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Thread #156935 Message #3704099
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Apr-15 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: Why does modern music sound so different
Subject: RE: Why does modern music sound so different
"Jim. I never called Boomtown Rats a folk band."
You said "Mi#odays" was a folk song - ergo......
"However, a song that records an event, mindset of a time and place etc for posterity"
It's said to have been inspired by a schoolyard massacre, but unless you knew that you wouldn't have a clue what it was about - the difference between folk songs and most of the modern output.
May be easy to sng in the folk clubs you're involved with - the audiences in the clubs would have sat bemused (if they hadn't gone down to the bar to fill up during a 'silly spot")
They/we liked their songs to actually say and communicate something.
The fact that Dave Burland likes and sang the song is indicative of his taste - nothing else - but a mentor is a mentor, I suppose.
You still seem to be stuck with "it's a folksong if I day so".
"Titialtion", bawdry and eroticism, such as to be found in Bonny Black Hare, goes through or national culture like Blackpool goes through rock and always has done - part of the way we identfy ourselves - folksong, in my opinion, handles it brilliantly.
Jim Carroll