Awesome Father’s Day Rock Songs – Queen – Father To Son

With Father’s Day approaching I thought we could take a look at some cool songs for dad.  This is Awesome Father’s Day Rock Songs – Part 1, Queen - Father To Son

Queen is a great way to start this series off.  They literally have a song about everything lol!  The lyrics involve politics, religion, love, friendship, cars, girls, and human emotion.  I always love listening to a Queen song and figuring out what it’s all about!

Queen II is a phenomenal record.   It’s got some prog elements on it, but also just straight up rockers.  Again,  the lyrics are all over the place and on the song “Father To Son” we get an emotional outpouring that is perfect for Father’s Day.

To me, I get the notion that children don’t always take their father’s advice until they grow older.  So the dad in this track is telling his son some stuff, but also writes him a letter which the son carries with him and doesn’t open until he’s grown. Sometimes that’s how it goes with the relationships we have with our parents.  We don’t always appreciate their words until we grow a bit and truly understand what they meant.

This song was written by Brian May and he seemed to have a lot of ups and downs with his own relationship with his Father.  But I don’t think this song is completely related to just his own personal relationship, only because he’s stated that he never tried to make his songs to introspective.

Nevertheless, on this upcoming Father’s Day, maybe it’s time to just give Dad a call and listen to his words.  Soak up everything he has to say.  Or if you’re a Dad yourself – you could give your own son or daughter some advice or life lessons and just let them know that you are there for them.  That in and of itself means so much to growing kids!

I’ve talked about some interesting music you need to listen to before.  But it’s time for 5 More Rock Mashups you need to hear.  This comes fresh off the official release of a brand-new one.

Alanis Morissette and Joan Jett just released an official mash-up to hype up their summer tour. "Hate Myself for Loving You Oughta Know" was produced by DJ Cummerbund and it combines Jett's "I Hate Myself for Loving You" with Morissette's "You Oughta Know," plus for good measure, a tad bit of "I Love Rock 'n Roll." It’s pretty cool and had me thinking, there are so many great ones out there, that we should take a look at more.

I’ve always been intrigued by mashups.  I’m not exactly sure why, but maybe because it’s taking multiple awesome songs and putting them together for something really fun.  Or maybe it’s because I don’t know how it’s done LOL.  I know music, I play drums…..but I can’t figure out how you can tell what songs would mix together well.

It’s almost like these folks that make these know exactly what they’re doing and they hear a song before they get started and think to themselves, “Oh, that might fit together with X, Y, or Z.”

Again, I really don’t know how it’s done, but when it comes together well….it makes you chuckle and possibly even rock out.  I’m usually amazed by it and love hearing new ones.  So I figured I’d show you some cool ones that you may not have seen or heard before.

These have me thinking, maybe I’ll try to make one someday soon.  But I need to ask somebody how the hell this works hahaha.  Until I get my own worked out, here are 5 more rock mashups you need to hear!

This is the one that just came out that promotes the tour. It sounds really well done. Professional level, and it works really well! https://youtu.be/0P3shkZvO3o?si=aPjUrkKSKS-uPCZF

Like Mastadon's heaviness, but want some funky dance vocals layered over it?  Oh well you're in luck, because that's what you get here.  JT never sounded so good! https://youtu.be/wrkYwLbPg8M?si=NhXDIlwuEHAvE5pU

Can this be real?  Am I having a fever dream?  No, it's real.  And it creeps me out how well it works.  Slipknot over the hypnotic 90's anthem from the British pop group!

It's a summertime pop jam from Katy Perry with vocals from M. Shadows!  Worlds collide with pop and metal meeting.  It works and it's trippy! https://youtu.be/zgO7i40-Ce8?si=3t6OuwwZm9_JfKQb

This one is very odd.  Almost too strange.  But kind of cool how they got Jonathan Davis' vocals to fit over the music.  Worth a listen if not anything else. https://youtu.be/KzA0rJ_hVXc?si=GGYzw4N9Ydx6c_h3