Chasing the Essential

Here comes a new dawn, here comes a new day, tune up start to play, just like any other day.! - The KinksThe Decibels Why Bother With Us?Mike Gent Kennedy PageRichard Öhrn Time's Not Running OutSqueeze There At The TopRyan Allen Like the RamonesRamones Something To Believe InThe On and Ons Run To TomorrowChris Church Over And OutThe Knack Baby Talks DirtySuperchunk Making a BreakThe Nude Party Hey MonetThe Grip Weeds Lies (The Knickerbockers)Ed Ryan WONDER Pleasure Center Synthetic HappinessRansom and the Subset Should Have Said Nothing at AllSloan Nice Work If You Can Get ItThe Kinks Here Comes Yet Another Day R.E.M. HarborcoatTom Iscariot The Losing HalfJason Isbell & The 400 Unit Running With Our Eyes ClosedThe countdown begins!

"When I don't know where to go, I'll take the metro" - The JinsThe On and Ons Let Ya Hair Down!The Speedways A Song Called Jayne & A Lie Called LoveThe Half-Cubes featuring The Pernice Brothers The Weakest Shade Of BlueCARUSO London (2023 Remaster)The Jins MetroThe Sleepy Jackson Come To ThisThis Perfect Day SandraBob Evans Concrete HeartThe Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With GodMidnight Reruns Birthmarks-FigerprintsLunar Laugh Welcome to the WorldDaisy Jones & The Six AuroraThe On and Ons Games People PlayDavid Bowie Ashes To AshesCARUSO Can't Stop Dreaming (2023 Remaster)The Kinks This Time Tomorrow (Alternate Take, 2020 Mix)The Beths Watching the CreditsThe Natural Lines MonotonyKevin Robertson Cloak And DaggerMagic Eight Ball Down By The RiverU2 Out Of Control (Songs Of Surrender)The Chase continues.

This week Chip Saam of Indie Pop Takeout filled in and provided the musical equivalent of a 5 star Michelin restaurant tasting menu!  Bon Appetit!Birdfeeder A Fairy TaleStephen's Shore If YouMomma Speeding 72Bob Evans FallingYoung Guv Good TimeRansom & The Subset Perfect CrimeThe Decibels Why Bother with UsThe Speedways Dead from the Heart DownAdam Schmitt Waiting to ShineTim Cullen Save the DayJason Falkner Author UnknownCheap Trick If It Takes a Lifetime Mark Kleiner Power Trio Beautiful SlidePile of Love Divisibly UpsetPleasure Center Planning an AccidentMidnight Reruns ScorpionJen Trynin Better Than NothingThe Atomic Numbers I Am in Remote ControlImperial Broads I Got a FeelingTommy Keene Carrie Anne I'll be back next week!

Hey folks. CTE was on vacation this week so here is a reply of episode #245 with my brother in crime, Chip, from Indie Pop Take Out …  it went a little something like this …The Bye Bye Blackbirds War Is Still HellThe On And Ons Dont Wanna Talk About ItThe Weeklings 3Nada Surf Something I Should DoThe Vapour Trails Golden SunshineRed Skylark Two Shades of FineSteven Wright-Mark UndergroundAndy Bopp I Am a JetfighterThe Vapors TogetherTom Curless & the 46% House on FireSearching For Sylvia Play That Song (On The Radio)Push Puppets Part of the PlanBebopalula Rotten AppleMarshall Crenshaw I'll Do AnythingThe Overtures Maybe Tomorrow (Rain Grey Town)Chuck Prophet Best Shirt OnNick Piunti & The Complicated Men Bright LightKekker DoveroverlandCaper Clowns Space & TimeSarah Harmer Take Me OutJason Isbell & The 400 Unit Be AfraidMarshall Crenshaw Passing Through

"Everything looks so quiet from up here.  Feels like I'm in a black and white movie, somewhere" - Janove OttesenChuck Prophet Ford EconolineThe Decemberists Calamity SongSouthern Culture On The Skids Grey SkiesEugene Edwards Congratulations, My DarlingPhil Angotti The LampTegan & Sara Walking With A GhostThe Stems Get So BadJanove Ottesen Black and White MoviePeaness KaizenThe Regrettes California FriendsThe Bangles Stealing RosemaryNina Gordon SuffragetteThe Jessica Fletchers Let's Get TogetherMarcy Playground I Must Have Been DreamingFountains Of Wayne New RoutineSloan Carried AwayThe Vines Don't Listen To The RadioThe Fratellis Chelsea DaggerStar Collector Rip It OffBob Mould Life And TimesEssential and classic!

"Every little soul must shine, but if your light is gone then you just let it be" - The TisburysThe Speedways Talk Of The TownSuperchunk ConnectionThe ACB's Callin OmahaSpoon Finer FeelingsThe Tisburys Exile (On Main Street)Death Cab For Cutie I Miss StrangersHoodoo Gurus EquinoxRooftop Screamers ContagiousThe Golden Palominos OmahaThe Connells Gladiator HeartThe Brothers Steve Next AquariusThe Pretenders Talk Of The TownLibrarians With Hickeys Can't Wait 'Till SummerToad The Wet Sprocket Come DownThe Producers Merry-Go-RoundPopsicko Hard To TellBroken Baby Die! Die! Die!Violent Femmes I Held Her In My ArmsThree Hour Tour Prancing Horse FarmsCounting Crows OmahaThe Tisbury's are essential rock!

"and if we don't get what we want, well, you don't know what we'll do" - A.C. NewmanGigolo Aunts AskStarbelly Made Of GlassIron & Wine Grace for Saints and RamblersX Cyrano deBerger's BackDeco Auto TurnaroundOwsley The Homecoming SongA.C. Newman HostagesEd Ryan A BIG LIFE Nick Lowe I Love The Sound Of Breaking GlassThe Soundtrack Of Our Lives Infra RiotElephant Stone Behind Those EyesJetz I WON'T LIEGolden Richards Take A ChanceAmoeba Teen A Good Reason WhyRay Paul Hold TightThe Bangles In A Different LightThe Cure Baby ScreamsThe boys with the perpetual nervousness Rose Tinted GlassElliott Smith Baby BritainDada Here Today, Gone TomorrowWhen you chase, do it with style.

"... and you can change every inch of your life, but you're still just a boy, with a Boston accent" - Matt NathansonThe Hives Hate To Say I Told You SoGary Myrick & The Figures Deep In the HeartlandJim Trainor YOU SAY YOUEd Ryan SETTLE DOWNThe Rallies Give Me The TruthThe Idea Pop Art In The 90'sThe Click Beetles AloneElvis Costello & The Imposters The DifferenceLive Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)Tom Petty A Higher PlacePapas Fritas Vertical LivesThe High Dials Diamonds In The DarkChris Church GCRTThe Glad Machine I WON'T LIEPaul Kelly & The Messengers Dumb ThingsBen Kweller Commerce, TXNada Surf The Way You Wear Your HeadDouble Plus Pop TIL YOUR LUCK RUNS OUTKevin Robertson Make BelieveMatt Nathanson Boston AccentHave a wicked cool day!

"I'm up to great the dawn, and in a few days will be gone, hearts to the sun on the passage of love" - Cotton MatherBelly DustedSweden Hanging AroundSqueeze Another Nail In My HeartBroken Bells The High RoadMatt Nathanson Car CrashAu Gres used to beJohn Larson And The Silver Fields Dusted And DoneThey Might Be Giants Istanbul (Not Constantinople)The Chameleons Up the Down EscalatorCliff Hillis Good Morning and GoodnightDavid Woodard Beach Song (Happy place)Star Collector Broken ButterfliesCliffs Of Dooneen Wheel Of StoneTommi Zender No Good For Your HealthDavid Mead Robert Bradley's PostcardThe ACB's Windows UpHoodoo Gurus Get Out Of DodgeMarshall Crenshaw Something’s Gonna HappenRichard X. Heyman When The New Dawn ComesCotton Mather CaliforniaGive it listen ... these essentials won't chase themselves.

"We need change, and we need it fast, before rock's just part of the past" - RamonesStar Collector Beat It To Death Attack, Sustain, Decay... RepeatThe Jim Carroll Band It's Too Late Catholic BoyThe Tisburys Garden Exile On Main StreetThe Police Driven To Tears Zenyatta MondattaRamones Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? End Of The CenturyChris Church Going 'Til We Go Going 'Til We GoThe Pretenders The Wait PretendersRyan Allen Stop the Train The Last Rock BandXTC Take This Town Times SquareThe Shang Hi Los Victoria's Garden Aces Eights & HeartbreaksThe Vapors News At Ten New Clear DaysAlvvays Pressed Blue RevThe Throes Just One Moment All The Flowers Growing In Your Mother's Eyes (Deluxe)The B-52's Runnin' Around Wild PlanetPanthervision Through My Window Now in 3-DU2 Stories For Boys Boy [UK]Belle & Sebastian Give A Little Time Late DevelopersThe English Beat Mirror In The Bathroom I Just Can't Stop ItMichael Penn Out of Its Misery MP4Robin Lane & The Chartbusters When Things Go Wrong Robin Lane & The ChartbustersThing never go wrong when you chase good music!