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Thread #126930 Message #2829612
Posted By: Jim Carroll
04-Feb-10 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: Songs you shouldn't sing in UK folk club
Subject: RE: Songs you shouldn't sing in UK folk club
" What do you mean "try Adulthood""
I mean if you want to argue, do so and don't indulge in infantile name calling.
'Folk police' is on the same level as schoolyard invective with a nasty edge, and the 'fascists' were the ones were the ones who gassed millions of human beings in their concentratuin camps. Equating either term to holding an opinion, any opinion, on music puts the argument in the gutter.
I certainly don't "laugh up my sleeve" at people who sing 'Flowers' - (I'm rather fond of it as being a part of my political youth), and I have been known to sing 'Green Fields' before now. I put up the parody as an indication of how it is regarded here in Ireland nowadays.
Jim Carroll