"performed by a failed Gene Vincent imitator in Prestwich"

"The sound on [The Fall's] Grotesque is a seemingly impossible combination of the shambolic and the disciplined, the cerebral-literary and the idiotic-physical.  The album is structured around the opposition between the quotidian and the weird-grotesque.  It seems as if the whole record has been constructed as a response to a hypothetical conjecture.  What if rock and roll had emerged from the industrial heartlands of England rather than the Mississippi Delta?  The rockabilly on "Container Drivers" or "Fiery Jack" is slowed by meat pies and gravy, its dreams of escape fatally poisoned by pints of bitter and cups of greasy-spoon tea.  It is rock and roll as working men's club cabaret, performed by a failed Gene Vincent imitator in Prestwich.  That what if? speculations fail.  Rock and roll needed the endless open highways; it could never have begun in England's snarled-up ring roads and claustrophobic conurbations."

Mark Fisher, The Weird and The Eerie