Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

The first show of the semester has come and gone and I’m quite pleased with how it went.  Be sure to tune in again next week for more of the same!

Here’s what you heard today:
Left of the Dial Pre-Show:
Liam Finn – “Second Chance” (from I’ll Be Lightning)
MGMT – “Weekend Wars” (from Oraculat Spectacular)
Band of Horses – “No One’s Gonna Love You” (from Cease to Begin)
Amy Winehouse – “Rehab” (from Back to Black)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “100 Days, 100 Nights” (from 100 Days, 100 Nights)
John Cale – “All My Friends” (from LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends EP)
Panda Bear – “Comfy in Nautica” (from Person Pitch)
R.E.M. – “Supernatural Superserious” (from Accelerate)

“Official Show”
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Los Campesinos! – “…And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison” (from Hold on Now, Youngster)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – “Cold Son” (from Real Emotional Trash)
The Specials – “Pressure Drop” (from Today’s Specials)
M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” (from Kala)
Nada Surf – “Whose Authority” (from Lucky)
The Lemonheads – “No Backbone” (from The Lemonheads)
Cat Power – “Sea of Love” (from The Covers Record)
Spoon – “Don’t You Evah” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Wilco – “Sky Blue Sky” (from Sky Blue Sky)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)

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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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