Chasing the Essential

Chasing the Essential

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Chasing the Essential episodes

  • Episode 271: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 509 (Balloon)

    "I was walking up Sixth Avenue when balloon man blew up in my face" - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians

    The Beths Take

    The Replacements I Don't Know

    The Spongetones Nothing Really Matters When You're Young

    Foxboro Hot Tubs Broadway

    The Hives Roll Out The Red Carpet

    Too Much Joy William Holden Caulfield

    Superchunk Train on Fire

    Bob Mould Hard To Get

    Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Balloon Man

    The Railway Children Every Beat of the Heart

    The Go-Betweens Was There Anything I Could Do? (Remastered)

    Myracle Brah Eleven

    The Format Let's Make This Moment A Crime

    Jay Byham Going, Going, Gone

    Toad The Wet Sprocket Desire

    R.E.M. 1,000,000 (40th Anniversary Remaster)

    Future Clouds & Radar The Man Who Would Be King

    World Party I Want To Be Free

    Nada Surf The Future

    Echo & The Bunnymen Everybody Knows

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 270: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 508 (Jerkin')

    "She took me to her parents for a Sunday meal.  Her father took one look at me and he began to squeal" - The Dead Milkmen

    The Armoires You're Not The Police

    The Wellingtons Always Gonna Be That Girl

    Tamar Berk you ruined this city for me

    Translator Fall Forever

    Mark Ward Home Tonight

    Richard Turgeon All Good Things Must Come to an End

    The Libertines I Have A Friend

    Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Mind Reader

    Possum Dixon Watch the Girl Destroy Me

    Dramarama Haven't Got A Clue

    Okkervil River A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene

    The Linda Lindas Excuse Me

    Adam Ant Fall-In

    Tiger Bell Don't Wanna Hear About Your Band!

    David Woodard Everything Belongs

    The Dead Milkmen Punk Rock Girl

    Ratboys Crossed that Line

    Star Collector Section 8

    Devo Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth

    The Beths Mother, Pray For Me

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 269: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 507 (Essential Classics "S")

    "could it bring somebody down if I never made a sound again?" - Superdrag

    Sloan Underwhelmed

    Split Enz What's The Matter With You

    The Shins Fighting In A Sack

    Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense And Peppermints

    Screaming Trees Nearly Lost You

    The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Sister Surround

    The Shazam Turnaround

    The Smithereens Behind The Wall Of Sleep

    Soul Asylum Without A Trace

    The Smiths There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

    Spoon Everything Hits At Once

    Siouxsie & The Banshees Spellbound

    Squeeze In Quintessence

    The Stems She’s Fine

    The Stone Roses She Bangs The Drums

    Superdrag Sucked Out

    The Strokes Someday

    Sunnyboys Alone With You

    Shoes Cruel You

    Simple Minds All The Things She Said

    1 hr 13 min
  • Episode 268: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 506 (AmeriSkana)

    "Better than just makin' a guess, they bought a home pregnancy test" - Miracle Legion

    Talking Heads The Good Thing

    Tamar Berk indiesleaze 2005

    sparkle*jets u.k. Make Something Happen

    Miracle Legion Madison Park

    Mephiskapheles Doomsday

    The Specials Nite Klub

    Davey Lane Over, Over & Out

    Star Collector The Best Thing

    Cowboy Junkies Anniversary Song

    Kevin Robertson Eyes Like the Sun

    Monogroove Hello Everyone

    Cracker Movie Star

    Caper Clowns Strange Boy

    The Honeydogs Attic Brain

    Pixies U-Mass

    Chris Von Sneidern No Promise

    Mumford & Sons Caroline

    Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats S.O.B.

    Noah Kahan Paul Revere

    Matthew Sweet Time Capsule

    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 267: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 505 (Sha-La-La)

    "In a world frozen over with over exposure, let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town" - Soul Asylum

    Star Collector Roll That Rock (Up That Hill)

    Kevin Robertson We Found the Summer

    The Jim Carroll Band Work Not Play

    Superchunk Stuck in a Dream

    Arctic Monkeys Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts

    Soul Asylum Somebody To Shove

    Ramones Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La)

    Pete Yorn Elizabeth Taylor

    The Jesus & Mary Chain Far Gone And Out

    Sugar Helpless

    Archers of Loaf Might

    The Lemonheads Into Your Arms

    The Connells Fun & Games

    Marshall Crenshaw Grab the Next Train

    The Humbugs Stacy's Game Night

    The Someloves Don't Talk About Us

    Big Country Look Away

    China Crisis Working With Fire and Steel

    The Vapors News At Ten

    The Damnwells One Way

    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 266: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 504 (Honey)

    "... and it's true that I stole your lighter, and it's also true that I lost the map" - Liz Phair

    Sloan Dream Destroyer

    Ben Kweller Hold Me Down

    Pulp Razzmatazz

    The Flashcubes The Sweet Spot

    The Blues Magoos (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet

    Splitsville I Hate Going to Hutzler's

    Muck and the Mires OvernightDelivery

    Jim Trainor Tarzana

    Morphine Honey White

    The Holy Cows Through the Keyhole

    Liz Phair Divorce Song

    Australian Blonde Chup Chup

    The Icicle Works Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version]

    David Myhr Wanderlust

    Extra Arms Honey Brown

    David Mead Someone, Somewhere

    Iggy Pop The Passenger

    The Vapors The Human Race

    The Model Rockets Rock & Roll: The Movie

    Pretenders Time The Avenger

    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 265: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 503 (Trash)

    'We don't care if you think our party's cool 'cause we do!" - The Donnas

    Jim Trainor I Don't Wanna Be
    Lolas Underneath the Waves
    The Bongos Hunting
    Look Park Aeroplane
    Trolley A Carnival of Grey and White
    Golden Richards Jenny on the Run
    The Humbugs Take Out The Trash
    They Might Be Giants Take Out The Trash
    The Godfathers Birth, School, Work, Death
    The Long Ryders Capturing The Flag
    Pernice Brothers The Weakest Shade Of Blue
    Franz Ferdinand Bar Lonely
    The Autumn Hearts She Goes
    Mansfield Just Like Romeo and Juliet
    Sloan Gimme That
    The Minus 5 I Don't Want To Hate Anyone
    The Jim Carroll Band Tension
    Sebadoh License To Confuse
    The Peppermint Kicks Stooge
    The Donnas Who Invited You
    Rilo Kiley The Angels Hung Around

    1 hr 9 min
  • Episode 264: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 502

    "Out on the road today, I saw a (Black Flag) sticker on a Cadillac. 
    A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."" - Don Henley

    Art Brut Summer Job

    The Hold Steady Constructive Summer

    Superchunk Endless Summer

    High Back Chairs Summer

    Fountains Of Wayne It Must Be Summer

    Elvis Costello The Other Side Of Summer

    The Ataris The Boys of Summer

    Bruce Springsteen Girls In Their Summer Clothes

    The Flying Lizards Summertime Blues

    The Decemberists Anti-Summersong

    The Gunboat Diplomats If Summer Could Stay

    Jesse Malin In the Summer

    Lannie Flowers Summer Blue

    Shoes The Summer Rain

    The boys with the perpetual nervousness Summer

    People On Vacation Cruel Summer

    XTC Summer's Cauldron

    Fountains Of Wayne The Summer Place

    The Alarm Rain in the Summertime

    The Motels Suddenly Last Summer

    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 263: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 501 (Cow)

    "You never looked as lost as this, sometimes it doesn't even look like you" - The Cure

    The Chesterfield Kings Your Strange Love (Radio Mix)
    The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows
    Rhett Miller Help Me, Suzanne
    Lolas Down We Go
    Joywire feat. Jeff Murphy Underrated
    The Airport 77's/@theairport77s Don't Let Go
    The Smithereens Beauty And Sadness
    The Lucy Show Resistance
    Eurogliders Heaven (Must Be There)
    The Amplifier Heads The Best It's Gonna Be
    The Spongetones Help Me Janie
    The 66ers Holiday
    Muck and the Mires Beat Revolution
    The Adored TV Riot
    Francis Dunnery 48 Hours
    The B-52's Too Much To Think About
    The Josephines Set Me on Fire
    The Wonder Stuff The Size Of A Cow
    The Holy Cows Your Garbage Man
    The Cure A Night Like This

    1 hr 11 min
  • Episode 262: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 500 (2025 so far)

    Let me skip to the part where it all works out, when you got no doubt who’s your lucky number - David Mead

    David Mead Confidence Man

    The Autumn Hearts Distracted

    Splitsville A Glorious Lie

    The Flashcubes and Mike Gent Reminisce

    Caper Clowns Take A Number (Join The Line)

    The Beths No Joy

    Michigander Emotional

    Push Puppets Shake It Like You Mean It

    Crossword Smiles Counting By Fives

    Fine China Television Set

    John Larson And The Silver Fields Yesterday's Fires

    The Jellybricks Crazy Weather

    The Tisburys Water In The Clouds

    The Bablers Here I Come

    Dropkick Primary Colours

    Star Collector Everything Must Go!

    The Vapors Together Again

    Chris Church I'm A Machine

    Ryan Allen After I’m Dead

    Superchunk No Hope

    Sloan Live Forever

    1 hr 16 min

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