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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 back on the air this weekend to start the last few shows of the semester. While I’m announcing this to you, I figured I’d point out a couple different things I noticed this weekend.

First, while watching the Giants – Vikings game, FOX played the very beginning of my show’s theme song going to commercial. I was so surprised to hear the Replacements during a football game – something doesn’t add up there.

And also, I saw the youtube video a month ago when the Arcade Fire finished their show at Randall’s Island with an impromptu cover of the Violent Femmes’ “Kiss Off” – a song that I used to frequently end my show with in days past, especially when completing an extra-long broadcast or a shift I covered for another DJ. It also is the last song that I ever played at WDOM (unofficially, since I played it while packing up after the still legendary 5 1/2 hour final Left of the Dial in May 2005).

Anyway, I let it slide until this weekend I found out that the Arcade Fire have continued to cover it during some of their European tour dates. I only hope they picked it up from listening to my humble little show!

So to tide you over until Saturday morning, here’s a couple Youtube videos of AF covering the Violent Femmes. Feel free to find MP3s by searching on The Hype Machine.

First, “Kiss Off” from the Randall’s Island show 10/6/07

And “Kiss Off” live in Brussels 11/02/07

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Thanks for listening to the first show this semester! Here’s what you heard:

Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Is Is” (from Is Is EP)
The Weakerthans – “Sun Man in an Empty Room” (from Reunion Tour)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Kevin Drew – “Backed Out on the…” (from Spirit If)
Pavement – “Father to a Sister of Thought” (from Wowee Zowee!)
Spoon – “The Underdog” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Billy Bragg – “Waiting for the Great Leap Forward” (from Workers’ Playtime)
Against Me! – “New Wave” (from New Wave)
Los Campesinos! – “You! Me! Dancing!” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (from Neon Bible)
R.E.M. – “#9 Dream” (from Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur)
Elliott Smith – “Whatever (Folk Song in C)” (from New Moon)
Dinosaur Jr – “The Wagon” (from Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr)

The Replacements – “Achin’ To Be” (from Don’t Tell a Soul)
The National – “Ada” (from Boxer)
AC/DC – “For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)” (from For Those About to Rock)
Hot Hot Heat – “Harmonicas and Tamborines” (from Happiness Ltd.)
The Pipettes – “Judy” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Joy Division – “Atmosphere” (from Substance)
Violent Femmes – “American Music” (from Permanent Vacation: The Best of the Violent Femmes)
My Bloody Valentine – “Soon” (from Loveless)
The New Pornographers – “My Rights Versus Yours” (from Challengers)
Jeff Tweedy – “Summerteeth” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest)
Ride – “Vapour Trail” (from Nowhere)
Mark Ronson (f/ Lily Allen) – “Oh My God” (from Version)
Shout Out Louds – “Tonight I Have to Leave It” (from Our Ill Wills)

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