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Here’s what you heard today on an extra long final show of the semester:

The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living with the Living)
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Cassadaga)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” (from Favorite Worst Nightmare)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
The Shins – “Australia” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Nouvelle Vague – “Melt With You” (from Nouvelle Vague)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Petra Hayden – “Don’t Stop Believing” (from Guilt By Association)
Ben Folds – “In Between Days” (from Speed Graphic EP)
Gomez – “Love is Better Than a Warm Trombone” (from Bring It On)
Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major (live)” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister)
Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Blues Brothers – “Rubber Biscuit” (from The Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Teenage Fanclub – “Neil Jung” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Seconds: the Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Matthew Sweet – “The Ballad of El Goodo” (from Big Star, Small World: Tribute to Big Star)
Big Star – “Thirteen” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Craig Wedren – “Higher and Higher” (from Wet Hot American Summer)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Crooked Teeth” (from Plans)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring on the Dancing Horses” (from Songs to Learn and Sing)
R.E.M. – “Exhuming McCarthy” (from Document)
Wilco – “Theologians” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Spoon – “The Way We Get By” (from Kill the Moonlight)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint you a Picture? The Best of Billy Bragg)
The Zombies – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Odessey and Oracle)

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Here’s what you heard today (no fooling):

LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)
The Postal Service – “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” (from Get Up)
R.E.M. – “I Believe (live)” (from Tourfilm DVD)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living With the Living)
New Order – “Love Vigilantes” (from Low-Life)
The Stooges – “Search & Destroy” (from A Million in Prizes: The Iggy Pop Anthology)
Jarvis Cocker – “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time” (from Jarvis)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Belle & Sebastian – “Piazza, New York Catcher” (from Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy!” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The Pipettes – “Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still a Feeling)” (from We Are the Pipettes)
The Clash – “Wrong ‘Em Boyo” (from London Calling)

WQAQ will be off the air next weekend for the Easter holiday so I’ll be back on the air again in 2 weeks.

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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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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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