we won't be there to find out

True - but, but in terms of the significance, continuance & tradition of Great British Art, you can bet your bottom dollar it won't be Lowry.

Anyway, I was just miffed with people who like the one thing doing so thinking of the other thing being for 'pretentious prats', which of course they never are, are they?

As for the song... In the context of the political, social & cultural realities of 1978 it was offered up as the blandest of all possible hot-pots spiked with diazepam for a country on the verge of collapse - and was swallowed up wholesale. The first time I heard it was from a floor-singer at our local folk club, who introduced as '...proper bloody music about proper bloody art...' - an attitude which sadly prevails. In the context of the other popular music of the time (which is perhaps best exemplified by the Factory's Short Circuit compilation) I would have thought calling it 'feeble & false' was doing the blessed thing a favour.