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| | Remembering "the Peel Sessions." By Douglas Wolk |
 | | Even in his 60s, Peel had the instinct for novelty of a 17-year-old music fanatic—his undying fondness for late-'80s grind-core bands like Extreme Noise Terror and Napalm Death was something of a joke among his listeners, few of whom shared it. |
 | | Although he generally favored music from the U.K., when American indie rock blossomed in the early '90s, he glommed on to that, too; Pavement recorded a great Peel session (featuring "Circa 1762") the month their first album was released. |
 | | , a 1983 collection of their sessions and singles, they included snippets of Peel's on-air chatter about them. |
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