Listen to Apollo 440 for 40 days!

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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:

https://www.facebook.com/Apollo440/