Timmy the thrush piping his slender notes to the mandolin accompaniment tells us that it is time for another gripping installment of the Classic Albums Podcast, this time featuring the icelandic whale-rock of Sigur Ros and the New-York pray-along of the marvellous Welcome Wagon. PLUS a belated halloween top 5.

Two one-word wonders, Pulp and Low, this week to refresh us after our dalliance with hip hop last week. Also: our first fan mail, and the sweet treats therein. All this plus the top 5 sweet songs and the loveable fluff you have come to rely upon.

Yo check this! Stephen and Gary get way, way out of their comfort zone - after dark in South Central LA to be exact, hangin' with the home boys and trialing some dodgy automated rap software into the bargain. So will they think the hippety-hop gentlemen are wack (does this mean bad?) or fly (good??). Download, plump your cushions, brew a herbal tea and find out. It go a little somethin' like this...

Autumn is here, season of hits and mellow flutefulness and this episode we bring you a new spin on the british folk tradition and a new spin on the american blues tradition. All that and the Classic Album Kids Club. Good grief.

Well, either we rule the school or we don't. You decide as Stephen & gary introduce each other tentatively to two of their sacred cows. Another gripping installment of your favourite low fi treat.

We tackle two sacred cows today, The Aphex Twin (the revered Brahma Bull of the IDM movement) and The Rolling Stones - rock & roll institution and the world's favourite band. However, what will Stephen and Gary make of them. Will we have garlands hung or beefburgers frying?

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.