I have every Clash album for your information sheperdlass and before I discovered The Beatles they were my favourite band so tut tut! Some interesting analogies -I agree I did generalise in my last posting but I don't see a problem in that, as I was only trying to illustrate a divide in social and cultural acceptance using the Pogues (given reference point -and I am an admirer of their work) as my example. I don't think Punk set out to offend parents I believe it was intended to alienate them totally.Whereas, most parents love folk music and would probably have an influence on who the teenage folkie listened to it is pretty much the most acceptable music for teenagers to listen to; even my grandma liked most of it. My parents loved Dylans songs but didn't think much to his voice.However, that was never a problem.I do play devils advocate on quite a few issues raised I find it is in my nature to do so.

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