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The Apollo Audio Podcast — 107 episodes

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Title
1

The Details Make the Performance

2

The Right Collaboration Changes the Record

3

Perfect Isn’t Always Better

4

Music Needs Places to Grow

5

You Still Have to Do the Work

6

The Small Room Still Matters

7

You Don’t Need Everyone to Get It

8

100 Episodes: Five Years of Making Records at Apollo Audio

9

Live Recording Is Not a Shortcut

10

Your Audience Might Not Be Who You Think It Is

11

A Song Is Not a Lottery Ticket

12

Do Albums Still Matter in the Streaming Age?

13

It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Good

14

Bag O’ Bones: Recording an Album Live in One Day

15

How Artists Keep Momentum Between Releases

16

Why great songs outlast great production

17

Get the sound right at source: studio habits that actually matter

18

Dan Thomas | Making a Debut Album That Actually Feels Like You

19

Finding Your Sound in the Studio

20

Why Albums Still Matter | Luke James Williams on Writing, Loss & Limes Hotel

21

Why Gear Doesn’t Make a Great Record | Studio Experience & Live Tracking

22

Word of Mouth Still Wins | Live Music, Vinyl & Listening Habits

23

Why Your Music Isn’t Getting Paid

24

John Mayer’s Continuum – Great Guitar, or Just Too Perfect?

25

Charli XCX ‘Brat’, The Brits, and the Sound-Alike Era

26

R.E.M. – Automatic for the People and why small venues still matter

27

Sun Kil Moon – Tiny Cities and why album sequencing matters

28

Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come: What a Record Sounds Like

29

Audioslave – Big Riffs, Big Songs, No Shouting on Vinyl

30

David Bowie’s Blackstar – A Haunting Final Statement

31

Bandcamp Rejects AI Music – What It Means for Artists

32

Recommended Listening: West End Girl by Lily Allen

33

Welcome to Season 3 - We're Getting Killed with breakout artist Geese

34

Goodbye 2025

35

With Special Guest Alex LoSardo from Love Music Hate Racism

36

Recommended Listening: Songs from the Big Chair by Tears for Fears

37

Recommended Listening: A Little Man and a House...by Cardiacs

38

Primus Fans - This One's For You! Sailing the Seas of Cheese

39

Recommended Listening: Angel Dust by Faith No More

40

Recommended Listening: Chocolate Starfish... by Limp Bizkit

41

Recommended Listening: The Fat of the Land by The Prodigy

42

Recommended Listening: The Art of Loving by Olivia Dean

43

Recommended (ish) Listening: Lateralus by Tool

44

Recommended Listening: Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World

45

Recommended Listening: The Queen is Dead by The Smiths

46

Divided Opinion! The Boatman's Call by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

47

Recommended Listening: Midas by Wunderhorse

48

Recommended Listening: Mezzanine by Massive Attack

49

Recommended Listening: Paranoid by Black Sabbath

50

Recommended Listening: Live Through This - with Vûlva

51

Recommended Listening: The Hounds of Love - with Why Not

52

Recommended Listening: Hopefully ! by Loyle Carner

53

Deftones, Glasto, Sabbath and Oasis - What's the Story!

54

Recommended Listening: Voodoo by D'Angelo - with Eponine

55

Recommended Listening: Appetite for Destruction - with Chris Sims

56

Recommended Listening: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants by Oasis

57

We've got an offering - Even in Arcadia

58

Recommended Listening: Whatever and Ever, Amen by Ben Folds Five

59

Bonus Waffle

60

Recommended Listening: Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers

61

Recommended Listening: Either/Or by Elliot Smith

62

Retro Listening: Off The Wall by Michael Jackson

63

Recommended Listening: Grace by Jeff Buckley

64

Finally! Blondie - Parallel Lines

65

Recommended Listening: Peter Gabriel III - with Jay Hollis

66

The Self Titled Apollo Audio Apollo Audio Podcast

67

Recommended Listening: Synchronicity - with Rich from San Demas

68

This Is Hardcore

69

Summer Festivals and Vertical Horizon

70

Brits, Oscars and To Pimp a Butterfly

71

Social Media - with videographer Sam J Roper

72

Recommended Listening: Rumours - with Dan Thomas

73

Performance and Cocktails

74

Best Place to Start – The Apollo Audio Podcast

75

Introducing The Apollo Audio College

76

The Cushions of Rock

77

We're Back!

78

The Season Finale!!

79

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents (471) and Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman (218)

80

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (471) and TLC - CrazySexyCool (218)

81

Independent Selection Special: Off The Wall - Michael Jackson (36)

82

Radiohead - The Bends (276) and Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (33)

83

Elton John - Honky Château (251) and The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (14)

84

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (468) and The Beatles - The Beatles (29)

85

Tom Petty - Wildflowers (214) and Nirvana - In Utero (173)

86

Bob Marley and The Wailers - Catch a Fire (140) and Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique (125)

87

Independent Selection Special: White Pony - Deftones

88

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (319) and Van Morrison - Moondance (120)

89

Big Star - #1 Record (474) and Bob Dylan and the Band- The Basement Tapes (335)

90

A chat about The Grammy Awards

91

David Bowie - Hunky Dory (88) and A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (43)

92

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

93

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (444) and Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full (61)

94

D’Angelo - Brown Sugar (183) and Van Halen - Van Halen (292)

95

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (221) and Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead (409)

96

Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis (83) and The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle (243)

97

Various Artists - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (497) and Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! (321)

98

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (380) and The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (286)

99

De La Soul - 3 Foot High and Rising (103) and The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (341)

100

Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (324) and Outkast - Stankonia (64)

101

Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight (51) and The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (330)

102

Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston (344) and Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (10)

103

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (453) and Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall (291)

104

David Bowie - Low (206) and Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1)

105

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago (461) and The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks... (80)

106

Taylor Swift - Red (99) and Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak (244)

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