You Haven’t Really Heard an Album Until You’ve Heard It All the Way Through
Can you know every song on an album and still not really know the album? In today's episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave closes Seven Musical Arguments by exploring the difference between hearing individual tracks and experiencing a complete album. Using Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Not Fragile, Dave looks at how sequencing, momentum, the Side One break and the album closer create relationships between songs that disappear when every track is treated independently. This is not an argument against playlists, shuffle or streaming. It is an argument that complete-album listening offers something…
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