Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground

Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground
Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground
Compilation album by various artists
Released	October 5, 2004
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Rhino

Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground is a four-disc alternative rock compilation album released by Rhino Records in 2004. Chris Dahlen of Pitchfork notes that "mandate of Left of the Dial—to showcase anything that fit on college radio in the 80s—-- means you'll find everything from punk and post-punk to synth-pop and dream-pop".[5] The term "left of the dial", taken from a Replacements song (that does not appear in this collection), refers to the college and other non-commercial FM radio stations in the U.S., with frequencies typically in the reserved band on the left (i.e. lower) end of the FM broadcast band of the radio spectrum.[9]

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Radio Free Europe"	R.E.M.	4:06
2.	"Going Underground"	The Jam	2:56
3.	"A Forest"	The Cure	4:55
4.	"Holiday in Cambodia"	Dead Kennedys	4:39
5.	"I'm in Love with a German Film Star"	The Passions	4:01
6.	"I Will Dare"	The Replacements	3:19
7.	"That's When I Reach for My Revolver"	Mission of Burma	3:53
8.	"Johnny Hit and Run Paulene"	X	2:50
9.	"Just Like Honey"	The Jesus and Mary Chain	3:02
10.	"Black Celebration"	Depeche Mode	4:53
11.	"Tell Me When It's Over"	The Dream Syndicate	3:33
12.	"Hollywood (Africa)"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	5:03
13.	"Temptation"	New Order	5:44
14.	"Ghosts"	Japan	4:32
15.	"A Song from Under the Floorboards"	Magazine	4:11
16.	"Oblivious"	Aztec Camera	3:12
17.	"Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely"	Hüsker Dü	3:32
18.	"Rise Above"	Black Flag	2:26
19.	"Back in Flesh"	Wall of Voodoo	3:43
20.	"Cattle and Cane"	The Go-Betweens	4:01

Disc two
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Message of Love"	The Pretenders	3:26
2.	"Vienna"	Ultravox	4:40
3.	"Freak Scene"	Dinosaur Jr.	3:37
4.	"This Charming Man"	The Smiths	2:44
5.	"Stigmata"	Ministry	5:45
6.	"Ways to Be Wicked"	Lone Justice	3:26
7.	"Wardance"	Killing Joke	3:47
8.	"Enola Gay"	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	3:32
9.	"Mirror in the Bathroom"	The English Beat	3:08
10.	"Fairytale in the Supermarket"	The Raincoats	3:00
11.	"Behind the Wall of Sleep"	The Smithereens	3:24
12.	"Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"	Minutemen	1:32
13.	"Punk Rock Girl"	The Dead Milkmen	2:39
14.	"Still in Hollywood"	Concrete Blonde	3:45
15.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart"	Joy Division	3:27
16.	"Blister in the Sun"	Violent Femmes	2:26
17.	"Lake of Fire"	Meat Puppets	2:00
18.	"Amplifier"	The dB's	3:08
19.	"When Love Breaks Down"	Prefab Sprout	3:46
20.	"Goo Goo Muck"	The Cramps	3:07
21.	"This Corrosion"	The Sisters of Mercy	4:29
22.	"Senses Working Overtime"	XTC	4:36

Disc three
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"The Cutter"	Echo & the Bunnymen	3:55
2.	"Pay to Cum"	Bad Brains	1:28
3.	"Birthday"	The Sugarcubes	3:59
4.	"Madonna of the Wasps"	Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians	3:07
5.	"We Care a Lot"	Faith No More	4:05
6.	"Teen Age Riot"	Sonic Youth	6:58
7.	"To Hell with Poverty"	Gang of Four	3:28
8.	"Fa Cé-La"	The Feelies	2:03
9.	"Ana Ng"	They Might Be Giants	3:21
10.	"Swamp Thing"	The Chameleons UK	6:00
11.	"The Mercy Seat"	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	5:12
12.	"I Look Around"	Rain Parade	3:07
13.	"All That Money Wants"	The Psychedelic Furs	3:52
14.	"Under the Milky Way"	The Church	4:59
15.	"Rise"	Public Image Ltd.	6:08
16.	"Kundalini Express"	Love and Rockets	5:51
17.	"Gravity Talks"	Green on Red	2:34
18.	"Adrenalin"	Throbbing Gristle	3:58
19.	"She Bangs the Drums"	The Stone Roses	3:45

Disc four
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Monkey Gone to Heaven"	Pixies	2:56
2.	"Uncertain Smile"	The The	4:54
3.	"Bela Lugosi's Dead"	Bauhaus	9:34
4.	"Christine"	Siouxsie and the Banshees	2:59
5.	"Straight Edge"	Minor Threat	0:46
6.	"Help You Ann"	Lyres	2:30
7.	"Our Secret"	Beat Happening	2:48
8.	"Jane Says"	Jane's Addiction	4:53
9.	"World Shut Your Mouth"	Julian Cope	3:34
10.	"Running Up That Hill"	Kate Bush	5:00
11.	"Sex Beat"	The Gun Club	2:48
12.	"Take the Skinheads Bowling"	Camper Van Beethoven	2:30
13.	"Institutionalized"	Suicidal Tendencies	3:49
14.	"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops"	Cocteau Twins	4:11
15.	"24 Hour Party People"	Happy Mondays	4:38
16.	"I Want You Back"	Hoodoo Gurus	3:11
17.	"Suburban Home"	Descendents	1:42
18.	"A Pair of Brown Eyes"	The Pogues	4:53
19.	"Jet Fighter"	The Three O'Clock	3:27
20.	"Moving to Florida"	Butthole Surfers	4:31
21.	"A New England"	Billy Bragg	2:13

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