This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! We conclude our latest clash, and indeed our civil war season by going through New Order’s second album, ‘Power, Corruption and Lies’ from 1983. In doing so we learn how the other members of Joy Division cop

Unknown Pleasures vs Power Corruption and Lies - Part 1

Aug 31st, 2023 1h 27m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! Yes, yes, I know it’s a few hours late again - really really sorry about that - things are somewhat hectic here at Clash towers at the moment.Anyway, we start a new clash this week, and it’s the final clash

Paul Simon vs Graceland - Part 2

Aug 17th, 2023 1h 35m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! With sincere apologies for the slightly delayed release, in this week’s pod we conclude our Paul Simon clash by casting our ears over the diminutive folkster’s (yes, I’m reusing that moniker again) most succe

Paul Simon vs Graceland - Part 1

Aug 2nd, 2023 1h 20m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! We start a new clash this week as we welcome into the world of Album Clash everyone’s favourite diminutive folkster (well, everyone apart from Art Garfunkel anyway), Paul Simon. Entering the ring of death are

The Man Comes Around vs Ain't no Grave - Part 2

Jul 19th, 2023 1h 18m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! In this week's pod we conclude our Johnny Cash clash (yep, I'm sticking with that almost rhyme) as Kev leads us through the sixth and (thus far) final installment in the American Recordings series, 2010's 'Ai

The Man Comes Around vs Ain't no Grave - part 1

Jul 5th, 2023 1h 31m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! We kick off a new clash this week by welcoming the man in black back into the ring of death, as we put two of his legendary American Recordings albums up against each other.First up it's Tim's job to take

Highway to Hell vs Back in Black - Part 2

Jun 21st, 2023 1h 26m

This is ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR!! To round off our rocktastic AC/DC mega clash we ask ourselves a question: How would AC/DC recover from the tragic loss of frontman Bon Scott in early 1980? Well, how does recruiting a little fella in a flat cap

Highway to Hell vs Back in Black - Part 1

Jun 7th, 2023 1h 15m

Welcome to Album Clash! We start a new instalment in our 'ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR' season this week, and we get into full on Dad rock mode by taking in the masters of chunky riffs, driving rhythms and gravelly vocals, AC/DC. And what a fascina

Let it Be vs Abbey Road - Part 2

May 24th, 2023 1h 33m

Welcome to Album Clash! Concluding our first 'ALBUM CLASH: CIVIL WAR' clash this week, Kev picks up where Tim left off on our last pod by taking us through the last Beatles album to be recorded and the magic that was 'Abbey Road'.As might be

Let it Be vs Abbey Road - Part 1

May 10th, 2023 1h 33m

Welcome to Album Clash! We start a new season this week, and what a blessed relief it is to not have had to deliberately listen to terrible music. We are taking things in a slightly different direction for the next few pods, because instead o

Never Let Me Down vs Down in the Groove - Part 2

Apr 26th, 2023 1h 13m

Welcome to Album Clash! We bring our brief ‘hate listens’ season to a merciful close with this weeks album, as we go through Bob Dylan’s 1988 effort ‘Down in the Groove’ - an album widely regarded as one of, if not the, absolute worst of Dyla

Never Let Me Down vs Down in the Groove - Part 1

Apr 12th, 2023 1h 15m

Welcome to Album Clash! We begin a new clash in our ‘hate listens’ season and, in doing so, as Kev noted at the end of our last pod, we are sacrificing some sacred cows by sampling arguably the worst albums (‘coincidentally’ both released in

Peasants Pigs and Astronauts vs One Way Ticket to Hell and Back - Part 2

Mar 29th, 2023 58m 55s

Welcome to Album Clash! Concluding the first clash in our brief ‘hate listens’ season this week we consider a 2005 album which more than lived up to it’s name, the Darkness’ second album ‘One Way Ticket to Hell and Back’. And what do we thin

Peasants Pigs and Astronauts vs One Way Ticket to Hell and Back - Part 1

Mar 16th, 2023 1h 4m

Welcome to Album Clash! We start a new theme with this week’s pod, and that theme is… hate listens!That’s right, we’ve realised that we’re far too kind about the albums we review on AC and so we’ve decided to deliberately expose ourselves to s

The Clash vs Never Mind the Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols - Part 2

Mar 2nd, 2023 1h 34m

Welcome to Album Clash! With apologies for the slightly late release, this week we bring to a close our battle of the punk heavyweights, as well as calling a halt to our musical road trip, we take a look at the Sex Pistols' first and only album

The Clash vs Never Mind The Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols - Part 1

Feb 16th, 2023 1h 26m

Welcome to Album Clash! We start the final leg of our musical road trip as we pay a visit to London and take in the incipient punk scene in the late 1970s. And what a clash we have lined up over the next couple of shows, as two of the standard

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You vs I'm Still in Love with You - Part 2

Feb 2nd, 2023 1h 4m

Welcome to Album Clash! This week we conclude our visit to Memphis by getting next to the Reverend Al Green and casting our irreverent, sideways glance at his seminal 1972 album ‘I’m Still in Love with You’.In doing so we spend a lot of time t

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You vs I'm Still in Love With You - Part 1

Jan 19th, 2023 1h 18m

Welcome to Album Clash! The latest stop on our musical road trip sees us pay a visit to Memphis Tennessee to compare two landmark albums by two of the biggest names in soul music - Aretha Franklin and Al Green.Kicking things off on this week’s

Different Class vs Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not - Part 2

Jan 5th, 2023 1h 10m

Welcome to Album Clash! It’s the concluding part of our steel city battle as we take a trip back to 2006 and the debut album from Arctic Monkeys, ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not’. An album which, despite the warning from the ban

Different Class vs Whatever People Say I Am That's What I Am Not - Part 1

Dec 22nd, 2022 1h 18m

Welcome to Album Clash! Kev is back this week and so normal service is resumed as we continue our musical road trip by paying a visit to the steel city, Sheffield. Yes, we begin our clash between two bands who weren’t afraid to shine a light on

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Bonus Clash - It's the Album Clash Chart Show!

Dec 8th, 2022 56m 31s

Welcome to Album Clash! In a change to our scheduled programming, this week we DON’T begin our musical visit to Sheffield, and instead bring you the thing that every self-respecting podcast does when it runs out of ideas - a clip show.Yep, sor

Ten vs Nevermind - Part 2

Nov 24th, 2022 1h 27m

Welcome to Album Clash! This week we bring to a close the first stop on our musical road trip (redux), saying goodbye to the Seattle grunge scene by going through a little known album called ‘Nevermind’ by three precocious young chaps called Ni

Ten vs Nevermind - Part 1

Nov 10th, 2022 1h 26m

Welcome to Album Clash! Not only is it new clash week but it’s also new season week, as we fire up the RV and recommence our musical road trip! First stop on the second leg of our tour of famous musical cities is Seattle, a hitherto unremarkabl

James Brown Live at the Apollo vs Otis Redding Live in Europe - Part 2

Oct 26th, 2022 57m 23s

Welcome to Album Clash! We bring to a close our live clash of the soul legends, and with it our live season, by casting our gaze over Otis Redding’s first live album ‘Live in Europe’ from 1967.Released just five months before his tragic and u

James Brown Live at the Apollo vs Otis Redding Live in Europe - Part 1

Oct 12th, 2022 1h 3m

Welcome to Album Clash! We start a new clash this week, and to bring our live albums season to a close we have an absolute corker, as two soul legends James Brown and Otis Redding go head to head to find out who comes out on top.First up it’s