1 |
Nightwish |
"Harvest" |
Harvest +1 |
As bad as this is probably going to be, this is the practice pandemic. |
2 |
Dixie Chicks |
"Gaslighter" |
single |
We need, as humans, at least the following things: |
3 |
Burning Witches |
"The Sisters of Fate" |
Dance with the Devil |
an enthusiastic willingness to be guided by science; |
4 |
Allen/Olzon |
"My Enemy" |
Worlds Apart |
fast distribution of truth; |
5 |
Beyond The Black |
"Misery" |
single |
public honesty by broadcast voices; |
6 |
Crystal Ignite |
"Black Mamba" |
single |
ruthless shared math; |
7 |
Xtasy |
"Eye of the Storm" |
Eye of the Storm |
acceptance that borders are a fiction situated somewhere between illusion and delusion; |
8 |
The Birthday Massacre |
"The Last Goodbye" |
single |
vaccine and counter-measure development and deployment in days, not months; |
9 |
Alter Noir |
"Uhri" |
single |
competent hand-washing; |
10 |
Neverlight |
"Thirteen Nails" |
single |
a social structure that doesn't punish individuals for contributing to collective need |
11 |
Sertraline |
"Inside Out" |
single |
or rely on discretionary sacrifice to achieve collective goals; |
12 |
Semblant |
"Left Behind" |
Obscura |
political leaders who know more tactics than just denial and bankruptcy; |
13 |
Fallcie |
"Your Own Misery" |
Bad Blood |
the willingness to prepare for the possible |
14 |
Noxfilia |
"Carne de Cañón" |
single |
as well as the convenient; |
15 |
Lovebites |
"Holy War" |
single |
control over the implications of our environment on our infrastructure; |
16 |
FAKE ISLAND |
"All At Once" |
Cell Division |
an eagerness to account for consequences; |
17 |
BANZAI JAPAN |
"BANZAI SANSYOU" |
BANZAI SANSHYO 3 |
an empathetic storytelling of the vulnerable |
18 |
WAGAMAMA RAKIA |
"rain" |
single |
and our culpability for their state; |
19 |
DREAMCATCHER |
"Endless Night" |
single |
medicine against invisible contagions, biological and emotional; |
20 |
ぁぃぁぃ |
"透徹論" |
冬来りなば春遠からじ。 6 |
the ability to recognize ourselves in every other face; |
21 |
ももすももす |
"火星よ、こんにちは" |
彗星吟遊 |
a cleaner way to acknowledge strangers; |
22 |
Pimm's |
"HELLO" |
single |
sustainable methods for transmitting joy across distances, |
23 |
raymay |
"DANGER ZONE" |
single |
whether social or geographic or political; |
24 |
goomiey |
"夜のせいに" |
ゼロドラマ 6 |
capacity for embracing the formerly anomalous as integral; |
25 |
WEEKEND MEETING |
"Meria" |
One's first WEEKEND MEETING 5 |
more tests, more testing; |
26 |
レルエ |
"あふれる" |
Eureka 5 |
more masks, less anonymity; |
27 |
HAIM |
"The Steps" |
The Steps +3 |
methods for communal decision-making; |
28 |
CLEWS |
"Feel" |
single |
distributed communities based around more than flags or sponsors; |
29 |
Overcoats |
"YJSTS" |
The Fight |
an economy that reacts to disruption with compensation, |
30 |
The Aces |
"Daydream" |
single |
rather than fear with distortion; |
31 |
Amy Lou |
"Tonic Wine" |
single |
room for the tired to lie down; |
32 |
PVRIS |
"Dead Weight" |
single |
songs of defiance and resolve; |
33 |
Phantogram |
"Love Me Now" |
Ceremony |
clear instructions about what actually matters and why. |
34 |
Orchards |
"Magical Thinking" |
single |
Many of these we lack, |
35 |
Press Club |
"Insecurities" |
Insecurities +2 |
completely or significantly, |
36 |
Salt Ashes |
"solo" |
counting crosses 4 |
and we will now and imminently suffer for this in both symbolic and corporeal ways. |
37 |
Kleerup |
"TRU" |
2 |
This is not a drill or a simulation, |
38 |
Myrkur |
"Gudernes Vilje" |
single |
and it will cause both obvious and insidious damage. |
39 |
Khymera |
"Master of Illusions" |
Master of Illusions |
But it will probably not destroy us. |
40 |
Astropålido |
"Último Asalto" |
single |
The next one, however, could be horrifically worse. |
41 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"Vigilantes del Espejo" |
single |
The next viral pandemic could have a 10% longer incubation time and a 10% higher fatality rate, |
42 |
Conception |
"Waywardly Broken" |
single |
and that would be enough to kill millions more. |
43 |
Ghost Toast |
"Eclipse" |
Shape Without Form |
We are not just fighting this outbreak, |
44 |
Dool |
"Wolf Moon" |
single |
we are stress-testing our species |
45 |
Naglfar |
"Cerecloth" |
single |
and its adaptations. |
46 |
Vredehammer |
"Suffocate All Light" |
Viperous |
The next one will be worse, |
47 |
Atavist |
"Self-Realisation" |
single |
but also, |
48 |
DaizyStripper |
"INFINITY" |
INFINITY【通常盤】 |
the "next" one was already circulating |
49 |
utsusemi |
"Mukuro" |
Mukuro +1 |
in warm ocean currents |
50 |
LM.C |
"No Emotion" |
single |
and tornado-conducive air. |
51 |
Diaura |
"ENVY" |
ENVY (通常盤) C Tyte 3 |
Trump is attempting, in the face of a pandemic, |
52 |
己龍 |
"kogarashisairoku" |
watashimamire 3 |
those same two tactics he always used in business: |
53 |
The Micro Head 4N's |
"VOLCANATION" |
single |
repeated belligerent denial right up to the point of collapse, |
54 |
Hue's |
"I Love You" |
I Love You +3 |
and then bankruptcy. |
55 |
Ashnikko |
"Tantrum" |
single |
The bankruptcy provisions in a pandemic are simple: |
56 |
Merta |
"Tasapainossa" |
Kokonainen |
most of us get sick, |
57 |
Musta orkidea |
"Odotus" |
Karu |
many of us die, |
58 |
USEME |
"Mindenből a semmibe" |
Üveghegy |
and the lives that do not stop must pause. |
59 |
Código Bushido |
"No Estás Tú, No Estoy Yo" |
single |
But these are his only skills, |
60 |
Edurne |
"Tal Vez" |
single |
his only tiny hands, |
61 |
Malú |
"Cantaré (Cantaremos) (feat. #GirlsGetEqual)" |
single |
and he uses them, helplessly, to paw at everything. |
62 |
Denmark + Winter |
"It Was Only the Rain" |
single |
We needed moral leadership, and we got craven denial. |
63 |
Fotocrime |
"Expulsion from Paradise" |
single |
We needed vision, and we got myopic denial. |
64 |
THICK |
"Sleeping Through the Weekend" |
5 Years Behind |
We needed policy and open-heartedness, |
65 |
Bacchae |
"Say How You Feel" |
Pleasure Vision |
we got a plan to stay safe by clenching our minds. |
66 |
Snarls |
"Twenty" |
Burst |
We needed a true path that leads to survival, |
67 |
Ashley McBryde |
"Sparrow" |
Sparrow 5 |
we got directionless dishonesty. |
68 |
Rachele Lynae |
"Vinyl" |
single |
We will probably beat this virus, |
69 |
Rachel Reinert |
"Secret" |
single |
only to return ourselves, drained, |
70 |
Toni Romiti |
"10 Steps to Get over Your Ex" |
single |
to the same precarious cliff-hanging |
71 |
Caspian Coberly |
"December" |
single |
where we were before this destabilizing distraction. |
72 |
Jared Anthony |
"Bloody Sneakers" |
single |
But now we will know, |
73 |
Donovan Woods |
"Grew Apart" |
single |
if our frantic belated measurse were worth anything, |
74 |
The Fizz |
"The World We Left Behind" |
Smoke & Mirrors |
that action is possible. |
75 |
Mimikry |
"Jag är en sån som förstör" |
single |
We will have a much better idea of which things |
76 |
JPCC Worship |
"Hikari Kagayaku" |
Watashi-No Kibou |
we can do without, |
77 |
ICF Worship |
"Gigantes Cairão" |
single |
what it takes to internalize a social behavior-change, |
78 |
Delta Rae |
"Stronger Than a Lion" |
single |
which frivolous luxuries we have set ourselves up to nearly require, |
79 |
Dans Dans Lisa |
"Kom Ons Raak Weg" |
Skrikkeljaar 5 |
and in dauntingly general how near is nearly. |
80 |
Siirbaz |
"Çocuk Kaldıklarım" |
single |
If we can cancel a basketball season, |
81 |
FTISLAND |
"Sunrise Yellow" |
single |
maybe we can stop burning coal. |
82 |
Dan Bull |
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier: 76" |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier: 76 +1 |
If we can test people without charging them for the privilege of contributing to our common survival, |
83 |
Dima Lancaster |
"Other Side" |
single |
maybe we can see how keeping them alive and well-informed and well the rest of the time is no less pragmatic or decent. |
84 |
The Ever After |
"Dani" |
single |
If we can stay home, with more serenity than loneliness, |
85 |
Thorr |
"Rising Tide" |
Low |
maybe we can think more cogently about what we cause and influence when we go out. |
86 |
Solkyri |
"Holding Pattern" |
Mount Pleasant |
If we can agree that denial and bankruptcy are not the qualities that describe a mythical past, |
87 |
Sinius |
"Ectenic Force" |
Etheric Revenants |
maybe we can agree to demand better qualities from our leaders in the future. |
88 |
Hilary Woods |
"The Mouth" |
single |
If we can wash our hands for 20 seconds, |
89 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Arduous Clarity" |
single |
singing a thousand different verses to ourselves, |
90 |
Ian William Craig |
"Comma" |
single |
maybe when the chorus comes, |
91 |
Lauren Babic |
"Since U Been Gone" |
single |
we will hear what it sings to us about ourselves: |
92 |
First to Eleven |
"Falling" |
single |
chords of our responsibilities, |
93 |
Her Chariot Awaits |
"Constant Craving" |
single |
arpeggios our blamelessnesses |
94 |
In Flames |
"Deep Inside (Arcade Version)" |
I, The Mask (Arcade Version) |
resolutions of our potential. |
95 |
AURORA |
"Into the Unknown" |
single |
Maybe these days of cacophonous stillness will turn out to have proven to us some of the things we need to believe to survive. |