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
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
  2. Going Underground - The Jam
  3. A Forest - The Cure
  4. Holiday in Cambodia - 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. Johnny Hit and Run Pauline - x
  9. Just Like Honey - The Jesus And Mary Chain
  10. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
  11. Tell Me When It's Over - The Dream Syndicate
  12. Hollywood (Africa) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  13. Temptation - New Order
  14. Ghosts - Japan
  15. A Song from Under the Floorboards - Magazine
  16. Oblivious - Aztec Camera
  17. Don't Want to Know If You're Lonely - Husker Du
  18. Rise Above - Black Flag
  19. Back in Flesh - Wall Of Voodoo
  20. Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens
Music CD 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 - The 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 - 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 - 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
Music CD 3
  1. The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen
  2. Pay To Cum! - Bad Brains
  3. Birthday - The Sugarcubes
  4. Madonna Of The Wasps - Robyn Hitchcock 'n' 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. Fa Ce-La - The Feelies
  9. Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
  10. Swamp Thing - The Chameleons UK
  11. The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  12. I Look Around - The Rain Parade
  13. All That Money Wants - Psychedelic Furs
  14. Under The Milky Way - The Church
  15. Rise - Public Image Ltd.
  16. Kundalini Express - Love And Rockets
  17. Gravity Talks - Green On Red
  18. Adrenalin - Throbbing Gristle
  19. She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
Music CD 4
  1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
  2. Uncertain Smile (Original 7 Inch Version) - The The
  3. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
  4. Christine - Siouxsie And 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 - Gun Club
  12. Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
  13. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
  14. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
  15. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
  16. I Want You Back - Hoodoo Gurus
  17. Suburban Home - Descendents
  18. A Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues
  19. Jet Fighter - The Three O'Clock
  20. Moving To Florida - Butthole Surfers
  21. A New England - Billy Bragg

Free Music Notes for Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground

Free Music Review: I Never Knew What I Was Missing...
Hit: 5 Stars

Having been born in mid-1984 and being only five years old when even the most recent of these tracks were released, I never knew most of this music existed. Of course, youth is no excuse for ignorance, and I've always made it a personal priority to seek out great music from before my time, from kitschy lounge sounds and dusty 78rpm relics to the Russian Romantics and honky-tonk troubadours (just so you don't go getting the idea that I'm a music snob, I've sung along to my share of cheesy disco records.)

Older music, especially the rare "underground" stuff, isn't just shoved in front of you, a facet of every popular entertainment medium, bound to get stuck in your head whether you want it there or not. You've got to go LOOKING for it, as if on a hunt for an abandoned relic nobody else can guide you to. In the case of the 1980's, the problem wasn't that I didn't think to seek it out, but that I was under the false delusion that there was really nothing worth seeking. MTV and my local radio stations all lied to me, and many others of my generation. Not a big lie, but enough to shut us off from experiencing some pretty powerful music. We were led to believe the '80s were all about hair metal, pastel-clad yuppies in skinny neckties, and the "Me Generation." Well, the contents of this eye-catching pink box tells an entirely different story, one of boundless creativity, musical innovation, disgust with authority and convention, and unexplored horizons which still haven't been charted by commercial radio or experienced by mainstream audiences. This is the quirky, iconoclastic, progressive, and politically conscious music of the decade that somehow managed to evade notoriety in all but the most "clued in" of music-lovers.

Sheer curiosity grabbed hold of me and forced me to buy this set as a birthday present for my younger sister. As it turned out, I ended up listening to the set far more than she did! Something about the mix of all of these seemingly unrelated styles, artists, and musical approaches struck me like a comet, and I realized just how versatile, inventive, and exciting the music of the 1980's really was, underneath all of the MTV trivialization and spin. From these four discs, I uncovered gems from artists who would soon become my idols, namely The Replacements, The Cure, The Smiths, and the incomparably brilliant Pixies. They changed my life for the very first time on this set, and I shudder to think of who or where I would be without their influence. I know the seasoned experts here decry the set's "obvious" song choices, but I would implore them to reconsider whether or not this is a bad thing. For someone like me who never heard any of these songs before "Left of the Dial," these "obvious" songs have been an absolute revelation.

In closing, if you enjoy this music, have never heard it but want to, or even possess the slightest curiosity about what the "good stuff" must sound like, you owe it to yourself to hear this earth-shattering compilation. Also recommended: Nuggets, Children of Nuggets, and No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rock Rebellion.
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