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October 26, 2004

Teenage Kicks

Posted by nerdling | October 26, 2004 12:21 PM

The legendary and hugely influential DJ John Peel has passed away. I'm not going to go crazy with the eulogizing, but Peel was a major force in the world of pop music.

If you are not familiar with him, now would be a good time to revisit some Peel Sessions, or just cue up The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks"—Peel's favorite song.

"I'm a great believer in getting your priorities wrong, setting your sights low so that you don't go through your whole life frustrated that you never became prime minister. Really, it's playing and listening to records that I like."
John Peel

[David at largehearted boy has posted an MP3 from Smog's 2001 Peel Session, for those who would like to listen.]

The new Leonard Cohen album came out today. I haven't heard much, but I'm guessing it's very Cohen-esque.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that Clipse is a terrible, terrible MC. On a brighter note, however, the soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas takes me all the way back to sixth grade with songs like "Motown Philly" and "Killing in the Name Of."

I played the game over the weekend—do not ask how I did it, but I did—and it is just as awesome as you would expect.

It never fails. You cave and buy an Apple product and they go ahead and release a nicer new one: meet the iPod Photo, available in 40 or 60 gig models for $499 and $599.

Fortunately, I have no use for a full color screen—and I have better things to do with six hundred dollars—nor will I have enough CDs to fill up 60 gigs until Apple comes out with a bigger, badder, smaller, lighter and cooler iPod—assuming the cooler bit were possible.