Coincidences?
November 26th 2007 10:49 pm
Left of the Dial is back on the air this weekend to start the last few shows of the semester. While I’m announcing this to you, I figured I’d point out a couple different things I noticed this weekend.
First, while watching the Giants – Vikings game, FOX played the very beginning of my show’s theme song going to commercial. I was so surprised to hear the Replacements during a football game – something doesn’t add up there.
And also, I saw the youtube video a month ago when the Arcade Fire finished their show at Randall’s Island with an impromptu cover of the Violent Femmes’ “Kiss Off” – a song that I used to frequently end my show with in days past, especially when completing an extra-long broadcast or a shift I covered for another DJ. It also is the last song that I ever played at WDOM (unofficially, since I played it while packing up after the still legendary 5 1/2 hour final Left of the Dial in May 2005).
Anyway, I let it slide until this weekend I found out that the Arcade Fire have continued to cover it during some of their European tour dates. I only hope they picked it up from listening to my humble little show!
So to tide you over until Saturday morning, here’s a couple Youtube videos of AF covering the Violent Femmes. Feel free to find MP3s by searching on The Hype Machine.
First, “Kiss Off” from the Randall’s Island show 10/6/07
And “Kiss Off” live in Brussels 11/02/07
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They Won’t Back Down « Goodnight to the Rock & Roll Era responded on 04 Feb 2008 at 6:13 pm #
[...] where I didn’t really notice what was on the screen). It’s also worth noting that Fox has done this before, as I remember hearing the Replacements’ “Left of the Dial̶…. Either way, it gave me a shiver as I instantly connected it with the Giants’ plight – the [...]