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)

And to check out Chris’s show on Simmons College Radio Mondays 7-10PM, follow this link.

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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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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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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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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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Here’s what you heard on today’s show:

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” (from Funeral)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” (from Singles 45’s and Under)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Six Months in a Leaky Boat” (from Sharkbite Sessions EP)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire: (from Hot Rocks: 1964 – 1971 and The Darjeeling Limited OST)
Nirvana – “All Apologies” (from MTV Unplugged)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Either/Or)
The Shins – “Phantom Limb” (from Wincing the Night Away)
The Miracle of ‘86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Husker Du – “New Day Rising” (from New Day Rising)
Pavement – “Silence Kit” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
R.E.M. – “The One I Love” (from R.E.M. Live)

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Here’s what you heard on today’s two hour edition of the show:

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “Another Morning Stoner” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Elvis Costello – “The Beat (Live)” (from Live at the El Mocambo)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Pulp – “Mis-Shapes” (from Different Class)
Band of Horses – “Is There a Ghost?” (from Cease to Begin)
Band of Horses – “The Funeral” (from Everything All the Time)
Radiohead – “Reckoner” (from In Rainbows)
R.E.M. – “Imitation of Life” (from R.E.M. Live)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Walking to Do” (from Shake the Sheets)
Jose Gonzales – “Teardrop” (from In Our Nature)
Massive Attack – “Unfinished Sympathy” (from Blue Lines)
Catherine Wheel – “Black Metallic” (from Ferment)
Primal Scream – “Movin’ on Up” (from Screamadelica)
Camper Van Beethoven – “Take the Skinheads Bowling” (from Telephone Free Landslide Victory)

The Jesus and Mary Chain – “Just Like Honey” (from Psychocandy)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, & Marches)
Fugazi – “Give Me the Cure” (from 13 Songs)
Television – “See No Evil” (from Marquee Moon)
Arcade Fire – “[Antichrist Television Blues]” (from Neon Bible)
Wilco – “Impossible Germany” (from Sky Blue Sky)
The Hold Steady – “Stevie Nix” (from Separation Sunday)
Rogue Wave – “Chicago x 12″ (from Asleep at Heaven’s Gate)
Stars – “Set Yourself on Fire” (from Set Yourself on Fire)
Brazillian Girls – “Crosseyed and Painless” (from Brazillian Girls Remix EP)
The New Pornographers – “All the Old Showstoppers” (from Challengers)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)

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Here’s today’s playlist. It had more of an old school Left of the Dial feel today. I’ll add the links I promised later but I wanted to put the song list up.

Black Lips – “I Once Saw a Ghost (Lean)” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Jonathan Rice – “Further North” (from Further North)
The Pipettes – “Pull Shapes” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “It Was There That I Saw You” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Shout Out Louds – “Impossible” (from Our Ill Wills)
David Bowie – “Young Americans” (from Young Americans)
The Replacements – “Hold My Life” (from Tim)
Ben Lee – “Thrash Unreal” (from Ben Lee Sings Against Me! – New Wave)
Bright Eyes – “The Calendar Hung Itself” (from Fevers & Mirrors)
Radiohead – “Let Down” (from OK Computer)
Sonic Youth – “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
R.E.M. – “World Leader Pretend” (from Green)
Los Campesinos! – “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s)” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Against Me!- “New Wave” (from New Wave)

And the links I promised:
Ben Lee Sings Against Me’s “New Wave”
Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows

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Here’s what you heard (or missed) on today’s show this morning.

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Iron & Wine – “Boy with a Coin” (from The Shepherd’s Dog)
Jose Gonzales – “Down the Line” (from In Our Nature)
Matt Pond PA – “Sunlight” (from Last Light)
Pinback – “Good to Sea” (from Autumn of the Seraphs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Who – “The Real Me” (from Quadrophenia)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Darklands” (from Darklands)
Black Lips – “O Katrina!” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living with the Living)
The Hold Steady – “First Night” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The New Pornographers – “Letter from an Occupant” (from Mass Romantic)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
Paul Weller – “That’s Entertainment” (from Days of Speed)
The Minus Five – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Jonathan Rice – “THC” (from Further North)

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