Padlet Exploration 13 by Austin Hoeft https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo Made with my knowledge of Every Song Ever en-us 2017-12-04 02:07:03 UTC 2025-12-24 03:54:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Review of "Every Song Ever" by Ben Ratliff ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212690475 I will be discussing my thoughts and overall feelings towards Ben Ratliff's "Every Song Ever".]]> 2017-12-04 02:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212690475 Prompt Response ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212691030 I think this was at times a very interesting read, but at others Ben Ratliff couldn't really find a way to explain the element he was getting at. For example when he was talking about Audio Space in Chapter 9, I don't think he ever really explained it in a way that was applicable to his audience. I also don't know that Audio Space really makes very much of a difference. Some of my favorite aspects were how he would explain his elements with examples. It's clear that Ratliff knows music, but when explaining songs to apply them to a certain element, he explains the songs so well that you really don't even have to hear them in order to understand what Ratliff is saying. I also really loved a lot of the elements. Some of them I had sort of felt before, like transmission, but I never had a name to put on it until now. Lastly, I definitely loved how he wrote the book to feel like a conversation and not a lecture. I found that some elements he just couldn't make relatable to anybody but himself. I also found that many times you don't really understand what he's saying unless you have a vast knowledge in music. Ratliff may be able to make his book very conversational, yet that doesn't always make the conversation understandable. The book has made me listen to music much closer and realize that there's a whole lot of different elements and ideas with all types of music, even the ones I don't necessarily enjoy.]]> 2017-12-04 02:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212691030 “Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show," Ben Ratliff. ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212692860 2017-12-04 02:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212692860 “We think of pieces of music from a distance as blocks of time, but can we hold more than a second or two in our minds? And are we—with all music, to some extent—waiting around for some pinpointed extraordinariness to happen?" Ben Ratliff. ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212692929 2017-12-04 02:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212692929 We R Who We R by Kesha ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212693383 An example Ratliff used in the first chapter about Repetition. ]]> 2017-12-04 02:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212693383 Goodbye by Frank Sinatra ahoeft1 https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212693702 Ratliff discussed this song in the final chapter which discusses The Perfect Moment.]]> 2017-12-04 02:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ahoeft1/7mej3vkhqlfo/wish/212693702