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Here’s what you heard for this semester’s final show - our tribute to 1996

Belle and Sebastian - “Me and the Major” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister - Live)
The Fugees - “Ready or Not” (from The Score)
Local H - “Bound for the Floor” (from As Good as Dead)
Pearl Jam - “Mankind” (from No Code)
Rage Against the Machine - “People of the Sun” (from Evil Empire)
Social Distortion - “I Was Wrong” (from White Light, White Heat, White Trash)
Wilco - “Red Eyed & Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)” (from Being There)
Noel Gallagher - “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” (from MTV Unplugged)
Afghan Whigs - “Creep” - (from Honky’s Ladder EP)
Daft Punk - “Around the World” (from Homework)
Manic Street Preachers - “Everything Must Go” (from Everything Must Go)
R.E.M. - “Electrolyte” (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Beck - “Devil’s Haircut” (from Odelay)

Thanks again to Mike for being my frequent co-host this past semester. WQAQ is currently on semester break but keep checking here to see when Left of the Dial returns to the airwaves.

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Tune in this Saturday for a retrospective on music that came out on ten years ago. It should be fun!

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The first annual “Lefty Awards” were handed out today and Mike and I had fun looking back at some of our favorite music from the past year.

Here’s what you heard (and the awards they won too)
Pearl Jam - “Gone” - “Live Lefty” Winner (from Albany, NY 5/12/2006)
The Hold Steady - “Stuck Between Stations” - Brian’s Favorite Album of 2006 Lefty (from Boys and Girls in America)
Dirty Pretty Things - “Doctors & Dealers” - “Brad Johnson” Lefty (for a consistently solid but not great album) (from Waterloo to Anywhere)
Lupe Fiasco - “Hurt Me Soul” - Outstanding Achievement in Hip Hop Lefty (from Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor)
Spoon - “The Book I Write” - Soundtrack Lefty (from Stranger than Fiction OST)
Sonic Youth - “Incinerate” - “Don’t Call it a Comeback” Lefty (from Rather Ripped)
Belle and Sebastian - “White Collar Boy” - The “Most Offensive Humorous Reference” Lefty (from The Life Pursuit)
Sleater-Kinney - “Modern Girl” - The “Farewell” Lefty (from 2005’s The Woods)
TV on the Radio - “Wolf Like Me” - “Critics Choice” Lefty (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys - “A Certain Romance” - “Lebron James” Lefty (from meeting and/or exceeding tremendous hype) (from Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
The Rapture - “Woo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh” - “Wreckx-N-Effect” Lefty (for best “Rump Shaker) (from Pieces of the People We Love)

Next week’s show is the last show of the semester, so I’ll be planning something for it.

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Left of the Dial is proud to present the first annual “Lefty” Awards celebrating some of the best music this past year.

Tune in this Saturday at 11:00 AM for this very special event (so special that Mike G will be joining the party!)

Lefty himself approves:

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