| Product Summary | | Label: Rhino Records | | UPC: 00081227649029 | | Release Date: 10/12/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 63897762 | | Item#: MF5TK5 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M. ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Going Underground - The Jam ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Forest, A - The Cure ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Holiday In Cambodia - The Dead Kennedys ~ Various Artists | | | 5. I'm In Love With A German Film Star - Passions ~ Various Artists | | | 6. I Will Dare - The Replacements ~ Various Artists | | | 7. That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission Of Burma ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Johny Hit And Run Paulene - X ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Just Like Honey - Jesus & Mary Chain ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Tell Me When It's Over - Dream Syndicate ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Hollywood (Africa) - Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Temptation - New Order ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Ghosts - Japan ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Song From Under The Floorboards, A - Magazine ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Oblivious - Aztec Camera ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely - Husker Du ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Rise Above - Black Flag ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Back In Flesh - Wall Of Voodoo ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Cattle And Cane - The Go-Betweens ~ Various Artists | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Message Of Love - The Pretenders ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Vienna - Ultravox ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr. ~ Various Artists | | | 4. This Charming Man - The Smiths ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Stigmata - Ministry ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Ways To Be Wicked - Lone Justice ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Wardance - Killing Joke ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Fairytale In The Supermarket - The Raincoats ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing - The Minutemen ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Still In Hollywood - Concrete Blonde ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Blister In The Sun - The Violent Femmes ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Lake Of Fire - Meat Puppets ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Amplifier - The dB's ~ Various Artists | | | 19. When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps ~ Various Artists | | | 21. This Corrosion - Sisters Of Mercy ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Senses Working Overtime - XTC ~ Various Artists | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Cutter, The - Echo & The Bunnymen ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Pay To Cum! - Bad Brains ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Birthday - The Sugarcubes ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Madonna Of The Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians ~ Various Artists | | | 5. We Care A Lot - Faith No More ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth ~ Various Artists | | | 7. To Hell With Poverty - Gang Of Four ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Fe Ce-La - The Feelies ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Ang Ng - They Might Be Giants ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Swamp Thing - Chameleons ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Various Artists | | | 12. I Look Around - Rain Parade ~ Various Artists | | | 13. All That Money Wants - The Psychedelic Furs ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Under The Milky Way - The Church ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Rise - Public Image Ltd. ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Kundalini Express - Love & Rockets ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Gravity Talks - Green On Red ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Adrenalin - Throbbing Gristle ~ Various Artists | | | 19. She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses ~ Various Artists | | Disc 4
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies ~ Various Artists | | | 2. Uncertain Smile - The The (original 7" version) ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Christine - Siouxsie & The Banshees ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Straight Edge - Minor Threat ~ Various Artists | | | 6. I Want to Help You Ann - The Lyres ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Our Secret - Beat Happening ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Jane Says - Jane's Addiction ~ Various Artists | | | 9. World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Sex Beat - The Gun Club ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drop - Cocteau Twins ~ Various Artists | | | 15. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays ~ Various Artists | | | 16. I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Suburban Home - Descendents ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Pair Of Brown Eyes, A - The Pogues ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Jet Fighter - The Three O'Clock ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Moving To Florida - Butthole Surfers ~ Various Artists | | | 21. New England, A - Billy Bragg ~ Various Artists | |
| People will say otherwise, but music didn't suck in the '80s -- it just went underground. As the well-financed end of the art form turned to synthetic sounds and short-attention schtick, the punk and new wave of the late '70s evolved and mutated in the capable hands of scores of independent-minded musicians.
This four-disc boxed set celebrates the stuff that dwelt just beneath the topsoil -- everything from R.E.M., The Smiths, and The Cure to Black Flag, Ministry, and The Cramps. The spiritual progeny of a boxed set ancestry that includes Loud, Fast & Out Of Control, Nuggets, and No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion, Left Of The Dial houses four digipack CDs in a lidded box. A separately bound 64-page book features essays and notes by independent rock writers Karen Schoemer, John Srebalus, Tim Scanlin, and Kathleen Billus, plus written reflections from The Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn and Factory Records' Tony Wilson, and Q&As with SST's Greg Ginn and Twin/Tone's Peter Jesperson.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Matt Piucci (vocals, guitar, sitar); Jasper Thread (vocals, guitar, accordion); Cosey Fanni Tutti (vocals, guitar, cornet); Peter Holsapple (vocals, guitar, organ); Matt Johnson (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Chris Cacavas, John Flasnburgh, Alain Jorgensen, David Faulkner (vocals, guitar, keyboards); David Roback, Brad Shepherd (vocals, guitar, percussion); Chris Molla, Chris Stamey, Chrissie Hynde, Curt Kirkwood, D. Boon, Daniel Ash, Dave Wakeling, David Lowery, Paul John Weller, Gordon Gano, Louis Gutierrez, Grant McLennan, Jim Reid, Ian McCulloch, J Mascis, Julian Cope, Lee Ranaldo, Midge Ure, Ana Da Silva, Paddy McAloon, Pat DiNizio, Andy Partridge, Philip Chevron, Robert Forster, Robyn Hitchcock, Roddy Frame, Shane MacGowan, Steve Wynn, Thurston Moore, Barbara Gogan, William Reid, Bernard Albrecht, Bernard Sumner, Billy Bragg, Black Francis , Dan Stuart, Bob Mould, Clive Timperley (vocals, guitar); Bill Million (vocals, acoustic guitar); Glenn Mercer (vocals, electric guitar, shaker, temple blocks); Paul Westerberg (vocals, electric 12-string guitar, mandolin); Jeffrey Lee Pierce (vocals, slide guitar); Vicki Aspinall, Jonathan Segel (vocals, violin); Spider Stacy (vocals, tin whistle); John Linnell (vocals, accordion, keyboards); Genesis P-Orridge (vocals, clarinet); Einar ?rn (vocals, trumpet); Jeff Conolly (vocals, organ); Martin L. Gore, Paul Humphreys (vocals, keyboards, synthesizer); David Sylvian (vocals, keyboards, tapes); Mike Mariano, Jaz Coleman, Stan Ridgway, Billy Currie, Bj?rk Gudmundsdottir (vocals, keyboards); Andy McCluskey (vocals, synthesizer); Dennis Diken, Grant Hart, Andrew Ranken (vocals, drums); Chuck Mosley, Colin Moulding, Siouxsie Sioux, Cris Kirkwood, David J, Dez Cadena, Elizabeth Fraser, Exene Cervenka, Gibby Haynes, Gina Birch, Rodney Amadeus Anonymus, Rankin Roger, Henry Rollins, Howard Devoto, Ian Brown, Ian Curtis, Ian MacKaye, Jack Waterson, Clyde Bramley, David Gahan, Jello Biafra, John Doe , John Lydon, Johnette Napolitano, Jon King, Kim Gordon, Klaus Flouride, Lou Barlow, Lux Interior, Maria McKee, Michael Stipe, Mike Mesaros, Mike Muir, Milo Aukerman, Andrew Eldritch, Patricia Morrison, Perry Farrell, Peter Murphy, Anthony Kiedis, Richard Butler, Shaun Ryder, Steve Kilbey, Steven Roback, Victor Krummenacher, Wendy Smith, Youth, Birdy, Michael Quercio, Bruce Foxton, Cait O'Riordan, Calvin Johnson (vocals); John McGeoch (guitar, 12-string guitar, Farfisa, background vocals); Ward Dotson (guitar, slide guitar); Johnny Marr (guitar, harmonica); Andrew Fletcher (guitar, drum machine); Joey Santiago (guitar, background vocals); Clint Conley, Grant Estes, Robert Smith , David Gregory, Dave Navarro, East Bay Ray, Thor Eldon Jonson, Frank Navetta, Ryan Hedgecock, Greg Ginn, Greg Lisher, Honeyman Scott, James, Hillel Slovak, Danny McCormack, Mark "Cow" Day, James Mankey , Jim Babjak, Jim Martin, John Ashton, John Squire, Karl Precoda, Kid Congo Powers, Alan Murphy, Lyle Preslar, Marty Willson-Piper, Mike Campbell , Andrew Gill, Andy Cox, Paul Leary, Peter Buck, Peter Koppes, Poison Ivy, Robin Guthrie, Roger Miller , Steve Vai, Will Sergeant, Billy Zoom, Bret Lunsford, Bob Stinson, Marc Moreland (guitar); Donald Ross Skinner (electric guitar, slide guitar); Jem Finer (banjo); Will Glenn (violin, keyboards); Karen Karlsrud, Corine Metter (violin); Henry Benagh (fiddle); Arthur Fiacco, Ann Rorich (cello); Shankar (strings); Crispin Cioe (flute, saxophone); Tommy Keane (Uilleann pipe); James Fearnley (accordion, piano); Maceo Parker, Saxa (saxophone); Benny Cowan (trumpet); Fred Wesley (trombone); Dick Cuthell (horns); Benmont Tench (piano, organ); Joe Kernich (piano); Double DeHarrison (Clavinet, organ); Ray Manzarek (organ); Chris Carter, Gillian Gilbert, Thomas Dolby, Charles T. Gray (keyboards, synthesizer); Steve Jansen (keyboards, drums, electronics); Richard Barbieri (keyboards, tapes); Andy Metcalfe (keyboards, background vocals); Dave Formula, Roland Barker, Bernie Clarke, Einar Mellax, Mathieu Hartley, Paul Davis, Roddy Bottum, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Greg Kuehn, Bruce Moreland (keyboards); Peter Christopherson (synthesizer, tapes); Awesome Welles (Synclavier); Chris Mars (drums, tambourine); Malcolm Holmes, Dave Ruffy, Kevin Haskins, Sigtryggur Baldursson, Joe Nanini (drums, percussion); Earl Hudson, Reni , Dean Clean, Lindy Morrison (drums, background vocals); Chris Whitten, Danny Benair, Cliff Martinez, Stuart Elliot, Neil Conti, Paul Ferguson, D.J. Bonebrake, Richard Williams, Eddie Kalwa, Dennis Duck, Derrick Bostrom, Don Heffington, Everett Morton, Jeff Nelson & Covenant, Heather Lewis, Gary Whelan, George Hurley, Terry Chambers, Ginger Baker, Doktor Avalanche, Alex MacNicol, Warren Cann, Harry Rushakoff, Hugo Burnham, King Coffey, Nick Knox, Palmolive, James "Iron Head" Baker, Bill Berry, Anthony Guess, Mike Joyce, Amery AWOL Smith, Morris Windsor, Murph, Paul Murphy , Pete de Freitas, Peter Prescott, Richard Ploog, Rick Buckler, Robo, Stephen Morris, Stephen Perkins, Steve Shelley, Victor de Lorenzo, Vince Ely, Will Rigby, Bill Rieflin, Bill Stevenson, Terry Graham, Martin Chambers, Bobby Gillespie, John Doyle , Budgie , David Lovering (drums); Anton Fier (bass drum, snare drum); Bobbye Hall (tambourine); Bez (percussion, dancer); Michael Farmer (percussion); Alan Wilder (electronics); Dr. Know, Joel Virgel, Louis Kabbabie, Lord Maniac, Gary Shider, George Clinton , Darryl, Shirley Hayden, Steve Boyd, Mike Payne, Andre Williams, Pat Lewis, Barry Adamson, New York Choral Society, Robert "Billy" Johnson (background vocals). | | Audio Remasterers: Dave Schultz; Dan Hersch; Bill Inglot. | | Liner Note Authors: Mark Leviton; Tim Scanlin; Gary Stewart; Karen Schoemer; John Srebalus; Anthony Wilson ; Tim Scanlin; Karen Schoemer; Gary Stewart; Kathleen Billus; Steve Wynn. | | Illustrator: John Seabury. | | Photographers: Steve Double; Lynn Goldsmith; Fabio Nosotti; Mike Proir; Fraser Gray; Erica Echenberg; Richard "Dread" Mann; Lisa Haun; Joe Hughes ; Claudia Thompson; Ross Marino; Patricia Steur; Catherine McGann; Ebet Roberts; Pieter Maz?l; Andy Freeberg; Ian Tilton; B.C. Kagan; Chris Walter; Glen E. Friedman; Glenn A. Baker; Paul Cox; George Moore ; Julian Barton; Monica Dee; Steve Jennings; Scott Weiner; Charles Peterson ; Fredrich Cantor; Virginia Turbett; Stephanie Chernikowski; Fin Costello; Tony Mottram; Sue Brisk; Kristin Callahan; Marcia Resnick; Janette Beckman; Derek Ridgers; George DuBose; Paul Slattery; Laura Levine; Simon Fowler; Tom Sheehan. | | Unknown Contributor Roles: Matt Johnson ; Bill Million. | | 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. | | Alternative rock of the 1980s was such a large and diverse scene that any box set documenting the genre is bound to be the cause of debate as to what is and isn't included, even a four-CD, 82-track production such as this one. Despite the inevitable exclusions, Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground does a decent job of collecting representative cuts from all spectrums of the style, even if it does tilt toward the more mainstream of such acts. Of course, artists like R.E.M., the Cure, Aztec Camera, the Pretenders, Ultravox, Lone Justice, the Smithereens, Concrete Blonde, Echo & the Bunnymen, and the Church (all sampled on this box) were " |
Producer: Chris D.; Cocteau Twins; Concrete Blonde; Conrad Plank; Robert Smith; Daniel Miller; Dave Allen; Dave Jerden; David Roback; Depeche Mode; Mike Thorn; Don Dixon; John A. Rovers; Earle Mankey; Ed Stasium; Ethan James; Dave Young Orchestra; Faith No More; Mi |
Engineer: Jay Dublee |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/12/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 76490 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227649029 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.104)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "[V]irtually all of these songs and recordings have held up beautifully."Entertainment Weekly (p.69)
- "[T]his is like the great college radio station that never was..." - Grade: A- Uncut (p.94)
- 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." Alternative Press (p.98)
- "[A] comprehensive compendium of the best the '80s underground had to offer." Magnet (p.97)
- "[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." |
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