Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80's Underground
A four-disc box set I bought with the gift card my brother sent me (thanks Pete!). One thing I've learned is that I wasn't as completely out of it as I thought I was in the mid-to-late 80s in Anchorage, Alaska. Thanks to a friend's older sister who lived in Chicago and sent music back to her siblings, I was listening to Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, The Church, Ministry, The Smiths, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and Sisters of Mercy (I wasn't goth, I swear!), all of which can be found on Left of the Dial.
Thanks to my pen-pal Steve, who was living in Port Orchard, WA at the time and made a mean mixed tape in his day, I discovered Left of the Dial bands the Meat Puppets, Violent Femmes, The Replacements, Husker Du, Dead Kennedys, Hoodoo Gurus, and The Stone Roses, among many others.
If it wasn't for these two people in my life, it would have been all Kasey Kasem, all the time.
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