Playlist for 12/9/06

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.

Playlist for 12/02/06 – “Lefty Awards”

The first annual “Lefty Awards” were handed out today and Mike and I had fun looking back at some of our favorite music from the past year.

Here’s what you heard (and the awards they won too)
Pearl Jam – “Gone” – “Live Lefty” Winner (from Albany, NY 5/12/2006)
The Hold Steady – “Stuck Between Stations” – Brian’s Favorite Album of 2006 Lefty (from Boys and Girls in America)
Dirty Pretty Things – “Doctors & Dealers” – “Brad Johnson” Lefty (for a consistently solid but not great album) (from Waterloo to Anywhere)
Lupe Fiasco – “Hurt Me Soul” – Outstanding Achievement in Hip Hop Lefty (from Lupe Fiasco’s Food and Liquor)
Spoon – “The Book I Write” – Soundtrack Lefty (from Stranger than Fiction OST)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” – “Don’t Call it a Comeback” Lefty (from Rather Ripped)
Belle and Sebastian – “White Collar Boy” – The “Most Offensive Humorous Reference” Lefty (from The Life Pursuit)
Sleater-Kinney – “Modern Girl” – The “Farewell” Lefty (from 2005’s The Woods)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” – “Critics Choice” Lefty (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Arctic Monkeys – “A Certain Romance” – “Lebron James” Lefty (from meeting and/or exceeding tremendous hype) (from Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not)
The Rapture – “Woo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh” – “Wreckx-N-Effect” Lefty (for best “Rump Shaker) (from Pieces of the People We Love)

Next week’s show is the last show of the semester, so I’ll be planning something for it.

Playlist for 11/11/06

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)

First Show Playlist (9/30/06)

Well the first show came and went QUICKLY! I was a bit rusty having not been on the air in a while but I enjoyed it and played some good tunes!

Here’s what you heard (or what you missed!)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Bloc Party – “Always New Depths” (from Silent Alarm Remixed)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Head On” (from 21 Singles)
Husker Du – “Love is All Around” (from Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All EP)
Pearl Jam – “Interstellar Overdrive -> Corduroy” (from Santa Barbara 2006 Bootleg)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Dial Up” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Portastatic – “Bobby Jean” (from Autumn Got Dark EP)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” (from Rather Ripped)
The Jam – “Town Called Malice” (from The Gift)
Teenage Fanclub – “Radio” (from Thirteen)
Guided By Voices – “Game of Pricks” (from Human Amusements at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided By Voices)
The Rapture – “Pieces of the People We Love” (from Pieces of the People We Love)

See you next week!
[BW]