The Hunt For The Perfect Album

Join Billy and Dave as they celebrate the magic of a day gone by, challenging each other week to week with an album that one of them thinks is “perfect”, and has zero skippable tracks; which the other has never listened to before. Now, kids, once upon a time, many moons ago, when streaming services were just a dream Steve Jobs had after eating too much cheese before bed; we listened to music in carefully curated lists that the artists had painstakingly put together in such a way as to take the listener on an emotional journey. These lists were hard-coded onto disks of vinyl, or recorded onto magnetic tape in little plastic cases. We called these magical items “albums”. In the before times you couldn’t skip tracks, or (god forbid) put the album on shuffle. That would have been like watching the scenes of a movie out of order. Madness.
Episodes
Episodes



Monday May 19, 2025
62 - Rising by Rainbow
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
It's time for a jaunt back to the mid 70s when heavy metal and fantasy went hand in hand with the sophomore album from Rainbow.
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Monday May 12, 2025
61 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Monday May 12, 2025
Monday May 12, 2025
Join us as we spin one of the most influential psycho-folk albums of the 90's with Neutral Milk Hotels' 'In An Airplane Over The Sea'.
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Monday May 05, 2025
60 - The Lion and the Cobra by Sinéad O'Connor
Monday May 05, 2025
Monday May 05, 2025
This week we join Ireland's favourite daughter with her atomic bomb of a debut album.
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Friday May 02, 2025
BONUS - The mix-tape - Our ultimate funeral playlist
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
We're gone. It's been real. Time for our grand send off. And here's what's gonna be on the playlist at our funerals.
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Monday Apr 28, 2025
59 - Fashion Nugget by Cake
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Monday Apr 28, 2025
Join us for some of the funkiest tunes around, as Billy spins 'Fashion Nugget' by Cake.
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Monday Apr 21, 2025
58 - Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Monday Apr 21, 2025
Monday Apr 21, 2025
This week we dance with the dark one and dabble in the dark arts, at least according to Christian protesters in the 1970s, with Black Sabbath's iconic sophomore album, Paranoid.
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Monday Apr 14, 2025
57 - The Unauthorised Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
After a failure last time, Billy tries once more to get Dave to appreciate the magic of Ben Folds Five.
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Monday Mar 31, 2025
56 - Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
This week we revel in the gone-too-soon iconoclastic Janis Joplin as Dave tasks Billy with this iconic piece of 1960's San Franciscan history.
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