There are two disks in this double album. Surprisingly, Disk One has Side One and Side Four. Disk Two contains Side Two and Side Three.
This might seem strange to people too young to remember how Long Playing 33 1/3 vinyl records worked. These were designed to be played on a stereo with an automatic record changer. The listener would put Side One up on the changer, and Side Two on top of it. The phonograph would play the LPs in order. Then, the stack would be turned over and placed on the changer spindle. Side Three would play first, followed by Side Four. The entire program was there – with a short intermission while the records were turned over.
And that is the conceit of this book that wants to be an album, or an album that has its “liner notes” in a book.
So Sides One and Two are stacked correctly here. And they simulate the vinyl experience -complete with the hiss between songs and the sound of the record changer. When they are finished, you get to “turn them over” and play Sides Three and Four.
