Playlist for 11/08/08

November 8th 2008

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)

And to check out Chris’s show on Simmons College Radio Mondays 7-10PM, follow this link.

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Playlist for 05/03/08 – Final Show Playlist

May 3rd 2008

Today was my last show on WQAQ. Many thanks to the QU kids for letting me have a show the past two years and to all of you for listening and requesting. Today’s show was one of the most fun shows I’ve ever done.

The Left of the Dial website will probably take a brief hiatus while I re-think it’s design and purpose. I’m leaning towards a podcast but I’m open to ideas (brian “at” leftofthedialradio” dot” org if you have ideas)

Come back soon for an update on the muxtape, pictures, and other things from today’s show.

Here’s what you’re heard today:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Band – “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (from The Last Waltz)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Back to Basics)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)
Pearl Jam – “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (from Live at the Gorge)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Hearts of Oak” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Strokes – “Someday” (from Is This It?)
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
Jason Anderson – “Watch Your Step” (from The Hopeful and the Unafraid)
Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers” (from In Rainbows)
The Smiths – “The Headmaster Ritual” (from Meat is Murder)

The Replacements – “Bastards of Young” (from Tim)
The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (from the Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the ’80s Underground box)
Rilo Kiley – “With Arms Outstretched” (from The Execution of All Things)
Andrew W.K. – “She Is Beautiful” (from I Get Wet)
Jonathan Rice – “Further North” (from Further North)
Arcade Fire – “[Antichrist Television Blues]” (from Neon Bible)
Superchunk – “Art Class (song for Yayoi Kusama)” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
She & Him – “Sentimental Heart” (from Volume 1)
Sonic Youth – “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Animal Collective – “Fireworks” (from Strawberry Jam)

The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
Pavement – “Stereo” (from Brighten the Corners)
Elvis Costello – “Welcome to the Working Week” (from My Aim is True)
Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” (from Stop Making Sense)
Wilco – “Pot Kettle Black” (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
The Miracle of ‘86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution!” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Elliott Smith – “Waltz #2 (XO)” (from XO)
Broken Social Scene – “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” (from You Forgot it in People)
Feist – “I Feel It All” (from The Reminder)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from Tyranny of Distance)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)
R.E.M. – “I’m Gonna DJ” (from Accellerate)

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Playlist for 04/26/08

April 26th 2008

Left of the Dial is on the air RIGHT NOW with special guest Matt!  Click on the “How to Listen” tab to check it out!

Here’s what you’re hearing:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Broken Social Scene – “Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Mix)” (from You Forgot It in People)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
The Verve – “This Time” (from Urban Hymns)
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart” (from Narrow Stairs)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
My Morning Jacket – “Evil Urges” (from Evil Urges)
The Raconteurs – “Salute Your Solution” (from Consolers of the Lonely)
She & Him – “This is Not a Test” (from Volume 1)
LCD Soundsystem – “Big Ideas” (from 21 OST)
Frank Black – “Hang On to Your Ego” (from Frank Black)

The Replacements – “Unsatisfied” (from Let it Be)
Tokyo Police Club – “Juno” (from Elephant Shell)
Blur – “Song 2″ (from Blur)
Badly Drawn Boy – “All Possibilities” (from Have You Fed the Fish?)
R.E.M. – “Hollow Man” (from Accelerate)
Semisonic – “Singing in My Sleep” (from Feeling Strangely Fine)
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Radiohead – “Optimistic” (from Kid A)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Hold Steady – “Multitude of Casualties” (from Live at Lollapalooza 2006)
The Jam – “Ghosts” (from The Gift)

The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
The Black Keys – “Strange Times” (from Attack and Release)
B-52s – “Private Idaho” (from Nude on the Moon Boxset)
R.E.M. – “Maps & Legends” (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
Bloc Party – “So Here We Are” (from Silent Alarm)
Ted Leo – “Since U Been Gone / Maps” (live recording)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from Tyranny of Distance)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love & Justice)
The New Pornographers – “Use It” (from Twin Cinema)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Spoon – “Jonathon Fisk” (from Kill the Moonlight)
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon” (from Loveless)
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild OST)

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Playlist for 04/05/08

April 5th 2008

Thanks to everyone who listened and sent me your requests. I’ll update the Left of the Dial Muxtape later this weekend with some songs from today’s show so stay tuned for that!

See you next week!

Here’s what you heard on today’s show:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart” (from Narrow Stairs)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, and Marches)
Radiohead – “Nude” (from In Rainbows)
R.E.M. – “1,000,000″ (from Chronic Town EP)
R.E.M. – “Man Sized Wreath” (from Accelerate)
The Black Keys – “Strange Times” (from Attack and Release)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Talking Heads – “The Great Curve” (from The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
My Bloody Valentine – “Blown a Wish” (from Loveless)
David Bowie – “Across the Universe” (from Young Americans)

Here’s what you heard the second hour:
The Replacements – “I.O.U.” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love and Justice)
Rilo Kiley – “With Arms Outstretched” (from The Execution of All Things)
The Watson Twins – “Powderfinger” (from Cinnamon Girl – the Female Tri
Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
Vampire Weekend – “Exit Music (for a Film) (from Stereogum’s OKX: a Tribute to OK Computer)
Vampire Weekend – “Walcott” (from Vampire Weekend)
Los Campesinos! – “…And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison” (from Hold On Now, Youngster)
Nada Surf – “Inside of Love” (from Let Go)
Superchunk – “Art Class” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
The Strokes – “Hard to Explain” (from Is This It)
The Dismemberment Plan – “Following Through” (from Change)
Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube” (from I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One)

Sugar – “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (from Copper Blue)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Broken Social Scene – “7/4 (Shoreline” (from Broken Social Scene)
Stars – “Elevator Love Letter” (from Heart)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from The Electric Version)
Mission of Burma – “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” (from Signals, Calls, and Marches)
LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)

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New Feature: Left of the Dial Muxtape

March 30th 2008

Earlier this week I stumbled upon Muxtape, a new site that lets users upload 12 MP3s to create their own streamable mix that you can listen to right from your internet browser.  Once I saw the potential in making a Muxtape, I decided to start one for Left of the Dial.

So I’m pleased to announce the first edition of the Left of the Dial Muxtape!  I picked out twelve tracks from yesterday’s show to share with all of you, so even if you missed the show you can still hear some of the songs I played.

If you start your own Muxtape, let me know about it.  Until then, I’m going to keep thinking of ways I can use this for my own purpose.

See you next Saturday!

Left of the Dial Muxtape – Edited 03/29/08 (All songs played on 03/29/08 edition of Left of the Dial)

  1. “I’ll Bring the Sun” – Jason Collett
  2. “I Keep Faith (Live on Conan O’Brien)” – Billy Bragg (courtesy of Bradley’s Almanac)
  3. “See These Bones” – Nada Surf
  4. “Just Stay” – Kevin Devine
  5. “Death to Los Campesinos!” – Los Campesinos!
  6. “Precious” – The Jam
  7. “This Is Not a Test” – She & Him
  8. “Small Stakes” – Spoon
  9. “Achin’ to Be” – The Replacements
  10. “Union City Blue” – Blondie
  11. “Vapour Trail” – Ride
  12. “Terms of Psychic Warfare” – Husker Du

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Playlist for 03/29/08

March 29th 2008

Today’s edition of Left of the Dial, the first after a long hiatus, was appropriately an extra long show! Thanks to everyone who called/IMed in their requests!

Here’s what you heard today:

First Hour:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
R.E.M. – “Living Well is the Best Revenge” (from Accelerate)
Jason Collett – “I’ll Bring the Sun” (from Idols of Exile)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love and Justice)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions – “No Action” (from This Year’s Model)
Kevin Devine – “Just Stay” (from Put Your Ghost to Rest)
Nada Surf – “See These Bones” (from Lucky)
R.E.M. – “Accelerate” (from Accelerate)
R.E.M. – “Half a World Away” (from Out of Time)
Los Campesinos! – “Death to Los Campesinos!” (from Hold On Now, Youngster)
The National – “Apartment Story” (from Boxer)
Pearl Jam – “Come Back” (from Pearl Jam)
R.E.M. – “I’m Gonna DJ” (from R.E.M. Live)

Second Hour:
The Replacements – “I Will Dare” (from Let it Be)
Vampire Weekend – “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Hold Steady – “How a Resurrection Really Feels” (from Separation Sunday)
Jeff Tweedy – “Theologians” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest DVD)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
The Decemberists – “The Engine Driver” (from Picaresque)
U2 – “Ultraviolet (Light My Way)” (from Achtung Baby)
She and Him – “This is Not a Test” (from She and Him: Volume 1)
Pavement – “Stereo” (from Brighten the Corners)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “‘Just Like Honey” (from Psychocandy)
Spoon – “Small Stakes” (from Kill the Moonlight)
The Gutter Twins – “The Stations” (from Saturnalia)

Final Half Hour:
The Replacements – “Aching to Be” (from Don’t Tell a Soul)
Sonic Youth – “Teenage Riot” (from Daydream Nation)
Blondie – “Union City Blue” (from Eat to the Beat)
Ride – “Vapour Trail” (from Nowhere)
Sufjan Stevens – “The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts” (from Come On Feel the Illinoise!)
Husker Du – “Terms of Psychic Warfare” (from New Day Rising)
LCD Soundsystem – “Big Ideas” (from 21 OST)

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Playlist for 09/22/07

September 22nd 2007

Thanks for listening to the first show this semester! Here’s what you heard:

Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Is Is” (from Is Is EP)
The Weakerthans – “Sun Man in an Empty Room” (from Reunion Tour)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Kevin Drew – “Backed Out on the…” (from Spirit If)
Pavement – “Father to a Sister of Thought” (from Wowee Zowee!)
Spoon – “The Underdog” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Billy Bragg – “Waiting for the Great Leap Forward” (from Workers’ Playtime)
Against Me! – “New Wave” (from New Wave)
Los Campesinos! – “You! Me! Dancing!” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (from Neon Bible)
R.E.M. – “#9 Dream” (from Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur)
Elliott Smith – “Whatever (Folk Song in C)” (from New Moon)
Dinosaur Jr – “The Wagon” (from Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr)

The Replacements – “Achin’ To Be” (from Don’t Tell a Soul)
The National – “Ada” (from Boxer)
AC/DC – “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)” (from For Those About to Rock)
Hot Hot Heat – “Harmonicas and Tamborines” (from Happiness Ltd.)
The Pipettes – “Judy” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Violent Femmes – “American Music” (from Permanent Vacation: The Best of the Violent Femmes)
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon” (from Loveless)
The New Pornographers – “My Rights Versus Yours” (from Challengers)
Jeff Tweedy – “Summerteeth” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest)
Ride – “Vapour Trail” (from Nowhere)
Mark Ronson (f/ Lily Allen) – “Oh My God” (from Version)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It” (from Our Ill Wills)

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Playlist for 05/06/07

May 6th 2007

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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Playlist for 10/14/06

October 14th 2006

Today’s show was an instant classic – a special 2 hour edition featuring guest DJ Mike! Mike kept me company, picked a whole bunch of songs, and acted as the rock of sanity around all of my ridiculous bullshit. Mr. Giaquinto will have to come back soon and frequently!

Here’s what you heard:

Sonic Youth (w/ Chuck D) – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Smiths – “Girlfriend in a Coma” (from Strangeways, Here We Come)
Slowdive – “Machine Gun” (from Souvlaki)
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – “Handle With Care (w/ Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward” (from Rabbit Fur Coat)
Squeeze – “Another Nail in my Heart” (from Argybargy)
The Specials – “Rudi, A Message to You” (from Singles Collection)
The Pogues – “Dirty Old Town” (from Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash)
Pablo – “Half the Time” (from Half the Time)(website here)
The Hold Steady – “Party Pit” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak” (from Jailbreak)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from The Electric Version)
Wilco – “Airline to Heaven (live)” (from Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” (from Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint You a Picture?)
Badly Drawn Boy – “Everybody’s Stalking” (from The Hour of Bewilderbeast)
Scissor Sisters – “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (w/ Elton John)” (from Ta-Dah)
The Dead Boys – “Sonic Reducer” (from Young, Loud, and Snotty)
Dinosaur Jr – “Just Like Heaven” (from Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr)
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer – “Redemption Song” (from Unearthed)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (from Singles Going Steady)
The Who w/ Eddie Vedder – “I’m One (live)” (from Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
The Stone Roses – “She Bangs the Drums” (from The Stone Roses)

See you next week!
[BW]

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