1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Get Out - Recorded At Spotify Studios NYC" |
Spotify Singles 2 |
If we are not going to welcome asylum-seekers, we do not deserve a border. |
2 |
So Below |
"Crying on the Bathroom Floor" |
single |
The main thing the last few years of American politics has taught me is that I am a globalist. |
3 |
Muncie Girls |
"Picture of Health" |
single |
Or, to say this another way, I am a humanist, and "globalism" is what you call humanism when anti-humanism manifests itself as nationalism, in the same way that "atheism" is what you call rationality when irrationality manifests itself as religion. |
4 |
SOPHIE |
"Is It Cold In The Water?" |
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES |
Every great thing that has happened in this space we call a country has been a result of humanism and globalism, and every horrific failure of human decency has been a result of institutionalizing the idea that some people are better than others. |
5 |
Maj Monet |
"Run Maj Monet!" |
single |
America is not the first country to violate this basic truth, of course. |
6 |
Petal |
"Magic Gone" |
Magic Gone |
Maybe we only ever drew lines on the planet, in the first place, out of fear and distrust. |
7 |
Alice Glass |
"Mine" |
single |
There is room on the planet for variations in culture. |
8 |
Betty Who |
"Friend Like Me" |
Betty, Pt. 1 5 |
The smell of cooking flows through the checkpoints, the sound of music, the people if you let them. |
9 |
Savoir Adore |
"Slow Motion" |
single |
But "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best." An American said that. Not our best one. If we can get him to leave, I would be reluctant to welcome him back. |
10 |
Prinze George |
"Airborne" |
single |
But we know him. We are not pre-judging him. We are not imposing our own fears on him. He has been given a human's chance to show his character. He has been granted this fundamental right. |
11 |
Man Without Country |
"Lafayette" |
single |
And these people he would keep out? He does not know them. |
12 |
Yellow Claw |
"Waiting" |
single |
These children he would separate from their children as a warning? |
13 |
Dustin Tebbutt |
"Love Is Blind" |
single |
He does not know them. |
14 |
Novo Amor |
"Birthplace" |
single |
But we know him. |
15 |
Kina Grannis |
"History" |
single |
This warning is for us. |
16 |
Funeral Mist |
"Shedding Skin" |
Hekatomb |
If we tolerate this, |
17 |
Cryonic Temple |
"End of Days" |
single |
we will own the resulting hell. |
18 |
Minniva |
"Under The Red Cloud" |
single |
We have separated children from their parents before, |
19 |
A Sound of Thunder |
"Lifebringer" |
It Was Metal |
and we have never once been right. |
20 |
Tyranny of Hours |
"River of Stones" |
Darkling |
You might momentarily think it ironic that a president who would hire his daughter and his son-in-law into government positions for which they have no qualifications, just to have a couple people who don't hate him nearby, would endorse a policy of separating children from parents. |
21 |
The Pineapple Thief |
"Far Below" |
single |
But nepotism is racism for the uncreative, |
22 |
Sorrow Plagues |
"Vista" |
Mater Natura Excelsa 2 |
for people who look at their own children and see children, |
23 |
Chthe'ilist |
"Passage into the Xexanotth" |
Passage into the Xexanotth +1 |
but look at other people's children and then look away. |
24 |
Sear Bliss |
"Shroud" |
single |
Heroism, like joy, requires a tiny amount of strength: |
25 |
Oubliette |
"The Raven's Lullaby" |
single |
the strength to witness something you don't understand without flinching, |
26 |
Kontinuum |
"Warm Blood" |
single |
for at least long enough to ask what it is; |
27 |
Boston Manor |
"Halo" |
single |
the strength to walk out of a spotlight when it won't move; |
28 |
State Champs |
"Criminal" |
Living Proof |
the strength to make a list of what you know a person could become, |
29 |
Small Talks |
"Quiet Sounds" |
single |
and lay it down over the list of the things you think they've done. |
30 |
Dan Bull |
"Metro Exodus" |
Metro Exodus +1 |
We should be trying to keep our "own" families together, |
31 |
Makeup And Vanity Set |
"The Apartment" |
Run 5 |
so in that sense yes, there's enough guilt here for everybody. |
32 |
Phil Rey |
"Always by Your Side" |
single |
But shared guilt is magnified, not diminished, |
33 |
Chelsea Grin |
"See You Soon" |
single |
just as shared rage is only amplified, |
34 |
Halcyon Days |
"Cerca Trova" |
Rain Soaked Pavements & Fresh Cut Grass |
not refined. |
35 |
Makari |
"Transient" |
single |
We have all these gleaming tools made to do nothing but harm. |
36 |
Matenrou Opera |
"Invisible Chaos" |
Invisible Chaos +2 |
So much engineering |
37 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"Sign." |
single |
breathed into these bridges before we set conscripted batallions facing each other in the middle, |
38 |
Eir Aoi |
"ヒトカケラの勇気" |
流星 / 約束 4 |
and stood there glaring at each other, |
39 |
PANORAMAPANAMATOWN |
"$UJI" |
single |
no longer noticing that we're standing in the air. |
40 |
ROACH |
"Ocean" |
single |
If we're not going to enjoy these sensations of possibility and defiance, |
41 |
Deafheaven |
"Canary Yellow" |
single |
we don't deserve our freedom. |
42 |
Low |
"Dancing and Blood" |
Quorum / Dancing and Blood / Fly 3 |
Here's what it should say over our gates: |
43 |
Dead End Finland |
"Closer to Extinction" |
single |
Welcome. |
44 |
Sarea |
"Lost Cause" |
single |
Before anything else, welcome. |
45 |
Thin Lips |
"A Song For Those Who Miss You All The Time" |
single |
The people here before you all began this same way, |
46 |
Only Shadows |
"Cold Shoulder" |
single |
and accepted the responsibilities you too take on by entering, |
47 |
Estrons |
"Lilac" |
single |
and welcome you with only the authority of time spent. |
48 |
Circadian Eyes |
"Everything That Makes You Wonder" |
single |
Someone here came with the same dream as you, |
49 |
Sarah Darling |
"Diamonds" |
single |
and may be able to tell you what more they know about it now. |
50 |
Catherine McGrath |
"Lost In The Middle" |
single |
You are not limited to the dreams you have already had. |
51 |
Widek |
"Skybridges" |
Dream Reflection |
You are not merely entitled to tolerance and keeping your children, |
52 |
Obscura |
"Emergent Evolution" |
single |
to not fret, |
53 |
Maja Francis |
"Mmm (Me Now)" |
Cry Baby 5 |
to a moment, |
54 |
Titanix |
"Vem är det nu som är stark" |
single |
to mirrorballs |
55 |
Martin Almgren |
"Unconditional" |
single |
and costume balls of other people's temporarily less-vulnerable heritages, |
56 |
Snakes In Paradise |
"Will You Remember Me" |
single |
to what it sounds like when people think they are included in the scopes of justice |
57 |
Cor Scorpii |
"Ærelaus" |
Ruin |
and custom, |
58 |
Highasakite |
"Elastic State Of Mind" |
single |
and what they do with this space. |
59 |
Bendik |
"Tro meg" |
single |
You are entitled to all of this, |
60 |
Gåte |
"Kom no Disjka" |
single |
just as the old gods rightfully ordained before leaving us to work out the details, |
61 |
Fire EX. |
"更遠的前方" |
single |
but these are not aspirations, these are the elements of moral subsistence. |
62 |
Willow Beats |
"Work It Out" |
single |
It is a meager existence that never gets beyond fighting to assert basic dignity. |
63 |
Nomadi |
"Sangue al cuore" |
single |
We didn't make this country to cower in it content with abstract freedom. |
64 |
Bianca Atzei |
"Risparmio un sogno" |
single |
We made it to fill it with insane and often idiotic and even more often grand ideas. |
65 |
Matia Bazar |
"Questo è il tempo" |
single |
We made it to try out self-contradictory idealisms, |
66 |
Presumido |
"Esa No Era Yo" |
single |
to march parades along perpendicular streets, |
67 |
Saltatio Mortis |
"Brunhild" |
single |
to feel pride and still choose humility, |
68 |
Lord Of The Lost |
"Morgana" |
single |
to memorize legends and still choose slightly bedraggled public schools, |
69 |
Unzucht |
"Nela" |
single |
to see ourselves in even these mortifying failures |
70 |
Madsen |
"Wenn es einfach passiert" |
Lichtjahre |
and know we are not alone |
71 |
Chamber |
"Empty" |
Disaffect 4 |
and not doomed to the rest of any path we have started down. |
72 |
Skeletonwitch |
"When Paradise Fades" |
single |
If we are not going to learn from having elected ambitious cowards, |
73 |
Johnny Marr |
"Hey Angel" |
Call The Comet |
we don't deserve time. |
74 |
Mayday Parade |
"Satellite" |
Sunnyland |
This is where you come to find out what unbridled will can accomplish, |
75 |
Peter Hollens |
"The Parting Glass" |
Legendary Folk Songs |
with or without reverence, |
76 |
Divididos |
"Haciendo Cosas Raras" |
single |
in ransacked and emptied apses, |
77 |
Letters from the Fire |
"Scream" |
Letters from the Fire |
and ill-considered suburbs. |
78 |
DIAMANTE |
"Crazy On You" |
Coming in Hot |
This is where you come to start over, |
79 |
BLACKPINK |
"Forever Young" |
SQUARE UP 4 |
in outfits you'll laugh at later, |
80 |
Blackout Problems |
"911" |
KAOS |
and then pass down to your kids. |
81 |
Thegiornalisti |
"Felicità puttana" |
single |
If we're not going to pretend for a series of minutes that we are other less adaptable people, |
82 |
I Botanici |
"C'avremo tanto da fare" |
Solstizio |
then what was the point of refusing to learn any of their languages? |
83 |
BBS Paranoicos |
"El Sonido Se Agotó" |
Delusional |
There is no last word. |
84 |
North Point InsideOut |
"Changed" |
single |
There are always more words, |
85 |
ASG |
"Up from My Dreams" |
Survive Sunrise |
most of them just shapes |
86 |
Cr7z |
"Dawn" |
Newline - EP |
our mouths make |
87 |
Ebe Dancel |
"Bayani Ka Ng Mundo - From "Bagani"" |
single |
when we feel a chain fall off. |
88 |
Dragonlord |
"Dominion" |
single |
It is an encumbered and short-sighted freedom that chooses to carry |
89 |
Skerryvore |
"The Rise" |
Evo |
the chains from which it has been released. |
90 |
Cocktail |
"สวัสดีเจ้า" |
single |
In the starkest, least generous reckoning, none of us deserve these borders, |
91 |
Stormwitch |
"Odins Ravens" |
single |
these gifts from departed gods, |
92 |
Írafár |
"Allt sem ég sé" |
Fáum aldrei nóg: 1998 - 2018 |
these preserved and exported moments of greenhoused and oceanguarded grace. |
93 |
NAVIBAND |
"Молодость в кармане" |
single |
You don't get things by deserving them. |
94 |
Firtan |
"Tag verweil" |
single |
You get them by initiative and gall and luck. |
95 |
Active Bird Community |
"Unwind With Me" |
single |
But you keep and enjoy them by deserving them. |
96 |
Eliza Shaddad |
"My Body" |
single |
No number of ICE raids will make Donald Trump a better father. |
97 |
Frank Turner |
"Little Changes - Acoustic" |
single |
No number of votes will make other humans less human. |
98 |
Zeal |
"Promise" |
single |
We have soccer because actual life doesn't work like that, |
99 |
Oliver |
"AILAVJUU" |
single |
and we need something to do with these useless primal urges. |
100 |
Nazar |
"LIMIT" |
Mosaik |
If we aren't going to love the world's sport for how it unites us in conscious meaninglessness, we don't deserve to play in the finals. |
101 |
Eeva Talsi |
"Aastapaev" |
Hoolima |
At least not this time. But then we begin again. |
102 |
Johan Baeckström |
"Into The 80's" |
Utopia |
We have been great before, and terrible before. |
103 |
Dead Girls Academy |
"Forever" |
Alchemy |
These will not be our last bad days. |
104 |
ONR |
"LOVE IN SUBURBIA" |
single |
But there is room in these great and gently crumbling neighborhoods for a few more people, with their kids and whatever they regret doing before. |
105 |
L.A. Girlfriend |
"Possession" |
Regina 4 |
Don't think we don't know about regrets. Half of us voted for a gaping moral wound. |
106 |
Markus Berjlund |
"Tid för fotboll" |
Tid för fotboll +1 |
But anybody can cheer for assigned teams. You only deserve your humanity when you can cheer for everybody else at once. |