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Takes me back in time...hated folk music

posted 12 years ago by jingster666
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This movie takes me back in time to the '50' and early/mid-60's and reminds me just how much I absolutely HATED folk music!!! The Limelighters, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joan Baez, that "Hang-down-your- head-Tom-Dooley" bunch, and all the rest. Thank God for the the Beatles, the British blues invasion and when Dylan went electric. Thought for awhile there that I was gonna have to shoot myself in the face or something. Sheeeeesh!!! Justifiable death to all folkies, all hootenannies, and all white, middle-class, liberal arts students majoring in Sociology or Psychology. Let my people go...

[–] scottythefield 11 years ago

You're quite hostile.

[–] bedrock1960 11 years ago

Perhaps you should have shot yourself in the face.

[–] Ironman54 9 years ago

"Justifiable death to all folkies, all hootenannies, and all white, middle-class, liberal arts students majoring in Sociology or Psychology."

Laughing my a** off here 'cause I couldn't have said it better myself !!
I'm not as hostile as you but I hear ya !! I was a little kid during that period so 'Puff' was a song I liked. I tried to get into/understand the whole scene but when the Beatles/Stones/Kinks hit our shores, thats all she wrote. BTW, wasn't there a TV show called "Hootenanny" ?? My father thought they were all 'commies' LOL !!

[–] clogan8307 9 years ago

Bob Dylan was a major part of the folk music scene. Him and Johnny Cash.

[–] Tim-Buktu 9 years ago

You might like Tom Leher
He has a similar attitude toward folk music