1 |
MUNA |
"Crying On The Bathroom Floor" |
single |
Do you love or fear the things you don't already know? |
2 |
Oddnesse |
"Somewhere Somehow" |
single |
I feel more and more like everything begins with this. |
3 |
Vanbot |
"Collide - Krasnoyarsk" |
single |
If you fear them, you naturally seek to protect yourself from them, |
4 |
CLAIRE |
"End Up Here" |
single |
and in doing so, you necessarily give up on understanding them, |
5 |
Flint Eastwood |
"Queen" |
single |
and save yourself from having to reconcile your goals with theirs. |
6 |
Lyves |
"Darkest Hour" |
Like Water 4 |
Thus you seek to build walls so that it doesn't take constant effort to protect yourself from being exposed to the unknown. |
7 |
Firewind |
"We Defy" |
Immortals |
Thus you are drawn to circular belief-systems that are not subject to external validation or contradiction. |
8 |
Pride Of Lions |
"All I See Is You!" |
single |
Thus all noises from outside your walls become storm roar and the howling of dire unseen wolves. |
9 |
AS IT IS |
"Hey Rachel" |
okay. |
Thus are you drawn to leaders who tell you that those walls form the only safe citadel, |
10 |
Palisades |
"Cold Heart (Warm Blood)" |
Palisades |
and the others outside unprotected by those walls and faith are a substance and a mass. |
11 |
WSTR |
"Eastbound & Down" |
Red, Green or Inbetween |
And once you allow other people to be Other, your moral calculus is pretty much determined. |
12 |
Chelsea Grin |
"American Dream" |
single |
You can be preached to about kindness, and you will say "But I allow the wolves to live". |
13 |
Northlane |
"Intuition" |
single |
You can see suffering and place it outside your walls. |
14 |
Catch Fire |
"Guilty as Charged" |
single |
You can understand dissent as the insidious influence of wolves, and respect it with merciful exile. |
15 |
Beneath The Spin Light |
"Bad Decisions" |
single |
"Wolves have their place. This is ours." |
16 |
Falling In Reverse |
"Loser" |
single |
You can gather threadbare throngs in half-empty malls and tell them that we are trapped here, |
17 |
Youth in Revolt |
"Don't Wait for Me" |
single |
and we have only those of us inside to rely upon. |
18 |
Sorority Noise |
"No Halo" |
single |
You can push the strange flavors to the side of your plate, and carefully eat the potatoes you recognize. |
19 |
From First To Last |
"Make War" |
single |
The scraps can be thrown over the walls. |
20 |
Hurray For The Riff Raff |
"Hungry Ghost" |
single |
And afterwards, by tallow light, you can add entries to your list of the telltale signs of wolfblood that may appear among you: |
21 |
Valerie June |
"Two Hearts" |
single |
- speaking the guttural and licentious languages of the wolves |
22 |
Bastille |
"Blame - Bunker Sessions" |
single |
- eating the poisonous weeds and fungi of the wolves |
23 |
Maximo Park |
"Risk to Exist" |
single |
- healing wounded wolves or their wounded prey |
24 |
Sonic Syndicate |
"Still Believe (Radio Edit)" |
Still Believe 2 |
- nursing the offspring of wolves |
25 |
Kreator |
"Totalitarian Terror" |
single |
- recognizing individual wolves or learning their names for themselves |
26 |
Aero Chord |
"Resistance" |
single |
- behaving in the half-observed or rumored manner of the wolves |
27 |
Third Party |
"Veins" |
single |
- falling in love with wolves |
28 |
Happa |
"Bum Trance" |
PT3.1 2 |
- howling at night |
29 |
Max Richter |
"Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works / Orlando: Modular Astronomy" |
single |
- howling |
30 |
The New Division |
"Rewind" |
Precision 6 |
- anything at night |
31 |
Dan Bull |
"Triumphant Trump" |
Triumphant Trump +1 |
- anything but compliant silence |
32 |
Säkert! |
"Kommer hända" |
single |
And status, among you, will accrue to those who maintain the walls and devise the counter-measures. |
33 |
Johnossi |
"Hands" |
single |
When the wolves stand upright, your leaders will adopt a secret limp so that you may know your own. |
34 |
Stiftelsen |
"Opsovati" |
Allting låter som Slipknot |
When the wolves imitate your arts, you will canonize your anthems and learn to recognize how they sound when sung as rote affirmation. |
35 |
Blood Command |
"Cult Drugs" |
single |
When the wolves thrive, you will be stewards of your mythologies of how it must have been before the wolves came, |
36 |
Tiziano Ferro |
"Podríamos Regresar" |
single |
when these festering strongholds must have been unguarded virgin oases of tranquil hooded purity. |
37 |
Animotion |
"Last Time" |
Raise Your Expectations |
Thus your numbers are beseiged strength and the wolf numbers demonstrate their profligate bestiality. |
38 |
Magnum |
"Lonely Night (Acoustic Version, Newly Re-recorded)" |
The Valley Of Tears - The Ballads |
Thus your preconceptions are tradition, and the wolves' axioms are corruption. |
39 |
Stephen Pearcy |
"Ten Miles Wide" |
single |
But here's the thing. |
40 |
Ana Mena |
"Ahora Lloras Tú" |
single |
These ways you draw together and cultivate dominance are exactly the defining characteristics of pack societies. |
41 |
Lights & Motion |
"We Only Have Forever" |
Dear Avalanche |
The way your voices fray when you raise them in righteous concerted fury, these are your words shredding as they exit through wolf teeth. |
42 |
Set and Setting |
"The Idyllic Realm" |
single |
This way you ostracize and isolate is exactly how animals circle to defend. |
43 |
Eths |
"Nihil Sine Causa" |
Ankaa |
This instinctive way you reduce the world to reproduction and shows of force is the way of wolves. |
44 |
Fast Animals and Slow Kids |
"Forse non è la felicità" |
single |
The wolves eat those same potatoes. |
45 |
Management Del Dolore Post Operatorio |
"Un incubo stupendo" |
single |
The wolves are just as scared as you. |
46 |
Emptiness |
"Meat Heart" |
Not for Music |
But the wall does not solve this. |
47 |
Power Trip |
"Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" |
single |
In fact, it's worse: the wall is a reasonable-seeming response to fear of difference and the absence of empathy for the wolves, but it actually blocks only empathy for the wolves. |
48 |
Lorna Shore |
"FVNERAL MOON" |
single |
Not fear. |
49 |
Lastkaj 14 |
"Becksvart" |
single |
And not wolves. |
50 |
Cabezones |
"Te Extraño" |
single |
The wolves are among you, inside the walls. |
51 |
Manran |
"An Dà Là" |
An Dà Là - The Two Days |
They are among us. No matter who we think the wolves are, they are among us. |
52 |
Jadudah |
"Messed Up" |
single |
Up close, they don't look nearly as wolflike as they do out in the forests beyond the wall. |
53 |
Tinariwen |
"Assàwt" |
single |
Up close, in fact, they look terrifyingly normal. |
54 |
Tanya Tagaq |
"Erie Changys (feat. Radio Tyulyush and Michael Red)" |
single |
They look like us. |
55 |
MALKA |
"Breakout" |
single |
This is because they are us. There are no wolves. Of course there are no wolves. |
56 |
Audionova |
"Singular" |
Guarda-Chuvas e Universos |
Some of these people who say they are defending us against wolves are merely earnestly wrong. This is understandable, because forest shadows are scary. |
57 |
Valkeat |
"Valkeat" |
Valkeat |
But some of them are using the fear of wolves to distract you from their teeth as they creep towards your throat. |
58 |
June 1974 |
"Focus" |
single |
This is understandable, too. Who wouldn't want to be a wolf in that moment of vicious triumph? |
59 |
Trivecta |
"Shatterpoint" |
single |
This should be a rhetorical question. Nobody should want to be that wolf. A wolf's life is nothing to envy. |
60 |
Throwing Snow |
"Tesseract" |
Embers |
For wolves, Friday is not New-Release Day and the weekly reminder of humanity's irrepressible capacity for joy, it's Try Desperately Again to Not Die of Hunger Day. |
61 |
BT |
"The Code of Hammurabi" |
_+ |
You do not have to live that way. You do not have to listen to people who tell you you have to live that way. |
62 |
BT |
"Indivisim: VII. Dalla Forma al Senza Forma" |
_+ |
You do not need to cower in silence behind imaginary walls. Put on some music. Drown them out. |
63 |
APEK |
"Traces" |
single |
There are no wolves. The wolves do not exist. |
64 |
Nordvargr |
"Mantra for Ur-Hekau" |
The Secret Barbarous Names |
(Also: Those wolves that do not exist? We are those wolves. We are coming for you, and all your walls will not save you.) |