Ep. 22: Our 20 Favorite Albums, with Michael Crump

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Something a little different for this episode of the Graphic Novel Apostle podcast. Think of this as an addendum to last week's Trve Kvlt episode, which also included my guest Michael Crump. During our discussion of Trve Kvlt, we took a detour ... for about 45 minutes ... to discuss our "40 From 20" playlists, that is - playlists with 2 tracks each from our 20 favorite albums. In the end, we decided to cut that discussion out of our Trve Kvlt episode and share it this week as a bonus episode. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Be sure to come back next week for the second entry in our Batman: The Long Halloween series, as I'll be discussing Batman: The Long Halloween, issue 2.
Crump's Top 20 Albums (no particular order):

• Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
• Peter Gabriel - Car
• Jason Isbell - Southeastern
• Pearl Jam - Vs.
• Childish Gambino - Camp
• Twenty One Pilots - Vessel
• Prince - Purple Rain
• The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
• Men at Work - Cargo
• The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
• Toad the Wet Sprocket - fear
• The Replacements - Tim
• The Decemberists - Picaresque
• Live - Throwing Copper
• Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
• New Edition - Heart Break
• R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
• Carbon Leaf - Indian Summer
• Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
• Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining

The Apostle's Top 20 Albums (no particular order):

• Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
• Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
• Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
• G. Love & Special Sauce - Philadelphonic
• The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart
• Grateful Dead - American Beauty
• Jason Isbell - Southeastern
• Paul Simon - Graceland
• Son Volt - Trace
• Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
• Billy Joel - Cold Spring Harbor
• Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
• David Gray - White Ladder
• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
• The National - Trouble Will Find Me
• U2 - The Joshua Tree
• R.E.M - Automatic for the People
• Dashboard Confessional - MTV Unplugged

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