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 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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Monday Mar 24, 2025
55 - Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
And here is the official first album Billy owned, an album he was gifted by a dear friend - Ben Folds Five's sophomore album 'Whatever and Ever Amen'.
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Monday Mar 17, 2025
54 - Hunting high and low by a-ha
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
It's off to Norway this week for the incredible debut album by Norwegian popsters, a-ha.
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
53 - Self-titled by Vampire Weekend
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Join us as Billy kicks into some amazing indie-pop with Vampire weekends self-titled release.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
BONUS - The Mixtape - Our Ultimate Perfect Albums Playlist
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Join us this week as we countdown our ten favourite tracks each that we've discovered through this very show! Happy 50 episodes!