"John Barleycorn"
If you think that all oyour song tradition has to offer is a ritualistic song like John Barleycorn, with all it's limitations.
Try opening your ears and mind to Tifties Annie or Clyde's Water, or Jock of the Side, or Martin McDonagh's mind-blowing Lady Margaret (Young Hunting).
Maybe not to everybody's taste but hardly boring
"Traffic"
I thought they died in the 70s and were stuffed and mounted a couple of times since - for short-lived Madame Tussaud-like displays to show what use you can make of corpses (sort of like 101 Uses For a Dead Cat).
The output of these groups have no more shelf-life than a fart in a thunderstorm - here today - by midnight.
Even modern-day pop music enthusiasts would look blank at some of the names trawled up in these arguments to prove that folk is boring.
Even the Beatles had to be given m-to-m resuscitation when the pop industry ran out of ideas - nowadays, you seldom here stuff that hasn't been regurgitated half a dozen times - sort of like Thames tap-water.
If you are unsure of "Chacun à son goût" - happy to help, but I'm sure you can look it up.
Jim Carroll