Archive for December, 2006

Playlist for 12/9/06

December 9th 2006

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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Tomorrow’s Show: 1996

December 8th 2006

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

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Playlist for 12/02/06 - “Lefty Awards”

December 2nd 2006

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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“Lefty Awards” This Saturday

December 1st 2006

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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