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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Thanks for listening to today’s “reunion” show. I don’t think I realized how much I missed it until I started rambling between songs again!

I won’t be on the air the following two weekends, but tune in on October 18 for an all new edition of Left of the Dial!

Here’s what you heard this morning:
Wilco – “Spiders (Kidsmoke)” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Cure – “Freakshow” (from 4:13 Dream)
Husker Du – “Flip Your Wig” (from Flip Your Wig)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Cath…” (from Narrow Stairs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Hold Steady – “Sequestered in Memphis” (from Stay Positive)
Jenny Lewis – “See Fernando” (from Acid Tongue)
Teenage Fanclub – “Radio” (from Thirteen)
Okkervil River – “Singer Songwriter” (from The Stand-Ins)
The Gutter Twins – “Down the Line” (from Adorata EP)
The National – “Fake Empire (Live)” (from The Virginia EP)
The Black Kids – “Hurricane Jane” (from Partie Traumatic)
Los Campesinos! – “My Year In Lists” (from Hold on Now, Youngster…)
My Bloody Valentine – “When You Sleep” (from Loveless)
Talking Heads – “Thank You for Sending Me an Angel” (from Stop Making Sense)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Pavement – “Father to a Sister of Thought” (from Wowee Zowee)
TV on the Radio – “Crying” (from Dear Science)

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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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Thanks for listening to today’s show which turned out to be a bonus 2 hour edition.

Here’s what I played up until noon:
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild Soundtrack)
Sigur Ros – “Staralfur” (from Agaetis Byrjun)
Karen O & the Million Dollar Bashers – “Highway 61 Revisited” (from I’m Not ThereSoundtrack)
Scott Walker – “30 Century Man” (from Scott 3)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Broken Social Scene – “Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)” (from Broken Social Scene)
Pavement – “Gold Soundz” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
Sonic Youth – “100%” (from Dirty)
Bright Eyes – “First Day of My Life” (from I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning)
The Jesus and Mary Chain – “April Skies” (from Darklands)
Big Star – “Mod Lang” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Elliott Smith – “Say Yes” (from Either/Or)
Afghan Whigs – “66″ (from 1965)
Talking Heads – “Heaven” (from Fear of Music)
Radiohead – “You” (from Pablo Honey)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Hearts of Oak” (from Hearts of Oak)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)

Here’s what you heard in the bonus hour today:
Against Me! – “New Wave” (from New Wave)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
R.E.M. – “Little America” (from Reckoning)
The Who – “So Sad About Us” (from A Quick One)
Feist – “I Feel It All” (from The Reminder)
Art Brut – “Good Weekend” (from Bang Bang Rock and Roll)
The Clash – “Somebody Got Murdered” (from Sandinista!)
The Strokes – “Someday” (from Is This It?)
U2 – “Running to Stand Still” (from The Joshua Tree)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “Two Headed Boy” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
X – “See How We Are” (from See How We Are)
LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)

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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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Here’s what you heard this morning:

The Weakerthans – “Sun in an Empty Room” (from Reunion Tour)
Radiohead – “Bodysnatchers” (from In Rainbows)
Band of Horses – “No One’s Gonna Love You” (from Cease to Be)
The Wrens – “Hopeless” (from The Meadowlands)
Eisley – “Invasion” (from Combinations)
Morrisey – “Everyday is Like Sunday” (from Suedehead: The Singles)
I’m From Barcelona – “We’re From Barcelona” (from Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Slowdive – “Allison” (from Souvlaki)
Shocking Pinks – “The Narrator” (from Shocking Pinks)
New Order – “Love Vigilantes” (from Low-Life)
The Clash – “Police on my Back” (from Sandanista!)
Talking Heads – “Crosseyed & Painless” (from Stop Making Sense)
Spoon – “The Underdog” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)

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Here’s what you heard today on an extra long final show of the semester:

The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living with the Living)
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Cassadaga)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “Brianstorm” (from Favorite Worst Nightmare)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
The Shins – “Australia” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
The Jam – “Going Underground” (from The Best of the Jam)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Nouvelle Vague – “Melt With You” (from Nouvelle Vague)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Petra Hayden – “Don’t Stop Believing” (from Guilt By Association)
Ben Folds – “In Between Days” (from Speed Graphic EP)
Gomez – “Love is Better Than a Warm Trombone” (from Bring It On)
Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major (live)” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister)
Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Blues Brothers – “Rubber Biscuit” (from The Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Teenage Fanclub – “Neil Jung” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Seconds: the Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Matthew Sweet – “The Ballad of El Goodo” (from Big Star, Small World: Tribute to Big Star)
Big Star – “Thirteen” (from #1 Record / Radio City)
Craig Wedren – “Higher and Higher” (from Wet Hot American Summer)
Cornershop – “Brim Full of Asha” (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)
Talking Heads – “Life During Wartime” (from Fear of Music)
Sonic Youth – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
Death Cab for Cutie – “Crooked Teeth” (from Plans)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
Echo & the Bunnymen – “Bring on the Dancing Horses” (from Songs to Learn and Sing)
R.E.M. – “Exhuming McCarthy” (from Document)
Wilco – “Theologians” (from A Ghost is Born)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Spoon – “The Way We Get By” (from Kill the Moonlight)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint you a Picture? The Best of Billy Bragg)
The Zombies – “This Will Be Our Year” (from Odessey and Oracle)

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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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