Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

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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Here’s today’s playlist. It had more of an old school Left of the Dial feel today. I’ll add the links I promised later but I wanted to put the song list up.

Black Lips – “I Once Saw a Ghost (Lean)” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Jonathan Rice – “Further North” (from Further North)
The Pipettes – “Pull Shapes” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “It Was There That I Saw You” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Shout Out Louds – “Impossible” (from Our Ill Wills)
David Bowie – “Young Americans” (from Young Americans)
The Replacements – “Hold My Life” (from Tim)
Ben Lee – “Thrash Unreal” (from Ben Lee Sings Against Me! – New Wave)
Bright Eyes – “The Calendar Hung Itself” (from Fevers & Mirrors)
Radiohead – “Let Down” (from OK Computer)
Sonic Youth – “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
R.E.M. – “World Leader Pretend” (from Green)
Los Campesinos! – “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s)” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Against Me!- “New Wave” (from New Wave)

And the links I promised:
Ben Lee Sings Against Me’s “New Wave”
Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows

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Here’s what you heard (or missed) on today’s show this morning.

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Iron & Wine – “Boy with a Coin” (from The Shepherd’s Dog)
Jose Gonzales – “Down the Line” (from In Our Nature)
Matt Pond PA – “Sunlight” (from Last Light)
Pinback – “Good to Sea” (from Autumn of the Seraphs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Who – “The Real Me” (from Quadrophenia)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Darklands” (from Darklands)
Black Lips – “O Katrina!” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living with the Living)
The Hold Steady – “First Night” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The New Pornographers – “Letter from an Occupant” (from Mass Romantic)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
Paul Weller – “That’s Entertainment” (from Days of Speed)
The Minus Five – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Jonathan Rice – “THC” (from Further North)

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