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Dave's Side One

Art of Listening Records

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 210

Talk about music, vinyl, classic rock, classic jazz, and whatever else comes to mind. Hosted by one of the founders of Art of Listening Records - Dave Gwilliam. https://artoflisteningrecords.com https://www.discogs.com/seller/artoflistening/profile

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Music Commentary
17/08/2026
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You Haven’t Really Heard an Album Until You’ve Heard It All the Way Through

Season 1 · Episode 210

Monday, August 17, 2026 • Duration 07:54

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 different. Dave also introduces The Full Album Test: Start at Track One. Don’t skip. Don’t shuffle. Stay until the last song finishes. Then ask: Did I hear something I missed before? The final Week 7 Side One Spin: What album should everybody hear at least once, beginning to end, without skipping anything?

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Album Sequencing Is Part of the Music

Season 1 · Episode 208

Sunday, August 16, 2026 • Duration 07:29

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 changes how the same songs interact. The Side One Test: Does Track One open the right door? Do neighboring songs help one another? And does the last track feel like an ending? Side One Spin: What album has a running order you would never change?

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