""And it's ridiculous that so many people just denigrate *all* new music...there's a lot of good stuff about still, admittedly mostly not in the charts....but it was ever thus.""

Absolutely true, just as it is ridiculous that so many people just denigrate *all* folk music...there's a lot of good stuff about still, admittedly mostly not in the charts....but it was ever thus.

But we still get stuff posted like:-

""It's as Folk is a byword for cultural intolerance born, no doubt, from other deep-seated insecurities. Weird given that of all the diverse idioms of Western Popular Music, Folk is the most universally reviled. Go figure!""

or:-

""I'm the biggest musical snob there is, but (mostly) I get on with it in the privacy of my own ivory tower, though this gets difficult in the Radio 2 sucky-blanket realms of Folk Muzak,""

Of which the first seven words have an air of credibility.

Don T.