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)

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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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Today’s show (if I may say so myself) was fantastic. The best days are the ones where the songs seem to pick themselves and that was the case today.

Here’s what you heard:

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim - get used to it!)
The Hold Steady – “You Can Make Him Like You” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Patti Smith – “Gloria” (from Horses)
The Lemonheads – “No Backbone” (from The Lemonheads)
The Lemonheads – “It’s About Time” (from Come On Feel the Lemonheads)
Gang of Four – “To Hell With Poverty” (from A Brief History of the Twentieth Century)
R.E.M. – “New Test Leper” (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Talking Heads – “Crosseyed and Painles (live)” (from Stop Making Sense)
Elliott Smith – “In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)” (from Figure 8)
Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube” (from I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One)
The Pixies – “Monkey Gone to Heaven” (from Doolittle)

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