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Thread #155357 Message #3664371
Posted By: MGM·Lion
28-Sep-14 - 11:49 PM
Thread Name: What makes a new song a folk song?
Subject: RE: What makes a new song a folk song?
Yesyesyesyes very inclusive and nonpartisan and niceworkifucangetit
but as Peter Bellamy never tired of saying & I never tire of quoting
That's not a folk club it's an anything club
so why be so toffeenosed & morally superior about it
Musket might think that's bollix but that's for the very simple reason that he's got it all wrong
I mean just listen 2 yourselves == 'inclusive' 'fun' 'decent night out' 'music out of what theyve got'
all v virtuous & egalitarian & self-justifying for busting the trades descrptns act
but nowt to do with folk which is a perfectly good term which had a rational referent till all you HumptyDumptys happened along after which it has ceased to have any real meaning at all
& if you really can't all of you hear the moral superiority that puts in your tone then you should all go to whatever is the aural equivalent of Specsavers
but then Folk survived the industrial revolution and the world wars and all that stuff despite all dire predictions and it'll survive the bollox&pigshit you're all talking
so carry on & hope it keeps fine 4U
☺〠☺~M~☺〠☺