Album Sequencing Is Part of the Music
Can you change an album without changing a single note? In this episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave makes Musical Argument #6: album sequencing is part of the music. Using Yes’s Tormato as the experiment, Dave physically rearranges tracks and asks what happens when an opener moves, a closer loses its final position, or a Side One ending becomes something else. Tormato was released in 1978, and its original eight-track sequence runs from “Future Times / Rejoice” through “On the Silent Wings of Freedom.” The argument is not that the album needs fixing. The argument is that changing the sequence…
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