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Thanks for tuning in this morning – here’s what you heard today:

Modest Mouse – “Paper Thin Walls” (from The Moon & Antarctica)
Jay Reatard – “See/Saw” (from Matador Singles ‘08)
The Walkmen – “In the New Year” (from You & Me)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” (from The Woods)
The American Analog Set – “The Kindness of Strangers” (from Know By Heart)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Built to Spill – “Temporarily Blind” (from Keep it Like a Secret)
Death Cab for Cutie – “We Looked Like Giants” (from Transatlanticism)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “About You” (from Darklands)
Los Campesinos! – “Miserabilia” (from We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed)
Sufjan Stevens – “The Avalanche” (from The Avalanche)
R.E.M. – “7 Chinese Bros.” (from Reckoning)
The Smiths – “What Difference Does it Make?” (from The Smiths)
Colin Meloy – “Every Day is Like Sunday” (from Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey EP)
The Church – “Under the Milky Way” (from Starfish)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Feelies – “Raised Eyebrows” (from Crazy Rhythms)
Okkervil River – “Pop Lie” (from The Stand-Ins)

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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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My present to myself is this new domain, which should bring some exciting things to Left of the Dial in the new year and beyond!

So if you celebrate it, enjoy Christmas with some good tunes (recommendations: “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues, “Last Christmas” by pretty much anyone, and the Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas box) and good people.

See you soon,

BW

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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 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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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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