rock?
@@SolarDNA But Tom Morello IS super cringe.
@@cccCCCccc123ccc That's an opinion.
Whenever Finn gets surprised to learn that young people (teens to early 20s) enjoy stuff like prog and classic rock, it never fails to make me smile. There’s no shortage of “born in the wrong generation”/old-music appreciators in any age group, man 😉 As a 20 year old who’s been an avid Pink Floyd fan since high school, I can tell ya lol
I'm 38 and I was a Pink Floyd fan in middle school. DSotM was my first CD I bought. Pink Floyd is timeless.
Aye!! I'm 30.. in my teens I was into nu metal, pop punk and alt rock of the late 90's early 2000's (and yes, Tool as well lol) until I started digging into Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Megadeth in my early college years. These days more so hard-core metal, goth rock and new wave with a little sprinkling of pop just for the hell of it and because it's fun
Yep I'm 21 and just saw both roger waters and nick mason in concert last year, I absolutely love pink floyd
Yeah me too i enjoyed classic rock and prog, looks like there's prejudices against other musical approaches than punk, metal and stuff like that on this channel.
Sitting here, sweating, starring at my RHCP asterisk tat, waiting for Finn to shred them.
I felt the same about my Misfits tattoo
@@LiveAtEs I still love my tat, not ashamed at all but I also welcome any and all jokes about it
@@billyfrickleman3212 I have a Deftones tattoo that I proudly Wear, but I'm aware they are dad rock at this point.
This guy is crazy Stadium Arcadium was amazing! Arguably their best album!
@@nmontano7626 Idk how he said that they were great up to BSSM...Californication, By The Way and Stadium were hits. Even One Hot Minute had some heat in it lol
I'm 27, not a dad, Foo Fighters is my favorite band. I'm genuinely sad about Taylor Hawkins.
Also I love Pink Floyd, I regularly listen to several of their albums start to finish. Never consumed weed in any way in my life
I like them too and I'm a 25-year old bisexual woman
Humorous stereotypes typically aren’t true 100% of the time and aren’t even intended to be if you can believe it!
Great list. Don't know how you missed Metallica though. I've had multiple conversations with my 40 something year old neighbor about that time in 1996 when him and his buddies saw Metallica at the Cow Palace in San Francisco and I always think this is the most dad rock conversation ever.
Metallica is 100% dad rock at this point
I saw them on the European tour a week before Burton was killed. That's pretty vintage.
Probably didn't feel the need since mehadeath was up there.
My dad is 66 years old and damn near in a wheelchair and is a Metallica fan.
I walked out of a Metallica show in 96. I'd seen then several times prior but not since the black album was released. The crowd was violent, angry,and full of kooks that never would have been at a metal show 10 years earlier. They opened with Creeping Death and fights started breaking out all over the floor. I grabbed the two girls I was with and bounced before the first song was over. Metallica was a joke by 96.
Damnit, I'm a dad. 28 year old woman who apparently took a lot of music influence from my dad when I was in high school. I listen to a lot of these bands regularly today in 2022.
Same here except 30 lol. I remember people calling it dad rock even when I was in middle/high school so I've accepted it a long time ago. 😅
Your tier lists are so entertaining! Keep em coming!
Entertaining but bad
This list is even more brutal than some of the previous ones. I'm entertained! Finn is becoming one of my fav roastmasters!!
What about making a "big in europe" tier list? Could be quite fun, couldn't it?
It would depend on if you took out the ones who say they are big in Europe, and those that actually are. Being able to sell well in Norway and Denmark doesn't really mean all that much. You could be big in Germany and all but unknown elsewhere.
featuring all those terrible british oasis-core bands that are surprisingly popular
European personality disorder
As a european I second this. I always found the big metal festival line ups and their success mind boggling
@@johnmartin1870 I'm not sure there are any 'like Oasis' bands - at least none that are that well known in the UK. There were a few strummy-dreary indie bands, but not really the same style.
37 year old Dad with a teenage daughter, Foo Fighters we’re my favorite band in High School. They are the definitive dad rock band. My daughter tells me “all rock is dad rock” and every time she says that a little piece inside of me dies.
It's painful, growing up as a punk rocker, punk being around well before I was born... Then suddenly, all the kids call punk rock boomer music... Ugh
@@xenos_n. according to my teenage daughter and her friends, all rock music is dad rock/boomer music.
Dragula is a certified hood classic at my college. Literally everyone loves that song whether you’re 10, 50, or anything in between
AN BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
Especially the Hot Rod Herman Remix. Like it or not that song was a BANGER!!
Rage Against the Machine is s-tier dad rock. I saw Wutang open for them in 97'. They still slap as hard as they ever did.
I went out and bought Appetite for Destruction about 1 hour after I saw the video for Welcome To The Jungle. I grabbed what was left of my allowance and walked across the field behind my house and across the street to the video rental store . They had a small section of music you could buy on cassette and they miraculously had Appetite. Bought that fucker and had listened to entire album about 4 times over by the end of the day.
Bought it the next morning after seeing Welcome to the Jungle on Headbanger's Ball. It still bangs from start to finish. 🔥🔥🔥
It's an amazing album
Tool is dad rock and I’m 49 and tons of my friends or coworkers in my age group love to love Tool.
Man I think you’re wrong about Pink Floyd- they for one don’t have one defined sound, but you can pick a PF song just listening to a few sec of the song- we have our biases, and using wish you were here as an example that’s an iconic song- S tier completely.
Dropped some donations off at Goodwill yesterday. I was wearing a Dream Theater hoodie. The kid that took my donations asked if I was a DT fan and said her dad just went to see them. I was there too ha ha ha
@ghost mall oh for sure. I tend more toward the metal side of things but yeah I embrace all of this and don’t take it as being insulting. I find it rather funny
One of my nerdy 40 yr old coworkers was wearing a dream theater hoodie today and I almost said something to him lol
Saw them open for iron maiden, was at the show with my dad 🤘(summer of 2010, probably one of the last shows with Portnoy)
I'm barely an adult and this was painful to watch. Never realized how old some of my favorite bands were until now.
Why does Finn think it’s such an insult for your favorite band to be labeled dad rock?
I swear this dude has a phobia about aging or something.
It's not that serious, but also yes, tons of people think aging is bad? Like isn't that obvious? We even have a word for it?
1) yes, for those who are oblivious to how old metal and hardcore crowds are getting 2) it's jsut to poke fun, not a big deal.
seriously so many tours are full of old artists, glad this gets joked about somewhere
Midlife crisis bruh, gotta make sure ur still cool with the kids
Pretty much all humans have a phobia about aging. It's called being human.
My grandma watched this with me. She said "this is oddly entertaining" and she was satisfied with the placement of the eagles
That's awesome! Idk I watch him, he is oddly entertaining even though I hate his musical taste.
You either died a scene kid or live long enough to become a dad rock fan.
TOOL is nothing but Dad Rock!! The singer owns a vineyard for fucks sake!
I feel like in order to qualify to be dad rock you have to be accessible music by most dads. I know converge has an audience that is dad age but let’s be honest 95% of dad‘s would tell you to turn that shit off. Automatically disqualified
I don't even know who they are lol
It's that shoe brand, right? 😉
Finn: “I’m a zoomer.”
“What’s up fellow kids.”
I love how specific Finn is a lot of the time.
Pink Floyd is not in the B tier. They're not in the A tier. They're not even an S tier band.
They are in a tier all by themselves.
Converge is a hot take but 100% correct. 1 - one of my professors was a huge Converge fan, and he absolutely had a receding hairline and absolutely picked his daughter up from Montessori school after class and 2 - I went to a Converge show last weekend and it was like 80% ppl ages 35+
I was lmao at that part
Yeah the Converge take was surprisubg but makes so much sense. All my 90s hardcore kid friends who had kids later in their life are still huge Converge fans
Im dad and wear my converge hoodie and drink the most hipster coffee. This was spot on.
can't believe Pearl Jam and Green Day both didn't get a single mention, probably two of the most dad rock bands in history
This tier list is definitely grand father rock any band that cameout in the 1960s '70s'and '80s is eligible for AARP coverage 😆🤣😂 now
If I have to choose between some"dad rock" or every modern song with 808's and the same high hat and clap trap beats, it's dad rock every time
Scott Stapp accidentally followed me on tiktok then immediately unfollowed. Felt weird.
New generations continue to listen to Pink Floyd for the same reason new generations continue to listen to Beethoven. Genius level music has no expiration date.
That Queens of the Stone Age song used to play at my Kroger that I worked at all the time(I heard they changed the instore canned audio last year) Definitely dad rock if it plays at your local grocery store during daytime shifts.
I think it's telling that pretty much everything Tom Morello has done since RATM basically sounds like RATM but without Zach, and nothing has ever been nearly as big.
Finn having the balls to say Creed’s Human Clay was good… respect!
My Own Prison is their best album though.
I think if people could drop the bias and listen to the album as a whole, most rock fans would agree (at least until With Arms Wide Open starts 😂).
Oh yeah, let’s also back that up with Nickelback and beating my head against the wall repeatedly..
I prefer nickleback
Lol I revoked his rock credibility a long time ago lol.
What does it say about me that Take It Easy was my most played song on Apple Music in 2022 and I was 27? To be fair, I do live in the mountains and am outdoors a lot so it gets played daily May-September.
Also the longer this video goes on the more my life is flashing before my eyes…not me getting a tattoo for GnR and RHCP when I was 19. Was I okay??? The answer is no.
Live in the countryside of french canada and listen to Eagles a lot last year and im 29.
> Be me
> 19 year old freshman in college
> Dad is 48
> Dad also got into the Foo Fighters over the last few years
RIP Taylor.
Mid twenties, my dad is in his early 50s' he's been on a red hot chili peppers kick.
Great list, Finn! I’m 39 years old and am basically at peace with the fact that a lot of the bands I love (or loved) are now considered “dad rock.” I don’t even think there’s any real shame in the label, since from what I’ve witnessed (and contrary to popular belief), a lot of teenagers like the music their parents listen(ed) to.
A couple thoughts on your specific choices:
I’m a longtime fan of Queens Of The Stone Age. But, in hindsight, I kind of agree with your assessment of them. They turned a lot of heads in the early aughts for being a mainstream hard rock band that sounded different from Creed or Nickelback. But, in retrospect, they really weren’t as distinct or innovative as a lot of boomer critics and rock elitists made them out to be. I still like the band a lot, but I think the way they were being heralded as “Saviors Of Rock!!!!” was, in hindsight, a little overblown.
Regarding Megadeth: if I’m being perfectly honest, their corniness/campiness was what I always found most appealing about them! Everybody talks about their technical skills and socio-political awareness (and I don’t dispute either of those). But, for me, Megadeth always stood out by taking themselves a little less seriously than Metallica and Slayer. There was a goofiness/silliness in songs like Sweating Bullets and Hangar 18 that the latter two bands seemed to deliberately avoid. And I always appreciated that about them.
Who cares if something is dad rock or even grandpa rock? Listen to whatever TF you like.
....but what makes you think we'd stop listening because of something being labeled dad rock?
i have a feeling a lot of us are just having a laugh at this and ourselves but then turn right back around and dad rock out to our "dad rock"
You're absolutely 100% right with your first pick haha. The Foo Fighters ARE the definitive pick for dad rock. As a dad myself (30) even when I heard the new songs Love dies young, Waiting on a war and Shame shame I was like man this is sounding like old man music. And I mean.. Dave Grohl is 53. I stopped and wrote this right after I saw Foo at #1. I assume Red Hot Chili Peppers will be on here somewhere that's how I knew I was getting old when I heard them on a classic rock station🤣 Keep up the good work.
As a northern Kentuckian, the Rob Zombie joke got me lol. Rob Zombie definitely has big Dayton, Kentucky energy
I'm 23 and listen to pretty much all of these regularly lmao. I'm also a dad so maybe that has something to do with it. Good shit Finn. Keep it up
Literally saw Rob Zombie with my dad at Rockville 😂 Also got to see the Foo Fighters with him. Love you, Dad.
Sending love your way, Finn! Thanks for all the laughs 🤘
What's this guy going on about, Clutch and Tool are top tier. And that's a fact.
F's in the chat for Taylor Hawkins... one of my biggest influences when it comes to my style of playing lol
I remember trying to copy his exact style when I first started the drums (even the "using the mouth as a metronome" aspect to drumming 😂)
F. RIP LEGEND
Is that what he use to do? Lol I always wondered what was goin on
18:19 the more north you go in Michigan, the more south it gets up until the UP, where it becomes Wiscanada lol
Edit: Greta van fleet & QOTSA in the same tier is BRUTAL. I pray you’ve gotten to hear more than just QOTSA’s singles by now, bc they have something for everyone.
I’m so happy you just happened to open with Foo Fighters, perfect timing. R.I.P Taylor. To me they are mom rock. We had tickets to see them this July.😔 I’m not super into them but it was something fun to look forward to. On Friday my mom sent me a video from her phone of her screaming at Foo on stage😅 She’s 57, and got me into ALL the dad rock growing up. Including Pearl Jam, who you did not mention.
Waiting on Part 2. Also, Primus.
I absolutely love that you aren't a tool fan, I'm on that wagon with you, I've just never got into them, though I am a huge Dance Gavin dance fan, I have my toxic traits for sure, but we're all working on it
I feel like we forgot skate punk. My 62 year-old 30 year Navy veteran dad loves NOFX; my 64 year old legal secretary mom loves Bad Religion. To this day they are both jealous that I saw those bands at Warped Tour in 2009.
@ghost mall oh bad religion is most certainly dad rock, especially since their christmas record...
Fucking love NOFX
Saw Greta Van Fleet over the summer and was actually kinda shocked by the audience. A ton of really hot girls mostly college aged. Was not expecting that at all going into the show.
Finn, you're killin me with some of these placements😅
I'm in my late 30's and my wife and I will always be childless, but wow, some of these realizations were BRUTAL. Your rundown on Converge fans in 2022 had me laughing my ass off. Local craft brewery hoodie could easily be used in place of the local coffee roaster hoodie. When you went into that rant, I seriously felt like you were talking about me! Too real.
Why childless? That’s kind of depressing.
@@donkeypuncher81 because we don't want children.
@@thewal1ofsleep pathetic.
oh cmon, creed over QOTSA????? i saw them 2 times and boy, when they open the show with feet dont fail me now it was just incredible, even the deaf cripple would jump.. one of best live performances i could saw.
He literally judges them based off of one song which is honestly pretty annoying considering they have 7 great and diverse albums. If you’re going to tier a band at least be familiar with more stuff like Fantano. You can’t listen to Era Vulgaris and call them “boring.”
As I've gotten older, I think I've realized that I'm a bigger fan of the musicians in Megadeth than the band itself. I have a huge respect for Mustaine's playing and riff-writing, and so many of my favorite guitarists have made their name in the band: Chris Poland, Marty Friedman, Kiko Loureiro, etc. But when I sit and think about it, there isn't a ton of their stuff that I can sing back. Not to mention, outside of Mustaine, Friedman, and to an extent Poland, most of the musicians I admire from the band don't get to stretch their legs as much as I'd like.
Big facts, they only have a few songs I dial up here and there. I'll never listen to a whole album though. But you could take the 2 worst guitarist to play for megadeth and they'd be a super group.
Wait….so when Rage was mentioned, everyone was given credit, but Morello wasn’t mentioned as one of the most innovative guitarists of all time? He was what made rage. Him and Zack. Definitely the opinion of a music fan and not a musician. Still love you Finn and all your content
I used to listen to a lot of dad rock and 'rockist' garage rock bands when I was drinking and partying a lot. Now, approaching 2 years of sobriety, I rarely listen to bands in those categories - I hear certain bands and see their fanbase's behaviour and cringe so much. Each to their own taste but I think a lot of people attach this "I listen to real music" personality on to themselves because they're wildly insecure and need something to convince themselves that they're 'better' than casual listeners who don't put so much 'righteous' weight on an art form. I saw that in the people I was around, and I felt like that too. Ironically being more present mentally has gotten me into present day music a whole lot more instead of embarrassingly living in the past.
Surely dismissing music on the grounds of it being old or new are both equally as ignorant..
@@bombercountyblues I don't dismiss any artists based on age, I listen to lots of old and new music. I just said ever since sobering up I've gone off of a lot of "real rock" music, because it only offered me affirmations and general good feelings when intoxicated.
Same, but I always liked some new music while preferring older music. Those old classic rock and southern rock bands are perfect drinking music and to this day I still think about drinking when I hear some of those old songs.
40 year old Dad here, middle schooler at home…. I mean…. Look at my channel name. I’d disagree with you, but your right soooooo….. I’m just gunna sit here and listen to Symphony of Destruction.
Rage is dad rock 🤣 Morello is 100% the definition of a dad
He even trows tantrums at restaurants!
Do a list of pioneer rock, like Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis, and etc...
Greta Van Fleet is Grandpa rock for millennial dads.
And because they came up in the chat quite a lot and they're my favorite band. Green Day isn't dad rock. They're mom rock. Like 80% of dads hate Green Day, but moms love them.
Fact checked as true. My mom became a big fan of American Idiot when that album came out seemingly out of nowhere.
Saying TOOL is boring is the rock equivalent of saying 2pac is boring.
Dad rock rules, it's hard we pass the rock along. I grew up loving my dad's rock, then that got me to find my own stuff in the late 80, 90s and 00s. Now my boys love my dad rock, when they hit their teens they will find their own bands and the cycle shall continue 4ever.🤟🤣
Omg, the ad that loaded for this video was for a Lincoln Navigator hahaha. Is that on me or on you Finn?
I'm 43 almost 44, & this is the first time that I've ever heard of the band Converge. Also, I'm surprised that both Nickleback & Pearl jam didn't make the list.
I wasn't familiar with them either
Dude, Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets is S tier psychedelic rock. Amazing albums.
Creed was the first band I ever fell in love with when I was a child. First two albums hold up really well still.
Same. My tastes have changed wildly since then but every now and then I'll go back and listen to those albums and I still love them.
Yes… ignoring with arms wide open makes human clay really good. The album art is still shit though
shout out to the Photoshop chart function. that's dad design! respect! I think of dad rock as the kind of music that gets comments like, 'no one makes music like this anymore.' I'm okay with liking bands that are older and appeal to the older crowd. but then I'm older, and the bands I grew up with are parents with kids in college.
"If it's gay to call an attractive dude gay... Then call me gay." great statement
dad rock is also music that a 12 year old who listened to teen spirit and bohemian rhapsody once and who thinks all the other kids at his middle school still listen to justin bieber
IM 13 AND WHILE THE REST OF MY SCHOOL LISTENS TO JUSTIN BIEBER I LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC LIKE SLIPKNOT NAS AND THIN LIZZY
Pink Floyd is an easy s tier
Really good list , I'd agree with most ,I'm 43 and got into it when around 15 and do listen to the older stuff but try to keep up with the new stuff/bands ,allways on the look out ,lov of metal only gets stronger the older I get ,I just don't want to drop into that zone like some of my friends that seem to be stuck in 1996 and not progressed no matter how many songs I try and share it's just weird lol
I love Pink Floyd though, and im not smoking weed, sure they have obnoxious young fans, that listens to The Wall and goes "Im deep, im 20 and love this, god I was born in the wrong generation"
But in all fairness the band were extremely good, music composition wise and lyric wise
Didn't like them in hs and love them 20 yrs later
Mammoth WVH, ironically, is dad rock
The irony in calling Megadeth "Dad Rock" as well saying that those Dad fans never had sex...
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You are one of the funniest people on earth. I could listen to you talk on this topic all day. I laughed my ass of the entire time. Bravo
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You should make a butt rock tier list part 2 also RIP to Taylor, my condolences to his family/friends and rest of foo fighters. Respect to fin also for showing his condolences
Imagine thinking Kid Rock was ever good, but all of Tool's music is bad? Or that Creed's music is more inventive and less boring than Queens Of The Stone Age? Someone quick, get this guy some help.
"But Dad rock isn't a sound, it's not an age, it's a state of mind". I died🤣
Edit: Also, I'm 20 and I love Pink Floyd and a lot of other older bands and artists as well as newer artists. And no, I don't smoke weed much at all. I smoke maybe once or twice a year.
Finn: *Puts Megadeth and Tool on the D list.
Me: "...and I was personally offended by that."
Greta Van Fleet above Tool? Shocking!
I disagree with some of his listings but he cracks me up
Just became a dad yesterday! Good timing with this video 😅
Congratulations!
Hell yeah for putting some respect on Creeds name haha
I went to an Eagles gig recently with my dad, and it was by far the oldest audience I've ever seen.
The standing section had chairs to accommodate for the age.
Definitely Grandad rock.
Thats actually kinda hilarious though ☠
@@madiii3279 it was lol. Was also a great gig 🤟
Lol that's great. I saw them in 2008 *with* my grandparents. 😅
RHCP and especially Pink F'ing Floyd 2 levels below Foo Fighters? Have you even heard of Dark Side of the Moon? Insanity... I respect ur view on RHCP but their best 2 albums are Californication and Stadium Arcadium.