Who or what would you put in Room 101?
For non-Brits, Room 101 is the BBC programme hosted by Paul Merton in which the week's guest is invited to nominate half a dozen things they hate to be dropped in it. A few people have become infamous, like Anne Robinson nominating the Welsh, or Michael Grade nominating Dr Who - "We've seen Star Wars, we've seen ET, then we had these cardboard things clonking across the floor. I hate sci-fi anyway. So I cancelled it".
What would I put in Room 101?
First up, music journalists.
The late Frank Zappa described this species as "People that can't write writing about people that can't play for the benefit of people that can't read". As a species, they have this ridiculous idea that popular music isn't actually about music at all, but is really all about 'style' and 'attitude'. All real music gets dismissed by these Stalinist idiots while they champion talentless rubbish. Unfortunately they're read by 17-year olds that have yet to learn to distinguish facts from opinion, and can be convinced that ridiculously overrated acts like The Smiths really are the most influential band of all time.
Posted by TimHall at May 23, 2002 11:29 AMI have been asked to the same thing i am going to put in Seagulls and people that critazise then do it themselves