Point taken about them being well dodgy on some levels, but I love 'Well Below the Valley' and 'The Cruel Mother' - if only for their weird, creepy otherworldliness. What I can't stand is the jolly, jaunty stuff like the aforementioned 'Day Trip to Bangor' ... and does anyone remember Maddy Prior's truly cringe-making 'Wake Up England'? Much as I now love a lot of what Ms Prior has been involved in, when this came out it nearly put me off folk music for life... 'If you're a truly blue Tory or a liberal in the middle of the road, or a little to the left of Chairman Mao we're all in England here and now... So wake up England!' I've not heard it in years and still those lyrics and that ever-so-chirpy tune is lodged like a bloody limpet in my poor old brain.

Nigel

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