Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

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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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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The first show of the semester has come and gone and I’m quite pleased with how it went.  Be sure to tune in again next week for more of the same!

Here’s what you heard today:
Left of the Dial Pre-Show:
Liam Finn – “Second Chance” (from I’ll Be Lightning)
MGMT – “Weekend Wars” (from Oraculat Spectacular)
Band of Horses – “No One’s Gonna Love You” (from Cease to Begin)
Amy Winehouse – “Rehab” (from Back to Black)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – “100 Days, 100 Nights” (from 100 Days, 100 Nights)
John Cale – “All My Friends” (from LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends EP)
Panda Bear – “Comfy in Nautica” (from Person Pitch)
R.E.M. – “Supernatural Superserious” (from Accelerate)

“Official Show”
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Los Campesinos! – “…And We Exhale and Roll Our Eyes in Unison” (from Hold on Now, Youngster)
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk” (from Vampire Weekend)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – “Cold Son” (from Real Emotional Trash)
The Specials – “Pressure Drop” (from Today’s Specials)
M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” (from Kala)
Nada Surf – “Whose Authority” (from Lucky)
The Lemonheads – “No Backbone” (from The Lemonheads)
Cat Power – “Sea of Love” (from The Covers Record)
Spoon – “Don’t You Evah” (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
Wilco – “Sky Blue Sky” (from Sky Blue Sky)
The Magnetic Fields – “California Girls” (from Distortion)

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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 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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Here’s what you heard this morning:

Apostle of Hustle – “National Anthem of Nowhere” (from National Anthem of Nowhere)
Meat Puppets – “Lake of Fire” (from Meat Puppets II)
Miracle of 86 – “Sunday School” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Kaiser Chiefs – “I Predict a Riot” (from Employment)
Wilco – “You Are My Face” (from Sky Blue Sky)
Albert Hammond, Jr. – “Everyone Gets a Star” (from Yours to Keep)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (live on Saturday Night Live)
Big Star – “O My Soul” (from Radio City)
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – “A Bottle of Buckie” (from Living With the Living
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Four Winds EP)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Either/Or)
Jesus & Mary Chain – “Far Gone and Out” (from Honey’s Dead)
David Bowie – “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (from Aladdin Sane)
Jill Cunniff – “NYC Boy” (from City Beach)
The La’s – “Timeless Melody” (from The La’s)
Bloc Party – “Hunting for Witches” (from A Weekend in the City)

I’ll (probably) be off the next 2 weeks for QU’s spring break. I’ll let you know once I do.

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Here’s what you heard for this semester’s final show – our tribute to 1996

Belle and Sebastian – “Me and the Major” (from If You’re Feeling Sinister – Live)
The Fugees – “Ready or Not” (from The Score)
Local H – “Bound for the Floor” (from As Good as Dead)
Pearl Jam – “Mankind” (from No Code)
Rage Against the Machine – “People of the Sun” (from Evil Empire)
Social Distortion – “I Was Wrong” (from White Light, White Heat, White Trash)
Wilco – “Red Eyed & Blue / I Got You (At the End of the Century)” (from Being There)
Noel Gallagher – “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” (from MTV Unplugged)
Afghan Whigs – “Creep” – (from Honky’s Ladder EP)
Daft Punk – “Around the World” (from Homework)
Manic Street Preachers – “Everything Must Go” (from Everything Must Go)
R.E.M. – “Electrolyte” (from New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Beck – “Devil’s Haircut” (from Odelay)

Thanks again to Mike for being my frequent co-host this past semester. WQAQ is currently on semester break but keep checking here to see when Left of the Dial returns to the airwaves.

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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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Today’s show was an instant classic – a special 2 hour edition featuring guest DJ Mike! Mike kept me company, picked a whole bunch of songs, and acted as the rock of sanity around all of my ridiculous bullshit. Mr. Giaquinto will have to come back soon and frequently!

Here’s what you heard:

Sonic Youth (w/ Chuck D) – “Kool Thing” (from Goo)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Smiths – “Girlfriend in a Coma” (from Strangeways, Here We Come)
Slowdive – “Machine Gun” (from Souvlaki)
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins – “Handle With Care (w/ Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward” (from Rabbit Fur Coat)
Squeeze – “Another Nail in my Heart” (from Argybargy)
The Specials – “Rudi, A Message to You” (from Singles Collection)
The Pogues – “Dirty Old Town” (from Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash)
Pablo – “Half the Time” (from Half the Time)(website here)
The Hold Steady – “Party Pit” (from Boys and Girls in America)
Thin Lizzy – “Jailbreak” (from Jailbreak)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from The Electric Version)
Wilco – “Airline to Heaven (live)” (from Kicking Television: Live in Chicago
Superdrag – “Sucked Out” (from Regretfully Yours)
Pulp – “Disco 2000″ (from Different Class)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” (from Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not)
Billy Bragg – “A New England” (from Must I Paint You a Picture?)
Badly Drawn Boy – “Everybody’s Stalking” (from The Hour of Bewilderbeast)
Scissor Sisters – “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing (w/ Elton John)” (from Ta-Dah)
The Dead Boys – “Sonic Reducer” (from Young, Loud, and Snotty)
Dinosaur Jr – “Just Like Heaven” (from Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr)
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer – “Redemption Song” (from Unearthed)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Buzzcocks – “What Do I Get?” (from Singles Going Steady)
The Who w/ Eddie Vedder – “I’m One (live)” (from Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
The Stone Roses – “She Bangs the Drums” (from The Stone Roses)

See you next week!
[BW]

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