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Thread #155357   Message #3668350
Posted By: GUEST,Punkfolkrocker
12-Oct-14 - 11:45 AM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Back from the bathroom now...

Jim, I never said that track was a British folk / pop crossover..

[I'm an internationalist, that's always my default stance...]

I specificaly described it as a "pop / folk crossover track"

nothing more , nothing less
and the context I described was half a continent away from UK Folk clubs,
and safe middle class sensitivities...

As for "there is no way that can possibly be described as folk in any shape or form"

I think you'd find those war zone fight hardened Yugoslav blokes
might have been in strong disagreement with you there...???

Btw.. is 'PFK' a mistyping for me ?
If so, I'm surprised to be called aggressive !!!???

What me..???
.. in my part of the West Country we were half punk half hippy...

I'm careful to never be belligerent in debating my views,
that's not me, my style, or personality.

Though I do think you tend to be a tad over defensive,
constantly scrutinising every word here through a high gain sensitivity filter,
seemingly endlessly on the look out for things to get annoyed at.

I actually agree with you to a fair extent.

How many more times do I have to moan here about that bloody expensive 'Folk Night' out in Clevedon,
where all we heard was one piss poor rendition of a Beatles song after another,...

If "'PFK" was not meant to refer to me, sorry for misreading..