More Peel Quotes

Some Peel quotes for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Rossall for these:

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After Morrissey's falsetto wailing at the end of 'What Difference DoesIt Make?': "Ah, the sound of distant seagulls"

If Elvis were alive today, I think he'd really understand happyhardcore."

People like Mike Read and DLT would often complain that they couldn't goanywhere without being recognized, but of course would go everywhere ina tartan suit carrying a guitar, so they would have attracted attentionin a lunatic asylum. In the streets of London, people would go, "Who thef**k is that? Isn't that that Mike Read bloke?"

From when he was presenting Top of the Pops. After a video of the dismalAretha Franklin/George Michael duet (i forget it's name), it cuts backto Peel who says:"You know, Aretha Franklin can make any old rubbish sound good, and ithink she just has."

Show starts.A motorcycle revving noise.Some guitars being very loud and heavy.Then some guitars being very loud and heavy with a man shouting. alllast about five seconds."Three tracks from Napalm Death, there, in session tonight..."

In 1993 Peel took over the lunchtime slot for a week afterthen-controller Johnny Beerling was challenged by someone at aconference. He'd obviously been told "Look man, we don't want tocompromise your show, but remember there will be a different audiencelistening, and we do have a daytime playlist to follow... just bear thatin mind, OK?" First record - "Why Are People Grudgeful?" by The Fall,followed with the obscure reggae original version of the same song. Hethen continued in the same vein, playing a lot of hard-trance, the oddBeefheart classic and making snide comments about most of the playlist.For instance, the Chris Issak which included the line '...and you can'tdo a thing to stop me' to which Peel retorted, "Yes I can, mate, I cantake your awful CD out of the machine and throw it as far away from thisstudio as possible." For a brief moment, we thought we'd won. Next week,he was back on the night-shift. Bet off.

Peel's compering debut on TOTP: "In case you're wondering who this funnyold bloke is, I'm the one who comes on Radio 1 late at night and playsrecords made by sulky Belgian art students in basements dying of TB."

They sound like somebody's been given a good kicking - set to music.

Another TOTP classic, after a particularly dismal Duran video:JP (jaunty): Well that was the best song I've heard since...well, teatime. Mind you, I had a late tea.

"Janice has just phoned to ask if I can play some Whitney Houston.Haven't got any Whitney tonight, Janice, but here's Bolt Thrower"