Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

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 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 (no fooling):

LCD Soundsystem – “All My Friends” (from Sound of Silver)
The Postal Service – “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” (from Get Up)
R.E.M. – “I Believe (live)” (from Tourfilm DVD)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “The Sons of Cain” (from Living With the Living)
New Order – “Love Vigilantes” (from Low-Life)
The Stooges – “Search & Destroy” (from A Million in Prizes: The Iggy Pop Anthology)
Jarvis Cocker – “Don’t Let Him Waste Your Time” (from Jarvis)
Low – “Hatchet” (from Drums and Guns)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Belle & Sebastian – “Piazza, New York Catcher” (from Dear Catastrophe Waitress)
The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy!” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The Pipettes – “Because It’s Not Love (But It’s Still a Feeling)” (from We Are the Pipettes)
The Clash – “Wrong ‘Em Boyo” (from London Calling)

WQAQ will be off the air next weekend for the Easter holiday so I’ll be back on the air again in 2 weeks.

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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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