Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

Thanks for listening to what became an extra long show this morning. I appreciate the hellos and requests!

Here’s what you’ve heard today:
Jenny Lewis – “Carpetbagger” (from Acid Tongue)
The Black Kids – “I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You” (from Partie Traumatic)
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild OST)
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – “It Was There That I Saw You” (from Source Tags and Codes)
Jens Lenkman – “The Opposite of Hallelujah” (from Night Falls Over Kortedala)
Paul McCartney – “Something” (from Back in the U.S.A. Live 2002)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Okkervil River – “Lost Coastlines” (from The Stand-Ins)
Broken Social Scene – “7/4 (Shoreline)” (from Broken Social Scene)
XTC – “Making Plans for Nigel” (from Drums and Wires)
Guided By Voices – “Hardcore UFOs” (from Bee Thousand)
Sleater-Kinney – “One More Hour” (from Dig Me Out)
The Hold Steady – “American Music” (from Boys and Girls in America Australian Import)
Roman Candle – “I Wish I Was In New York” (from Says Pop)
Greg Dulli – “Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” (from Live at the Triple Door)
Teenage Fanclub – “Ain’t That Enough” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub)
R.E.M. – “Cuyahoga” (from Lifes Rich Pageant)
Thom Yorke – “Harrowdown Hill” (from The Eraser)
Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come” (from The Man and His Music)

The Replacements – “Androgynous” (from Let It Be)
Billy Bragg – “Sexuality” (from Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg)
Billy Bragg & Wilco – “All You Fascists” (from Mermaid Avenue, Volume 2)
Portastatic – “Bobby Jean” (from Autumn Was a Lark EP)
The Fiery Furnaces – “Sing for Me” (from EP)
My Bloody Valentine – “Blown a Wish” (from Loveless)
Dntel – “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan” (from Life is Full of Possibilities)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Under the Hedge” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Pavement – “Gold Soundz” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Live at Largo)
Vampire Weekend – “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Magnetic Fields – “Why I Cry” (from Get Lost)
Los Campesinos! – “We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed” (from We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed)
Patti Smith – “People Have the Power” (from Land)

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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 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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This week’s show featured more new music than normal – I guess I was in the mood for it!

What you heard:

The Replacements – “I Will Dare” (from Let it Be)
Bright Eyes – “First Day of My Life” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Kevin Devine – “Just Stay” (from Put Your Ghost to Rest)
The Clash – “Police on My Back” (from Sandanista!)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory” (from So Divided)
R.E.M. – “Little America” (from Reckoning)
Pablo – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Half the Time)
Minus 5 w/ Wilco – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Spoon – “The Book I Write” (from Stranger Than Fiction: OST)
Sufjan Stevens – “Jacksonville” (from Illinois, or Come on, Feel the Illinoise!)
The Hold Steady – “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” (from Separation Sunday)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Feist – “Mushaboom” (from Let it Die)
Pearl Jam – “Insignificance” (from Binaural)

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