Ultimate Catalogue Clash

Seven songs? SEVEN SONGS???? What kind of madness is this? Also, it's seven songs on a Blondie album, only one of which is written by Debbie Harry! What the hell are these guys (and gal) tryna' pull here? There are a lot of ideas being thrown at us here! We're venturing to the Bermuda triangle, we're speaking in French, and we're worried about snipers. But will Kev and Corey get to the bottom of w...

Kev and Corey discover their favourite song on the album is the same track, there's no Def Leppard news, which makes Kev very happy, and Corey pontificates on the value of percussive restraint. But, will our dynamic duo love a song about alient ants (free range, not farmed), will Corey take advantage of Kev's appalling performance in the season's game last week, and who the fuck is Ronnie Toast an...

Six songs to kick off Side A from Blondie's debut. We discover that X Offender isn't about Trump and Epstein, but rather is a cautionary tale about falling in love (or lust) with your local copper! There's drum fills aplenty, a few mix issues, and we talk a fair bit about Debbie Harry's voice. But, will new wave surf rock tickle Corey's pickle? Will Kev had any damn clue what West Side Story is? A...

Iggy Pop recalls inviting Blondie to tour with him at a time when David Bowie was playing keyboards in his backing band. "Debbie was an American ponytail girl as seen through the lens of Roger Vadim; Barbarella on speed, or something like that." With Barbella on speed and Chris Stein right behind her, Blondie had all the ingredients to take on the world. But would internal friction pull the band a...

By the mid-1980s, apartheid-era South Africa was subject to a global cultural boycott, strongly advocated by the African National Congress (ANC) and supported by the United Nations. Musicians were explicitly asked not to perform, record, or collaborate in South Africa, regardless of intent. In 1984–85, Paul Simon traveled to South Africa to record with Black South African musicians, including memb...

We're joined by Crowes superfan and all round wonderful fella Dave Lasseter to pull apart Amorica and Tall and to chat about how good the Crowes were live! We also take a run at resequencing the album taking into account every track we have to choose from. Kev and Corey weren't hot on Cursed Diamond, so will Dave hang up the call? Will we get into any trouble for our edits, and will Corey finally...

Our friend Scott Haskin is back to help us unpack season seven. We've covered a bunch of artists on this show that haven't resonated with Scott, so we're curious how this one will go! We have questions provided by the wonderful Dave Lasseter and we'll also find out who we'll be listening to in Season 8! Who can it be now? The only way to find out is to turn on, tune in, and shake your money maker....

Well, look at that. We've come (almost) to the end of another season. Today's episode wraps up the fifth album of our adventure with The Black Crowes. Kev was a big fan coming in, Corey was pretty sure he was a big fan coming in. We've had some high highs and a couple of low lows, but more than anything, we've had pretty good consistency! But, do those ingredients add up to a sauce that you can tr...

The Bears are into a wild card matchup with division rivals, the Packers. The Giants have confounded Corey's hopes yet again by being not quite bad enough to secure the first pick in the next NFL draft, and Canada go down 6-4 to Czechia in the World Junior Hockey Championships. And that's all before we've even mentioned the Black Crowes! We're starting the last album in this season of the UCC with...

This week's Kofi episode is brought to you by our pal Josh Caldwell from The Engine Room podcast! We're digging out our amps and turning them up to ten and heading back to the Sunset Strip, kinda. George Lynch is an American guitarist, best known for his work with the hard rock/heavy metal band Dokken and his post-Dokken solo band Lynch Mob, whose debut album, "Wicked Sensation", we'll be covering...

We had to put together a Christmas episode for ya! What did you think, we'd forget??? Hold onto your baubels and get ready to toss the tinself because we're cranking up the volume on some Christmas classics! We picked three songs each and in both cases, we picked two songs that the other person had never heard! So will Corey be impressed by Jona Lewie and will Kev be on board for a couple of comed...

Side A scored really highly, but can Three Snakes and One Charm do enough on Side B to crack the top ten? We're taking a whole bunch of different sonic paths again as the Black Crowes put us through our paces. But will Corey dig the hippy vibes on How Much for Your Wings? Will Kev have anything to say about a distinctly familiar lick in Better When You're Not Alone? The only way to find out is to...

Delta Blues legend Blind Charlie Jones once famously said “A pawnshop is a place of wonder, a magical place full of possibility and dreams. Until you walk in there for the first time carrying your guitar.” "Just what in tarnation does that have to do with Three Snakes and One Charm boy?!" I hear you ask as you suck on your cornstalk balls deep in your first cousin... Well, the closer on this side...

Today we wrap up the Black Crowes third album, amorica. It's a mixed bag for Corey, we talk about one of the more unusual songs in this catalogue, we ruminate on just how high Chris Robinson potentially was during the writing of some of the lyrics on the record and we reveal which album will be covered on the next Kofi episode! But the questions you have to ask yourself are these; will Corey feel...

"What kinda talk you got around here?" "We got both kinds... jibber AND jabber!" That's right, two middle-aged men are gonna talk about music for you because that's as close to a midlife crisis as either of us can be bothered to get! Corey's beloved Roughriders won the Grey Cup (which is Canada's version of the World Series, or the Emmys, or some shit...) so he was in bouyant mood! But will he dig...

Kev's in Calgary airport upsetting the Cowboys on his way back from Florida so Corey came up with a fiendishly brilliant special format that we could record in situ so we don't have to miss a week. We're not telling you which songs we're covering though, so you'll have to wait to find out! Suffice to say, we're revisiting seasons one and two... So will Corey make Kev listen to St. Anger and will t...

We're off to Victorian England to talk about one the top ten biggest selling prog rock albums of all time. We have Martians, artillery, heat rays, and.... disco? Kev grew up with this album and has most of it indelibly imprinted on his brain. Will he be able to set aside his nostalgic love for the album? Will Corey be on board with an album that doesn't feature a whole lot of singing and instead l...

Corey's running for Sheriff in Weyburn, the Crowes are channling Zep, Aeorsmith, and maybe a soupçon of Cinderella? We cogitate on why in the name of green shit the Crowes front loaded the album with slower songs and left so much fire on Side B! But, will Kev dig the Bob Marley cover that closes the album, and will Corey be on board with the longer songs? Most importantly, will either of these knu...

Popular opinion amongst Crowes fans is that this is their finest work. Recorded in 8 off the back of a monster tour in support of Shake Your Money Maker, this is the album that most fans consider to be the defining sound of the band. So will Corey focus in on this creative shift or will he instead take us down the path of pyschopathic avicidal femme fatales? Will Kev be on board with Remedy now th...

Welcome to the OUCHpod!!! Or is the UCC? Well, we have the potential for a new number one album in the overall UCC rankings based on last week's scores. But can Side B hold up to Side A? We ruminate on Rod Stewart vs Mick Jagger, Corey gives Kev some food for thought on the last verse of She Talks to Angels, and we're interrupted by animals on a second podcast recording of the day for both of us....

"Cheat the odds that made you brave to try to gamble at times. Well I feel like dirty laundry sendin' sickness on down the line." Not a bad way to kick off your debut, but is it the perfect opener for this record? Why did Corey quit his career as a professional luchador, and what in god's name is that racket outside?? It sounds like a cat being interfered with by a racoon on meth!!! Anyway, we're...

Kev's back, Corey's front, and we're all set for Season Seven! We're heading back to Georgia to talk about a greasy, grimy rock n roll band fronted by a pair of feuding brothers and a cast of very quietly superb sidemen who released the antidote to grunge in 1991 and went on to build a three decade plus career touring constantly and putting out uncompromisingly blues-soaked, riff-laden, groove-hea...

One last special episode to close out season six! We thought we'd take two songs by artists we're pretty sure we'll never cover on "The Clash" and put them through our usual review process. Kev pulled out one of the most iconic electronic hits from the early 80s and Corey took a very Canadian line, picking an artist Kev had never heard of! But will the sparse, dark synth pop of OMD spin Corey's do...

Kev and Corey are going head to head! Kev's away visiting family and the boys didn't want to start a new season while he's over in England. God only knows what gibberish he'll be filling his head with! Probably not much worse than the crap he'll be filling his belly with! In the meantime, we decided that we'd set up a bracket by picking sixteen albums each, from the ones we've reviewed, and pit th...

Four albums. Eight sides. Eight episodes. We promised you a shorter, tighter season and we delivered it! What will Scott make of R.E.M.? Who will win the right to choose the artist for season seven and will Corey pull off an overtime win this season's game? But most importantly; if the square on the hypoteneuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two remaining sides, does that mean Pythagoru...