35 Minutes Can Be Better Than 70

Full Spotify Description More music does not automatically make a better album. In today's episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave makes Musical Argument #5: sometimes 35 minutes is better than 70. Using KISS’s compact Dressed to Kill as the main example, Dave explores the creative value of limitation. Vinyl could only hold so much music comfortably, which forced artists and producers to make choices about which songs belonged, which ones did not, how long a side should run, and when the record was finished. Today's Side One Test: Take an album you genuinely like. Remove two songs. Does it get worse? Or does it suddenly become tighter? The point is not that short is automatically good or long is automatically bad. The point is that every minute should earn its place. Side One Spin: What album would you shorten—and what are you cutting?