Playlist for 09/27/08

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)

Playlist for 09/22/07

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)

Playlist for 05/06/07

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)

Playlist for 04/15/07

Here’s what you heard today:

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah” (from Grace)
The Hold Steady – “Girls Like Status” (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Moviefilm Sountrack)
The New Pornographers – “Letter from an Occupant” (from Mass Romantic)
The Apples in Stereo – “Can You Feel It?” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
The Jam – “Ghosts” (from The Gift)
Jarvis Cocker – “Black Magic” (from Jarvis)
Ramones – “Rockaway Beach” (from Rocket to Russia)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living with the Living)
Reel Big Fish – “Hungry Like the Wolf” (from The Duran Duran Tribute Album)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)

And here’s the links to the videos I mentioned earlier today:
Apples in Stereo – “Can you Feel It?”
Daft Punk – “Around the World”
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time”

Playlist for 04/01/07

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.

Playlist for 02/25/07

Today’s show was unexpectedly long but turned out to go by somewhat fast. Here’s what you heard:

Built to Spill – “Conventional Wisdom” (from You in Reverse)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Velvet Underground – “Sunday Morning” (from The Velvet Underground & Nico)
Jeff Tweedy – “Summerteeth” (from Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest)
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen – “History Song” (from The Good, The Bad, & The Queen)
Of Montreal – “Suffer for Fashion” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
Dinosaur Jr – “Been There All the Time” (from Beyond)
Arcade Fire – “Keep the Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
The Hold Steady – “Most People are DJs” (from …Almost Killed Me)
Bloc Party – “Waiting for the 7.18″ (from A Weekend In the City)
Matthew Sweet – “Divine Intervention” (from Goodfriend: Another Take on Girlfriend)
Bob Dylan – “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (from The Essential Bob Dylan)
Mission of Burma – “Academy Fight Song” (from Signals, Calls, & Marches)
M83 – “Don’t Save Us from the Flames” (from Before the Dawn Heals Us)

The second hour began with a mini-set of ’60s soul:

Otis Reading – “It’s Too Late” (from The Great Otis Reading Sings Soul Ballads)
Aretha Franklin – “Think” (from Blues Brothers: The Definitive Collection)
Sam & Dave – “Hold On, I’m Comin’” (from Hold On, I’m Comin’)
Archie Bell & The Drells – “Tighten Up” (from Tighten Up / I Can’t Stop Dancing)
James Brown – “Night Train / Closing” (from Live at the Apollo, 1962)
Sly & The Family Stone – “Everyday People” (from Greatest Hits)
Sam Cooke – “A Change is Gonna Come” (from The Man and His Music)
Lily Allen – “LDN” (from Alright, Still)
The New Pornographers – “It’s Only Divine Right” (from Electric Version)
Sonic Youth – “Schizophrenia” (from Sister)
Sondre Lerche & The Faces Down – “Phantom Punch” (from Phantom Punch)
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists – “C.I.A.” (from Living with the Living)
Kevin Devine – “Holland, 1945″ (from Put Your Ghost To Rest B-Sides)
Sufjan Stevens – “Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” (from Come On Feel the Illinoise)

And the third(!) hour began with a mini-set of female singers.

Regina Spektor – “Fidelity” (from Begin to Hope)
Beth Orton – “How Far” (from Trailor Park)
Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” (from Fever In, Fever Out)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – “Different Drum” (from Under the Covers, Vol. 1)
Sleater-Kinney – “Jumpers” (from The Woods)
The Spinanes – “Spitfire” (from Manos)
Stars – “Elevator Love Letter” (from Heart)
Broken Social Scene – “Major Label Debut” (live on KCRW)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Teenage Fanclub – “Star Sign” (from Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: The Best of Teenage Fanclub)
Suede – “Trash” (from Suede)
The Thrills – “One Horse Town” (from So Much for the City)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sound Of Silver)

No links this week, I’ll be crossing my fingers for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine at the Oscars tonight!

Playlist for 02/18/07

Today’s show was the first show back for the semester and featured a ton of new music! Here’s what you heard:

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Shins – “Sleeping Lessons” (from Wincing the Night Away)
Bloc Party – “Hunting for Witches” (from A Weekend in the City)
Modest Mouse – “We’ve Got Everything” (from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank)
Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go” (from Neon Bible)
Deerhunter – “Spring Hall Convert” (from Cryptograms)
The Apples in Stereo – “Energy” (from New Magnetic Wonder)
LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum” (from Sounds of Silver)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living With the Living)
Dinosaur Jr – “Almost Ready” (from Beyond)
Of Montreal – “Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider” (from Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

And today’s episode featured a bit of “bonus time” too! Here’s what you heard then:

Peter Bjorn and John – “Young Folks” (from Writer’s Block)
Sonic Youth – “Reena” (from Rather Ripped)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Madonna of the Wasps” (from the Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80’s Underground box set)
X – “See How We Are” (from See How We Are)
Arcade Fire – “Intervention” (from Neon Bible)

Here’s a link to a recent Hartford Current article on some of the people bringing underground rock music to Connecticut. Also, check out the Arcade Fire next Saturday on Saturday Night Live!

Playlist for 10/14/06

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]