The Hunt For The Perfect Album

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.

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June 22, 2025 19 mins

Join us as we check out Dreamtime, the sophomoric solo outing from Television's front man

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Another one of the earliest albums Billy remembers being in possession of, it's early naughts pop-punkers Eve 6 with their album 'Horrorscope'.

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Dave throws Billy back into the swirling vortex of the Gizzverse once more, with their monster concept album that never ends.

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Join us for yet another indie-pop classic (no way) as Billy introduces Dave to 'Tally of the Yes Men' by Goldspot.

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May 18, 2025 20 mins

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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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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This week we join Ireland's favourite daughter with her atomic bomb of a debut album.

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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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April 27, 2025 33 mins

Join us for some of the funkiest tunes around, as Billy spins 'Fashion Nugget' by Cake.

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April 20, 2025 17 mins

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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After a failure last time, Billy tries once more to get Dave to appreciate the magic of Ben Folds Five.

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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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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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March 16, 2025 20 mins

It's off to Norway this week for the incredible debut album by Norwegian popsters, a-ha.

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March 9, 2025 17 mins

Join us as Billy kicks into some amazing indie-pop with Vampire weekends self-titled release.

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Join us this week as we countdown our ten favourite tracks each that we've discovered through this very show! Happy 50 episodes!

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March 2, 2025 30 mins

This week we check in with Las Vegas's favourite sons with The Killers' debut album

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Join us as we return to Australian music once again, this time spinning Darren Hanlon's folk-pop LP 'I Will Love You At All'.

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At long last Dave gives Billy an album by his favourite working Aussie band, the hugely prolific King Gizzard!

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February 2, 2025 34 mins

This week we're revelling in one of the greatest folk-punk albums of the last 20 years, as we spin Not Half Bad's 'Good People'.

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