Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

Left of the Dial is on the air RIGHT NOW! Click on the “how to listen” tab to tune in and send your requests (or, as guest DJ Jenny insists on leaving here, “requestions”)

Here’s what you heard so far (click “refresh” for updates):
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Superchunk – “Hyper Enough” (from Here’s Where the Strings Come In)
X – “4th of July” (from See How We Are)
Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
The Velvet Underground – “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (from The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Matthew Sweet – “I’ve Been Waiting (Live)” (from Goodfriend: Another Take on “Girlfriend”)
Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” (from Singles 45’s and Under)
Sonic Youth – “Teen Age Riot” (from Daydream Nation)
Peter Bjorn & John vs. Bloc Party – “Folk Prayer” (from mashuptown.com)
Petra Hayden – “Don’t Stop Believing” (from Guilt by Association)
The New Pornographers – “Dreams” (from Live)

New Order – “Temptation” (from Substance)
The Jam – “Town Called Malice” (from The Gift)
Talking Heads – “Burning Down the House” (from Stop Making Sense)
The English Beat – “Save It for Later” (from Special Beat Service)
Pavement – “Two States” (from Slanted and Enchanted)
Elliott Smith – “Division Day” (from “Division Day” 7″)
Brian Eno – “St. Elmo’s Fire” (from Another Green World)
The Twilight Singers – “Real Love” (from She Loves You)
Uncle Tupelo – “New Madrid” (from 89-93: An Anthology)
The National – “Fake Empire (Live)” (from Virginia EP)
The Roots – “Complexity (f/ Jill Scott)” (from Phrenology)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Decemberists – “Valerie Plame” (from Always a Bridesmade: Singles Series)

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It was a little strange not going in to WQAQ this past weekend. Strange enough, I suppose, to inspire me to finish updating the Left of the Dial Muxtape. I’ll spare you the commentary & just offer a track listing. If you have your own Muxtape, send me a link to it!

See you soon.

Left of the Dial Muxtape – Updated 5/13/08

1. “Most People are DJs” – The Hold Steady (Almost Killed Me)
2. “Misunderstood” – Wilco (Live in Montreal, 2003)
3. “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” – Sugar (Copper Blue)
4. “Two-Headed Boy” – Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
5. “Down the Line” – José González (In Our Nature)
6. “Cortez The Killer (Live)” – Matthew Sweet (Goodfriend: Another Take on Girlfriend)
7. “Within Your Reach” – The Replacements (Hootenanny)
8. “The Headmaster Ritual” – The Smiths (Live Performance)
9. “Watery Hands” – Superchunk (Indoor Living)
10. “Treble in Trouble” – Ted Leo / Pharmacists (Treble in Trouble EP)
11. “Swimmers” – Broken Social Scene (Broken Social Scene)
12. “Kiss Off (Live)” – Violent Femmes (MTV’s 120 Minutes Live)

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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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Thanks to everyone who listened and sent me your requests. I’ll update the Left of the Dial Muxtape later this weekend with some songs from today’s show so stay tuned for that!

See you next week!

Here’s what you heard on today’s show:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart” (from Narrow Stairs)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, and Marches)
Radiohead – “Nude” (from In Rainbows)
R.E.M. – “1,000,000″ (from Chronic Town EP)
R.E.M. – “Man Sized Wreath” (from Accelerate)
The Black Keys – “Strange Times” (from Attack and Release)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Talking Heads – “The Great Curve” (from The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
My Bloody Valentine – “Blown a Wish” (from Loveless)
David Bowie – “Across the Universe” (from Young Americans)

Here’s what you heard the second hour:
The Replacements – “I.O.U.” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love and Justice)
Rilo Kiley – “With Arms Outstretched” (from The Execution of All Things)
The Watson Twins – “Powderfinger” (from Cinnamon Girl – the Female Tri
Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)
Vampire Weekend – “Exit Music (for a Film) (from Stereogum’s OKX: a Tribute to OK Computer)
Vampire Weekend – “Walcott” (from Vampire Weekend)
Los Campesinos! – “…And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison” (from Hold On Now, Youngster)
Nada Surf – “Inside of Love” (from Let Go)
Superchunk – “Art Class” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
The Strokes – “Hard to Explain” (from Is This It)
The Dismemberment Plan – “Following Through” (from Change)
Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube” (from I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One)

Sugar – “If I Can’t Change Your Mind” (from Copper Blue)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Broken Social Scene – “7/4 (Shoreline” (from Broken Social Scene)
Stars – “Elevator Love Letter” (from Heart)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from The Electric Version)
Mission of Burma – “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” (from Signals, Calls, and Marches)
LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)

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I’m always surprised with how the weather affects our moods. Here’s what you heard on today’s rain-soaked version of the show.

The Replacements – “Within Your Reach” (from Hootenany)
Superchunk – “Rainy Streets” (from Here’s to Shutting Up)
R.E.M. – “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” (from Reckoning)
Bright Eyes – “Train Under Water” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
Guided By Voices – “Everybody Thinks I’m a Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)” (from Half Smiles of the Decomposed)
Radiohead – “Sit Down, Stand Up” (from Hail to the Theif)
The Fiery Furnaces – “Sing for Me” (from The Fiery Furnaces EP)
The Hold Steady – “Killer Parties” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Animal Collective – “Grass” (from Feels)
M83 – “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)
Rilo Kiley – “My Slumbering Heart” (from The Execution of All Things)
Big Star – “O My Soul” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Band of Horses – “Is There a Ghost?” (from Cease to Begin)

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