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Ratliff is a great philosopher when it comes to analyzing the components and properties of songs. In this book, he introduces the importance of not only the presence and magnitude of sound, but how effective the use of silence may be incorporated into a song. Ratliff goes out of his way to describe music in ways that the average listener wouldn't consider as an inherent quality of music such as Endless Inventory, Transmission, and Memory/Historical Truth. However, I believe that Every Song Ever may only be considered a beginner's guide to thinking outside the constructs of music. He introduces a spectrum of concepts that jogs the cogs in every music listener's brain and goes in depth just enough for the reader to draw out their own ideas of music. The book itself is not designed to be quite so deep but it gets its point across. One of my issues with Every Song Ever is it's wordiness. I would like for the information to be more concise and graspable and sometimes the meaning of the text gets lost in that translation between the ink and the paper. This doesn't mean the book is bad by any means. I believe further improvements could be made to draw more thinkers to the ideological frame of music.

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A perfect moment is often wordless, or indirect if it has words. It is the song blushing: an unplanned or perhaps only semiplanned occurrence in which the music suddenly embodies its own meaning. - Ratliff, Every Song Ever, pg. 228

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...She communicates the fragility of hope and trust. It doesn't sound rehearsed. It sounds only like the life force. - Ratliff, Every Song Ever, pg. 235

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Photo Credit: Manuela Sandez

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Photo Credit: Accgoo (tumblr account)

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From Ratliff's Chapter 20: The Perfect Moment, I use an example outside of Ratliff's list that encompasses this style in an Electro Dance Music (EDM) fashion. Start from 0:51 to listen to the gradual scaling of the energy peak and sustain through the "chorus".

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This song, while takes advantage of the reverb of the echo in the intro, also uses silence to emphasize a trance like state before crossing the bouncy layers of sound to create the perfect moment. There is only one perfect moment in this song.