Comments on: Bah! Rotters! http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/02/02/bah-rotters/ Music, Photography, Railways, Games and Opinion Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Martyn Read http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/02/02/bah-rotters/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Martyn Read Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:54:02 +0000 http://kalyr.com/wordpress/?p=183#comment-258 Well the WCML was totally closed for engineering work so they had to travel via Derby and the MML? Sorry, wrong decade.... Well the WCML was totally closed for engineering work so they had to travel via Derby and the MML?

Sorry, wrong decade….

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/02/02/bah-rotters/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Tim Hall Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:06:43 +0000 http://kalyr.com/wordpress/?p=183#comment-257 I just hate the 'prog-rock-is-crap-and-punk-saved-us-from-it' cliche which has been perpetuated by generations of lazy music journalists for the past 25 years. Most of the people who will tell you how terrible 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' is have probably never actually heard the album. Actually, the 'Tales' reference was from the first episode, which was set in 1974. They should have used the 'On and On and On and On and On' bit from "Ritual". I just hate the ‘prog-rock-is-crap-and-punk-saved-us-from-it’ cliche which has been perpetuated by generations of lazy music journalists for the past 25 years. Most of the people who will tell you how terrible ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’ is have probably never actually heard the album.

Actually, the ‘Tales’ reference was from the first episode, which was set in 1974. They should have used the ‘On and On and On and On and On’ bit from “Ritual”.

]]> By: Chris http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/02/02/bah-rotters/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Chris Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:12:42 +0000 http://kalyr.com/wordpress/?p=183#comment-256 They don't want to frighten the audience off and it's not a two-hour show! They don’t want to frighten the audience off and it’s not a two-hour show!

]]> By: NRT http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2005/02/02/bah-rotters/comment-page-1/#comment-255 NRT Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:27:42 +0000 http://kalyr.com/wordpress/?p=183#comment-255 It was set in 1976, so if they were trying to summarise the rejection of art-rock for punk at that time, I thought they achieved that fairly well. It was set in 1976, so if they were trying to summarise the rejection of art-rock for punk at that time, I thought they achieved that fairly well.

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