1 |
RAIGN |
"Now I Can Fly" |
single |
When people talk, |
2 |
Prinze George |
"We Won't Last The Night" |
single |
they try to tell you how they want you to think the world works, |
3 |
The Struts |
"Fire - Part 1" |
single |
but mainly they tell you how they think the world works. |
4 |
Ariana and the Rose |
"Lonely Star" |
single |
When our catastrophic president talks about fake news and lies and hoaxes and the abuse of power, |
5 |
Mïrändä |
"LMK" |
single |
it is because that is how he lives. |
6 |
Behemoth |
"Bartzabel" |
single |
He says his enemies are doing these things |
7 |
Author & Punisher |
"The Speaker is Systematically Blown" |
Beastland |
because those are the things he would do if he were them. |
8 |
Zatokrev |
"Silent Gods" |
single |
When our unjustified new justice tells the Senate and the public |
9 |
Arion |
"Punish You" |
single |
that a sexual reference is a drinking game, |
10 |
Omnimar |
"Forever" |
single |
he is explaining that he believes public discourse is a competition of assertions, |
11 |
Kalidia |
"Frozen Throne" |
single |
won by faction dominance, |
12 |
Asphodelia |
"Alive" |
Welcome Apocalypse |
not an assessment of truth or morality, |
13 |
Orion's Reign |
"Nostos" |
single |
and he is declaring his faction. |
14 |
Sharon Van Etten |
"Comeback Kid" |
single |
A "court" adjudicated on this basis |
15 |
Joy Williams |
"Canary" |
Canary / The Trouble with Wanting 2 |
is an organ of a failed state. |
16 |
Stand Atlantic |
"Lost My Cool" |
single |
Our catastrophic president apologizing for a limp, fleeting gesture towards truth |
17 |
Basement |
"Be Here Now" |
single |
is a bilious organ of a failed state. |
18 |
Pinegrove |
"Rings" |
Skylight |
The institutionalized hypocrisy of the Senate |
19 |
Gold Steps |
"Rum Is for Drinking, Not for Burning" |
single |
is a disease of a necrotic organ of a failed state. |
20 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Hellfire" |
single |
The Republicans who threatened to use a 51-vote loophole |
21 |
Phil Rey |
"Heavenly" |
single |
to lower a 60-vote threshold |
22 |
Celestial Aeon Project |
"Super Mario Bros Theme" |
single |
were heralds of a failed state, |
23 |
PassCode |
"激動プログレッシブ" |
Locus |
and the Democrats who made them want to were its outriders. |
24 |
BAND-MAID |
"glory" |
single |
The Democrats who did change the rule for federal judges |
25 |
NECRONOMIDOL |
"Dawnslayer" |
Voidhymn |
were courtiers of a failed state, |
26 |
TOTALFAT |
"Broken Bones" |
Conscious+Practice |
and the Republicans who pushed them to it, |
27 |
Yoshiki |
"Red Swan" |
Red Swan +1 |
and decried the tactic only when it was used against them, |
28 |
みゆな |
"ガムシャラ" |
single |
were its simpering and gutlessly loyal opposition. |
29 |
HOTEI |
"運命、崩れ落ちる。 〜交響曲第5番より〜" |
クラシカロイド ベートーヴェン ムジーク(挿入歌) |
The two-party American system that perpetuates itself |
30 |
yonige |
"リボルバー" |
HOUSE |
while human civilization literally drowns in neglect, |
31 |
BIGMAMA |
"Step-out Shepherd" |
single |
is the theocracy of a failed and godless state. |
32 |
Takanori Nishikawa |
"Be Affected" |
Be Affected +1 |
Racists who hide behind religion |
33 |
Happy Heads NANIYORI |
"日出ズル場所" |
single |
are the dutiful peasants |
34 |
VOLA |
"Alien Shivers" |
Alien Shivers +2 |
of a failed state. |
35 |
The Ballroom Thieves |
"Hymn #101" |
single |
Cowards who hide behind tradition |
36 |
Pastel Ghost |
"Sakura" |
Ethereality |
are the stewards |
37 |
Earlyguard |
"Wysiwyg" |
single |
of a failed state. |
38 |
Swearin' |
"Grow into a Ghost" |
Fall into the Sun |
Our catastrophic president unilaterally decrying globalism to the United Nations, |
39 |
Friendship Commanders |
"Charade" |
Bill |
is the leaking bowel |
40 |
Peyton Parrish |
"Shadow of You" |
single |
of a failed state. |
41 |
Tim McGraw |
"Neon Church" |
Neon Church +1 |
Earnest patriots singing "I need Jesus or I need whiskey" |
42 |
Kira Isabella |
"Danger Danger" |
single |
are the false-choice functionaries |
43 |
Kaylee Bell |
"Who I Am" |
single |
of a failed state. |
44 |
Shinova |
"Expectativas y Espejismos" |
Cartas de Navegación |
Pensive hypocrites conflating "innocent until proven guilty" |
45 |
Claim |
"Sofá Paraíso" |
single |
with "entitled unless deposed" |
46 |
Sun Glitters |
"Secrets" |
single |
are bureaucrats |
47 |
Robot Koch |
"Waves" |
Sphere |
of a failed state. |
48 |
Giorgieness |
"Questa Città" |
Nuove Regole 4 |
Hamilton, |
49 |
Cryoshell |
"Slipping" |
single |
who let's not forget died in a duel, |
50 |
Coheed and Cambria |
"The Pavilion (A Long Way Back)" |
The Unheavenly Creatures |
didn't propose this government as a system for selecting gladiators. |
51 |
Noisestorm |
"Breakout" |
single |
This catastrophic birthright-lottery president |
52 |
Lethal Bizzle |
"Lessons" |
single |
never made anything, |
53 |
Dappy |
"All We Know" |
All We Know +1 |
and certainly not this |
54 |
Young Spray |
"Lyrical Miracle" |
single |
failed state from which his residue will have to be cleansed. |
55 |
Gary Numan |
"It Will End Here - Edit" |
single |
He said "drain the swamp" when he meant "put up a fence to keep everybody but my amphibious sycophants from swimming in it", |
56 |
Gritando en Silencio |
"Como si no hubiera nada más" |
single |
and now the swamp is below sea-level, |
57 |
Sushi x Kobe |
"Rust" |
Døden lever lengst |
and their ichor is in the water table. |
58 |
Sandra Kolstad |
"Halflife" |
Halflife +1 |
The hurricanes are trying to get our attention, |
59 |
Bosse |
"Wanderer" |
single |
with gentle apocalyptic hints, |
60 |
Adam Is A Girl |
"Sky" |
single |
and you can forgive them for thinking that a man who pretends to play golf |
61 |
Niña |
"Shh Chi Kung" |
single |
would pretend to listen to the wind. |
62 |
Psycroptic |
"Directive" |
single |
Revoking environmental regulations on the verge of species collapse |
63 |
Arsis |
"Hell Sworn" |
single |
is regal decadence |
64 |
Legion Of The Damned |
"The Widow´s Breed" |
single |
of a failed state. |
65 |
OKENYO |
"HANG YOUR HAT" |
single |
All elections of leadership are from now on single-issue: |
66 |
Luca D'Alberto |
"Pianodiscoteque" |
Exile |
will you turn around and face the future, |
67 |
Earth Ship |
"Resonant Sun" |
Resonant Sun |
or will you take its debris in the back of your head? |
68 |
Steve Perry |
"Sun Shines Gray" |
Traces |
We have only three tasks: |
69 |
Keosz |
"First Landing" |
No Future, Vol. 2 |
use science to understand how to live on this planet without killing ourselves, |
70 |
Slayyyter |
"Candy" |
single |
use laws to translate that understanding into collective operation, |
71 |
The Gray Havens |
"See You Again" |
She Waits |
and use art to channel fear away from resistance and suicidal self-destruction into joy and will. |
72 |
for KING & COUNTRY |
"Burn The Ships" |
Burn The Ships |
Don't burn the warships. We can't afford the extra heat. |
73 |
Exploding Head Syndrome |
"Everyone's a Target" |
Everyone's a Target +1 |
If we don't surive this, |
74 |
Renate |
"Ping-Pong" |
single |
it will be because too many of us believed that other people don't matter, |
75 |
Hooligans |
"Jég Hátán" |
single |
and thus that any amount of collapse can be speculatively tolerated |
76 |
The Moth & The Flame |
"The New Great Depression" |
single |
by stipulating however implausibly |
77 |
Raizer |
"Explode" |
Explode +1 |
that it might happen to somebody else instead of us, |
78 |
Wende |
"Wat Is Mijn Plan Vandaag?" |
MENS |
and that that would be fine. |
79 |
Moonstar88 |
"Sorry" |
single |
What kind of nihilist looks up at the descending blazing comet and thinks |
80 |
Karine Polwart |
"Laws Of Motion - Edit" |
Laws Of Motion 2 |
"There it is, carrying the shiny medal for my victory!"? |
81 |
Edvin Marton |
"Euphoria" |
Stradivarius, Vol. 2 |
That is the kind of nihilist we elected and now have to impeach, |
82 |
Mariana Aydar |
"Caraíva-Trancoso" |
single |
disarm |
83 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"朝焼けとからっぽ" |
single |
and transcend. |
84 |
Emily King |
"Remind Me" |
single |
Time for meta-revolution, |
85 |
Non Servium |
"A Way of Life" |
The Chaos Brotherhood 4 |
not against this flaccid casing over a failed state, |
86 |
Thelema |
"Black Radiant Horizons" |
Circumstellar |
nor against the failed state itself, |
87 |
Petite Noir |
"Beach" |
La Maison Noir / The Black House |
but against statehood. |
88 |
Snow Tha Product |
"Today I Decided" |
single |
When people talk, they tell you which fates they think somehow don't apply to them. |
89 |
Kagoule |
"It's Not My Day" |
single |
The fates are bemused and indifferent. |
90 |
iSHi |
"Have Mercy (feat. Maleek Berry & Shenie Fogo)" |
single |
You can't gerrymander the paths of storms, |
91 |
GABI |
"Breath" |
Empty Me |
or the layers of the air. |
92 |
Jerusalem in My Heart |
"Layali Al-Rast" |
Daqa'iq Tudaiq |
Nobody wins by capturing uninhabitable land, |
93 |
Massive Scar Era |
"Oblivious" |
Color Blind 5 |
or looking away from the sun. |
94 |
Amore Ad Lunam |
"Salvation & Drug" |
single |
Our catastrophic president is right, in his own festering terms, |
95 |
Riz MC |
"Mogambo" |
single |
to fear his own citizens as if we constitute a mob. |
96 |
Karliene |
"Blood Countess" |
single |
A mob is, definitionally, the population of a failed state, |
97 |
HYDE |
"FAKE DIVINE" |
single |
and he's right that mobs are not the solution. |
98 |
Residente |
"Rap Bruto" |
single |
Mobs are not super-good at climate science or remedial energy policy or the preservation of human rights. |
99 |
Kelela |
"SANTA MUERTE_BLUFF_94 BPM" |
TAKE ME A_PART, THE REMIXES |
But you created this inadequate mob by being, amazingly, even worse at all important things than anarchy. |
100 |
Trevor Something |
"A I N I Y" |
single |
You didn't fail this state all by yourself, but your name was the last thing painted across it as it fell, |
101 |
Lizzies |
"No Law City" |
On Thin Ice |
and thus you will be the bloated, sneering face by which we remember your era of bullying cowardice and narcissistic failure and toxic breath |
102 |
Jesus Jones |
"Where Are All the Dreams?" |
Passages |
as we try to start over together with shared joy and shared truth and shared dreams and a little less carbon in the fucking air. |