Playlist for 12/01/07

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)

Playlist for 11/03/07

Here’s what you heard on today’s show:

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Arcade Fire – “Wake Up” (from Funeral)
The Jam – “Strange Town” (from Setting Sons)
Squeeze – “Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)” (from Singles 45’s and Under)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Six Months in a Leaky Boat” (from Sharkbite Sessions EP)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
The Rolling Stones – “Play With Fire: (from Hot Rocks: 1964 – 1971 and The Darjeeling Limited OST)
Nirvana – “All Apologies” (from MTV Unplugged)
Elliott Smith – “Angeles” (from Either/Or)
The Shins – “Phantom Limb” (from Wincing the Night Away)
The Miracle of ‘86 – “Dance! Dance, Revolution” (from Every Famous Last Word)
Husker Du – “New Day Rising” (from New Day Rising)
Pavement – “Silence Kit” (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)
R.E.M. – “The One I Love” (from R.E.M. Live)

Playlist for 10/27/07

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)

Playlist for 10/20/07

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)

Playlist for 10/06/07

Here’s today’s playlist. It had more of an old school Left of the Dial feel today. I’ll add the links I promised later but I wanted to put the song list up.

Black Lips – “I Once Saw a Ghost (Lean)” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Eisley – “Many Funerals” (from Combinations)
Jonathan Rice – “Further North” (from Further North)
The Pipettes – “Pull Shapes” (from We Are the Pipettes)
Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining” (from Under the Blacklight)
Bjork – “Earth Intruders” (from Volta)
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – “It Was There That I Saw You” (from Source Tags & Codes)
Shout Out Louds – “Impossible” (from Our Ill Wills)
David Bowie – “Young Americans” (from Young Americans)
The Replacements – “Hold My Life” (from Tim)
Ben Lee – “Thrash Unreal” (from Ben Lee Sings Against Me! – New Wave)
Bright Eyes – “The Calendar Hung Itself” (from Fevers & Mirrors)
Radiohead – “Let Down” (from OK Computer)
Sonic Youth – “Youth Against Fascism” (from Dirty)
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
The Jam – “Precious” (from The Gift)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Parallel or Together?” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
R.E.M. – “World Leader Pretend” (from Green)
Los Campesinos! – “Don’t Tell Me to Do the Math(s)” (from Sticking Fingers into Sockets EP)
Against Me!- “New Wave” (from New Wave)

And the links I promised:
Ben Lee Sings Against Me’s “New Wave”
Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows

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 04/01/07

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 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 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)