Donna Summer - Bad Girls (283) and Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (245)

Bad Girls (25th April 1979)The Boston-born Donna Summer was the Queen of Disco by the end of the Seventies — but she wanted more. With her double-vinyl epic Bad Girls, she set out to conquer every corner of pop music in the name of disco, along with her longtime producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. “Hot Stuff” was her rock anthem, while “Bad Girls” found the sweet spot where the toot-toot meets the beep-beep. The underrated highlight: “Sunset People,” her post-Steely Dan snapshot of L.A. malaise.eighth studio albumBad Girls reached atop the US Billboard 200, where it stayed for six weeks: for one week on June 16, 1979, and then for five consecutive weeks, from July 7 to August 4, 1979Harold Faltermeyer, songwriting (Hot Stuff) – best known for composing the "Axel F"[2] theme for the feature film Beverly Hills Cop, an influential synth-pop hit in the 1980s. He also composed the "Top Gun Anthem" for the feature film Top Gun and the music for the Chevy Chase Fletch feature films, Fletch and Fletch Lives.Producers - Giorgio Moroder, Pete BellotteIt has sold over 4 million copies worldwideHeaven or Las Vegas (17th September 1990)Cocteau Twins were Scot goths who helped invent the dream-pop aesthetic that ruled U.K. indie during the Eighties. Heaven or Las Vegas is their arrestingly beautiful pop peak, despite being released as the band itself was in turmoil, largely brought on by guitarist Robin Guthrie’s drug addiction. Somehow, they created something wholly transporting; Elizabeth Fraser’s celestial soprano works like a vocal Rorschach test, gorgeously floating over Guthrie and Simon Raymonde’s magic-hour instrumentation.sixth studio albumpeaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart and number 99 on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's most commercially successful release, despite most of Fraser's lyrics "[emerging] in alien tongues", which she sums up as "laziness" and "bad diction"bassist Simon Raymonde later formed Bella Union record labelThe Apollo Audio Podcast is hosted by record producer Martin Lumsden and musician and studio owner Billy Hills and is recorded at Apollo Audio Hertford.Each episode offers insight into songs, records, and the creative process, drawn from real-world experience in studios and making music.Also available to watch on YouTube and Spotify📍 www.apollo-audio.co.uk📷 Instagram: @apolloaudiopodcast📧 [email protected] Froody Music Production. Production and editing by Martin Lumsden.www.froodymusic.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-apollo-audio-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.