Oh God Candy - what have you DONE? You've said 'folk' on the forum - you KNOW that's going to bring Carrie rushing in.
Carrie - list of obscure folk bands for Cindy please - just so she can say 'Oh but haven't you heard of THEM?' much more effective to play em at their own game on folk music (though Carrie classes eminem as folk - as do I).
Anyway Eminem's old hat now - I'm sure Iain has some more current suggestion - I've never heard of any of the ones he posts on the favourite songs thread anyway.
(You better start remembering what folk groups they asked about - Carrie WILL want to know - so do I actually).
The reason they do it though is that they feel they are losing their grasp on the world so cling even harder to the out of date knowledge they have, trying to put your current knowledge down as unimportant to make them feel better. This indicates they have now entered the BOF stage of life (boring old farts), the correct response to this is 'What was it like in the war, Granny? Did you do it with a lot of service-men?' don't stress which war, though if pushed the Boer or Crimean ones are good from a historical date perspective.
Another response is 'Why on earth would I fill my mind up with that crap when I have doddering old gits like you to do it for me.'
or burst into flames and start singing God of Thunder by kiss - they might recognise that, but when you get to the 'I am the lord of the wastelands' bit, cast them into the seventh pit of hell and play Dolly Parton's greatest hits to them.
