Yes, I think I knew he was a musician, McGrath. You can be a caustic bugger when you try, can't you? As to the songs, as I've pointed out here before, from my point of view words without music are worthless, and BB's are no exception: less-than-doggerel, without scansion or true rhymes or regularity of rhyming pattern (but I only looked at 2 at random). But that doesn't mean that when they're performed with music they're worthless. I remember, frinstance, many years ago (and before I'd ever heard it sung) studying The Twa Corbies among a number of poems as literature, and not being impressed; but when Maddy Prior sings it, I'm spellbound.Are you saying that because he writes songs he's famous? Somehow, I can't believe it; you exemplify the fact that writing songs and being famous aren't necessary one and the same thing (and I don't mean to be disrespectful there). I think, rather, that you're just ribbing me for not spending long on BB's site.
Guest, Paul: like most of us, I suspect, I like what I like. I can't get enough of the music I do like - why should I waste time listening to music I don't like? Sure, I might have missed the odd nugget, but then I delight in having missed the crap. De gustibus non est disputandum, as Julius Caesar might have said.
By the way, Scabby Doug: thanks for the info from Amazon: much the most pertinent post on this thread (imo).