Chasing the Essential

Chasing the Essential

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Chasing the Essential episodes

  • Episode 233: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 469 (Stuff 1998)

    "... and I got a clear and able mind that sees my life going fine" - Melissa Ferrick

    Myracle Brah Whisper Softly

    Josh Rouse Dressed Up Like Nebraska

    Tommy Keene Never Really Been Gone

    Goo Goo Dolls Broadway

    The Knack Terry & Julie Step Out

    The Plimsouls Dangerous Book

    The Connells Still Life

    Superdrag Sold You An Alibi

    Dada Beautiful Turnback Time Machine

    Richard X. Heyman If We Should Ever Meet Again

    Sloan Keep On Thinkin'

    The Tragically Hip Fireworks

    CAKE Let Me Go

    Melissa Ferrick Everything I Need

    Nick Heyward 3 Colours (bonus track)

    Hole Awful

    Icecream Hands Dodgy

    Liz Phair Big Tall Man

    Bob Mould Moving Trucks

    Elliott Smith Baby Britain

    R.E.M. Daysleeper

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 232: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 468 (Another Track)

    "... and they folked out with guitars around a bonfire, just singin' and clappin', man, what the hell happened? - Smashmouth

    The Stems Falling From The Sky

    Nada Surf Intel and Dreams

    Chuck Prophet Same Old Crime
    The Wallflowers Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day)

    Librarians With Hickeys Everything Will Be All Right

    Semisonic Little Bit of Sun

    The Chesterfield Kings Crazy Days and Wild Nights

    The Damnwells What You Get

    Smash Mouth Walkin' On The Sun

    Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Long Way Down

    Ed Ryan MAKE IT HAPPEN

    The Linda Lindas Lose Yourself

    Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Went to a Party

    Susanna Hoffs High Lonesome

    Orbis Max Candy On The Hill

    The Dead 60s Riot Radio

    Robbers On High Street Japanese Girls

    The New Pornographers Twin Cinema

    OK Go Here It Goes Again

    The Cure A Fragile Thing

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 231: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 466 (Long Titles)

    "Ain't no fun dancing in the dark " - The Damnwells

    The Tisburys The Anniversaries

    Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Eyelids

    Ed Ryan FINE ART TO LETTING IT GO

    Chuck Prophet Wake The Dead

    The Chesterfield Kings We're Still All The Same

    The Beths Lying In The Sun

    Lone Justice Teenage Kicks

    CAKE & NOISE FOR NOW Hold You (Responsible)

    Roman Holliday Stand By

    The Jam Thick As Thieves

    The Smiths William, It Was Really Nothing

    New Musik Living By Numbers

    Jim Trainor Better Than You Do

    Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis The Girls Are Back In Town

    The Popravinas The Girl Who Didn't Want To Hear Any Tunes

    The Armoires You Oughta Be Cut In Half

    The Damnwells Easy Tiger

    Rooftop Screamers Souvenirs 

    Jesse Malin & Butch Walker In the Modern World

    Rick Kingo feat Cherry Fez In Our Solitude

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 230: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 466 (Trampoline)

    "When you're young and you run and you're burning like a star and it's fun and it's done and it leaves you with a scar" - Jesse Malin

    Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Seasick

    Jesse Malin & Low Cut Connie When You're Young

    Semisonic Keep Me in Motion

    Ruler Drag

    John Larson and The Silver Fields Whisper_to_be_Heard

    Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis Violet Blue

    DM3 Falling For You

    The Romantics Poison Ivy

    The Monroes What Do All The People Know

    Haircut 100 Milk Film

    Adam & The Ants Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios

    The Junior League This Concludes Our Broadcast Day

    Bill Lloyd Trampoline

    Francine Trampoline

    Eztv Trampoline

    Greenberry Woods Trampoline

    Nada Surf Second Skin

    Librarians With Hickeys Spying By The Numbers

    Look Park Stars Of New York

    Nina Gordon The Time Comes

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 229: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 465 (2005)

    "And the toll will bring you down real hard.  'Cause your house is only made of cards" - Mark Mulcahy

    Mark Mulcahy Cookie Jar

    Jets Overhead Blue Is Red

    Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin Oregon Girl

    Josh Rouse Winter In The Hamptons

    The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Bigtime

    The High Dials Higher And Brighter

    The Contrast Big Dark Nowhere

    Oasis The Meaning Of Soul

    Weezer The Damage In Your Heart

    The Raveonettes Love In A Trashcan

    The Anderson Council Friday's Girl

    matt pond PA So Much Trouble

    The Dandy Warhols Down Like Disco

    The Caesars May The Rain

    The Jessica Fletchers How Unlucky (Can You Possibly Get)?

    The Go-Betweens Here Comes A City

    Big Star Best Chance

    Ben Lee Catch My Disease (That's The Way I Like It)

    Spoon I Turn My Camera On

    Nada Surf Always Love

    The Decemberists 16 Military Wives

    1 hr 14 min
  • Episode 228: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 464 (Soundside)

    "Don't let your dreams die young,  don't let your heart go numb. " Goo Goo Dolls

    Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets A Quiet Place

    Lannie Flowers What Did I Know

    The Swinging Blue Jeans Keep Me Warm ('Til The Sun Shines)

    The Armoires Music & Animals

    Librarians With Hickeys No More Goodbyes

    Cheap Trick Quit Waking Me Up

    Guided By Voices Cavemen Running Naked

    Guadalcanal Diary Look Up!

    Gary Myrick & The Figures The Party

    The On and Ons Give Me Time

    The English Beat Noise In This World

    Greg Williams Sing for You

    Jack Green Babe

    Rob Laufer Bolt Of Blue

    Nada Surf X Is You

    Lisa Loeb This Is My Life

    Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Paris (Ooh La La)

    The Goo Goo Dolls Run All Night

    Noah Kahan Growing Sideways

    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 227: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 463 (Rock Paper Scissors)

    "Why wasn't I present? I could have been living" - Nada Surf

    The Armoires Ridley & Me After the Apocalypse

    Colman Gota Enemy

    Joseph Arthur Wait For Your Lights

    Romeo Void Just Too Easy [Album Version]

    Hayley and the Crushers Blood and Treasure

    THE TOMS STATIONARY BIKE

    The Linda Lindas Too Many Things

    Nada Surf In Front of Me Now

    Robin Lane & The Chartbusters Send Me An Angel [Remastered]

    Hey Pam! Deadline

    XTC Ten Feet Tall

    The Connells Upside Down

    The Rosenbergs Paper And Plastic

    Suzi Quatro Rock Hard

    Rooni Rock Paper Scissors

    The Damnwells Super Expensive Fear

    Dream Phases Way Down

    Dan Kibler Rail Me Down

    Redd Kross I'll Take Your Word For It

    World Party Sooner Or Later

    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 226: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 462 (2014)

    "She turned the music up real loud, it was The Talking Heads" - Chick Prophet

    Sloan 13 (Under A Bad Sign)

    Sloan Take It Easy

    Elephant Stone Motherless Child (Love's Not For War)

    Dan Wilson A Song Can Be About Anything

    The Both (Aimee Mann And Ted Leo) BEDTIME STORIES

    Linus Of Hollywood Don't F**K It Up

    Sugar Stems We Only Come Out At Night

    The Tripwires Production Sedan

    Myracle Brah Sleeping in My Car

    Spoon Rainy Taxi

    Michael Pink Northern Girls

    Quilt Tired & Buttered

    The Jellybricks About the Weekend

    Reno Bo Shine

    Cliff Hillis Turn on a Dime

    Chuck Prophet Ford Econoline

    Dave Caruso Sticks, Keys & Wires

    Old 97's Let's Get Drunk & Get It On

    The Hangabouts November

    Lisa Mychols Back To The Truth

    The Gaslight Anthem Get Hurt



    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 225: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 461 (Vapor)

    "Time's gonna make you a man someday" - The Vapors

    Nada Surf Los​​ing

    Valley Lodge I Wrote A Song

    Caddy Someone Like You

    The Vapors Live At The Marquee

    The Armoires This One's For The Swedes

    otter petter Cobwebs

    Three Legged Dog Hey Love

    Starbelly Lay Low

    The Vapors News At Ten

    Jellyfish All I Want Is Everything

    Pylon Read A Book

    Tamar Berk Tamar Berk ChasingThe Essential Promo

    Tamar Berk Artful Dodger

    The Vapors Eyes On the Prize

    Redd Kross Candy Coloured Catastrophe

    The Riflemen THE HUNTERS INN

    Dream Phases Fate Came Knocking

    X The Way It Is

    Go Dog Go Like I Said

    The Vapors Letter From Hiro

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 224: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 460 (Heart)

    "What do you think they would say, if I stood up and I walked away?" - Blind Melon
    Rinehearts I Don't Mind

    Spoon Shotgun

    Shazam, The Some Other Time

    David Wax Museum Born With A Broken Heart

    Tamar Berk That's Not a Lie

    The Lemon Twigs Peppermint Roses

    The Vapors Isolated Case

    Jesse Malin Todd Youth

    Blind Melon Tones Of Home

    The Decibels Still Get By

    The Dukes Of Stratosphear Collideascope

    Leslie Mendelson Rock and Roll On the Radio

    Greg Kihn Band The Life I Got

    Elvis Costello Veronica

    The Comsat Angels Island Heart

    The Overtures Watching the Grass Grow

    The Damnwells What If I Talked

    Glenn Tilbrook Hostage

    Vic Chesnutt Ladle

    Searching For Sylvia Hey Pocahontas


    Happy Birthday Andy!

    1 hr 12 min

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