Re: Friday Filk: Another Viking Classic

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:35:52 -0400


Jane Williams:

> Ah. Pop music. No wonder I had no idea. Written in
> 1975, it says on that page. I'd have been 10 - but I
> wouldn't have been listening to that. Of course, if it
> was actually any good then it would still be being
> played every year since, and the listeners age would
> be irrelevant, like Mozart - but it's pop.

You're making the same grump as Bernard Levin once did, and falling into the same factual error. Good pop often -is- played every year since first written, and by that test 'Fernando' is good pop.

Andrew

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