1 |
BABYMETAL |
"Arkadia" |
METAL GALAXY |
We can be glorious. |
2 |
MEMAI SIREN |
"Nijimu Sabiiro" |
Nijimu Sabiiro / Ajisai 3 |
Every day we do not spend gloriously is a choice we have made to indulge our self-doubt. |
3 |
SOL |
"Caelestis." |
SEQUENCE2 5 |
All of those stars are saying "You are close enough to limitless." |
4 |
Unleash The Archers |
"Heartless World" |
single |
If you can avoid being wrong with earnest effort, |
5 |
Ethereal Kingdoms |
"Beginnings" |
Hollow Mirror |
as is often quite possible, |
6 |
Dream State |
"Twenty Letters" |
single |
it's usually a good idea, |
7 |
Cathubodua |
"Hero of Ages" |
single |
not invariably but at least generally, |
8 |
Lacuna Coil |
"Black Feathers (Bonus track)" |
Black Anima |
but of course it doesn't always work. |
9 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"Crooked Halo" |
Crooked Halo 5 |
You can't always be right through belief. |
10 |
Ivy Crown |
"That's What You Do (feat. Jesper Gün)" |
single |
You can't always stay right once you've been right. |
11 |
Infected Rain |
"Black Gold" |
single |
There's not always a right to be, |
12 |
Tai Sui |
"Devito" |
single |
not always even a coherent state to occupy. |
13 |
Phantogram |
"In A Spiral" |
single |
Sometimes you can only know your position or its significance. |
14 |
Halo at Yojohan |
"ナラク" |
single |
Sometimes you can only know that you are in love with something |
15 |
Straightener |
"STNR Rock and Roll" |
Blank Map 5 |
and that it circles through notes like your heart operates by spinning, |
16 |
teto |
"蜩" |
single |
and the spinning deflects your movements |
17 |
Cloque. |
"モノクローム" |
モノクローム +2 |
and you end up in somebody else's car or garden or arms. |
18 |
grumble grumble |
"sea" |
ao 3 |
And you say "Please excuse me, glory is chaotic |
19 |
the pillows |
"Happy Go Ducky!" |
Happy Go Ducky! +1 |
or chaos is majestic, I always forget which it is, |
20 |
The Beatmotors |
"Kenchan" |
single |
I had a mnemonic until I started collecting mnemonics, |
21 |
Hachioji P |
"MARIN ECHO" |
single |
but we will remember how it felt |
22 |
IA |
"Soundless Refrain" |
single |
long after and if we have gone back to our lives, |
23 |
AIRFLIP |
"Fly Away" |
NEO-N |
and understood that our lives are never quite individually owned." |
24 |
Sleep Token |
"The Offering" |
Sugar |
One of these sigils confers invulnerability, |
25 |
Leprous |
"Distant Bells" |
single |
and one makes pears taste like algebra. |
26 |
Vanden Plas |
"The Phantoms Of Prends-Toi-Garde" |
The Ghost Xperiment - Awakening |
And you think "I am afraid of so many things, |
27 |
The Unity |
"Welcome Home" |
single |
but how would it work to be invulnerable while everybody else is drowning, |
28 |
The Ferrymen |
"Don't Stand in My Way" |
A New Evil |
and does invulnerable cover drowning or do you end up at the bottom of the ocean |
29 |
Degreed |
"Sex" |
single |
effortlessly fending off lobsters but unable to resurface?" |
30 |
Eclipse |
"Mary Leigh" |
Paradigm |
And does wanting the things you get make them more glorious or less? |
31 |
Solar Storm |
"Frozen Sky" |
single |
And if they taste like algebra when they're raw, does that mean we can find out what algebra tastes like cooked? |
32 |
Massemord |
"The Age of the Wolf" |
single |
We began huddled in caves, |
33 |
Cloak |
"A Voice in the Night" |
single |
but then we realized how much we could make by Airbnbing them, |
34 |
King |
"Beyond the Exosphere" |
single |
and so we accidentally learned to travel by inviting travelers to come. |
35 |
Entrails |
"For Hell" |
Rise of the Reaper |
Thinking about your darkness as a machine to be operated by untrained strangers |
36 |
Noctem |
"Coven" |
single |
is a methodology for spell-breaking, |
37 |
Shadecrown |
"Not Until the End" |
Riven |
and spell-breaking only seems like witch-hunting if you ultimately believe you are charmed. |
38 |
Shrine |
"Gaia" |
Quintessence |
And although you can't always be right, |
39 |
Munknörr |
"Sigel" |
single |
you can always bound your righteousness. |
40 |
Debler |
"Nunca Jamás" |
Adictium |
You can always assume that your correctness, however fractional or vast, |
41 |
Nunatak |
"Quiero que arda" |
single |
drifts in a larger space. |
42 |
Presumido |
"El Rey Azotado (Verano)" |
Cuatro Estaciones |
You are glorious, |
43 |
Messura |
"Soma" |
Animal |
and thus you can always choose not to be petty. |
44 |
Funicular |
"Ya no me importan" |
single |
You can always stipulate the things you have fought both for and against, |
45 |
The Anix |
"Enemy In The Mirror" |
Hologram |
and then see what version of yourself transcends them. |
46 |
Aye, The Anchor |
"Homebound" |
single |
The stars are saying "Hold still its...hard to talk to you when you're...spinning and far away." |
47 |
The XCERTS |
"Growing Old" |
single |
Light is slow, but patient, |
48 |
GRMLN |
"Skeleton" |
Skeleton // High 2 |
and love obeys similar physics. |
49 |
Melendi |
"Por Encima de la Bruma" |
single |
Cosmologically, synchronizing our orbits is the hard part, |
50 |
Simple Plan |
"Where I Belong (feat. We The Kings)" |
single |
and we get that for free, |
51 |
I Botanici |
"Quarantadue" |
Origami |
or close to free, or close to close. |
52 |
Fleur De Lys |
"Gad i Mi Drio" |
O Mi Awn Ni Am Dro |
You can almost see Cardiff from Provincetown. |
53 |
Anita Tsoy |
"Karate" |
Karate +1 |
Water is deep but impressionable, |
54 |
LOTTE |
"Zuhause für mich" |
Glück |
and tolerates our coastlines and transits. |
55 |
Souad Massi |
"Yadra" |
Oumniya |
You can hear every song, |
56 |
Julien Baker |
"Tokyo" |
Tokyo +1 |
if you are willing to trade one of your own words for each of them, |
57 |
Planetshakers |
"Escolho A Ti" |
single |
but if you think your words are precious, |
58 |
Hillsong Worship |
"Awake My Soul" |
Awake |
you don't understand how they work. |
59 |
Emptyset |
"Blossom" |
Blossoms |
There are missionaries on the train platform, and after a while you'd think they'd notice that they are repeatedly shouted down by trains. |
60 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Cortex" |
Nexus |
But it is hard to listen when you think a God has commanded you to talk. |
61 |
Kali Mutsa |
"HAYAKO HAYAKO" |
single |
This is what it sounds like when the gods fight amongst themselves. |
62 |
San Scout |
"I Can't Leave the House (Soap; Doctored)" |
The Pharmacy |
This is what it sounds like when we leave them to it. |
63 |
Moa Pillar |
"THING" |
Well-Balanced Rollback |
We can be careful, which is the productive opposite of omnipotent. |
64 |
AKKOGORILLA |
"Cho-Futsu" |
single |
We sent the stars a golden record with some Bach and a Peruvian wedding song, |
65 |
Mary Mortem |
"Admirer of Life" |
single |
and they said "Hey, thanks for the thing, but you people literally never shut up, |
66 |
Braz_OS |
"Soft-Blocked My Creator" |
DIZZY PUNCH |
and you're way more interesting when you aren't trying to patronize yourselves |
67 |
Randa |
"Toughen Up" |
single |
by simultaneously anthropomorphizing and infantilizing the rest of us. |
68 |
Lil Darkie |
"MAKE A MILITIA" |
single |
You know how you have radio telescopes? We've been listening to the streams |
69 |
7xvn |
"Concussion" |
single |
from inside your heads. |
70 |
Easter |
"Muscle" |
single |
Silence is an evil gas inside of you. |
71 |
Scorcher |
"Sandpit" |
single |
What did you think we were going to say? 'A civilization? Can you summarize it in an hour and a half?' |
72 |
Krept |
"Morley's Freestyle" |
single |
Do you get up and go out into your streets and sing the same Peruvian wedding song to yourself? |
73 |
Doll Skin |
"Shake It Out" |
single |
Look up. We know all of your songs. We are limitless, we hear it all. |
74 |
First to Eleven |
"Mr. Brightside" |
single |
It starts with a kiss |
75 |
Nightcore by Halocene |
"IDGAF" |
Nightcore Cene: V2 |
but we know you know it doesn't end there. |
76 |
Gary Numan |
"Down in the Park - Early Version" |
Replicas - The First Recordings |
We're not commanding you to do anything, |
77 |
Parry Gripp |
"Ice Cream Tiger" |
single |
we're just waiting up here for you to join us." |