To think Ed Sheeran is a whiney old moaner?

[MrsWinnibago]

I think he's terrible! DH loves him and I think he's shocking. I LOVE good folk and any good singer but he's so overrated!

Whiney shitey Passenger

Oops

bah, he's dull imo.

I think Passenger were specially designed just to churn out songs for bilge like the Vampire Diaries et al. They'd have featured heavily on. The Dawson's Crack (intentional typo) if they had been around then.

Vamp He IS dull! Dull is the right word for him!

You caaaaaah Coco - you're going straight to hell for that

I heard about Small Bump on here and had a look/listen to see what the fuss was about. Nice enough song but a bit underwhelming really. I think I'm too old or something.
Give me some Belle and Sebastian for a nice uplifting bit of folksy pop.

'Give me some Belle and Sebastian for a nice uplifting bit of folksy pop.'

Oh no, they're so tooth rottingly twee.

Alex Ooh Belle and Sebastian! Yes!

I don't know where the 'The' came from, unintentional, next to the intentional. . Can't type straight. :)

Squoosh they are not!

For a bit of folkiness I'm fond of a bit of Johnny Flynn

I could only listen to B&S if I was running through a summer meadow catching butterflies in a net. And I don't ten to do that too often.

"You were laid on your back with the boy from the Arab Strap"

Hardly twee! THe boy from the Arab Strap was a lad in a band who slept with his gf.

Not twee! It's Pretty sounding cos' it's a nice opposition to the lyrics.

Squoosh ooh you're being deliberately rude! The songs of B and B are often really dark!

I do know though that B&S fans are a loyal bunch. My colleague used to go puce with rage if I dissed them.

Right. Not folk but blues. Try this if you want a real song for real women.

Twee you say?

You MUST hear that song. She was a prostitute and bar singer...one of the most underrated and unrecognized of her generation.

Ed sheeran isn't folk! What are you saying about?

She wrote about what she knew...in the TWENTIES! Imagine! Hear those lyrics!

I'm listening, 'I got something between my legs that'll make a dead man come'.

She's got skillz!

Dd (11) who ought to be in bed wants me to say that she agrees with you OP, in fact she was saying something very similar today. Her friend adores ES and she was trying to think of a way to break it to her that she doesn't feel the same!