i love liner notes

so i pick up a copy of the boomtown rats greatest hits, and the liner notes are by irish author joseph oconnor and he's talking about the irish music scene circa 1977

" it's important to say that this was a time when dublin did not really figure on the world rock and roll map. we had thin lizzy and occasional gigs by rory gallagher and a handful of younger irish bands. there was a quartet of northside born-again christians who played peter frampton songs, and who, it was said by some, would never amount to much (that summer, they were changing their name from the hype to u2). and that was about it."

i love stuff like that