Picking out an exact moment of
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at the sheer peak of its collective power can never be agreed on by fans, but if there's a strong candidate, "
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" would have to be it. It's not merely for the sharp performance but especially
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legendary production, which drop-kicked the tight-riffing number into a futuristic setting of space and action needed to fill silence. Starting with distant keyboards like a lost moan, it takes shape around
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direct bass line and then gets kicked up even further by the sudden echoed smack of
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drums.
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simple but devastating riff provides the counterpoint, and at the center of the straightforward charge is
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, celebrating the power of music and activity as a near-literal electric force for connection. After an amazing instrumental break,
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overdubs along with a skittering, nervous synth part adding even more of a thick surge to the music, the final jaw-dropping verse finds
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in perverse excelsis, his sudden scream of "And we could .....!" a perfectly timed moment of tension and blessed release. That the song ends on a slowing, breath-catching coda seems only appropriate after the jaw-dropping heights scaled — in recording, arranging, writing, and delivery, "
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" has a power few other songs share.