LINK: Via Socialism in an Age of Waiting, I see that John Peel has died. Not being British, I'm unable to have the same fond memories of him that are appearing on British blogs, but I do remember discovering fairly early on, when I'd make the hours-long trip to Ann Arbor to visit siblings/buy albums, the involvement of John Peel in an album was always a good sign of redeeming musical value, a hard thing to guess at for certain in the pre-internet days (and before every album in a band's catalogue got reissued, and... life was difficult in the early-to-mid 90s, was it not?).
Oh, and "Teenage Kicks" is a pretty darn good song. The man had taste, it's hard to deny...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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