| 1 | Rotting Christ | "The Raven" | single | Mythology is a terrible source of modern laws, but a great source of emotional resonance and moral metaphor. |
| 2 | Swallow The Sun | "Firelights" | single | Moral physics, like cartoon physics, allows you to cross space on bridges that retrospect reveals as illusory. |
| 3 | Ancient Bards | "Light" | single | But only once. |
| 4 | Brainstorm | "Secrets and Related Lies" | single | The second time, you need engineering. |
| 5 | Evergrey | "Currents" | single | The things you achieve once are the proud accomplishments of your environment; |
| 6 | Battle Beast | "No More Hollywood Endings" | single | the things you can repeat are the powers that define you. |
| 7 | Cellar Darling | "The Spell" | single | Follow no leaders who can't tell the difference. |
| 8 | Gang Of Four | "Paper Thin" | single | Follow no leaders who conflate transformation with treason. |
| 9 | The Ninth Wave | "Half Pure" | single | Or even simpler: follow no leaders. |
| 10 | Atlas Genius | "Can't Be Alone Tonight" | single | Choose who you stand with, who you walk with. |
| 11 | Kerli | "Better" | single | Sometimes the ones you stand with make you stronger, sometimes it's the other way around. |
| 12 | Minke | "Too Late" | single | Are you willing to stand with the flawed and the incomplete? |
| 13 | BiSH | "Small Fish" | single | That is: are you willing to stand with other humans |
| 14 | WagakkiBand | "あっぱれが正義。" | single | and combine your tiny voices? |
| 15 | BAND-MAID | "Bubble" | Bubble +1 | Because how else do you imagine this works? |
| 16 | GOLDEN BOMBER | "ガガガガガガガ" | single | We got here one painstaking day at a time. |
| 17 | SAKANAMON | "コウシン" | single | We have never been great, but we have never been greater. |
| 18 | Q'ulle | "HOME" | 我夢者羅 | We write new songs because the old ones labored in darkness. |
| 19 | The Sound Bee HD | "DEADMAN’S WALK" | DEAD SILENCE 5 | Social-structure exists not to award and reward winners, |
| 20 | go!go!vanillas | "No.999" | single | but to support the determined and unsure. |
| 21 | Tiny Moving Parts | "For the Sake of Brevity" | For the Sake of Brevity / Fish Bowl 2 | Resistance is an energy. |
| 22 | Jetty Bones | "The Rest Of Them." | single | Like any other energy, it starts small |
| 23 | Yours Truly | "Circles" | single | and accumulates. |
| 24 | Johnnyswim | "Bridges" | single | Half of progress is disassembling your own retreats, |
| 25 | SHXCXCHCXSH | "WORD" | WORD EP 4 | and learning that the difference between debris and material is resolve. |
| 26 | Black To Comm | "Fly on you" | single | This is one of the many reasons you should never trust a leader who methodically insulates themselves from normal constraints |
| 27 | Labirinto | "Agnus Dei" | single | and routine human experiences. |
| 28 | Soen | "Lotus" | single | We don't need billionaires, |
| 29 | Walking Across Jupiter | "Scarification/Induration" | single | or anything that only billionaires can support, |
| 30 | Moongates Guardian | "Song Of Lorien" | single | any more than we needed hereditary kings. |
| 31 | KÁRYYN | "EVER - Edit" | single | Not louder voices, more voices. |
| 32 | Trollfest | "Fjøsnissens Fjaseri" | Norwegian Fairytales | Fewer legends of divine right, more fables of what happens in dark forests. |
| 33 | Nomans Land | "Silence" | single | Less deference, more shouting at the silence. |
| 34 | Furor Gallico | "Nebbia Della Mia Terra" | Dusk of the Ages | All literature is cautionary; |
| 35 | Vanir | "Fejd" | single | all caveats are inherently poetic. |
| 36 | Edge Of Paradise | "Face of Fear" | single | So what now? |
| 37 | Elephant Gun Riot | "You Should See Me in a Crown" | single | How do our stories about compassionate powerflow sing us out of this quagmire of bilious ignorance? |
| 38 | Elizabeth Colour Wheel | "23" | single | First, I suspect, by gathering up the noise: |
| 39 | Tamaryn | "Fits of Rage" | single | anger is an energy, |
| 40 | Hante. | "Tomorrow is a New Day" | FIERCE | and energy relentlessly accumulates. |
| 41 | Makthaverskan | "Demands" | single | Listen to what it sounds like when we speak up not because we think we the answer is obvious, but because the question cannot be silenced. |
| 42 | HEALTH | "STRANGE DAYS (1999)" | single | Dismay is a powertool; |
| 43 | Funeral Advantage | "Black House" | single | trap us, we regroup; |
| 44 | J2 | "End of the World" | single | this is never over. |
| 45 | Bustamante | "Héroes" | single | Productive heroism requires really only one rule: term limits. |
| 46 | Maryland | "Gracia" | single | What hope allows, |
| 47 | MONO | "Meet Us Where the Night Ends" | single | dedication builds. |
| 48 | The End Of The Ocean | "jubilant" | -aire | So breathe, |
| 49 | We Deserve This | "Quad Files" | Black Tape 4 | breathe, |
| 50 | Endless Dive | "Wading Pool" | Falltime | don't stop breathing yet. |
| 51 | Gloria Trevi | "Vas A Recordarme" | single | Almost time to start again. |
| 52 | Cyndi Lauper | "Together" | Marea Bulgārealā 2 | Almost time to make things up again, |
| 53 | Methyl Ethel | "Trip the Mains" | single | to try some ideas that haven't already not worked. |
| 54 | Svart katt | "Alldeles för sent alldeles för länge" | Allt blir nog bra 6 | Almost and always. |
| 55 | DREAMCATCHER | "Over the Sky" | Over the Sky +1 | Other people's shiny music is a terrible source of specific laws, |
| 56 | OOMPH! | "Trümmerkinder" | Ritual | but a great source of case-study heraldry. |
| 57 | Ewigheim | "C'est la vie" | Irrlichter | The easiest treatment for ignorant smugness is knowing more things that you don't understand. |
| 58 | Perkele | "Leaders of Tomorrow" | Leaders of Tomorrow | Learning to lead is symptomatic; |
| 59 | Alice Merton | "Learn to Live" | single | learn to live and you will not live alone. |
| 60 | Mayonnaise | "Gusto ko Lang" | Gusto ko Lang +2 | The temperature inside another heart |
| 61 | Jo Black | "Voel Jy Die Genade" | single | is always the same as yours. |
| 62 | Juliana Hatfield | "Do It to Music" | Weird | None of this has ever been anything but |
| 63 | Noisem | "Eyes Pried Open" | single | scaffolding for joy. |
| 64 | Waterstrider | "Weaker One" | single | Fragility is a terrible medium for complacency, |
| 65 | Tanya Tagaq | "Snowblind" | single | but a fertile incubator for escapees from complacency's regimes. |
| 66 | Lemuria | "A Dream That Never Came" | The Hysterical Hunt | We hoped for so many things; |
| 67 | Frances Cone | "Arizona" | Late Riser | you can feel foolish, or you can say "now we have this list". |
| 68 | Chontaraz | "Ra Fa El" | single | Hope was never enough, |
| 69 | ROTTENGRAFFTY | "寂寞 -sekibaku-" | PLAY | but now you see why it was always necessary. |
| 70 | Happiness | "POWER GIRLS" | single | The more people get the power, the more humane the power inevitably becomes. |