Original sentence: The album was refered to in a sneering manner by several of the punk rock bands that emerged at least partly as a reaction to what was perceived as the out-of-touch and atrophied nature of much 'dinosaur' rock music at that time.Topographic Oceans was often held up as an example of all that was felt by many to be wrong with 1970s progressive rock, being described with adjectives such as 'directionless', 'pretentious', 'self-indulgent' and so forth
Edited sentence: The album was often refered to in a sneering manner by several of the punk rock bands that emerged at least partly as a reaction to what was perceived as the out-of-touch and atrophied nature of much 'dinosaur' rock music at that time.Topographic Oceans was often held up as an example of all that was wrong with 1970s progressive rock, being described with adjectives such as 'directionless', 'pretentious', 'self-indulgent' and so forth