Thanks for that vote of approval, Greg - love you too... ;-/

Maybe I should have been clearer. That was specifically in response to Shimrod, who *was* very clearly objecting to non-traditional music being included in folk music awards. Eric the red was also making the same argument. The "challenging" and "commercial" quotes come straight from Shimrod's post as of 12:55PM, 25 Nov 06.

As for your last paragraph, I absolutely agree. The problem is when the disagreement comes from the "Change is an entropic process and, hence, inevitably leads to loss" viewpoint. That's an opinion that I fundamentally disagree with, because it tries to embalm what it loves in its current position (or more usually, in the position it was a few decades ago). And embalming requires the thing in question to be dead as a doornail.

Graham.