1 |
The Neptune Power Federation |
"I'll Make a Man out of You" |
Memoirs of a Rat Queen |
Somewhere your world is beginning with this the way mine began with "Godzilla" and "Iron Man", |
2 |
Memoremains |
"Sorry" |
single |
but with wireless wires running from Finland straight to your ears, |
3 |
Alia Tempora |
"Dragonfly Effect" |
Dragonfly Effect |
and I won't pretend to totally understand what that changes. |
4 |
Delain |
"Burning Bridges" |
single |
So many of the things that were obscure to me will be present to you, |
5 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"Alone" |
single |
so much that I dreamed of will be free to you. |
6 |
Neverlight |
"Trapped" |
single |
And yes, some of what was free to me will be dear to you, |
7 |
Xiphea |
"The Cave Of The Golden Rose - Part II - A Truth Awakens" |
single |
or some of what seemed free to us has costs we all now recognize. |
8 |
Monica Naranjo |
"Libre Amar" |
single |
You will stream our nostalgia and delusions like they're new, |
9 |
PassCode |
"GOLDEN FIRE" |
ATLAS 4 |
or like everything is now timeless, |
10 |
BABYMETAL |
"Shanti Shanti Shanti" |
Shanti Shanti Shanti / Elevator Girl (English Version) / PA PA YA!! / Starlight 4 |
like we are a flashmob wherever we go. |
11 |
Do As Infinity |
"Engine" |
Do As Infinity |
We have tried to convert plastic and airplanes into love, |
12 |
GANG PARADE |
"らびゅ" |
LOVE PARADE |
and this has consequences we have yet to bound, |
13 |
Lucia |
"Deep emotion" |
single |
but mostly because it was successful beyond all sustainable expectations. |
14 |
Zwei |
"Tsubasanakimono" |
There is only love |
We have brought about this potential cartoon apocalypse |
15 |
HAMIDASYSTEM |
"Sonzai Shinai Zonzai na Ai" |
single |
by the will to see ourselves as heroic abstractions |
16 |
monogatari |
"for Me" |
single |
and a frenetic attention to edge detection. |
17 |
tricot |
"あふれる" |
あふれる +2 |
Everything we set free leaves us with more scaffolding |
18 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"No.005" |
single |
and less weight. |
19 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"大福" |
Wanderer |
We have these legends of how we learned to walk on the surface of the rising seas, |
20 |
Sunrise In My Attache Case |
"Fireworks" |
Fireworks |
and you have laws intended to protect you from things you don't even want. |
21 |
BBHF |
"Nani mo Shiranai" |
single |
We have photographs of ourselves looking to our right, |
22 |
AIRFLIP |
"Canvas" |
single |
and you have filters to make us look like we were bathed in chemicals nobody decants any more. |
23 |
The Mirraz |
"Lonsdaleite" |
single |
You will have elevated streets that can be flooded on demand, |
24 |
Excalion |
"Sunshine Path" |
Emotions |
and some way for that to be triumphant. |
25 |
Trick or Treat |
"Libra: One Hundred Dragons Force" |
single |
You will have dragons, |
26 |
DragonForce |
"Cosmic Power of the Infinite Shred Machine" |
Extreme Power Metal |
and patience for our questions: |
27 |
Epidemia |
"Вне правил" |
Вне правил +2 |
Did you learn their language or did the dragons learn ours? |
28 |
Utmarken |
"Svåra år" |
single |
Was there a period of despair before it became clear how you would survive? |
29 |
Vorna |
"Toinen" |
Sateet palata saavat |
Did the seed vaults flood |
30 |
Cyhra |
"Out Of My Life" |
single |
before or after we learned how to make better plants? |
31 |
Supper Moment |
"點滴 (2019)" |
single |
Did we save one city at a time, or all of this at once? |
32 |
Alcest |
"Sapphire" |
single |
Did our angels forgive us, |
33 |
Obsequiae |
"Ceres in Emerald Streams" |
single |
or join us to accept our guilt as their own? |
34 |
Netherbird |
"The Obsidian White" |
Into The Vast Uncharted |
What monuments remain from the once unknown, |
35 |
E-L-R |
"Lunar Nights" |
Mænad |
from the decadent ages of the moon as metaphor, |
36 |
Merta |
"Hauras" |
single |
to comprise a telicity of yearning |
37 |
Nebula Orionis |
"Ashes" |
Ashes 5 |
in a post-wishful epoch? |
38 |
Street Sects |
"Tomorrow is a Trap" |
single |
Tomorrow is a trap, but not a new trap. |
39 |
7xvn |
"Life Sentence" |
single |
The walls we build are paper dividers, good only for notional assignment of subspaces to temporary roles: |
40 |
Ados |
"AGA" |
single |
this will be the space in which we fear the people who know themselves, |
41 |
Sarkodie |
"Saara" |
single |
this will be where we forget where we came from, |
42 |
Sne Zungu |
"Ng'khumbul' Emakhaya" |
single |
this will be where we dance despite ourselves. |
43 |
sleepyhead |
"endroll" |
endroll +3 |
Like the daylight and all the schemes of deception, |
44 |
Jimmy Eat World |
"Love Never" |
single |
the fear will end. |
45 |
Veridian |
"Halo" |
single |
We were never chosen, |
46 |
Agsunta |
"Lokomotor" |
single |
but this means we are subject to none of those petulant laws designed to expose us |
47 |
Onlap |
"Numb" |
single |
as wanting to feel different |
48 |
Nightly |
"this time last year" |
single |
when we have always been the same. |
49 |
The People The Poet |
"Dead Alive" |
single |
We made all these movies in which we escape with such aplomb in cars; |
50 |
Lifeway Kids |
"All Access" |
Best of CentriKids Camps Worship 2 |
we might as well have planned our cities around saddling dinosaurs. |
51 |
Magnapop |
"Dog on the Door" |
The Circle is Round |
Belief is an inefficient but renewable energy, |
52 |
Team Dresch |
"Your Hands My Pockets" |
Your Hands My Pockets +1 |
with the structural advantage and danger |
53 |
lilly among clouds |
"Closeness" |
Green Flash |
that it can travel undimished through open space. |
54 |
HÄMÄRÄ |
"Kuvio" |
single |
We can now sell darkness in sleepless markets, |
55 |
Kalie Shorr |
"Alice in Wonderland" |
Open Book |
and that makes us think our home is the origin of light, |
56 |
Lauren Davidson |
"Soaking up Every Second" |
single |
and that we invented porches because three steps up is enough |
57 |
Tenille Arts |
"Somebody Like That" |
single |
distance. |
58 |
Tiffany |
"Waste of Time" |
single |
At least you finally no longer think we're alone, |
59 |
Walk Off the Earth |
"Home Alone" |
single |
or that isolation is the answer. |
60 |
Simone Tomassini |
"Ovunque" |
single |
You will preserve these lines as beautiful, |
61 |
Boreale |
"Niente" |
single |
as rueful maps of regret, |
62 |
Kolme Sanaa |
"Kaikki Tääl Palaa" |
single |
or serenely circuitous routes of return. |
63 |
Doom Unit |
"Black Day Comes" |
single |
We will sing you these songs that all mean "We just didn't know". |
64 |
H.E.A.T |
"One by One" |
single |
We knew things were important, but we thought it was other things; |
65 |
Sixx:A.M. |
"Talk to Me" |
single |
we were right about power |
66 |
Honeymoon Suite |
"Tell Me What You Want" |
single |
but wrong about energy, and of course wrong about desire. |
67 |
The Neptune Power Federation |
"Watch Our Masters Bleed" |
Memoirs of a Rat Queen |
Your world will begin with all the parts from our ruins, |
68 |
Nightcore by Halocene |
"You Should See Me in a Crown" |
Nightcore: Billie Eilish 4 |
ready to be reassembled into innumerable preferable realms. |
69 |
Nightcore Reality |
"Remember When" |
single |
We give you once-catalystic transgressions that will be your inert and decorative orthodoxies, |
70 |
Meghan Trainor |
"I'll Be There for You ("Friends" 25th Anniversary)" |
single |
but none of your ideas can really be any worse than ours. |