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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (471) and TLC - CrazySexyCool (218)
Welcome to episode 24 of The Apollo Podcast where we find numerous ways to avoid talking about this week's albums and instead ruminate and pontificate on the mixing value of mono, the disposal of unloved master tapes, the ongoing discussion on the point of "skits" in hip hop albums and the different approaches to songwrting.
Almost 10% of the way through the list and we're just hitting our stride.
Amongst all this amazing bonus material we do also get around to the merits or otherwise of 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" from Jefferson Airplane and "CrazySexyCool" the second Lp from TLC released in 1994. Where have you heard that song before? Find out by joining Billy, Miles and Martin on our weekly delve in to the Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Best Albums of all Time
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