Bluegrass meets well, just lots of 'grass' this week as Gillian Welch's fragile country opus Time is juxtaposed with The Dandy Warhols' cartoon rock masterpiece 13 Tales of Urban Bohemia. Like, uh, yeah, whatever man.

Too cold for garden games this week so we're back in Studio A, once more sipping tea and gently insisting that the other is misguided. The Lightning Seeds and David Kitt get our notice this issue and we run down our top 5 live albums before rpounding up some of your kind emails and blog entries.

Well it's raining as I post the show but the sun came out to bless us at the weekend so we hope you'll enjoy this first broadcast live from the Classic Albums Podcast garden.

As spring springs its springe and the nights lighten we bring you the cream of English folk rock in the shape of Fairport Convention and the sneering spoilt-brats of indie in the mis-shapes of Luke Haine's Auteurs. The top 5 films about music get a mention and we discover the Rza can't say his r's, which if you think about it, is a bit of a problem.

The Grand Old Man of bombast cracks skulls with the pale poet of misery this time - no, I'm not talking about Gary and Stephen, this episode we bring you Scott Walker's Scott 4 and Elliot Smith's Figure 8. All that plus the 7 ages of pop! If that's not enough, nothing's enough!

Flippin' 'eck. Sparks fly this issue as Grandaddy's blissed-out, bleeped-up slacker rock goes head-to-head with The Pale Saints' fuzzed-off shoegazey noise-pop. There's also the top 5 songs about non-alchoholic beverages and a great, great strand on all those fat-fingered typos you guys have been mashing the keys with.

Oh yes, that list again: baby, schoolchild, lover, soldier, justice (i.e. respectability) old age and death's door. It'll make sense by the end of the show, promise.

Enjoy.

Wallflowers - come out of your cracks! Milksops - charge your glasses! Your hour is at hand as we get to grips with the daddy of them all, the great, the effete, The Smiths. We also pay tribute to Bellowhead's recent folk offering Burlesque and round up the top 5 songs about clothes.

Happy New Year to all our listeners. Brace yourselves for a real waffle-a-thon as Gary & Stephen loosen their belts and chow down on the cold turkey sandwiches of the musical highlights of 2008. We also finally get the results of the Annus Mirabulus strand which has been one of our most fertile talking points ever.

A triple header this week, it is Christmas after all. That must mean a guest presenter in the Classic Albums studio. Gary and Stephen have to be on their best behaviour with Russell explaining a whole new genre 'intelligent dance'. Stephen tries to keep up but Gary gives in to his bafflement.

This week we listen to the best of the 'Best Ofs'. Little Stevie Wonder goes head to head with the mighty Neil Young and the Cure. Are we full of the joys of Christmas or do we Bah Humbug our way through the show? Listen in and find out.

In a change to our advertised programme (listen in to find out why...) we bring you the disjointed genius of the Djinn of the bop piano, Thelonious Monk and the gold-and-green splendour of the angel of the acoustic guitar, Martin Simpson. The top 5 b-sides get a chewing and we have more on our Rock Vintage chin-stroker.

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It's a real clash of the titans this week in the Classic Albums studio - two totally gaga doyens of the homemade masterpiece and two dubious northern reviewers stroking their chins over them. So, will the honking, skronking pot-and-pans of Tom Waits get a thumbs up from Gary and will Stephen warm to the romantic fantasies of Kate Bush? Just fix yourself a sandwich, get into some loose-fitting trousers, and find out.

Apologies to our devoted listeners and bloggers. The file I posted last week seems to have been corrupted in some way as some of you complained. Thanks for spotting it. This new'un is just the mustard. Please download/overwrite, relisten etc.

Two sides of the same coin this show: sunshine-spangled, country-flecked, guitar pop from the venerable indie kids Teenage Fanclub and odd clankings and backroad melodies from the strange and beautiful Jim White. We bring you the top 5 songs about Autumn (well, we try - well, one of us tries!) and discuss the oddest records in our already odd collection. All you have to do is get comfy and enjoy.

We're back - sorry it's been a while, O devoted few. We explain all in the show. For your delectation then, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's bruised and broken folk on Master & Everyone and Wilco's broken and bruised rock on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. An althogether cheerful brace of records for an altogether cheerful pair of reviewers. Which one is voted 'ravishing' by an enraptured podcaster and what are the longest song titles in pop? Don't forget to tell us what you think on the messageboad at www.classicalbums.libsyn.com!

The 90's was the ample mother of a range of styles and genres and this issue Gary and Stephen bring you their take on the punky britpop of Supergrass' dayglo debut I Should Coco and Kim Deal of the Pixies' stylish bubblegrunge side-project, Last Splash with her mainly female offshoot, The Breeders.

Which one, in the opinion of the Classic Albums Podcast's corduroy boys is 'too varied' and which 'not varied enough'? All this plus a top 5 to match the recent summer deluge, the aridity of the current music scene and the results of our 80's challenge. Better value than cheese at fourpence.