Basically, none of us and the vast majority of music lovers need to justify or apologize our enjoyment of all kinds of music
to a useless minority of dead in the ears & heart & heart old dogmatic fundamentalists..
a very offensive statement,
Iam not asking anyone to apologise for anything.
my belief is that the best commercial songs were not written with the intention of being a commercial success, and that all the best written songs were written because the writer felt strongly about his subject and his motive was not solely to make money, I would classify three songs immediately in this category, masters of war, imagine, first time ever.
now i do not know, about the first two, but i think its unlikely, it has been recorded, why MacColl wrote the last song and it was not to be a number one hit. now punk folk rocker reead my posts and stop making childish and offensive comments