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John Peelisms
These have been nicked from the Artrocker website, so apologies for the plagiarism. Still very, very good Peelisms, none the less.
On why he continued to seek out weirdo underground music even into his 60s:
"I don't read the same books I did when I was 20, I don't watch the same films I did when I was I was 20, why would I listen to the same music?"
Words to live by.
Peel's debut on TOTP:
"In case you're wondering who this funny old bloke is, I'm the one who comes on Radio 1 late at night and plays records madeby sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB."
Someone said he met Peel and being all aquiver blurted out 'This is a dream come true, meeting you'. Without a pause Peel replied:
"You should get yourself some bigger and better dreams son".
........favourite Peel quote (which has sadly taken on a new light), from 2003 following a particularly dismal performance by Liverpool F.C.:
"Of course if I keep getting this worked up about it I'm going to give myself a heart attack. And then people are going to say "well he would have wanted to go that way". Let me assure you that I wouldn't'
One of his typical "legal warnings":
"It is my duty to warn you that in the next few hours you may be exposed to language and concepts you find unsettling. If this is the case I suggest you turn over [beat] And here's Fuckatron, on Cunty records, with "I Sodomised my Dad" "
On TOTP:
"And that was Bon Jovi - "You Give Music A Bad Name."
"I hope all you degenerate young hooligans have a bracing Christmas and that in the new year we can devise some method of helping keep you off the streets"
Another TOTP classic, after a particularly dismal Duran video: JP (jaunty):
"Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, tea time. Mind you, I had a late tea."
...... his typical comment after playing a particularly brutal tune such as "Cadaveric Incubation of Endo-Parisites" by Carcass, where the band members growled incomprehensibly about sacrificing babies or somesuch:
"I have it on very good authority that they all love their mothers".
FSOL were playing out live. At the end they were fading this echo in and out:
"Are you done? ... er ... come on .... oh you're taking the piss now"
"Now that is, I'm afraid, what we doctors call 'bollocks'"
After playing two tracks from the unreleased "Viva Hate":
"Ah, I do like springing these surprise on you, the musical equivalent of introducing wildlife into your underpinnings...."
"People ask me, ‘what was the best year for music?’ I always say, 'This year is the best year for music. Prior to that it was the previous year"
"I like to be in the position where I play something and I don’t even know if it’s good or not"
"Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.""
On the Dwarves:
"If hero worship were sex, they'd all be carrying my babies".
Home Truths - after an hilarious T-in-C contribution from one listener:
"Thank you for that Peter, though something in your manner suggests to me that your opinions are best viewed through the sights of a police marksman's rifle."
(when he failed to stop the record before the subsequent track started
"They move very quickly these people" .
After talking to someone who was somehow covered in fur on Home Truths:
"I wish I was covered in fur...or feathers...or something more interesting than just fat"
After an expansive, brain-frying track by someone like Spacemen 3 or Flying Saucer Attack:
"I'm beginning to suspect their spirit of adventure has driven them to experiment with states of mind well beyond those traditionally associated with the consumption of three pints of Old Peculiar."
Janice Long's favourite Peel quote, mentioned on 6Music yesterday, from when they introduced David Cassidy on TOTP:
Janice: 'Ooh, I used to have him on my bedroom wall'
Peel: 'That was very athletic of you Janice'
On why he continued to seek out weirdo underground music even into his 60s:
"I don't read the same books I did when I was 20, I don't watch the same films I did when I was I was 20, why would I listen to the same music?"
Words to live by.
Peel's debut on TOTP:
"In case you're wondering who this funny old bloke is, I'm the one who comes on Radio 1 late at night and plays records madeby sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB."
Someone said he met Peel and being all aquiver blurted out 'This is a dream come true, meeting you'. Without a pause Peel replied:
"You should get yourself some bigger and better dreams son".
........favourite Peel quote (which has sadly taken on a new light), from 2003 following a particularly dismal performance by Liverpool F.C.:
"Of course if I keep getting this worked up about it I'm going to give myself a heart attack. And then people are going to say "well he would have wanted to go that way". Let me assure you that I wouldn't'
One of his typical "legal warnings":
"It is my duty to warn you that in the next few hours you may be exposed to language and concepts you find unsettling. If this is the case I suggest you turn over [beat] And here's Fuckatron, on Cunty records, with "I Sodomised my Dad" "
On TOTP:
"And that was Bon Jovi - "You Give Music A Bad Name."
"I hope all you degenerate young hooligans have a bracing Christmas and that in the new year we can devise some method of helping keep you off the streets"
Another TOTP classic, after a particularly dismal Duran video: JP (jaunty):
"Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, tea time. Mind you, I had a late tea."
...... his typical comment after playing a particularly brutal tune such as "Cadaveric Incubation of Endo-Parisites" by Carcass, where the band members growled incomprehensibly about sacrificing babies or somesuch:
"I have it on very good authority that they all love their mothers".
FSOL were playing out live. At the end they were fading this echo in and out:
"Are you done? ... er ... come on .... oh you're taking the piss now"
"Now that is, I'm afraid, what we doctors call 'bollocks'"
After playing two tracks from the unreleased "Viva Hate":
"Ah, I do like springing these surprise on you, the musical equivalent of introducing wildlife into your underpinnings...."
"People ask me, ‘what was the best year for music?’ I always say, 'This year is the best year for music. Prior to that it was the previous year"
"I like to be in the position where I play something and I don’t even know if it’s good or not"
"Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.""
On the Dwarves:
"If hero worship were sex, they'd all be carrying my babies".
Home Truths - after an hilarious T-in-C contribution from one listener:
"Thank you for that Peter, though something in your manner suggests to me that your opinions are best viewed through the sights of a police marksman's rifle."
(when he failed to stop the record before the subsequent track started
"They move very quickly these people" .
After talking to someone who was somehow covered in fur on Home Truths:
"I wish I was covered in fur...or feathers...or something more interesting than just fat"
After an expansive, brain-frying track by someone like Spacemen 3 or Flying Saucer Attack:
"I'm beginning to suspect their spirit of adventure has driven them to experiment with states of mind well beyond those traditionally associated with the consumption of three pints of Old Peculiar."
Janice Long's favourite Peel quote, mentioned on 6Music yesterday, from when they introduced David Cassidy on TOTP:
Janice: 'Ooh, I used to have him on my bedroom wall'
Peel: 'That was very athletic of you Janice'