Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 12/14/12

Sorry for not posting this earlier! I’ve been very busy lately with a number of serious obligations, not the least of which is my upcoming series of year end lists, which will feature a lot of retrospective writing. Anyway, here’s the playlist from my most recent radio show on Friday. The format for this broadcast was simple; I chose some of my favorite songs from 2012 and arranged them, mixtape style, outside of the formal structure of a typical year end list. I will, of course, be putting out a more structured Top Songs of 2012 list featuring songs that are not represented in this playlist. In fact, I purposefully left out anything that might be included in my SOTY list. Many of these, however, were very close to making the cut for the Top 25. Check out the full playlist below and stream the available tracks via Spotify.

• 1. The Shins - “Simple Song”
• 2. The Ambulars - “We’re Golden”
• 3. Parquet Courts - “Borrowed Time”
• 4. Cat Power - “Ruin”
• 5. Dirty Projector - “Gun Has No Trigger”
• 6. Desaparecidos - “Backsell”
• 7. Now, Now - “Thread”
• 8. Death Grips - “I’ve Seen Footage”
• 9. Converge - “Sadness Comes Home”
• 10. The Tallest Man On Earth - “1904”
• 11. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Mature Themes”
• 12. A.C. Newman - “I’m Not Talking”
• 13. Ty Segall Band - “I Bought My Eyes”
• 14. SPOOK HOUSES - “Bad Sound”
• 15. Spider Bags - “Friday Night”
• 16. Sidewalk Dave - “Happiness Is An Art: We Must Learn While We’re Apart”
• 17. First Aid Kit - “King of the World” (feat. Conor Oberst)
• 18. The Mountain Goats - “Cry For Judas”
• 19. Teen Suicide - “Give Me Back To The Sky”
• 20. SpaceGhostPurpp - “The Black God”
• 21. Burial - “Loner”
• 22. Joie De Vivre - “I Was Sixteen Ten Years Ago”
• 23. You Blew It! - “The Fifties”
• 24. Fiona Apple - “Werewolf”
• 25. Suns - “The Engine Room”
• 26. Sun Kil Moon - “Among the Leaves”
• 27. The Antlers - “Drift Dive”
• 28. Prairie Empire - “Song For You”
• 29. Mount Eerie - “I Walked Home Beholding”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 11/16/12

Thanks for tuning in to another broadcast of my radio show last night on WNHU. The full playlist is below, including a few pretty stellar requests. Thanks everybody! As a head’s up, I won’t be doing my radio show next week. Like about 2/3 of Connecticut, I’ll be seeing Bomb The Music Industry! in New Haven on their final tour. If you’re in the area, you should come.

Left of The Dial will be back the following week on November 30th. Until then, enjoy this playlist and stream it via Spotify at the embedded link at the bottom of this post.

• 1. Townes Van Zandt - “Be Here To Love Me”
• 2. A.C. Newman - “I’m Not Talking”
• 3. WHY? - “Sanddollars”
• 4. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Mature Themes”
• 5. Dirty Projectors - “Simple Request”
• 6. Sharon Van Etten - “Give Out” (Requested by oceanofantics)
• 7. Mac Demarco - “Ode To Viceroy”
• 8. Great Caesar - “Rearview”
• 9. Jeff Rosenstock - “Twinkle”
• 10. The Babies - “Moonlight Mile”
• 11. The Human Fly - “Moth” (Everything II version) (Requested by playingmakeupwearingguitar)
• 12. Sufjan Stevens - “Carol of St. Benjamin The Bearded One”
• 13. Sam Cooke - “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”
• 14. Eels - “P.S. You Rock My World”
• 15. Tom Waits - “Ol’ 55”
• 16. Madlib - “Slim’s Return”
• 17. Crystal Castles - “Violent Youth”
• 18. Zomby - “Get Sorted”
• 19. Portishead - “Silence”
• 20. Ólafur Arnalds - “Near Light”
• 21. Sufjan Stevens - “Christmas In The Room”
• 22. Samuel Bass - “A Holiday Din”
• 23. Andrew Jackson Jihad - “Guilt: The Song” (Requested by withlugosi)
• 24. Sun Kil Moon - “The Winery”
• 25. Jenny Owen Youngs - “Voice On Tape”
• 26. The Microphones - “I Felt Your Shape”
• 27. How To Dress Well - “Set It Right”
• 28. The Magnetic Fields - “No One Will Ever Love You”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 8/17/12

My radio show last night ruled. It was so great to have so many people tune in and send in requests. Thanks for making my night, evenbody! Here’s the full playlist from the show, which you can stream via Spotify at the embedded link below.

• 1. Jens Lekman - “Maple Leaves (EP Version)”
• 2. of Montreal - “Neat Little Domestic Life”
• 3. M83 - “Kim & Jessie”
• 4. Glocca Morra - “Ya’ll Boots Hats? (Die Angry)” (requested by Milkshakes)
• 5. Milkshakes - “Kalabar’s Revenge”
• 6. Joyce Manor - “Violent Inside”
• 7. Into It. Over It. - “Gin and Ironic”
• 8. Spider Bags - “Friday Night”
• 9. John Galm - “Drugs Are Appealing”
• 10. Dan Deacon - “Prettyboy”
• 11. The Flaming Lips - “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1”
• 12. The Magnetic Fields - “100,000 Fireflies”
• 13. Cat Power - “American Flag”
• 14. Purity Ring - “Fineshrine”
• 15. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Kinski Assasin” (Requested by rainbowsrillusions)
• 16. Mount Eerie - “Ocean Roar”
• 17. Man Man - “Van Helsing Boombox”
• 18. Echo & the Bunnymen - “The Killing Moon”
• 19. Cat Power - “Ruin”
• 20. WHY? - “Shag Carpet”
• 21. Agent Orange - “Too Young To Die” (Requested by anon)
• 22. The Magnetic Fields - “The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side” (Requested by anon)
• 23. Frank Ocean - “Pilot Jones”
• 24. Sufjan Stevens - “Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition / Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream”
• 25. Sean Milo - “Hollowpine”
• 26. Ty Segall & White Fence - “I Am Not A Game” (Requested by anon)
• 27. Animal Collective - “What Would I Want? Sky” (Requested by anon)
• 28. Nana Grizol - “Cynicism” (Requested by magicinthemundane)
• 29. Jay Reatard - “Wounded” (Requested by dharmaronin)

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 8/10/12

Thanks for tuning in to my radio show Left of the Dial last night on WNHU. I hope everyone who listened liked the show.Here’s the full playlist below. If you’d like, you can stream the Spotify version of the playlist at the embedded link below that. 

• 1. Destroyer - “Streethawk I”
• 2. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - “I See A Darkness” (Now Here’s My Plan version)
• 3. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Mature Themes”
• 4. The Mountain Goats - “Cry For Judas”
• 5. Defiance, Ohio - “Horizon Lines, Volume and Infinity”
• 6. Yo La Tengo - “Autumn Sweater”
• 7. JEFF The Brotherhood - “Country Life”
• 8. Now, Now - “Thread”
• 9. Dum Dum Girls - “Lord Knows”
• 10. Hop Along - “Tibetan Pop Stars”
• 11. Liars - “No.1 Against The Rush”
• 12. Ethan Uhl - “self help books”
• 13. Crystal Castles - “Plague”
• 14. Animal Collective - “Today’s Supernatural”
• 15. The Antlers - “Drift Dive”
• 16. Mount Eerie - “Waves”
• 17. Desaparecidos - “MariKKKopa”
• 18. Desaparecidos - “Backsell”
• 19. Wavves - “Hippies Is Punks”
• 20. I Kill Giants - “Life Instead of Sleep”
• 21. Punch - “Time Apart”
• 22. White Lung - “Thick Lip”
• 23. Grizzly Bear - “Yet Again” (requested by sea-fence)
• 24. Jens Lekman - “I Know What Love Isn’t”
• 25. Ty Segall - “Goodbye Bread”
• 26. Slow Warm Death - “Kill You”
• 27. Modest Mouse - “Paper Thin Walls” (Requested by anonymous)
• 28. Jaill - “Horrible Things (Make Pretty Songs)”
• 29. Perfume Genius - “Dark Parts”
• 30. TNGHT - “Bugg’n”

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 1/14/11

Yesterday’s show was my first two hour show on the main radio stream at WNHU. I enjoyed the extended time and having the new time slot, and I thought it went pretty smoothly, despite some computer issues at the very beginning. Here’s the playlist from last night - 

• 1. Built to Spill - Randy Described Eternity
• 2. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Heartilation
• 3. Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
• 4. The Love Language - Lalita
• 5. Lou Reed - I’m So Free
• 6. Scott Walker - Mathilde
• 7. Bob Dylan - One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
• 8. Husker Du - Chartered Trips
• 9. Hour of the Star - Rootbeer and Running Shoes
• 10. Carissa’s Wierd - You Should Be Hated Here
• 11. Joan of Arc - This Life Cumulative
• 12. Fucked Up - Son the Father
• 13. Daft Punk - Robot Rock
• 14. Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
• 15. Love - Alone Again Or
• 16. The Flaming Lips - The Gash
• 17. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round
• 18. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
• 19. Bright Eyes - Shell Games
• 20. Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
• 21. The Stone Roses - This Is The One
• 22. Beach House - Zebra
• 23. The Magnetic Fields - Long Vermont Roads
• 24. Animal Collective - Turn Into Something
• 25. Galaxie 500 - Tell Me
• 26. Sharon Van Etten - Save Yourself
• 27. Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Fire