![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, the only hard line we drew was that songs for this list had to be released as singles between the years of 1997 - when the final strains of Gen-X grunge had dissolved into something inherently top 40-friendlier - and 2004, after which alt-rock had a radio comeback and Grey’s Anatomy-type piano balladry turned pop-rock into something more dolorous and epic. How did we define Minivan Rock? Well, that answer is much more complicated: involving countless microscopically drawn lines of demarcation, and weeks upon weeks of debate about the eligibility of specific artists (and weeks more about specific songs by those specific artists). ( BuzzFeed wrote about a similar idea in 2017.) And when the local top 40 or adult top 40 channel was blasting through the car radio, these were the songs most likely to be fun for the whole family. While those Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross hits were ostensibly best enjoyed by the affluent while cruising in their personal vanity vessels on the high seas, by the late ’90s the vehicular status symbol for the suburban had become the minivan. Why Minivan Rock? Well, think of it as the Y2K-straddling equivalent to the smooth soft rock that was similarly ubiquitous on radio playlists of the mid-1970s to early ’80s - what’s since come to be known as Yacht Rock. ![]()
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