Left of the Dial
"The title of the four-disc Left of the Dial can be dismissed as harmless nostalgia, but you'd still have to be a real masochist to indulge yourself in this epic collection of 80s college rock. What a dark time that was in our nation's musical development. Bands slavishly tried to sound like Sonic Youth, the Pixies, the Replacements, Depeche Mode, REM or the Smiths�or, in truly ugly moments of inspiration, some fatal combination thereof. Sometimes they'd toss in some Coltrane."
