1 |
MUNA |
"Who" |
Who +1 |
Sources of certainty outnumber needs for certainty. |
2 |
Blanck Mass |
"No Dice" |
single |
Economics suggests that this would drive down the price of certainty, |
3 |
Haiku Salut |
"Traction" |
single |
and indeed the low quality of ambient human certainty seems consistent with compensation inadequate to cover its costs. |
4 |
Sacramence |
"Everswallower II" |
Lovers Seek Dominance |
Conversely, the human demand for joy approaches the amount of waking human time, |
5 |
Poppy |
"Meat" |
Choke 5 |
and it is impossible to spend all of our time creating new contexts for joy, |
6 |
Aisha Devi |
"Uupar-Theory" |
single |
and this is why we have language and art and cuisine |
7 |
ONUKA |
"ZENIT" |
single |
instead of just soylent and lubricant. |
8 |
Moaan Exis |
"Overwatching Chaos" |
POSTMODERN THERAPY |
Spurious certainty is used to withhold joy, |
9 |
Lingua Ignota |
"DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR" |
single |
as is money and power and fear, |
10 |
PRXJEK |
"KillMeComeTry" |
single |
in order to establish an artificial scarcity |
11 |
Ados |
"AYI" |
single |
for the benefit of people who never learned to receive joy from anything other than dominance |
12 |
7xvn |
"Bodied" |
single |
and bilious food and euphemized prostitution. |
13 |
Torche |
"Admission" |
single |
We will bind their eventual confessions in volumes. |
14 |
Russian Circles |
"Milano" |
single |
Joy will outlive a president whose Library will be only an archive of our dissent. |
15 |
Batushka |
"Liturgiya" |
single |
You can't be a fascist without ideas. |
16 |
Yellow Eyes |
"Light Delusion Curtain" |
Rare Field Ceiling |
My Struggle, My Anger, My Way; Trump's book can only be called My Book, |
17 |
Deitus |
"Via Dolorosa" |
single |
and exists only to have his picture on the front cover and fake praise on the back. |
18 |
Bloodred Hourglass |
"Ask and You Shall Receive" |
Godsend |
This is the Interregnum of Shitty Hats. |
19 |
Amanita Virosa |
"I Walk Away" |
single |
What is the opposite of a dynasty? |
20 |
ACME |
"Mononoke Requiem" |
Mononoke Requiem +1 |
A degeneracy? An atrophasty? |
21 |
HAVAMAL |
"Dawn of the Frost Giants" |
Tales from Yggdrasil |
A collapse. |
22 |
Heilung |
"Galgaldr" |
Futha |
We earned this, this open wound bleeding ignorance, |
23 |
Danheim |
"Bana" |
single |
this petty authoritarianism that oppresses for no higher purpose than to induce sycophancy for its own sake, |
24 |
Hollow Haze |
"Destinations" |
single |
this fecal sculpture of smug rage stuffed into bad suits, |
25 |
Trick or Treat |
"Cancer: Underworld Wave" |
single |
this self-proclaimed builder who has to be told in brightly colored pictures |
26 |
Sabaton |
"Great War" |
single |
that his parade tanks would crush the roads. |
27 |
Hammerfall |
"One Against the World" |
single |
His ralliers cheer for him because he needs nothing from them, |
28 |
Visionatica |
"Roxana, The Great" |
single |
which is exactly what he desperately, gnawingly, bulgingly needs from them. |
29 |
Nemesea |
"Kids with Guns" |
single |
His enablers see a vicarious evocation of power without accountability, |
30 |
Reality Suite |
"Live Now Forever" |
Awaken (Deluxe Edition) |
a Jabba the Hutt in a plastic Darth Vader mask slimmed down just enough to squish into a golf cart, |
31 |
Terra |
"Confidence" |
single |
with an Advisor instead of a captive princess, |
32 |
Elusion |
"Lovelorn" |
Singularity |
although that's stretching the definition of "instead" to the thinness |
33 |
Doll Skin |
"Don’t Cross My Path" |
Love Is Dead And We Killed Her |
of a gold bikini. |
34 |
CYNHN |
"wire" |
タブラチュア |
Jabba and Darth Vader, however, were villains imagined by people who understood heroism. |
35 |
BABYMETAL |
"PA PA YA!!" |
PA PA YA!! / Elevator Girl / Starlight / Distortion 4 |
Trump is a hero imagined by people who don't understand adversity or opportunity. |
36 |
Noboru |
"恋はきっと急上昇☆-Rock Buster-" |
恋はきっと急上昇☆-Rock Buster- +1 |
Jabba would have known who was ramming the ramparts |
37 |
Ena Fujita |
"言えない事は歌の中 - (色者mix)" |
色者 |
and who was defending them, |
38 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"応援歌" |
single |
and would have had a merchant's regret over sinking his own ships to block the harbor. |
39 |
PELICAN FANCLUB |
"100 Years Ago" |
Whitenoise e.p. 4 |
Jabba also had a sense of humor, and better human-resource skills than Trump, |
40 |
Have a Nice Day! |
"Smells Like Teenage Riot" |
single |
and likely a more glorious fate, |
41 |
Marsheaux |
"Alone (all Alone)" |
single |
although the fabulism delta between Trump being subjected to Elizabeth Warren's 2% wealth tax |
42 |
TeamMate |
"Hi." |
single |
and Leia strangling Jabba with his own chain |
43 |
SAINTE |
"Everything Makes Me Sad" |
single |
is probably a few orders of magnitude smaller than the difference |
44 |
tiLLie |
"I Believe In a Thing Called Love" |
single |
between Vader's Death Star and Trump's White House, |
45 |
Ingrid Michaelson |
"Young and in Love" |
Stranger Songs |
between Vader's helmet and Trump's hair, |
46 |
Royal Teeth |
"Time Bomb" |
Hard Luck |
between a ruthless empire and a bully-hobbyist's petty cabal, |
47 |
Modelé Fatale |
"Please, Don't Go" |
single |
between the insidious corruption of power and the straightforward abuse of it, |
48 |
Bleached |
"Rebound City" |
Rebound City +3 |
between occasion for rebellion and the need to just distribute a voting majority with a little more electoral efficiency the second time. |
49 |
The Dollyrots |
"Oblivious" |
single |
Vader blew up a planet not to prove he was serious, which everybody already understood, |
50 |
Carissa Johnson |
"So Far So Good" |
single |
but make sure that his defeat would be just as serious. |
51 |
Marsella |
"Histeria de lo nuestro" |
single |
Trump's attempt to blow up a planet set us back four incredibly dangerous years of emissions reduction, |
52 |
The Beautiful Monument |
"Kintsugi" |
I'm The Reaper |
and four appalling years of human intolerance and moral abdication, |
53 |
Ivy Crown |
"Not Who We Are" |
single |
but his defeat will be mundane. |
54 |
Bloody Hammers |
"Fire in the Dark" |
The Summoning |
There will need to be atonement and apologies, but Trump's evils never had any originality, |
55 |
Skay Beilinson |
"En la Cueva de San Andrés" |
single |
so when he's gone we'll be left with only problems and challenges we already had. |
56 |
Gerry Cinnamon |
"Canter" |
single |
The conclusions we reach out of anything other than joy are never better than dubious, |
57 |
NanowaR of Steel |
"Norwegian Reggaeton" |
single |
and never actually conclusive. |
58 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Neon Knights (Alternate Version) [8-Bit Computer Game Version]" |
The Ultimate Black Sabbath |
Joy is also inconclusive, of course, but on our joyful days we're not trying to end anything, we're just trying to find new ways out of shadow. |