Shimrod,

Are you addressing a whole threadful of posters who use this thread to talk about non-folk music they like?

Or just me?

Speaking for myself, "reverse" compliments are quite the norm in the local culture where Hardi and I live. Example:

Waitress: Everything OK?
Customer, grinning: Awful!

Waitress leaves with grin of pride-- she made the side dishes herself AND she's spotted you as a fellow local, a pleasure in the midst of tourist season.


People here hate compliments delivered straight-- makes them feel like you're trying to make 'em "puffed up." So I posted in the thread where I remembered people had listed favorite artists. Now it's the subject of attempted religion-trolling, go figure! :~)

Have a nice day.

~Susan