And then there were four... It's looking decidedly dire over on our head to head contest to decide your favourite album that we've covered so far. Metallica and Huey Lewis fall at the quarter final stage! Voting for the semis opens tomorrow! Join our Discord to participate! discord.gg/mz9ymTwSSE

Kev's back, Corey's front, and we're all set for Season Seven! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/NVKoWC 🟥https://tinyurl.com/3akrfk9s 🟩https://tinyurl.com/ymdyyamu

Voting is open! Join our Discord to participate! discord.gg/mz9ymTwSSE

We're down to the Round of Sixteen in our Head to Head matchups over on Discord. Come join us and vote! discord.gg/mz9ymTwSSE

Over on our Discord server you can vote for the ultimate album we've covered so far! It's a head to head based on last week's episode and the matchups are starting to get way more difficult to call in the second round stage! Head over to our Discord to join in! discord.gg/mz9ymTwSSE

One last special episode to close out season six! We thought we'd take two songs by artists we're pretty sure we'll never cover on "The Clash" and put them through our usual review process. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/U1sL1e 🟥https://tinyurl.com/2rnxtwev 🟩https://tinyurl.com/46wm6zn3

Kev and Corey are going head to head! Kev's away visiting family and the boys didn't want to start a new season while he's over in England, so we've come up with this nonsense instead! 🟨https://tinyurl.com/bdhymp3p 🟥https://tinyurl.com/bdz5ar5v 🟩https://tinyurl.com/4drz9rwb

4 albums. 8 sides. 8 episodes. We promised you a shorter, tighter season and we delivered it! Our pal @scottkhaskin.bsky.social joins us as we wrap season 6 and discover who we're covering next! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/6tYaEs 🟥https://tinyurl.com/44427e7m 🟩https://tinyurl.com/5dffebzy

Does this album feature the most misunderstood lyric of all time? Will Corey assume "I'm on Fire" is about an STI? The only way to find out is to turn on, tune in, and spend half your life just coverin' up! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/pyJiCc 🟥https://tinyurl.com/ycy35rva 🟩https://tinyurl.com/45pk8tfx

Randy MFin’ Woods

We love to hear this! Thanks Chrissy, you’re a gem!

Here's our fantastic chat with @peteramescarlin.bsky.social about his definitive R.E.M. biography. We took in Seattle, Athens, and New Jersey in a winding and got some insight into why the book is constructed in an atypical way for a biography and why rebuilding 1970s Athens was important!

Auditions continue apace.........

Kev joined our good pal @scottkhaskin.bsky.social to talk about Taylor Swift. Surely no good can come of this??!??! Can it?

And just like that we're wrapping up Season Six! We cover Side B of R.E.M.'s last multi-platinum-selling album, Monster. There's a lot more cock talk than you might have imagined. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/IcHlX6 🟥https://tinyurl.com/5hyz3nf7 🟩https://tinyurl.com/5f75xy3e

If you're not following and listening to Pete and Brian over at @honest-unmerciful.bsky.social you're missing out. They're lovely young men and Pete was super supportive of me when I started the @tompettyproject.bsky.social. So go give them a follow and check out the show!!!

I don't think @cdmorrissette.bsky.social has The Police on his wheel of bands. I do, so the earliest we'll see a cops and robbers season is Season 8! I'm looking forward to covering those five albums though - one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time!

And just like that we're finished Automatic for the People! Are there any ten, ten, and fives on this side and if there are, will they be the same ones for Kev and Corey? There's only one way to find out. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/D6zYzd 🟥https://tinyurl.com/mpwp89dj 🟩https://tinyurl.com/3wnpp2rh

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Smack, crack, bushwhacked Tie another one to your racks, baby Hey kids, rock and roll Nobody tells you where to go, baby Automatic for the People : Side A 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/RpcoOA 🍎https://tinyurl.com/mzvzbndd 🟢https://tinyurl.com/43tmef9r

"What did Evel Knievel want?" "God sent him" "What?" "God sent him" "On a fucking Suzuki?" The Commitments. Available now wherever you gently spoon marmalade onto a porcupine. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/NM3npC 🍎https://tinyurl.com/mwusy8be 🟢https://tinyurl.com/wz537vbu

Just when you thought Corey was tapped out, he's adding this beauty to his roster of podcasts! I'm looking forward to the season even though I know the music is going to be an auditory cheese-grater-on-sandpaper for me!

We're ripping through this season and today's episode marks the half way point already! Another gigantic hit for R.E.M where Kate Pierson from the B-52's shines! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/r5s4zZ 🍎https://tinyurl.com/yvawcnn2 🟢https://tinyurl.com/4d7rcjba

We're back! A pretty big album with a pretty big song on Side A! But will Kev and Corey be dazzled by the non-single, album tracks this week? I mean, how Low can you go? 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/1W2BzE 🍎https://tinyurl.com/4u69d5b8 🟢https://tinyurl.com/ebz5zjjs

I cannot stress how much I do not recommend this! Just ask Mrs. Spreadsheet - no-one needs to listen to me for this long in a month, let alone a week!!!!!!

Hi all! Well, we've had a good run of not missing a week, but we won't have a show for you tomorrow. We'll meet you all back here for Out of Time - Side A next week though.

And just like that we wrap up the first album of season six! This one's gonna be over before you know it! Side B of Green is now available for your auditory consumption. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/ClHrD8 🍎https://tinyurl.com/msfs687p 🟢https://tinyurl.com/mjkmrbh8

And we're off! Quite often, when indie bands go to a major label, they lose a lot of their original fan base because of the dreaded notion of "selling out". Green - Side A is ready now folks! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/SlW4Ie 🍎https://tinyurl.com/9uk6uc8h 🟢https://tinyurl.com/4afrv5kk

A group of beligerant, experimental, avant-garde bohemians from Athens Georgia seem an unlikely group to defy the odds and hit four consecutive multi-platinum records, but that's exactly what R.E.M. did! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/c7eaeY 🍎https://tinyurl.com/37a4y34w 🟢https://tinyurl.com/yc56sk4f

After Kev put on his steel toecaps and booted Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Kiss, and Mötley Crüe in the kidneys for a few hours, Heath McCoy joins us to defend the hard rock faith. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/CIdaml 🍎https://tinyurl.com/attb67ht 🟢https://tinyurl.com/4zyzzaa3

Man this “research” is taxing…..

More Season Six prep done! 😎

Research intensifies….

We have one more episode in Season Five for you then we move on! Who's ready for some R.E.M.?

100 episodes! Thanks for tuning in folks! Corey and I re-examined Duke from Season One artist Genesis, and the "Black Album" by Metallica. Will either crack the top ten this time around? 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/ejLLDp 🍎https://tinyurl.com/56y8rhfz

The story so far... Which are the most surprising albums in the upper and lower reaches of our overall charts for you?

That's (almost) all folks! We sit down with our pal Scott Haskin to go over what we listened to this season. We rank all ten albums in order of preference and put together our playlists of top 10 songs. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/1j926S 🍎https://tinyurl.com/y9a7xj3a 🟢https://tinyurl.com/mrhzyv6y

Is prog glam a thing? Corey and Kev dive into the idea on Slade's surprising Side B to the last album this season; The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/plWsBb 🍎https://tinyurl.com/yc3rczc9 🟢https://tinyurl.com/3df64xna

The Ozman cometh to the Ultimate Catalogue Clash! Is solo Ozzy gonna cut it for Kev and Corey? The only way to find out is to turn on, tune in, and come and sit upon my knee! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/CIBKFF 🍎https://tinyurl.com/2s437sn4 🟢https://tinyurl.com/3cjekv4f

What do Kev and Corey think of Side A of "The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome" by Slade? The only way to find out is to turn on, tune in, and slam the hammer down! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/AQz2Tx 🍎https://tinyurl.com/5ev4dauc 🟢https://tinyurl.com/3a2huc8h

A great chat with my pal Scott about a massively underappreciated Deep Purple song!

We've idolized Billy (kinda, sorta) and tucked Rebel Yell neatly into the "finished' box. Side Bs this season have typically not fared as well as Side As, but can this one crack the season top three? 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/56CLiY 🍎https://tinyurl.com/yyjehae2 🟢https://tinyurl.com/k7rk836a

Too soon? (Found on the Pod of Thunder fan FB group)

Get that top lip curled, bleach your locks and prepare yourself for some sneering, swaggering rock n roll. It's Billy time! "Rebel Yell" Side A now available for your listening pleasure! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/wLqJIh 🍎https://tinyurl.com/35ctd5a9 🟢https://tinyurl.com/45wm7prz

Whoever we cover for Season Six, you can rest assured it won't be this hack douchenozzle.

We wrap up "She's So Unusual" by covering Side B and talking about an eclectic bunch of songs that don't all land for Corey and Kevin, but they're a little ways apart on a couple of these tracks! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/cSIO6t 🍎https://tinyurl.com/3fp3e6jh 🟢https://tinyurl.com/4644pa6n

Happy Friday music appreciators!

Money changes everything. That we know. But what we don't know is how the four songs that comprise Side A of Cyndi Lauper's 1983 debut album will fare when put through the UCC algorithm. 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/W8iQwM 🍎https://tinyurl.com/bdd8hpz3 🟢https://tinyurl.com/298hfz5b

Bonus episode time! Corey and I had a wide ranging conversation about music in movies after we'd hosted a quiz for the Weyburn movie theatre. We got into all sorts of nonsense as you might expect! 🟨https://go.goodpods.com/5Lqro1 🍎https://tinyurl.com/bdd86kxn 🟢https://tinyurl.com/4nssyx2t

Be like Tom. Listen and then come comment on social media. Tom is at least 15% more physically attractive because he listenes to UCC!