Two things wrong with the BBC2 drama The Rotters’ Club. Firstly the stereotypically negative portrayal of prog-rock (Why couldn’t we actually hear some of Tales from Topographic Oceans?) And why was the train from Birmingham to London hauled by a split-box ‘Peak’?
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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.
They don’t want to frighten the audience off and it’s not a two-hour show!
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”.
Well the WCML was totally closed for engineering work so they had to travel via Derby and the MML?
Sorry, wrong decade….