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 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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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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Left of the Dial is on the air RIGHT NOW with special guest Matt!  Click on the “How to Listen” tab to check it out!

Here’s what you’re hearing:
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Broken Social Scene – “Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Mix)” (from You Forgot It in People)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
The Verve – “This Time” (from Urban Hymns)
Death Cab for Cutie – “I Will Possess Your Heart” (from Narrow Stairs)
The Stone Roses – “I Wanna Be Adored” (from The Stone Roses)
My Morning Jacket – “Evil Urges” (from Evil Urges)
The Raconteurs – “Salute Your Solution” (from Consolers of the Lonely)
She & Him – “This is Not a Test” (from Volume 1)
LCD Soundsystem – “Big Ideas” (from 21 OST)
Frank Black – “Hang On to Your Ego” (from Frank Black)

The Replacements – “Unsatisfied” (from Let it Be)
Tokyo Police Club – “Juno” (from Elephant Shell)
Blur – “Song 2″ (from Blur)
Badly Drawn Boy – “All Possibilities” (from Have You Fed the Fish?)
R.E.M. – “Hollow Man” (from Accelerate)
Semisonic – “Singing in My Sleep” (from Feeling Strangely Fine)
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Radiohead – “Optimistic” (from Kid A)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
The Hold Steady – “Multitude of Casualties” (from Live at Lollapalooza 2006)
The Jam – “Ghosts” (from The Gift)

The Replacements – “Alex Chilton” (from Pleased to Meet Me)
The Black Keys – “Strange Times” (from Attack and Release)
B-52s – “Private Idaho” (from Nude on the Moon Boxset)
R.E.M. – “Maps & Legends” (from Fables of the Reconstruction)
Bloc Party – “So Here We Are” (from Silent Alarm)
Ted Leo – “Since U Been Gone / Maps” (live recording)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from Tyranny of Distance)
Billy Bragg – “I Keep Faith” (from Mr. Love & Justice)
The New Pornographers – “Use It” (from Twin Cinema)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
Spoon – “Jonathon Fisk” (from Kill the Moonlight)
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon” (from Loveless)
Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (from Into the Wild OST)

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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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Just a heads up that both Left of the Dial and WQAQ will be off the air both this weekend and next weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday (so sleep in this weekend).

Also, I just learned second hand that I’m WQAQ’s “DJ of the Week.”  I’m not really sure what that entails but nonetheless I’m extremely honored and grateful to be selected!  Head over to WQAQ.com to check out my honor and a list of past honorees.

Enjoy the time off and do something fun in the interim – I’m going to see The Hold Steady & Art Brut (again!) next week.  Let me know what you want to hear when I come back December 1st.

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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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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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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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