depends on how you see folkmusic. I think Pulp's Common People is one of the best folksongs ever. If you put all of Leon Rosselsons, Eric Bogles, Ewan MacColl and Steve Knightley's talents together - great as these writers are- I'm sure they couldn't come up with a better song about being English, and what it feels like being born into this bloody class system. Sheer genius - and the whole country understood what it was talking about - not just the tiny folky segment.

No jigs, no reels, no DADGAD guitar, no playing false and prettifying the language, no ancient instrumentation or ballade form, rustic setting, and all the other stuff that makes me wonder why the folk world saw nothing about my life that needed expressing.