It seems like in most music discussions today the music of the pre-rock era (1890-1953) is entirely overlooked, or usually, if it is talked about, only one or two artists are mentioned. It seems music discussions go from classical, straight to the birth of rock and roll in the 50s. There's a whole 60 years of recorded music that rarely gets discussed in-between there. If they do they usually only mention on or two artists or songs, or music from a soundtrack. Some of the biggest artists and songs of all-time come from this period and are rarely talked about today, or if they are, the focus is on their work after this era (Frank Sinatra's albums for example)
Maybe one of the reasons is there is a perception of monotony in the music of the era. Maybe it is assumed that since so many genres starting branching out in the 50s and 60s that before that time most music sounded kinda samey. This is the exact opposite of the truth. Right from the get go you had a variety in style. You had the Edison style crooner's of the 1890s, who had to have a louder voice to boom into the acoustic microphone, but then you also had military bands from the 1890s recording instrumentals, it was essentially jazz.
Then from the late going from the late 1890s to the 1900s alone you had Scott Joplin releasing his famous instrumentals, Arthur Collins was taking ragtime to the forefront (which was the first big musical movement similar to Grunge or Punk), Vess Ossman was shredding on the banjo, The Haydn Quartet were the first huge 4 man band, Henry Burr (who was called the king of pop, but of course now he's called the original king of pop) was crooning, Orchestras were making songs with the first-half jazz instrumentals and second half being vocals, Ada Jones (the first big female star) were making more experimental music, foreign acts like Enrico Caruso were cutting songs from operas, Bert Williams was singing the blues, and Billy Murray was doing the most innovation with big bands backing him, changing up his [vocals]
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
