IC we've moved from the BS department. I wasn't quite sure I should inflict this thread on the serious folk music discussions, so I initially put it down there.

Akenaton: I agree completely. I won't let anyone else make up my mind for me which songs are irredeemably bad. Someone (usually the writer) usually thought them pretty good (and we have to keep in mind, us folkies, that what we think is cutting, incisive, heart-rending, or just simply a whompin' good time, is considered boring at best to most people). That doesn't mean, however, that we can't have our own opinions as to what songs are a terrible waste of petrochemicals. . . . ;-)

Any comments on "From A Distance"? I think it's a wonderful song, but it seems that it got co-opted by the pop people in at least a couple schlocky renditions, and I suspect that it did because they simply had no idea what Julie Gold was really saying (I suspect that non-folkies don't have functioning Sarcas-O-Meters).

Cheers,

                              -- Arne