The host of Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me spends his spare time listening to Castaways and Cutouts.
I feel like my high school years just imploded into a fountain of nerd.
“Nicki Minaj, “Super Bass”
The accents, the Slick Rick joke, that thing where you make up hand motions with your friends to the chorus.”
I don’t care how freaking overplayed this is, this is definitely top twenty.
I’m torn between my overwhelming “yes this is exactly the list that NPR listeners would select as best five albums of the year” and “but four out of five of these are fucking incredible albums.”
Sorry though, any list that doesn’t include My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is wrong. What’s that you say? It came out in 2010? I can’t hear you.
Also see NPR Music’s Top 100 Songs of 2011. Das Racist makes it on there, as they ought.
Peter Sagal’s favorite band is The Decemberists.
Dear Star Trek people: Here’s a picture @nprfreshair took while working at Wait Wait.
You can see the rest of my Wait Wait photos here, if you’re so inclined.
