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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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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Here’s what you heard for this semester’s final show – our tribute to 1996

Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister – Live)
The Fugees – “Ready or Not” (from The Score)
Local H – “Bound for the Floor” (from As Good as Dead)
Pearl Jam – “Mankind” (from No Code)
Rage Against the Machine – “People of the Sun” (from Evil Empire)
Social Distortion – “I Was Wrong” (from White Light, White Heat, White Trash)
Wilco – “Red Eyed & Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)” (from Being There)
Noel Gallagher – “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” (from MTV Unplugged)
Afghan Whigs – “Creep” – (from Honky’s Ladder EP)
Daft Punk – “Around the World” (from Homework)
Manic Street Preachers – “Everything Must Go” (from Everything Must Go)
R.E.M. – “Electrolyte” (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Beck – “Devil’s Haircut” (from Odelay)

Thanks again to Mike for being my frequent co-host this past semester. WQAQ is currently on semester break but keep checking here to see when Left of the Dial returns to the airwaves.

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The first annual “Lefty Awards” were handed out today and Mike and I had fun looking back at some of our favorite music from the past year.

Here’s what you heard (and the awards they won too)
Pearl Jam – “Gone” – “Live Lefty” Winner (from Albany, NY 5/12/2006)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” – Brian’s Favorite Album of 2006 Lefty (from Boys and Girls in America)
Dirty Pretty Things – “Doctors & Dealers” – “Brad Johnson” Lefty (for a consistently solid but not great album) (from Waterloo to Anywhere)
Lupe Fiasco – “Hurt Me Soul” – Outstanding Achievement in Hip Hop Lefty (from Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor)
Spoon – “The Book I Write” – Soundtrack Lefty (from Stranger than Fiction OST)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” – “Don’t Call it a Comeback” Lefty (from Rather Ripped)
Belle and Sebastian – “White Collar Boy” – The “Most Offensive Humorous Reference” Lefty (from The Life Pursuit)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” – The “Farewell” Lefty (from 2005’s The Woods)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” – “Critics Choice” Lefty (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” – “Lebron James” Lefty (from meeting and/or exceeding tremendous hype) (from Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
The Rapture – “Woo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh” – “Wreckx-N-Effect” Lefty (for best “Rump Shaker) (from Pieces of the People We Love)

Next week’s show is the last show of the semester, so I’ll be planning something for it.

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This week’s show featured more new music than normal – I guess I was in the mood for it!

What you heard:

The Replacements – “I Will Dare” (from Let it Be)
Bright Eyes – “First Day of My Life” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Kevin Devine – “Just Stay” (from Put Your Ghost to Rest)
The Clash – “Police on My Back” (from Sandanista!)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory” (from So Divided)
R.E.M. – “Little America” (from Reckoning)
Pablo – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Half the Time)
Minus 5 w/ Wilco – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Spoon – “The Book I Write” (from Stranger Than Fiction: OST)
Sufjan Stevens – “Jacksonville” (from Illinois, or Come on, Feel the Illinoise!)
The Hold Steady – “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” (from Separation Sunday)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Feist – “Mushaboom” (from Let it Die)
Pearl Jam – “Insignificance” (from Binaural)

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Well the first show came and went QUICKLY! I was a bit rusty having not been on the air in a while but I enjoyed it and played some good tunes!

Here’s what you heard (or what you missed!)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Bloc Party – “Always New Depths” (from Silent Alarm Remixed)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Head On” (from 21 Singles)
Husker Du – “Love is All Around” (from Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All EP)
Pearl Jam – “Interstellar Overdrive -> Corduroy” (from Santa Barbara 2006 Bootleg)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Dial Up” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Portastatic – “Bobby Jean” (from Autumn Got Dark EP)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” (from Rather Ripped)
The Jam – “Town Called Malice” (from The Gift)
Teenage Fanclub – “Radio” (from Thirteen)
Guided By Voices – “Game of Pricks” (from Human Amusements at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided By Voices)
The Rapture – “Pieces of the People We Love” (from Pieces of the People We Love)

See you next week!
[BW]

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