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- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 12
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- Sep 18, 2026
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- Jul 3, 2026
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Episode 323: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 562 (1986) (opens the original)
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"Here we are in our summer years, living on ice cream and chocolate kisses" - Billy Bragg Billy Bragg Greetings To The New Brunette R.E.M. I Believe Ramones My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg) The Go-Betweens In the Core of the Flame Joe Jackson Survival The Housemartins Happy Hour Talking Heads Wild Wild Life The Smithereens Blood And Roses BoDeans She's A Runaway Big Country Look Away Joan Armatrading Kind Words (And A Real Good Heart) The Bangles Walking Down Your Street T
Episode 322: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 561 (Work) (opens the original)
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"Women around the world at work, working, working" - Martha and the Muffins matt pond PA Endless Summer Primal Scream Invisible City Lucy Show Shame The War on Drugs You Wreck Me Sugar Keep Looping The Lemon Drop Gang Wreckless Eyeballs twisted teens Guided Thunder Psychotic Youth Back To You The Flaming Lips Turn It On The Chelsea Curve Never Come Down Kelly LaMay & Eric Payne Get Back On That Bike Cage The Elephant Neon Pill Velvet Daydream No Eyes The Chesterfield Kings Meet You After Midnigh
Episode 321: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 560 (Drug) (opens the original)
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"He was tied to a job selling miracle drugs from his home" - A.C. Newman The Half-Cubes The Mighty Quinn Uncle Green That Must Be the Way Rainy Day Saints Lookout Squeeze Third Rail twisted teens Why Did You Miss It? The Eyetraps 20xOver 54•40 Little By Little Squeeze Take Me, I'm Yours Tim Curry I Do The Rock Calhoun Breathe Buzzcocks Heavy Streets Dodgy In A Room (Full Version) Translator Favorite Drug A.C. Newman Miracle Drug The Rosenbergs Drug Of Choice Liquid Mike Drug Dealer Haircut 100 F
Episode 320: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 559 (Rideout) (opens the original)
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"Remake the world under yellow skies, cover your nose and open your eyes" - Superchunck The Chelsea Curve Rally 'Round Squeeze Why Don't You Mark Ward Caught The On and Ons Meet Me In The Morning Shazam, The The Stranded Stars Wakeland Falling Again Spygenius Cnut The Monkees Last Train To Clarksville Love and Rockets No New Tale to Tell Courtney Barnett Same The Pretty Flowers Never Felt Bitter (We Burn) The Eyetraps Nashville Gentle Hen Comfort Zone The Lovely Basement Cornstalk Girl Flight of
Episode 319: Chasing the Essential - Episode # 558 (Seventy-Two) (opens the original)
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"Got my hands at ten and two. Got my eyes on my peripheral view" - Trashcan Sinatras Spygenius Watch Like No One's Dancing Wolf Alice White Horses The Coathangers Perfume The Sunshine Boys Don't Keep It Inside Icecream Hands Her Swan Greg Williams Through My Hands Librarians With Hickeys 1972 (Single Version) Josh Rouse 1972 The Wonder Stuff It's Yer Money, I'm After Baby Michael Penn Free Time The Eyetraps The Sound of It World Party Is It Like Today? The Damn Truth Only Love Joe Jackson Awkwar
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