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| 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
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| 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.
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| Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | 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. |
Producer: Gary Stewart (Compilation); Mark Leviton (Compilation) |
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| 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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