Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

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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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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Today’s show was unexpectedly long but turned out to go by somewhat fast. Here’s what you heard:

Built to Spill – “Conventional Wisdom” (from You in Reverse)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning” (from The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Jeff Tweedy – “Summerteeth” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest)
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen – “History Song” (from The Good, The Bad, & The Queen)
Of Montreal – “Suffer for Fashion” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
The Hold Steady – “Most People are DJs” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Bloc Party – “Waiting for the 7.18″ (from A Weekend In the City)
Matthew Sweet – “Divine Intervention” (from Goodfriend: Another Take on Girlfriend)
Bob Dylan – “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (from The Essential Bob Dylan)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, & Marches)
M83 – “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)

The second hour began with a mini-set of ’60s soul:

Otis Reading – “It’s Too Late” (from The Great Otis Reading Sings Soul Ballads)
Aretha Franklin – “Think” (from Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Sam & Dave – “Hold On, I’m Comin’” (from Hold On, I’m Comin’)
Archie Bell & The Drells – “Tighten Up” (from Tighten Up / I Can’t Stop Dancing)
James Brown – “Night Train / Closing” (from Live at the Apollo, 1962)
Sly & The Family Stone – “Everyday People” (from Greatest Hits)
Sam Cooke – “A Change is Gonna Come” (from The Man and His Music)
Lily Allen – “LDN” (from Alright, Still)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from Electric Version)
Sonic Youth – “Schizophrenia” (from Sister)
Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down – “Phantom Punch” (from Phantom Punch)
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – “C.I.A.” (from Living with the Living)
Kevin Devine – “Holland, 1945″ (from Put Your Ghost To Rest B-Sides)
Sufjan Stevens – “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (from Come On Feel the Illinoise)

And the third(!) hour began with a mini-set of female singers.

Regina Spektor – “Fidelity” (from Begin to Hope)
Beth Orton – “How Far” (from Trailor Park)
Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” (from Fever In, Fever Out)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – “Different Drum” (from Under the Covers, Vol. 1)
Sleater-Kinney – “Jumpers” (from The Woods)
The Spinanes – “Spitfire” (from Manos)
Stars – “Elevator Love Letter” (from Heart)
Broken Social Scene – “Major Label Debut” (live on KCRW)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Teenage Fanclub – “Star Sign” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: The Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Suede – “Trash” (from Suede)
The Thrills – “One Horse Town” (from So Much for the City)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sound Of Silver)

No links this week, I’ll be crossing my fingers for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine at the Oscars tonight!

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A few days late, but better late than never. This past week’s show was another 2 hour edition and once again I was joined by Mike in the studio which led to much banter and good music!

Here’s what you heard:
Guided by Voices – “Game of Pricks” (from Alien Lanes)
Blur – “Beetlebum” (from Blur)
The Get Up Kids – “10 Minutes” (from Something to Write Home About)
Jeff Tweedy – “The Ruling Class” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest DVD)
Interpol – “Untitled” (from Turn on the Bright Lights)

CBGB’s “Tribute”
Patti Smith – “Gloria” (from Horses)
Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Television – “Venus” (from Marquee Moon)
The Ramones – “Sheena is a Punk Rocker” (from Leave Home)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “2nd ave, 11 AM” (from Hearts of Oak)

The Kinks – “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” (from Kinkdom)
The Replacements – “Bastards of Young” (from Tim)
Stephen Malmus – “Church on White” (from Stephen Malkmus)
U2 – ” ‘40′ “(from War)
The Velvet Underground – “Sweet Jane” (from Loaded)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I was Born for the Seventh Time)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps” (from Fever to Tell)
Built to Spill – “Big Dipper” (from There’s Nothing Wrong with Love)
Cracker – “Get off This” (from Greatest Hits Redux)
David Bowie (w/ John Lennon) – “Across the Universe” (from Young Americans)
The Hold Steady – “Chillout Tent” (from Boys and Girls in America)

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