1 |
Ayreon |
"Talk of the Town (feat. Paul Manzi, Tommy Karevik, Cammie Gilbert, Patty Gurdy, Joost van den Broek)" |
Talk of the Town 4 |
Five minutes can contain lifetimes, |
2 |
Scardust |
"Tantibus II" |
single |
but the next song still plays. |
3 |
Leaves' Eyes |
"Chain of the Golden Horn" |
Chain of the Golden Horn +1 |
You don't ask songs whether they will accept the passing of time. |
4 |
Amaranthe |
"Archangel" |
Archangel +2 |
We come back from all of these heavens |
5 |
Burning Witches |
"The Circle Of Five" |
single |
and start imagining the next ones. |
6 |
Vicky Psarakis |
"Only for the Weak" |
single |
Song lives are always beginning in hope, |
7 |
MoonSun |
"Never Too Late" |
single |
always pausing in tentative resolution, |
8 |
Neperia |
"Contrast" |
Contrast +1 |
never really ending. |
9 |
Neith |
"The Way You Know" |
single |
Silent lives merely continue, |
10 |
Mezmerized |
"Ready to Go" |
Electrolyze |
declaring airless victory |
11 |
Louna |
"Станем стеной" |
single |
in meaningless spaces between actual moments. |
12 |
Malaя |
"Второе я" |
single |
These anarchist jurisdictions are where we come |
13 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"Hiding from Myself" |
single |
to not be afraid of each other, |
14 |
Icon For Hire |
"Curse Or Cure" |
single |
to feel the breadth in other humans' dreams. |
15 |
Stateside |
"Chaos" |
Havøc 5 |
To understand an isolationist plague, |
16 |
Furies |
"You & I" |
single |
you have to care about breath to begin with. |
17 |
Dark The Suns |
"Seeker" |
single |
You can tell a bully from a leader by how they slump when they turn towards what ought to be their homes, |
18 |
Draconian |
"Moon over Sabaoth" |
single |
by how they cannot look up on even the clearest night, |
19 |
Varg |
"Fara Til Ránar" |
Zeichen |
by how plaintively they decry the things they can't have. |
20 |
Khors |
"Starvation" |
Where the Word Acquires Eternity |
Four years can unravel decades, |
21 |
miscast |
"Flask of grass" |
single |
but every time we have to ravel again, |
22 |
kankakupiero |
"Sheqena Baby" |
it. 2 |
we learn better ways. |
23 |
Pimm's |
"CRY BABY AND DREAMER" |
single |
Four minutes can contain new lifetimes. |
24 |
NECRONOMIDOL |
"Santa Sangre" |
single |
Maybe this one will have eleven justices, |
25 |
ЯeaL |
"光になれない" |
ライトアップアンビバレンツ |
or justice. |
26 |
Dempagumi.Inc |
"ゾンビランドDEMPA!!" |
single |
Maybe this one will have more states, or no states. |
27 |
Perfume |
"Time Warp" |
single |
Maybe this one will detach civilization's dependent needs |
28 |
Peri Ubu |
"Rinne" |
single |
from corporations' illusionary autonomy. |
29 |
Yours Truly |
"Siamese Souls" |
Self Care |
Maybe in this one we will take care of each other first. |
30 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Me Voy de Fiesta" |
Un Susurro en la Tormenta |
In this one we will dance, |
31 |
Charlotte Sands |
"Sweatshirt" |
single |
masked, just beyond arms' length, |
32 |
Levante |
"Vertigine (feat. Altarboy) [From Netflix Original Series Baby 3]" |
single |
poems of diligent longing. |
33 |
Lande Hekt |
"Whiskey" |
single |
In this one we will start with what we each need and what we all have, |
34 |
Sunflower Bean |
"Moment In The Sun" |
single |
not with barbarian hoards: |
35 |
Liz Longley |
"Funeral for My Past" |
Funeral for My Past |
with what we can relinquish, |
36 |
Charlotte Clark |
"Warm Weather" |
Warm Weather +1 |
and how little we require. |
37 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Doblar y Comprender" |
Un Susurro en la Tormenta |
It must be love, and it's not over. |
38 |
Eivør |
"Stirdur Saknur" |
Segl |
This much we know from all legends and histories and every other time we have faltered: |
39 |
A Tergo Lupi |
"Black Feathers" |
Black Feathers +1 |
old languages can be used to encode new intentions, |
40 |
SKÁLD |
"Grótti" |
single |
because there were always wolves, |
41 |
HEALTH |
"CYBERPUNK 2.0.2.0." |
single |
and we didn't always drive them away before they took some of us, |
42 |
Creye |
"Siberia" |
single |
but we never became them. |
43 |
Grises |
"No Estoy a Salvo Aquí" |
Talismán |
Brutality is real, but never the end. |
44 |
Chester Lockhart |
"Wet Metal" |
Wet Metal - EP 5 |
Two minutes can arm us for the finally unavoidable fights: |
45 |
Nightly |
"the car" |
the car 5 |
for equity and principle and how we yearn to again fear nothing but our own artisanal regrets, |
46 |
A. G. Cook |
"Beautiful Superstar" |
Apple |
for grandeur and empathy and grace, |
47 |
Yandere |
"mystical eyes" |
your pretty lies 5 |
for glittering joy |
48 |
POPSTARBILLS |
"U MAKE ME SICK" |
single |
instead of glowering rage, |
49 |
SEBii |
"PIKACHuu" |
single |
for an open-universe willingness to evolve. |
50 |
Punkinloveee |
"Shoplifting" |
single |
A pacifist doesn't want to hit you, |
51 |
Fax Gang |
"Itsumo" |
single |
and this permits the contemplation of other tactics. |
52 |
Xoxoswitch |
"seclusion" |
single |
We will send you home wrapped in the flags you touched, |
53 |
demxntia |
"lost" |
single |
and sew new ones with more stars and fewer stripes. |
54 |
nothing,nowhere. |
"pretend" |
single |
We will have green days instead of gold, |
55 |
Rapsody |
"12 Problems" |
single |
black lives instead of red states, |
56 |
Olly Anna |
"Just Getting Started" |
single |
comebacks instead of retreat, |
57 |
Texture |
"Mxxnlight" |
Forest Gods 3 |
solipsistic economies crashing in elegant slow motion. |
58 |
Boris |
"Huge" |
single |
We will again be ominous and giant, |
59 |
The White Swan |
"Nocturnal Transmission" |
Nocturnal Transmission +3 |
but able to sleep. |
60 |
Ancst |
"The Burden of Hope, Pt. II" |
Summits of Despondency |
We realize it is harder to hope, |
61 |
Morokh |
"Serpent's Nest" |
Serpent's Nest 5 |
harder to love new questions more than old answers, |
62 |
Fawn Limbs |
"Metrae" |
Sleeper Vessels |
harder to shape noise than to hear yourself whimper, |
63 |
Raven Throne |
"Zaklaccie" |
Viartannie |
harder to see yourself in other people's struggles |
64 |
Auðn |
"Ljóstýra" |
single |
than to imagine yourself insulated by oceans, |
65 |
Dynfari |
"Myrkurs er þörf" |
Myrkurs er þörf |
harder to remember that the water is only another mood of the air. |
66 |
Frowning |
"Ad Finem" |
Death Requiem |
It is harder to care about how you win, |
67 |
Bangladeafy |
"Harvest" |
Housefly |
instead of only that somebody else loses. |
68 |
Bangladeafy |
"Shortcuts" |
Housefly |
It is harder still to acknowledge that you can't win, |
69 |
Naevius |
"Reiyā 28" |
single |
that personal triumph is a failure of compassion, |
70 |
Delaporte |
"Las Montañas" |
single |
that the same air you use to lie will be used to sing exactly restorative truth. |
71 |
La Oreja de Van Gogh |
"Menos Tú" |
Un Susurro en la Tormenta |
If you only recognize order as control, |
72 |
Freezepop |
"Anchor to the World Below" |
Anchor to the World Below (Maxi-Single) |
then your anarchy is everybody else. |
73 |
Jorge Elbrecht |
"Run & Hide" |
Run & Hide +3 |
We didn't come to these cities to watch you eat, |
74 |
Silbermond |
"Ein anderer Sommer" |
single |
the same limp way you do everything, |
75 |
Black Motion |
"Amandla (feat. NaakMusiQ)" |
single |
joylessly choking down money because you were never brave enough to find out how anything else tastes. |
76 |
Charlotte |
"Wabaleka" |
single |
We came to make a society. |
77 |
Zu. |
"unolali" |
single |
We came to compare blueprints for drone ravens |
78 |
uCevuzile |
"Uye Yedwa" |
Uye Yedwa +2 |
and the fractal origins of ancient sigils. |
79 |
Elysian |
"Water" |
Water EP |
We came to test combinatorial hypotheses about how to be more human |
80 |
8-Bit Arcade |
"Tragedy (8-Bit Computer Game Version)" |
The Ultimate Bee Gees |
or less hurt, |
81 |
Jasmine Cain |
"Uninvited" |
single |
to explore the uncharted in ourselves. |
82 |
Amarionette |
"Why Can't This Be Love" |
single |
The next song plays. This one will not be about you. |
83 |
Frayle |
"Ring of Fire" |
single |
This one will be about love and other neglected things that we will once again fuel without being consumed: |
84 |
MIYAVI |
"Over The Rainbow" |
single |
collective majesty, constructive absurdity, convulsive wonder. |