Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
2. Going Underground - The Jam
3. Forest, A - The Cure
4. Holiday in Cambodia - The Dead Kennedys
5. I'm in Love With a German Film Star - Passions
6. I Will Dare - The Replacements
7. That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma
8. Johny Hit and Run Paulene - X
9. Just Like Honey - Jesus & Mary Chain
10. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
11. Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate
12. Hollywood (Africa) - Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Temptation - New Order
14. Ghosts - Japan
15. Song From Under the Floorboards, A - Magazine
16. Oblivious - Aztec Camera
17. Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely - Husker Du
18. Rise Above - Black Flag
19. Back in Flesh - Wall Of Voodoo
20. Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens
DISC 2:
1. Message of Love - The Pretenders
2. Vienna - Ultravox
3. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
4. This Charming Man - The Smiths
5. Stigmata - Ministry
6. Ways to Be Wicked - Lone Justice
7. Wardance - Killing Joke
8. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
9. Mirror in the Bathroom - English Beat
10. Fairytale in the Supermarket - The Raincoats
11. Behind the Wall of Sleep - The Smithereens
12. Political Song For Michael Jackson to Sing - The Minutemen
13. Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen
14. Still in Hollywood - Concrete Blonde
15. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
16. Blister in the Sun - The Violent Femmes
17. Lake of Fire - Meat Puppets
18. Amplifier - The dB's
19. When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout
20. Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
21. This Corrosion - Sisters Of Mercy
22. Senses Working Overtime - XTC
DISC 3:
1. Cutter, The - Echo & The Bunnymen
2. Pay to C**! - Bad Brains
3. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
4. Madonna of the Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
5. We Care a Lot - Faith No More
6. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
7. To Hell With Poverty - Gang Of Four
8. Fe Ce-La - The Feelies
9. Ang Ng - They Might Be Giants
10. Swamp Thing - Chameleons
11. Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. I Look Around - Rain Parade
13. All That Money Wants - The Psychedelic Furs
14. Under the Milky Way - The Church
15. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
16. Kundalini Express - Love & Rockets
17. Gravity Talks - Green On Red
18. Adrenalin - Throbbing Gristle
19. She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses
DISC 4:
1. Monkey Gone to Heaven - The Pixies
2. Uncertain Smile - The The (original 7" version)
3. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
4. Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees
5. Straight Edge - Minor Threat
6. I Want to Help You Ann - The Lyres
7. Our Secret - Beat Happening
8. Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
9. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope
10. Running up That Hill - Kate Bush
11. Sex Beat - The Gun Club
12. Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
13. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
14. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drop - Cocteau Twins
15. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
16. I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus
17. Suburban Home - Descendents
18. Pair of Brown Eyes, A - The Pogues
19. Jet Fighter - The Three O'Clock
20. Moving to Florida - Butthole Surfers
21. New England, A - Billy Bragg
| Details | | Producer: | Gary Stewart (Compilation), Mark Leviton (Compilation) | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Liner Note Authors: Tim Scanlin; Gary Stewart; Karen Schoemer; John Srebalus.
The '80s compilation is a dicey operation; many sounds danced about in glorious contrast, and one person's nirvana is the next person's nightmare. LEFT OF THE DIAL focuses on the college radio of the era (the music that truly fostered the alternative boom of the next decade), and paints a deliriously diverse picture of an underground bursting at its seams to break through. Alongside early classics from the Replacements, Depeche Mode, and R.E.M. (and the compilation gleefully steers away from the obvious) are minor classics from Magazine and Hoodoo Gurus. And the prismatic four-disc set runs the gamut from hardcore (Minor Threat, Bad Brains) to pure pop (XTC, They Might Be Giants, the Smiths) to capture the spectral flow of the decade behind the decade.
Editorial Reviews
[A] success....Non-mainstream rock splintered and spiraled in a dozen compelling directions, instigating a creative boom whose aftershocks still rumble and whose epicenter deserves the kind of revisit LEFT OF THE DIAL does its best to inspire.
Magnet
[A] comprehensive compendium of the best the '80s underground had to offer.
Alternative Press
3 stars out of 5 - [I]ts 82 tracks document countless musical impulses....This eclecticism - punk's ideals brought to life - is testament to an era of idealistic, artistic oasis, one pulsing with urgency and defiance.
Uncut
[T]his is like the great college radio station that never was... - Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 - [V]irtually all of these songs and recordings have held up beautifully.
Rolling Stone
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