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The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles. Brian Wilson vs. Paul McCartney. Pet Sounds vs. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. What more do you say? Kicking off our 'beef' season, in which we discuss famous musical rivalries, is perhaps the most iconic of all time in which two behemoths from either side of the Atlantic inspired one another to achieve perfection, and to completely reinvent the concept of wh...

It's the concluding part of our clash of the ex-lovers this week as we share our thoughts on PJ Harvey's Mercury Prize winning effort from 2000, 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' - or 'PJ's Pop Party' as Kevin dubs it. There's a lot to take in here, from soulful tales of forbidden love to furious rock bangers about wanting to just get it on. Oh, and PJ Harvey tells us all the places sh...

***NEW CLASH KLAXXON!!!*** It's new clash week, and we start things off in a very dark place by guiding you through Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' 'Murder Ballads' from 1996, the album which was written to be untourable but ended up breaking the band into the mainstream. Along the way there's loads for us to get into, including the bizarre booking of the 1994 Lollapalooza tour, what Kylie Minogue...

This week we conclude our battle of the progressive, modern female recording artists by lavishing praise on the 2019's 'Cuz I Love You' by Lizzo. And we're in a much more grown up and sensible mood this week. I promise. Well... sort of. As we talk through the album we focus on Lizzo's positive messages on body image, sexual orientation and self-love. (No, not that sort of self love. Grow up.) We a...

Okay so I'm not going to lie, we're in a really silly mood this week. It's all Kev's fault; he starts things off by talking about what he sings to his ablutions and, well, things just descend from there really.  We do spend a bit of time talking about Janelle Monae's 2018 album 'Dirty Computer' and the personal, progressive messages it conveys, and we talk a lot about the influence of Prince...

It's the concluding part of our 1988 Hip-hop battle this week as we cross over to the West Coast to give our take on the album that gave birth to Gangsta Rap, N.W.A.'s 'Straight Outta Compton'. And boy there's a lot to get our teeth into. We talk about what brought the group together, what broke them apart, and pretty much everything that came in between. We tiptoe our way through some fairly deli...

We start a new clash this week, taking a trip to 1988 as we take on two of the most influential hip-hop albums of all time. First up it's Public Enemy whose second album 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back' goes under the microscope. As we dissect the album with our usual irreverence we count the number of James Brown songs sampled on this album, marvel at just how many times the tracks...

In our latest episode we bring you the conclusion of our Bowie Battle as we take a look at Iggy Pop's 1977 solo debut 'The Idiot' (and again spend more time talking about David Bowie than the actual artist whose album this is). Along the way we take in all sorts of ephemera, including the story of what happened when Iggy Pop was paid a visit in rehab by David Bowie  Dennis Hopper and/ or Dean...

**NEW CLASH ALERT!!** This week we start a brand new clash as we take a look at Lou Reed's 'Transformer' in the first leg of our battle of the Bowie produced albums, where we probably spend more time talking about David Bowie than we do Lou Reed. Soz about that. As we meander through the album we ponder what it is that fans of skiing find so fascinating about cowbells, we wonder if this album unin...

In the second part of our French Electronica clash Kev leads us through our review of Air's 1998 debut album 'Moon Safari'. As usual we get distracted by a variety of tangential and irrelevant nonsense, including reminiscence about the BBC's flagship science and technology programme 'Tomorrow's World', recollections of this album playing endlessly in countless pretentious bars around the turn of t...

Voici LA BATAILLE DES ALBUMS!! Alors que nous commencons un nouveau bataille, et que nous entrons dans L'ANNEAU DE LA MORT sont deux geants de la musique electronique francaise. Right, that's proving far too difficult so let's go back to English. This week we don our robot helmets and pay tribute to the now departed Daft Punk by talking a load of wiffle about their debut album 'Homework', from 199...

This week it's the second part of our battle of the live albums, in which Kev guides us through Aretha Franklin's 1972 tour de force 'Amazing Grace'.  As well as sharing our thoughts on the album we have a big old chat about why it took almost 50 years for the accompanying concert film to be released (aside: go and watch it; it's incredible), during which Tim mansplains the concept of clapper...

This is ALBUM CLASH! We start a new clash this week as Tim introduces the first half of our 'live albums recorded in unusual venues' matchup by taking us through Johnny Cash's 1968 classic 'At Folsom Prison'. As we talk about the album with our usual meandering whimsy we take in all sorts of peripheral matters, including: - A lovely chat about going to gigs in churches (which, in hindsight, would...

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1997.   A day that will live long in the memory (and not just because that's the day Tim & Kev got their GCSE results...) That's the day that Oasis released the album that was hyped (mostly by Noel Gallagher) as the greatest thing to happen to music since 'Rock me Amadeus': the behemoth that was 'Be Here Now'.  In the second leg of our 'disappointing albums...

Our second clash is all about much hyped albums from Manchester bands, as The Stone Roses' 'Second Coming' goes up against Oasis' 'Be Here Now' inside THE RING OF DEATH! Oh, and drugs. It's also about drugs. This week, Tim takes us through 1994's 'Second Coming' - after a hiatus of over 5 years, would the Roses be able to recapture the magic of their 1989 debut which was an iconic part of the 'Mad...

In the concluding part of our first ever clash, we gaze into the void left by the Beatles' break up and attempt to fill it with George Harrison's 1970 solo release 'All Things Must Pass'. But which album between this and 'Layla' will emerge victorious from THE RING OF DEATH? Also on this weeks show we reveal which member of Genesis played on the 'All Things Must Pass' sessions (spoiler: it was Phi...

This. Is. ALBUM CLASH! The Podcast in which we take two albums that share a connection, and pit them against each other inside THE RING OF DEATH! Two albums enter, only one may leave! In our first ever episode we go through the first leg of our Pattie Boyd derby by taking you through Derek and the Dominos 1970 debut 'Layla and other Assorted Love Songs'. We also have a little chat about adverts fo...

Coming soon to a podcast streaming service near you, ALBUM CLASH. The podcast in which we take two albums that share a connection and pit them against each other inside THE RING OF DEATH. Two albums enter, only one may leave!