1 |
Shamir |
"On My Own" |
single |
It is in the resourceful nature of entropy to diversify. |
2 |
DYNO |
"Changes" |
single |
Victories of sense are necessarily localized, |
3 |
Scarlxrd |
"CXLD BLXXDED." |
FANTASY VXID; SUMMER. |
victories of chaos have the luxury of dissipation. |
4 |
Dua Saleh |
"umbrellar" |
ROSETTA 6 |
Trump is an ideal champion of chaos, since he has no appreciable attention span |
5 |
Azealia Banks |
"Black Madonna" |
single |
and all his thoughts are strictly superficial. |
6 |
Lady Leshurr |
"Lockdown" |
Quaranqueen |
All of his turgid momentum is directed in the paths of least resistance and least consideration, |
7 |
Dua Saleh |
"body cast" |
single |
towards bankruptcy in a bilious variety of logistical and moral forms. |
8 |
Dounia |
"Best Bad Influence" |
single |
He will not wear a mask, |
9 |
Mischa |
"Alpha Barbie" |
single |
because it requires effort |
10 |
Mic Righteous |
"Painless" |
Suicycle |
and implies responsibility, |
11 |
FEVER 333 |
"SUPREMACY" |
single |
and both effort and responsibility are inimical to narcissistic simpletony. |
12 |
Wstdyth |
"Dead Worlds" |
single |
But blaming our social dysfunction on Trump is like driving a bus off a cliff and then blaming the front tires |
13 |
familypet |
"comfortable lie" |
single |
because they bragged about leaving the road. |
14 |
daniels gone |
"rep-e-ti-tion" |
single |
Trump did not drive this bus. |
15 |
yung van |
"I Just Set Fire to My Room" |
single |
All you have to do is watch Trump sitting in a firetruck driver's seat for five seconds |
16 |
DaVinChe |
"Paperchase" |
Dirty Canvas: The Legacy |
and you can tell he once dreamed of driving vehicles when he grew up |
17 |
Nihiloxica |
"Supuki" |
Kaloli |
and then never bothered |
18 |
MC Yallah |
"Mama Waliwamanyii" |
single |
because driving and growing up and caring whether other people's fires burn or are extinguished |
19 |
Busi Mhlongo |
"Yapheli'mali Yami - Live" |
Live @ Awesome Africa Durban 2001 |
all sounded too hard. |
20 |
Sun-El Musician |
"Ubomi Abumanga - Radio Edit" |
single |
Driving is hard, though. This part is correct. |
21 |
ChocQuibTown |
"Vuelve" |
ChocQuib House |
Developing the abilities to gauge distances and speeds |
22 |
Edurne |
"Demasiado Tarde" |
Catarsis |
and appreciate nuance and difference |
23 |
Luiza Nis |
"The Hours" |
single |
are all hard. |
24 |
Despistaos |
"Cada dos minutos (feat. Marta Soto)" |
single |
The highest rates for bad money |
25 |
Arde Bogotá |
"Virtud y Castigo" |
El Tiempo y la Actitud 5 |
come from exchanging it for complacency |
26 |
Paty Cantú |
"No Hacemos Nada" |
single |
or denial: |
27 |
Aleks Syntek |
"El Camino - Desde Casa" |
single |
golf carts |
28 |
Reik |
"La Bella y la Bestia" |
single |
or ketchup. |
29 |
Rulo y la contrabanda |
"Todavía (feat. Álvaro Urquijo & Los Secretos)" |
single |
These things also sound hard: |
30 |
Kirkkovene |
"Roviolla" |
single |
holding off a pandemic long enough to reach a vaccine with 2020 technology; |
31 |
Moonlight Haze |
"Lunaris" |
Lunaris |
reinventing a national approach to "law enforcement" |
32 |
Memoremains |
"Bring It On" |
single |
without changing most of the laws |
33 |
Smackbound |
"Hey Motherfuckers" |
20/20 |
and most of the history that produced them. |
34 |
The Sounds |
"Dim The Lights" |
Things We Do For Love |
reaching the open-heartedness imprisoned inside of a racist |
35 |
Carina Dahl |
"Sirkus" |
single |
through the protective layer of skin |
36 |
Young Ejecta |
"Call My Name" |
single |
without succumbing to the self-negating desire to speed the process |
37 |
yeule |
"Eva - George Clanton Remix" |
single |
by blasting it open; |
38 |
Hatchie |
"Sometimes Always" |
Sometimes Always +1 |
teaching seventh grade over Chromebooks; |
39 |
Moyka |
"Kanazawa (Maybe We Don't Have To Go There)" |
Spaces 5 |
losing weight; |
40 |
Maggie Szabo |
"I Don't Need You" |
single |
understanding how we developed an economy based on |
41 |
Carolyn Miller |
"Ain't About That" |
single |
celebrating (and monetizing) weight lost |
42 |
Imogen Clark |
"My Own Worst Enemy" |
single |
and monetizing (and ignoring) excess incurred; |
43 |
Moonlight Social |
"Holding Patterns" |
single |
assessing honestly whether justice protests are making more durable progress this time, |
44 |
Bri Fletcher |
"Stay the Same" |
single |
and if so whether this is partly because we stopped pouring emotional energy |
45 |
Jordan Brooker |
"Next Best Thing" |
single |
into spectator sports for three months; |
46 |
Magnus Karlsson’s Free Fall |
"Kingdom Falls (feat. Renan Zonta)" |
We Are the Night |
supporting the parts of a barely-functional society that barely encourage the people you love |
47 |
Michael Angelo Batio |
"Laser Guided" |
More Machine Than Man |
to do the work that makes them and the rest of us more joyous |
48 |
Breed of Burden |
"Revolution" |
single |
without implicitly perpetuating every toxic -archy whose power-structures are woven through it; |
49 |
Rimortis |
"Peklo, co říká si svět" |
single |
driving without being part of "traffic"; |
50 |
Korpiklaani |
"Shai Shai - Siberia" |
single |
breathing and eating without being part of "consumption"; |
51 |
The HU |
"Sugaan Essena - Original Music from "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order"" |
single |
surviving one more day without being part of somebody else's death; |
52 |
Gealdýr |
"Völuspá" |
single |
nationalizing healthcare; |
53 |
MUCC |
"CRACK" |
Aku |
relying on pathogenic individual corporate profit motives to keep human beings collectively healthy; |
54 |
FROZEN CAKE BAR |
"Dokukaichou" |
KAIJU 3 |
getting people to change their behavior because of things they can't see |
55 |
Ena Fujita |
"DEAD STROKE" |
DEAD STROKE +3 |
with their eyes closed; |
56 |
Akari Kito |
"Drawing a Wish" |
Style |
recovering from natural disasters in regions organized around artificial diasters in the first place; |
57 |
Hanislip |
"Bring It" |
single |
recovering from natural disasters in kingdoms of supposed privilege; |
58 |
teto |
"invisible" |
4 (for) prologue. 4 |
seeing the Himalayas from Punjab; |
59 |
ISCREAM NEVER GROUND |
"Aso Viva Revolution" |
Aso Viva Revolution |
leaving footprints on the moon; |
60 |
Tokyo Motor Fist |
"Around Midnight" |
single |
not leaving footprints on the moon; |
61 |
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST |
"Life is Once" |
single |
using the hierarchically correct Japanese verb-forms for "give" and "receive"; |
62 |
Gaztrea |
"Sunrise" |
single |
giving and receiving |
63 |
NOISEMAKER |
"Spineless Black" |
single |
and not just constantly screaming all of the time |
64 |
Atelier ladybird |
"egoism" |
single |
because everything about our existences is so precarious and complicated. |
65 |
RADWIMPS |
"Catharsist" |
Catharsist +1 |
Among our many particular but hardly unique American problems |
66 |
KEN |
"Love U" |
single |
is that our existing channels for asserting neglected rights, |
67 |
Bullet Train |
"Stand up" |
Stand up +2 |
our public bodies best positioned to respond on the behalf of our representative goverment, |
68 |
FAKY |
"Re:Surrender" |
single |
and our logistical mechanisms for making structural social and legistlative changes |
69 |
Mabe Fratti |
"Aire" |
single |
are all fundamentally disconnected from each other and from everything else to which they inevitably connect. |
70 |
Noveller |
"Effektology" |
Arrow |
Thus a disenfranchised people is driven out into the streets in throngs in the middle of a pandemic. |
71 |
NIGHT TRAVELER |
"Put Your Money on Me" |
single |
Thus our idiot President issues edicts about things that aren't even under his control, |
72 |
Woodkid |
"Pale Yellow" |
single |
and his complaisant Senate won't remove him for patently having no fucking idea what his job even is, |
73 |
Wrest |
"Blood" |
single |
never mind how to do it. |
74 |
Behold... The Arctopus |
"Blessing In Disgust" |
Hapeleptic Overtrove |
Thus nominally participatory democracy is reduced to picking oligarchs by color, |
75 |
Calór |
"Ebu" |
Ambivalent 2 |
and complex policy initiatives and non-trivial moral premises are reduced to sloganeering. |
76 |
Alex Yarmak |
"Nightdrive" |
single |
Our entire way of life has a loose connection to its desired outcomes |
77 |
Paralydium |
"Synergy" |
Worlds Beyond |
in the same suggestively symptomatic sense of "loose" as loose stools, |
78 |
sleepmakeswaves |
"Pyramids" |
single |
and as a result most of our reactive responses to problems amount to |
79 |
Fermentor |
"Mechanism" |
single |
yelling at people to tighten up their own shit. |
80 |
Uada |
"Djinn" |
single |
Demanding, of others or yourself, the micromanaging of the operation of your internal organs is not a plan. |
81 |
Ulthar |
"Undying Spear" |
Providence |
Nobody wins any war between soiled flags |
82 |
Dispyt |
"Min sanna vän" |
Min sanna vän / svept i vita lakan 2 |
except the people selling you flag-soap |
83 |
Gaerea |
"To Ain" |
single |
and whatever invasive weeds have cultivated the cynical ability to fix nitrogen out of soil into which blood has soaked. |
84 |
Humanity's Last Breath |
"Earthless" |
single |
If the revolution fills your streets, |
85 |
Phyllomedusa |
"Turning Away from the Overthrow" |
Turning Away from the Overthrow |
your streets are probably paved with blood and poison. |
86 |
Voidceremony |
"Sacrosanct Delusions" |
single |
But then, our streets are always paved with blood and poison, |
87 |
KYOTY |
"Isolation: Memory" |
single |
because everything we make is infused with our weaknesses and our vulnerabilities and our conflicts, |
88 |
The Blue Nile |
"Wasted" |
High |
but everything is also endowed with our inalienable ebullience and inventiveness, |
89 |
Manic Street Preachers |
"Comfort Comes - Remastered" |
Gold Against the Soul (Remastered) |
and thus also paved with promise and potential and the pressure of all of our feet walking in the same direction even if it's only for an hour at a time. |
90 |
Thou |
"Supernaut" |
single |
All of our streets, full or empty, |
91 |
Soulspell |
"My Heart Will Go On" |
single |
named for slave-traders or martyrs of liberation or bureaucrats of systemic reform, |
92 |
The Veer Union |
"Circles (Acoustic)" |
Covers Collection, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition) |
lead windingly through the chaos, and traverse the daring passes, |
93 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"Iris" |
single |
and end -- and so also begin -- at the doors of our homes. |