Playlist: Quintessential Early 2000s Dad Rock

It’s a family BBQ in the blistering heat of an early 2000s summer. Your dad is grilling in the backyard. What’s playing on the speakers? This playlist.

Written and illustrated by Olivia Abercrombie

Early 2000s rock had a GRIP on any father with a passion for screaming at the television while watching their team lose the big game, a deep desire to peruse the two-by-four-stocked shelves of Home Depot, and an inclination for staring out the window in order to ponder the incoming weather. So the next time you’re missing the smell of hamburgers sizzling on the grill or the grizzled, serial-smoker voices from the grunge-inspired genre lovingly deemed “butt rock” of the early 2000s, crank up this playlist to drown yourself in nostalgia.