Listen to the Record Nobody Talks About
What happens when the masterpiece becomes a doorway instead of the entire catalog? In Episode this episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave uses Blue Öyster Cult’s Spectres to introduce a simple catalog-discovery exercise: move one album over. The famous album is often the right place to begin. The problem comes when consensus turns one record into the complete answer for an artist. Dave introduces The Catalog Neighbor Test: Choose an artist you know. Pick the album you think of as the landmark. Then move exactly one studio album forward or backward. Play that record from beginning to end. Don’t ask…
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