One last comment before I have to head    back to work: It's worth seeking out good songs to balance the ones I don't like rather than convincing people not to like the ones I don't.

There is a certain mind-set that doesn't like Stan Rogers, finding him sexist. To paraphrase Margaret Nelson: (yes Phil, that Margaret) If someone can come up with a line as poetic as

Is this the face that won for her the man

Whose amazed and trembling fingers placed that ring upon her hand

then OK.