In the true spirit of the 40s 4 40 challenge a Friend of mine suggested I should be listening to Apollo 440 for 40 days! Naturally, I accepted… but who are they anyway?
Apollo 440 are a British electronic music group formed in Liverpool in 1990. The group has five studio albums and created loads of tunes for films and media. They had ten UK top 40 singles with three top-tens and enjoyed a chart presence all over the world.
When I started to listen I realised just how many of their tunes I already knew but didn’t realise it – like the Gran Turismo soundtrack for example!
I picked tunes at random on YouTube based on song title versus my mood and what caught my attention. I missed a few days when I was out at sea beyond any mobile or wifi signal but in doing so coincidentally managed to complete the 40th day on my Birthday – a tune aptly titled ‘For Forty Days’!
After listening to these 40 tunes for at least as many days, I’m amazed at the wide variety of music Apollo 440 are able to write, record and produce.
The full list of 40 songs, in the order I listened to them, is as follows:
Day 1: Stop the Rock
Day 2: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub
Day 3: Gran Turismo 2 Soundtrack – Cold Rock The Mic
Day 4: Time Is Running Out
Day 5: Krupa
Day 6: Charlie’s Angels 2000
Day 7: Astral America
Day 8: Raw Power
Day 9: Stay Frosty
Day 10: Film Me & Finish Me Off
Day 11: Heart Go Boom
Day 12: Pain Is a Close Up
Day 13: A Deeper Dub
Day 14: Omega Point
Day 15: Hustler Groove
Day 16: Liquid Cool
Day 17: High on Your Own Supply
Day 18: Something’s Got to Give
Day 19: I Need Something Stronger
Day 20: Millennium Fever
Day 21: Smoke & Mirrors
Day 22: Traumarama
Day 23: Tears of the Gods
Day 24: Blackbeat
Day 25: White Man’s Throat
Day 26: Music Don’t Die
Day 27: Yo! Future
Day 28: Stealth Overture
Day 29: Stealth Requiem
Day 30: Disco Sucks
Day 31: Carrera Rapida
Day 32: The Perfect Crime
Day 33: [Don’t Fear] The Reaper
Day 34: Altamont Super – Highway Revisited
Day 35: Are We a Rock Band or What…?
Day 36: Love Is Evil
Day 37: Motorbootee
Day 38: Stadium Parking Lot (Instrumental Version)
Day 39: Lost In Space (Theme) (Instrumental Version)
Day 40: For Forty Days (Instrumental Version)
You can find their official Facebook page via the following link:
