1 |
Ihsahn |
"Manhattan Skyline" |
single |
The obvious regressive telltale in "Make America Great Again" is "Again". |
2 |
Chaos Divine |
"Beacon" |
single |
This is a finite, defeatist aspiration, |
3 |
Fates Warning |
"Scars" |
single |
from a lumpy icon of the finite, |
4 |
Pain of Salvation |
"UNFUTURE" |
PANTHER |
whose only notion of greatness is somebody else's defeat |
5 |
Enslaved |
"Urjotun" |
Urjotun +2 |
for which you can falsely claim credit. |
6 |
Grauen |
"Сквозь бесконечные перерождения" |
single |
Dreams of retreat are solace for the loss of hope |
7 |
Helion Prime |
"Madame Mercury" |
single |
sold to us by merchants who never saw the margin in hope anyway. |
8 |
Vanishing Point |
"Dead Elysium" |
Dead Elysium |
But naturally a material narcissist knows only proclamations of defeat. |
9 |
Silentium |
"Tide" |
Motiva |
Capitalism, to the extent it constitutes an ethos at all, |
10 |
Konomi Suzuki |
"REALIZE" |
OPENING THEME FROM TV SERIES ”RE:ZERO -STARTING LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD-” 2ND SEASON 4 |
is formulated on symbolic defeat, |
11 |
LiSA |
"マコトシヤカ" |
single |
and perfected as lying with gold paint, |
12 |
Devil ANTHEM. |
"Sutoreraido" |
single |
but its rotten moral core is not the artificial zero-sum calculus of value, |
13 |
SHINGEKI |
"Seishunhotaruuta" |
single |
it is the idea that human value is externalizable. |
14 |
BRATS |
"Forget me not" |
single |
Artificial scarcity, artificial value, artificial sacrifice: |
15 |
buzzG |
"Telescope" |
ever after EP 2 |
capitalism is a Hunger Games without centrally-organized pageantry, |
16 |
Malcolm Mask McLaren |
"蛹" |
single |
appropriately hosted by a vain tumescence of thick makeup and thin hair. |
17 |
PEDRO |
"へなちょこ" |
浪漫 |
The opposite of all that begins with the acknowledgement that our survival is collective, |
18 |
Nothing’s Carved In Stone |
"ツバメクリムゾン" |
Futures |
and proceeds lovingly to the tenet that we do not earn our individual humanity through economic acts. |
19 |
時速36km |
"アトム" |
single |
This truth exists whether we elevate or undermine it, |
20 |
ame_no_parade |
"IDENTITY" |
single |
and our survivors will recognize that empires |
21 |
See You Smile |
"Twister" |
single |
and slavery |
22 |
Lonely The Brave |
"Open Door" |
Open Door +2 |
and private health-insurance |
23 |
No Love For The Middle Child |
"Walk Away" |
Walk Away +2 |
are aspects of a single era in barbaric human prehistory |
24 |
Escape the Fate |
"Walk On" |
single |
from which we only emerge by adopting socialism, |
25 |
Perfect Average |
"Liberate" |
single |
not as a brand in a marketplace of interchangeable isms |
26 |
Android-18 |
"'Til They Take My Heart Away" |
single |
but as a minimum standard for civilization, |
27 |
Skies Collide |
"Anthem" |
single |
not as one wing of a crippled bird |
28 |
First to Eleven |
"Fire" |
single |
but as a building code for the living |
29 |
Sershen&Zaritskaya |
"I Was Made for Lovin' You" |
single |
within our structures. |
30 |
Cyan Kicks |
"Beat Of My Heart" |
single |
Attaching socialism to governments allows us to become humane |
31 |
The Catalina |
"La Vie en Rose" |
single |
patchily, applying ointment in tiny, gradual spirals. |
32 |
Terror Jr |
"Dinner Plate" |
single |
But this constructed local myopia is the cultural version of narcissism and capitalism, |
33 |
Katy Perry |
"Daisies" |
Smile |
and the "America" in MAGA is its other useless zero-sum cynicism. |
34 |
KAYE |
"What a Time to Be Alive" |
single |
Just as no individual is morally required to justify their flesh, |
35 |
Kaleida |
"Odyssey" |
Odyssey |
no culture is morally required to earn its identity or representation. |
36 |
St. Vincent |
"New York [Feat. Yoshiki]" |
single |
Me and my people are special, |
37 |
Babi |
"Croton" |
single |
but we are not uniquely special. |
38 |
Sad13 |
"Hysterical" |
single |
Phrased diagnostically, globalism is cultural humility, |
39 |
Maggie Lindemann |
"Knife Under My Pillow" |
single |
embracing your responsibility to stand for qualities, |
40 |
BLOXX |
"Lie Out Loud" |
Lie Out Loud |
not slump into weaknesses |
41 |
Eivør |
"Let It Come" |
Let It Come +2 |
or fall for flags. |
42 |
Charlotte Hatherley |
"Farah's Theme" |
Traveller |
But recast as curiosity, not remediation, |
43 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Durante Una Mirada" |
single |
globalism is the idea that cultures are expanded and enriched by contact; |
44 |
Lontalius |
"Someone Will Be There For You" |
single |
that any culture is, by definition, a collection of adaptations |
45 |
Berried Alive |
"Princess Blanket" |
single |
to weather and frailty, |
46 |
CVLTE |
"bloodbath." |
bloodbath. +1 |
and we always learn something from examples of how other people have taken paths |
47 |
♥ GOJII ♥ |
"Spellbound" |
All My Heart |
that diverge or even just run alongside the only ones we knew; |
48 |
Deli Girls |
"gatekeeper" |
BOSS |
that cultural synergy is how we mutate and evolve as a post-predator species, |
49 |
Loser |
"fruit leather" |
single |
away from bugs, towards angels. |
50 |
Mugxtsu |
"Tape Memory II" |
single |
Globalism both distributes and accumulates joy, |
51 |
Kai Whiston |
"DEAR" |
Dear / Boyei 2 |
in defiance of economy. |
52 |
Bangladeafy |
"Bloom" |
single |
There are no billionaires of joy, |
53 |
Angusraze |
"Interface Overload II" |
Foxmask |
just as every frame of Trump's rictus suggests and confirms, |
54 |
The Virus and Antidote |
"RiceCakes" |
single |
and if you elect a thief who never had to buy or share his own water, |
55 |
clipping. |
"Say the Name" |
single |
your best-case reward is an invitation to a desolate reception catered with red solo cups of your own stolen and unimproved and resold piss. |
56 |
Jess Ray |
"Kindness" |
single |
The nihilist visionary sees farther |
57 |
Annie Bosko |
"Born to Love You" |
single |
by waiting until somebody else kills and buries the giants |
58 |
Jordan Brooker |
"Born Yesterday" |
single |
and then standing on their graves |
59 |
Blue Öyster Cult |
"Box in My Head" |
single |
in two-inch lifts. |
60 |
Dreams of Avalon |
"Run for Cover" |
Beyond the Dream |
Any half-decent human would take one step back, |
61 |
Meridian |
"Out In The Fields" |
single |
and think for half a minute about what it was like to be a giant, |
62 |
Kalmhain |
"Triest Afscheid" |
single |
and why the giants aren't gathered around our graves |
63 |
Aleynmord |
"Spores of Possession" |
The Blinding Light |
thinking about what it was like to be us, |
64 |
Pig Destroyer |
"The Octagonal Stairway" |
The Octagonal Stairway |
but also: what they loved even though it eventually destroyed them, |
65 |
Necrophobic |
"The Infernal Depths of Eternity" |
single |
what they feared even though it could have saved them, |
66 |
Spook the Horses |
"Cell Death" |
Empty Body |
and how they sang, in the dark spaces suspended between the two. |
67 |
Botanist |
"Water" |
single |
A three-fourths-decent human would grasp that as the giants pass into legend |
68 |
The Devil's Trade |
"The Iron Peak" |
The Call of the Iron Peak |
we become stewards of every inumerable way in which we are just like them: |
69 |
Rúnahild |
"Stjernar" |
Astralseid |
our metamorphic skin lined with fissures, |
70 |
Vingnir |
"Dökk hlið" |
single |
our fires kindled with the wood of forests whose extent we did not first acertain, |
71 |
Garmarna |
"Ramunder" |
single |
our pantheons assembled out of privilege and smug exceptionalism, |
72 |
Henrik Palm |
"Nihilist" |
single |
our submarines missing. |
73 |
Viikate |
"Varjorastaat" |
single |
A wholly decent human, if we stipulate their hypothetical existence, |
74 |
Arista Fiera |
"El Breve Romance" |
Cromatismo Doméstico |
looks up from the grave at the rest of the people, |
75 |
Vaya Futuro |
"Luciferina" |
single |
feels them waiting for words, |
76 |
Shamir |
"Running" |
single |
and says something like this: |
77 |
ONR |
"Kill TV (feat. Nile Rodgers)" |
single |
It is time for us to come together. |
78 |
Acceptance |
"Wildfires" |
Wildfires 5 |
We choose surges of persistence over and despite this inevitable eventual fate. |
79 |
The Happy Fits |
"Two of Many" |
What Could Be Better |
This grave is not a trophy of giant-killers, but a thing to remind us that we have a chance to be better |
80 |
Luca Brasi |
"Dying to Feel Alive" |
single |
before we become the same. |
81 |
Hands Like Houses |
"The Water" |
The Water +1 |
We are not a reluctant unity of states, |
82 |
Moa Pillar |
"Volvo" |
Volvo +1 |
we are an infinity of boundlessnesses. |
83 |
Batuk |
"Iyeza" |
Iyeza +2 |
You never know what history will be like |
84 |
Musa |
"Thandiwe" |
single |
until afterwards, and by then it's too late. |
85 |
Nasty C |
"Ababulali" |
Zulu Man With Some Power |
But you are ready. |
86 |
ZiPheko |
"Khanyisa" |
My Love Letter to Africa |
No miracle is coming, thank god. |
87 |
Gobolempundulu |
"Ndazalwa" |
Mahlaledakiwe |
This legend is ours. |
88 |
Ichwane Lebhaca |
"Inkomo Yomqoyiso" |
Amagupta |
This grave awaits us, but the earth spins with no urgency, no purpose. |
89 |
Udumakahle |
"Angimazi Ubaba Wengane" |
Imalini Imfene? 4 |
We are not creatures, we are not scattered tribes. |
90 |
Bouwer Bosch |
"Liefde Love Uthando" |
single |
We are a global society. |
91 |
ENGST |
"Mein Problem" |
single |
To be globalist, and socialist, is to side with humanity |
92 |
Eclipse |
"Viva La Victoria - Live" |
single |
against the darkness. |
93 |
Die Heuwels Fantasties |
"Mis Oor Die See - Live in Lockdown" |
2021 : Live in Lockdown |
We know that deep black hole. |
94 |
Public Enemy |
"Fight The Power: Remix 2020 (feat. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, & Questlove)" |
single |
We are a good and decent people. |
95 |
Tenille Townes |
"Hallelujah" |
single |
And we have a secret chord, and we're going to play it soon. |