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)

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

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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 for listening to today’s show which turned out to be a bonus 2 hour edition.

Here’s what I played up until noon:
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild Soundtrack)
Sigur Ros – “Staralfur” (from Agaetis Byrjun)
Karen O & the Million Dollar Bashers – “Highway 61 Revisited” (from I’m Not ThereSoundtrack)
Scott Walker – “30 Century Man” (from Scott 3)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Broken Social Scene – “Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)” (from Broken Social Scene)
Pavement – “Gold Soundz” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
Sonic Youth – “100%” (from Dirty)
Bright Eyes – “First Day of My Life” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “April Skies” (from Darklands)
Big Star – “Mod Lang” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Elliott Smith – “Say Yes” (from Either/Or)
Afghan Whigs – “66″ (from 1965)
Talking Heads – “Heaven” (from Fear of Music)
Radiohead – “You” (from Pablo Honey)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Hearts of Oak” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)

Here’s what you heard in the bonus hour today:
Against Me! – “New Wave” (from New Wave)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
R.E.M. – “Little America” (from Reckoning)
The Who – “So Sad About Us” (from A Quick One)
Feist – “I Feel It All” (from The Reminder)
Art Brut – “Good Weekend” (from Bang Bang Rock and Roll)
The Clash – “Somebody Got Murdered” (from Sandinista!)
The Strokes – “Someday” (from Is This It?)
U2 – “Running to Stand Still” (from The Joshua Tree)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Two Headed Boy” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
X – “See How We Are” (from See How We Are)
LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)

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I can safely say that today’s show was one of my favorite’s in a long, long time – I think that the songs flowed well, I had some good conversations on AIM with listeners, and the transitions were tremendous.

I know I went a bit overboard on the I’m Not There Soundtrack but I’m quite impressed by it. I encourage you to check it out and check out the movie when it comes out and form your own opinion on it.

Here’s what you heard this morning:
U2 – “Bad (Live)” (from Wide Awake in America EP)
Eddie Vedder & the Million Dollar Bashers – “All Along the Watchtower” (from I’m Not There Soundtrack)
Jose Gonzales – “Down the Line” (from In Our Nature)
Sigur Ros – “Staralfur” (from Hvarf/Heim)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Talking Heads – “What a Day That Was” (from Stop Making Sense)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” (from Rather Ripped)
Sufjan Stevens – “Ring Them Bells” (from I’m Not There Soundtrack)
New Order – “Ceremony” (from Substance (1987))
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Radiohead – “Just” (from The Bends)
Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube” (from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
The Jam – “Ghosts” (from The Gift)
The Hold Steady – “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” (from I’m Not There Soundtrack)
Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Basher – “Maggie’s Farm” (from I’m Not There Soundtrack)

And here’s a link to some of those Radiohead webcast videos on Youtube (courtesy of Stereogum)

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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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