Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

Thanks for tuning in this morning – here’s what you heard today:

Modest Mouse – “Paper Thin Walls” (from The Moon & Antarctica)
Jay Reatard – “See/Saw” (from Matador Singles ‘08)
The Walkmen – “In the New Year” (from You & Me)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” (from The Woods)
The American Analog Set – “The Kindness of Strangers” (from Know By Heart)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Built to Spill – “Temporarily Blind” (from Keep it Like a Secret)
Death Cab for Cutie – “We Looked Like Giants” (from Transatlanticism)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “About You” (from Darklands)
Los Campesinos! – “Miserabilia” (from We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed)
Sufjan Stevens – “The Avalanche” (from The Avalanche)
R.E.M. – “7 Chinese Bros.” (from Reckoning)
The Smiths – “What Difference Does it Make?” (from The Smiths)
Colin Meloy – “Every Day is Like Sunday” (from Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey EP)
The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (from Starfish)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Feelies – “Raised Eyebrows” (from Crazy Rhythms)
Okkervil River – “Pop Lie” (from The Stand-Ins)

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Thanks for listening to today’s “reunion” show. I don’t think I realized how much I missed it until I started rambling between songs again!

I won’t be on the air the following two weekends, but tune in on October 18 for an all new edition of Left of the Dial!

Here’s what you heard this morning:
Wilco – “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Cure – “Freakshow” (from 4:13 Dream)
Husker Du – “Flip Your Wig” (from Flip Your Wig)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Cath…” (from Narrow Stairs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Hold Steady – “Sequestered in Memphis” (from Stay Positive)
Jenny Lewis – “See Fernando” (from Acid Tongue)
Teenage Fanclub – “Radio” (from Thirteen)
Okkervil River – “Singer Songwriter” (from The Stand-Ins)
The Gutter Twins – “Down the Line” (from Adorata EP)
The National – “Fake Empire (Live)” (from The Virginia EP)
The Black Kids – “Hurricane Jane” (from Partie Traumatic)
Los Campesinos! – “My Year In Lists” (from Hold on Now, Youngster…)
My Bloody Valentine – “When You Sleep” (from Loveless)
Talking Heads – “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel” (from Stop Making Sense)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Pavement – “Father to a Sister of Thought” (from Wowee Zowee)
TV on the Radio – “Crying” (from Dear Science)

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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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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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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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