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I’m always surprised with how the weather affects our moods. Here’s what you heard on today’s rain-soaked version of the show.

The Replacements - “Within Your Reach” (from Hootenany)
Superchunk - “Rainy Streets” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
R.E.M. - “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” (from Reckoning)
Bright Eyes - “Train Under Water” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Guided By Voices - “Everybody Thinks I’m a Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)” (from Half Smiles of the Decomposed)
Radiohead - “Sit Down, Stand Up” (from Hail to the Theif)
The Fiery Furnaces - “Sing for Me” (from The Fiery Furnaces EP)
The Hold Steady - “Killer Parties” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Animal Collective - “Grass” (from Feels)
M83 - “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)
Rilo Kiley - “My Slumbering Heart” (from The Execution of All Things)
Big Star - “O My Soul” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Band of Horses - “Is There a Ghost?” (from Cease to Begin)

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Here’s what you heard on today’s two hour edition of the show:

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - “Another Morning Stoner” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Elvis Costello - “The Beat (Live)” (from Live at the El Mocambo)
The Replacements - “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Pulp - “Mis-Shapes” (from Different Class)
Band of Horses - “Is There a Ghost?” (from Cease to Begin)
Band of Horses - “The Funeral” (from Everything All the Time)
Radiohead - “Reckoner” (from In Rainbows)
R.E.M. - “Imitation of Life” (from R.E.M. Live)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists - “Walking to Do” (from Shake the Sheets)
Jose Gonzales - “Teardrop” (from In Our Nature)
Massive Attack - “Unfinished Sympathy” (from Blue Lines)
Catherine Wheel - “Black Metallic” (from Ferment)
Primal Scream - “Movin’ on Up” (from Screamadelica)
Camper Van Beethoven - “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)

The Jesus and Mary Chain - “Just Like Honey” (from Psychocandy)
Mission of Burma - “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, & Marches)
Fugazi - “Give Me the Cure” (from 13 Songs)
Television - “See No Evil” (from Marquee Moon)
Arcade Fire - “[Antichrist Television Blues]” (from Neon Bible)
Wilco - “Impossible Germany” (from Sky Blue Sky)
The Hold Steady - “Stevie Nix” (from Separation Sunday)
Rogue Wave - “Chicago x 12″ (from Asleep at Heaven’s Gate)
Stars - “Set Yourself on Fire” (from Set Yourself on Fire)
Brazillian Girls - “Crosseyed and Painless” (from Brazillian Girls Remix EP)
The New Pornographers - “All the Old Showstoppers” (from Challengers)
Against Me! - “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)

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Here’s what you heard this morning:

The Weakerthans - “Sun in an Empty Room” (from Reunion Tour)
Radiohead - “Bodysnatchers” (from In Rainbows)
Band of Horses - “No One’s Gonna Love You” (from Cease to Be)
The Wrens - “Hopeless” (from The Meadowlands)
Eisley - “Invasion” (from Combinations)
Morrisey - “Everyday is Like Sunday” (from Suedehead: The Singles)
I’m From Barcelona - “We’re From Barcelona” (from Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Slowdive - “Allison” (from Souvlaki)
Shocking Pinks - “The Narrator” (from Shocking Pinks)
New Order - “Love Vigilantes” (from Low-Life)
The Clash - “Police on my Back” (from Sandanista!)
Talking Heads - “Crosseyed & Painless” (from Stop Making Sense)
Spoon - “The Underdog” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)

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Here’s today’s playlist. It had more of an old school Left of the Dial feel today. I’ll add the links I promised later but I wanted to put the song list up.

Black Lips - “I Once Saw a Ghost (Lean)” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Eisley - “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Jonathan Rice - “Further North” (from Further North)
The Pipettes - “Pull Shapes” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Rilo Kiley - “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Bjork - “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - “It Was There That I Saw You” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Shout Out Louds - “Impossible” (from Our Ill Wills)
David Bowie - “Young Americans” (from Young Americans)
The Replacements - “Hold My Life” (from Tim)
Ben Lee - “Thrash Unreal” (from Ben Lee Sings Against Me! - New Wave)
Bright Eyes - “The Calendar Hung Itself” (from Fevers & Mirrors)
Radiohead - “Let Down” (from OK Computer)
Sonic Youth - “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Neutral Milk Hotel - “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
The Jam - “Precious” (from The Gift)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists - “Parallel or Together?” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
R.E.M. - “World Leader Pretend” (from Green)
Los Campesinos! - “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s)” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Against Me!- “New Wave” (from New Wave)

And the links I promised:
Ben Lee Sings Against Me’s “New Wave”
Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows

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