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 10/20/07

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 09/29/07

Here’s what you heard (or missed) on today’s show this morning.

Animal Collective – “Peacebone” (from Strawberry Jam)
Iron & Wine – “Boy with a Coin” (from The Shepherd’s Dog)
Jose Gonzales – “Down the Line” (from In Our Nature)
Matt Pond PA – “Sunlight” (from Last Light)
Pinback – “Good to Sea” (from Autumn of the Seraphs)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
The Who – “The Real Me” (from Quadrophenia)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Darklands” (from Darklands)
Black Lips – “O Katrina!” (from Good Bad Not Evil)
Low – “When I Go Deaf” (from The Great Destroyer)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “La Costa Brava” (from Living with the Living)
The Hold Steady – “First Night” (from Boys and Girls in America)
The New Pornographers – “Letter from an Occupant” (from Mass Romantic)
Against Me! – “Thrash Unreal” (from New Wave)
Paul Weller – “That’s Entertainment” (from Days of Speed)
The Minus Five – “Where Will You Go?” (from Down With Wilco)
Jonathan Rice – “THC” (from Further North)

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 03/25/07

This morning’s show was a bit hectic – sound problems and a slow computer will do that sometimes – but it was certainly enriched by my guest DJ Alyssa and some great songs (of course).

Here’s what you heard:
Feist – “My Moon, My Man” (from My Moon, My Man EP)
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds” (from Four Winds EP)
The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
Colin Meloy – “Everyday is Like Sunday” (from Colin Meloy Sings Morrisey EP)
The Rapture – “Don Gon Do It” (from Pieces of the People We Love)
Neil Young – “Ohio (live)” (from Live at Massey Hall 1971)
Teenage Fanclub – “Neil Jung” (from Thirteen)
Yo La Tengo – “Mr. Tough” (from I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)
Ted Leo – “Nothing Much To Say” (from Mo’ Livin’ EP)
TV On The Radio – “Wolf Like Me (live)” (from Live at Amoeba Music)
Blondie – “Dreaming” (from Best of Blondie)
Grandaddy – “Now It’s On” (from Sumday)
Lily Allen – “Smile” (from Alright, Still)
Arcade Fire – “Keep The Car Running” (from Neon Bible)
The Thrills – “One Horse Town” (from So Much for the City)

Playlist for 03/04/07

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.