Chasing the Essential

 "Bottom of the barrel on Top of the Pops.  You stole from the best, but you never got caught" - The Pretty Flowers Mark Ward Godless Country Ryan Hamilton The Come to Jesus Moment The On and Ons Speck Of Smiling Faces The Jam Carnation Gary Klebe Not Tough Enough Ric Ocasek Don't Lose Me Emperor Penguin Wittering and Zigo The Vapors I Don't Remember White Town Your Woman otter petter Turn Out the...

"When you stray from the beaten path, confusion may be your epitaph" - Guadalcanal Diary Jesse Malin Hollywood Forever Courtney Barnett Wonder The Why Oh Whys Without You I'm Nothing XTC The Disappointed Tommy Keene Faith in Love (Bonus Track) Sugar Come Around The Pretty Flowers Bucket Beach With Radiant Action I Saw A Girl Guadalcanal Diary Things Fall Apart Shoes Girls of Today The On and Ons Y...

"There's a couple from the show me state, knockin' back a little meatloaf plate" - Martin Sexton Patti Smith Glitter In Their Eyes The Figgs Cheap Cassettes The Strokes Is This It Myracle Brah I'd Rather Be The Muffs Become Undone The Shazam RU Recieving Superdrag Keep It Close To Me The Dandy Warhols Get Off Nina Gordon Number One Camera Michael Penn Out of Its Misery The Spongetones My Girl Mary...

"People breaking their hearts just to stay off the street" - The Suburbs The Greenberry Woods That Won't Make You Love Me The Rallies Comes And Goes The Goo Goo Dolls Big Machine Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The World Stops Turning The On and Ons Ride A Wave The Pretty Flowers Thief of Time The Tisburys When A Switch Flips Courtney Barnett Stay In Your Lane The Suburbs Love Is the Law Blondie Lon...

"All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don't know who you are. You let me change lanes, while I was driving in my car" - Geggy Tah The Dandy Warhols The Dandy Warhols' TV Theme Song Billy Bragg Upfield The Lemonheads If I Could Talk I'd Tell You Divinyls Human on the Inside Fountains Of Wayne Survival Car Butthole Surfers Pepper Gin Blossoms Follow You Down CAKE Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps G...

"Movie stars and ads and radio define romance don't turn it on, I don't wanna dance" - Psychedelic Furs The Rallies I Believe Star Collector The Best Thing Sector Frontier Love Goes Out The Window X Around My Heart Nick Piunti Vacant Heart Green Circles Days Of Blue And Grey And Green Death Cab for Cutie Riptides Drivin' N' Cryin' Count The Flowers The Flying Lizards Money Eurythmics When Tomorrow...

"I must not think bad thoughts, what is this world coming to?" - X XTC Respectable Street Youth Chairs I Want You Different. Yours And Mine Pushing Up Daisies The Yes It Is The Night I Heard A Scream X Breathless Your Gracious Host Just Like a Train The Zutons Valerie The Zags Play It Loud X-Ray Spex The Day The World Turned Day-Glo Yum Yums Crush On You Young the Giant My Body XTC Funk Pop A Roll...

"Lawn chairs are everywhere. They're everywhere, my mind describes them to me" - Our Daughter's Wedding Outlines High on a Wire otter petter Cobwebs Old 97's Bird In A Cage The Outsiders Time Won't Let Me Outrageous Cherry Pretty Girls Go Insane Owsley Be With You The Ocean Blue Bitter The Offspring Gotta Get Away Oh-OK Such n Such Our Daughter's Wedding Lawnchairs Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dar...

"But no one seems to hear the music, 'cause no one listens to the band anymore" - The Damnwells The Damnwells No One Listens to the Band Anymore The Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You Deer Tick The Dream's In The Ditch The Donnas Take It Off Dreams So Real California The dB's Living a Lie Devo Uncontrollable Urge DM3 One times, Two Times Devastated Deadeye Dick New Age Girl (2021 Edition) Death By Un...

"Can’t you see it’s getting late? My head’s on fire and it’s all ending" - The Tisbury's The Vapors Hit The Ground Running Splitsville I Hate Going to Hutzler's The Planes Tear the World Apart (MFLB Version) Chris Church I'm A Machine The Beths Straight Line Was A Lie DOM MARIANI World On Its Head The Jellybricks Dreaming In Stereo Push Puppets Shake It Like You Mean It Star Collector Everything M...

"This is the part where it all works out, when you got no doubt who's your lucky number" - David Mead Caper Clowns Take A Number (Join The Line) The Glad Machine Back To You Liquid Mike Instantly Wasted Dropkick Primary Colours Icecream Hands Do Ya Feel It The Flashcubes and Mike Gent Reminisce Portugal. The Man Tanana GREG POPE Fallen Star Michigander Emotional David Mead Confidence Man Crossword...

"Dawn comes soon enough for the working class" - X R.E.M. Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) XTC Ball And Chain X The Have Nots Adam Ant Friend Or Foe Translator When I Am With You The Jim Carroll Band Jealous Twin Lords of the New Church Russian Roulette Wall Of Voodoo Spy World The Jam Running On The Spot Human Sexual Response Marone Offering The Psychedelic Furs Run And Run Romeo Void Never Say Never...

"Looking at my watch and I'm half-past caring" - Trashcan Sinatras The Tubes Talk To Ya Later Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Mighty Sparrow Tegan & Sara Speak Slow They Might Be Giants Your Racist Friend Tears For Fears Mad World Teenage Fanclub What You Do To Me The Three O'Clock I Go Wild Tripping Daisy I Got A Girl Toad The Wet Sprocket All I Want The Thrills Big Sur The Tragically Hip P...

"You could make somebody a pretty little wife, but don't let anybody tell you how to live your life" - Bangles / Costello The B-52's Nip It In The Bud Belle & Sebastian Unnecessary Drama The Balloon Farm A Question Of Temperature The Black Keys Lonely Boy The Beths Future Me Hates Me The Brian Jonestown Massacre Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth Band Of Horses Laredo Biltmore Dirty Pillo...

I don't think there are any Russians and there ain't no Yanks ... just corporate criminals, playing with tanks. - The Call The Clash Police On My Back The Cars Got A Lot On My Head The Candyskins Submarine Song The Coral Dreaming of You CAKE The Distance The Call The Walls Came Down The Castaways Liar, Liar Concrete Blonde Joey The Connells Carry My Picture Cotton Mather My Before and After The Ch...

"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...

Give me all your money and I'll make some origami, honey. - Courtney Barnett Courtney Barnett Pedestrian At Best The On And Ons Rockin' with the Beat The Ravines Tambareen Jesse Malin Outsiders Cage The Elephant Mess Around Maritime Satellite Love Best Coast Heaven Sent The Dazies Idiot Death Cab For Cutie The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive Baby Shakes Running Through the Night Michael Carpenter Don't Op...

"Let me begin with a bead time story, let me remind you what you came here for." - David Mead David Mead Bedtime Story Elvis Costello & The Imposters Magnificent Hurt Erik Voeks & The Ghosters Break Away Janove Ottesen This City Kills Mike Adams At His Honest Weight Diem Be The Connells Universal Glue Mark Ward I've Been Around Superchunk Wild Loneliness Suburban Hi-Fi The Year In Pictures...

"Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go. I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow." Gaslight Anthem The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound Cotton Mather Never Be It Best Coast Heaven Sent Rilo Kiley Portions For Foxes The Tisburys Garden Quilt Searching For Bread & Butter Good Lines Bob Mould City Lights (Days Go By) The Dandy Warhols Smoke It Everyday Things, Th...

Take a look at what special guest Chipper Saam of Indie Pop Takeout is dishing out in this week's episode featuring Potential Classics #8! Look Park – You Can Come Round If You Want To The Legal Matters – The Legend of Walter Wright Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Kismet The Persian Leaps – The Company She Keeps Michael Slawter – The Queen of All She Sees Young Guv – Good Time Robert...