1 |
Tonight Alive |
"The Other" |
Underworld |
We could start from this and rebuild Rock, |
2 |
EMA |
"Dark Shadows" |
single |
or we're doing that already, always doing that. |
3 |
INHEAVEN |
"Sweet Dreams Baby" |
single |
Memory is overrated. Repeating history is what we do by waking up. |
4 |
flor |
"rely" |
single |
It is abject joylessness to regard this as our doom, and let us not be joyless. |
5 |
Hayley Kiyoko |
"Curious" |
single |
Let the list of things we won't be start with joyless, and then quickly run out, |
6 |
Keep Shelly In Athens |
"Eternal" |
Eternal / On the Road 2 |
to be replaced with new and better lists: |
7 |
Mystic Prophecy |
"Hot Stuff" |
Monuments Uncovered |
small terrible ideas improved by grandeur; |
8 |
Eleine |
"Sanity" |
single |
a partial bestiary of demons and their sisters; |
9 |
Therion |
"Night Reborn" |
single |
rules and methods for staging opera as an existential state; |
10 |
Harakiri for the Sky |
"Heroin Waltz" |
single |
synesthesias of preemptive despair; |
11 |
Pianos Become The Teeth |
"Bitter Red" |
single |
all the sites of half-forgotten tragedies we could reach unsupervised by bicycle when we were kids; |
12 |
Balam Acab |
"Returning Christmas Presents for Cash" |
single |
ways to concretize abstraction by naming it; |
13 |
GoGo Penguin |
"Bardo" |
single |
things that are not jazz; |
14 |
Lanark Artefax |
"Styx" |
The Island Within/Styx 2 |
noises that remind us of things we don't know; |
15 |
Anenon |
"Two For C" |
single |
all the fonts with the best parentheses; |
16 |
Ezra Furman |
"Suck the Blood from My Wound" |
single |
songs the way a disloyal Springsteen bobblehead would sing them among friends; |
17 |
Desperate Journalist |
"It Gets Better" |
single |
grounds for hope. |
18 |
LiSA |
"Thrill, Risk, Heartless" |
single |
If we've learned one thing from technology, it's that lists turn inevitably into prose if you make enough of them. |
19 |
Heidevolk |
"Onverzetbaar" |
Vuur van Verzet |
I'm not saying we have learned anything, necessarily, or anything from pixels we didn't already learn from forests. |
20 |
La Scelta |
"Alieno - Radio Edit" |
single |
There are ongoing negotiations with ourselves, we have to give them time. |
21 |
Cimorelli |
"Somebody That I Used to Know" |
single |
You wake up one day and finally something from years ago makes sense to you, and it's everybody else's loss that they have moved on. |
22 |
Crashdiet |
"We Are the Legion" |
single |
They sold all their guitars that sounded like lazers, and now they will be sorry. |
23 |
Grises |
"El Impacto" |
single |
Where is that T-shirt? This is that day that I knew would come back when I refused to get rid of it, |
24 |
Nunatak |
"A miles de kilómetros" |
single |
the opportunity I knew I would have to finally be right about what it claimed about what I can be. |
25 |
Simple Minds |
"The Signal and the Noise" |
single |
I had that old gold dream again: |
26 |
Radio Havanna |
"Homophobes Arschloch" |
Utopia |
I'm climbing an endless stairway into the sky, just to get from one Munich terminal to another, |
27 |
Vanessa Mai |
"Wo du bist" |
single |
and voices I almost recognize are saying calming unintelligible things. |
28 |
L'âme Immortelle |
"Hinter dem Horizont" |
single |
In the dream I know these are wrong, and none of us are ever safe, |
29 |
Mantus |
"Seele" |
Blumen in der Hölle |
but then they're standing there, waiting for me to explain what we do next. |
30 |
INFINITE |
"Synchronise" |
TOP SEED |
And I say: we have all this floor space, so we dance. |
31 |
Vendaval |
"Silbando a la Muerte (Corocotta)" |
Por el Tiempo |
And they say dance? Do we not fight? |
32 |
Megaherz |
"Komet" |
single |
Do we not FIGHT? |
33 |
Reda Rwena |
"Intro - TBB" |
single |
And I say: you are eager to fight, but eagerness is what curiosity turns into when you don't have the patience to ask questions. |
34 |
Hamferð |
"Stygd" |
Támsins likam |
There are still vikings on some of these islands. |
35 |
Hurula |
"Varje ensam natt" |
single |
Any palace you regard as timeless and regal, somebody is picturing aflame. |
36 |
Nomy |
"They said I was special" |
They said I was special 6 |
Draw a picture of your paradise, and then pass it to the person on your left. |
37 |
Toy Cars |
"Cobwebs" |
Paint Brain |
Read what you can understand of what anybody else thinks, and then write the next two sentences. |
38 |
Lane 8 |
"Stir Me Up" |
single |
Incoherence is our natural correographic idiom. |
39 |
The Crown |
"Iron Crown" |
single |
You can pound incoherence into temporarily cowering darkness, |
40 |
Dara Bubamara |
"Nikad ne reci nikad" |
single |
but you can dance it into anything, into life. |
41 |
We Deserve This |
"Empire" |
Empire / Hexagon 2 |
In the dream I'm telling them this, and they look skeptical, |
42 |
K.Flay |
"Dreamers" |
Every Where Is Some Where |
but then a series of passing strangers tells them, one word each, that I'm right, |
43 |
Olatunji |
"Party Justice" |
single |
and that they have been summoned from everywhere to this airport in order to dance with me in exactly this way. |
44 |
Amiral Revers |
"Gbetoh" |
single |
In the dream we then all somehow know this dance involving math and escalators and chocolate with bits of salty licorice in it and for some reason video-effects from the mid-90s. |
45 |
Toygar Işıklı |
"Perdona Nuestros Pecados Main Title Music" |
single |
The airport has arena lasers, because of course it does, |
46 |
Tomoyasu Hotei |
"Kill to Love You - Radio Edit" |
Kill to Love You 2 |
and attractive men in suits reissuing boarding passes in unison, |
47 |
Emilie Brandt |
"Unspoken" |
single |
because there has been a change of plans, and we are all going somewhere together. |
48 |
Rage |
"Nothing Like Yours" |
The Maf EP 5 |
This is the poetic illusory utopia of observed flashmobs: there has been a change of plans, and we are all going somewhere together. |
49 |
Heloisa Rosa |
"Oh Quão Lindo Esse Nome É" |
single |
Of course it isn't like that, the people in it have planned for this, and are the opposite of surprised. |
50 |
Doe |
"For Your Love" |
Mutiny on the Balcony 6 |
But watching, this is not what you feel. |
51 |
Grant-Lee Phillips |
"Walk in Circles" |
single |
What you feel is: we could start from this and rebuild society out of mesmerizing patterns |
52 |
Andie Case |
"Never Be the Same" |
single |
and wordless effortless synchrony, |
53 |
Johan Alander |
"Tusen gånger" |
single |
and this time |
54 |
Sylvan Esso |
"PARAD(w/m)E" |
single |
it would work. |