Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 11/18/11
Here’s the complete playlist from Friday’s broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial on WNHU. Thank you to everybody who tuned in. I’m going away to see my family in Maryland (ugh) for Thanksgiving, which means that the next broadcast will not be next Friday, but the Friday after that. So be sure to tune in on Friday, December 2nd for the next live broadcast of Left of the Dial!
- 1. The Clash - “Janie Jones”
- 2. Cap’n Jazz - “Planet Shhh”
- 3. Black Flag - “Jealous Again”
- 4. Minutemen - “Corona”
- 5. OFF! - “Poison City”
- 6. Girls - “Honey Bunny”
- 7. Into It. Over It. - “Discretion & Depressing People”
- 8. Snowing - “Methuselah Rookie Card”
- 9. Grown Ups - “Six More Weeks Of Winter”
- 10. Connecticut - “Intro/The Motherland”
- 11. Refused - “The Deadly Rhythm”
- 12. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - “Everything Is Connected and Everything Matters (A Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem)”
- 13. Co-Pilots - “Shut Up, Be Happy”
- 14. peaer - “sheets”
- 15. The Mountain Goats - “Quito”
- 16. The Replacements - “Sixteen Blue”
- 17. Midi & The Modern Dance - “I’m Sure You’ll Call”
- 18. Los Campesinos! - “Hello Sadness”
- 19. The Antlers - “VCR” (The xx cover)
- 20. The Cure - “Plainsong”
- 21. Red House Painters - “Dragonflies”
- 22. The Postal Service - “Recycled Air”
- 23. Radiohead - “Just” (Live) (Just (For College) EP version)
- 24. Real Estate - “It’s Real”
- 25. Giles Corey - “Spectral Bride”
- 26. Kid Dakota - “Crossin’ Fingers”
- 27. Titus Andronicus - “No Future Part Two: The Days After No Future”
- 28. R.E.M. - “We All Go Back To Where We Belong”
Song of the Day Number Thirty Nine
Kid Dakota is a Minnesota indie rock band centered around singer / guitarist Darren Jackson. I was revisiting their 2001 album So Pretty today and was just as blown away as when I discovered it in November. I wrote a somewhat extensive post about the band then, which you can find here. Also included is a link to download this wonderful album.
“Crossin’ Fingers”, the obvious highlight of So Pretty, is a harsh and menacing song. Jackson’s guitar and multitracked vocals take center stage over the minimalistic beat, harmonizing with eachother to create a disorienting and heavy feeling. In that earlier blog post, I compared their sound to that of the grunge band Alice in Chains, but Kid Dakota’s sound is significantly more raw, lo-fi, and experimental. They seem to be far less angry, but far more emotive. Plus, that four-part vocal harmony in the middle absolutely slays me. Stream the track above.
