| 1 | Tori Amos | "Better Angels" | single | There was a time when I could listen to a single Tori Amos song over and over as if nothing else mattered and it is still that time again, |
| 2 | Sho Madjozi | "Ni Langha Wihi" | What A Life | but every time I put on headphones, the brightest colors fill my head and they all seem to be Sho Madjozi songs, |
| 3 | Berita | "Ungandibulali" | single | and I'm either ambitiously global or I'm just listening to a kid from Mt. Holyoke and similar artists, |
| 4 | Kato Change | "Nyoro" | single | but the brightest colors all come from the same spectrum as the other ones: |
| 5 | Elysian | "Little Star" | Little Star +2 | the dusky grays of rootless EDM ballads, |
| 6 | Los Flamingos | "Salto al Vacío" | single | Sarah Records pastel chime reinvented as billowy Navarran indie-rock duetry, |
| 7 | I Botanici | "Capotasto" | Kirigami 4 | luminous Italian indie-pop sparkle, |
| 8 | Borneo | "Fuimos Ficción" | single | burnished-sunset Andalusian squall, |
| 9 | Pati Pérez-Laorga | "Puntos de sutura" | single | the muted greens of shady Madrid park benches, |
| 10 | Iran Castillo | "Sanación Divina" | single | whatever color you call patience and the high notes of small Mexican guitars. |
| 11 | Edurne | "Como Tú" | single | I am like you; pass it on. |
| 12 | Fear Of Tigers | "All The Wires" | All The Wires +2 | The wires connect us, even the wireless wires |
| 13 | Steps | "To the Beat of My Heart" | What the Future Holds | and the ones that distribute blood and impulse to and from our expressive muscles. |
| 14 | Belén Aguilera | "La Tirita" | single | We wrote our way into all of this, we will sing our way out: |
| 15 | Miley Cyrus | "WTF Do I Know" | Plastic Hearts | through dissenting humility and |
| 16 | Avec Sans | "Slow Dance Down" | single | becalmed ambivalence, |
| 17 | Tia Carys | "Blessed" | EnRoot - EP 5 | with liberating words on defensive islands |
| 18 | FLOHIO | "Unveiled" | No Panic No Pain | in globalist enclaves |
| 19 | Nyemiah Supreme | "Clap Clap Clap" | single | and seditious capitals |
| 20 | MarMonroe | "Its up" | single | and the sixth largest city in the seventh largest state in the third largest country. |
| 21 | Jazz Anderson | "On My Way" | Separation Anxiety | We are the same, and we will be there momentarily. |
| 22 | Sho Madjozi | "Dyisa Squad (feat. Sunglen Chabalala)" | What A Life | Sho Madjozi will lead us, |
| 23 | Metalite | "Peacekeepers" | single | and where we pass, there will be chaos and power and peace. |
| 24 | Epica | "Freedom - The Wolves Within-" | Freedom - The Wolves Within 2 | We are ungoverned animals, |
| 25 | Votum | "Prey" | Duhkha | half the time barely aware enough to save ourselves from our own nature |
| 26 | Eleine | "Crawl from the Ashes" | Dancing in Hell | disguished as fire or teeth, |
| 27 | Intra | "Maya" | single | and yet also poetic architects |
| 28 | Juliet Ruin | "Dark Water" | single | and the creatures who see emotional hue in physical texture, |
| 29 | As December Falls | "Afterglow" | single | and what it feels like when a war ends |
| 30 | TEARS OF TRAGEDY | "Outsider" | TRINITY | and you have this accumulated will to fight |
| 31 | Rie a.k.a. Suzaku | "World Journey" | World Journey | and a guitar and a travel ban. |
| 32 | Dual Alter World | "STAR ENHANCER" | WORLD DISTONATION | The sunlight feels like purpose, |
| 33 | Cran Arcanaria | "PERSONA" | single | but it was discarded 93 million miles ago, |
| 34 | 藤川千愛 | "ワレモノ注意" | HiKiKoMoRi | in mostly every direction except this one, |
| 35 | Maaya Uchida | "Itsuka Kumo ga Haretanara" | Heartbeat City / Itsuka Kumo ga Haretanara 4 | towards a tiny moving target not always even sure of its own coordinates, |
| 36 | GARNiDELiA | "Beyond the sky" | 起死回生 | out past warmer planets surely modeled better after the sun's example. |
| 37 | 畠中 祐 | "Promise for the future" | Promise for the future 6 | If we relied on the sun delivering specific beneficence |
| 38 | HYDE | "GLAMOROUS SKY" | LET IT OUT 2 | with the requisite celestial accuracy, |
| 39 | グラビティ↗↗楽しさ♪FULLVOLTAAAGE!!! | "人狼ゲーム" | 人狼ゲーム +1 | this rock would be frozen and dark. |
| 40 | BugLug | "Rock Band Is Not Dead" | Rock Band Is Not Dead | And yet, whatever you think the right thing is to call us, |
| 41 | KEYTALK | "Hello Blue Days" | single | we are neither frozen nor dark yet, |
| 42 | FOMARE | "fall" | Grey 5 | not completely, |
| 43 | PELICAN FANCLUB | "Day in Day out" | ディザイア 3 | not every day. |
| 44 | TOTALFAT | "Take Off!!" | SCREAM ON THE BOARD!! 2 | Way out here obscurely in space, |
| 45 | This is LAST | "囘想列車" | 別に、どうでもいい、知らない | we jump and strut around as if the universe is watching us intently, |
| 46 | 神はサイコロを振らない | "パーフェクト・ルーキーズ" | 文化的特異点 | cheering for our trials, |
| 47 | Sho Madjozi | "Shahumba (feat. Thomas Chauke)" | What A Life | beacons locked in from light-years away, Sho Madjozi songs beaming through deep-space dust. |
| 48 | Petal Supply | "Hey" | Hey | "They seem barely self-supporting, as a civilization, |
| 49 | ONI INC. | "FUCK OFF" | single | but maybe that precarity is part of what makes their music possible, |
| 50 | BVDLVD | "D!CKHEAD" | single | and as long as they haven't figured out FTL speeds yet, |
| 51 | POPSTARBILLS | "FLY AWAY" | single | we can treat them as spectacle." |
| 52 | blackwinterwells | "i always lose :/" | single | So they think. |
| 53 | d0llywood1 | "holding back" | single | But our songs precede us, |
| 54 | Story Untold | "from the outside i seem just fine" | single | and if you sit there watching the skies, feeling safe, |
| 55 | Lontalius | "You Make The Rules" | Side One 5 | you are already lost. |
| 56 | SayWeCanFly | "Backyard" | single | Guns, germs and steel: those were the old vectors. |
| 57 | Sho Madjozi | "Tsha Dovha (feat. Makhadzi & Manu WorldStar)" | What A Life | Now we have Sho Madjozi |
| 58 | Mœnia | "Labios Rojos" | Labios Rojos +1 | and a million other brightest colors, |
| 59 | The Novelist | "Sin Voz" | single | and if you give us an instant of receptive silence, |
| 60 | Dogleg | "Ganon Main" | single | we will tear out your heart or whatever organ powers you and replace it with a clanking machine made of regret and hope |
| 61 | Maximo Park | "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" | single | that pumps love and doubt into whatever adjoins. |
| 62 | Kleenex Girl Wonder | "Migration Scripts" | Let It Buffer (Forever) | You think you are waiting to decide if we are civilized enough to join you, |
| 63 | Sixtwoseven | "Escape Clause" | One Night Stand / Escape Clause 2 | suspecting correctly that we are not, |
| 64 | Melodicka Bros | "Complicated (But it's Prog Metal)" | single | systemically immature and mostly incapable of rational self-evaluation, |
| 65 | Amahiru | "Innocent" | Amahiru | proudest of our least distinguished flaws, |
| 66 | Grimgotts | "Land of Tomorrow" | single | dreaming of trivia utopias, |
| 67 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Dans le rêve lucide" | Im Traum | misconstruing a single subdivided rock as vastness and empire. |
| 68 | Arrayan Path | "The Marble Gates to Apeiron" | The Marble Gates to Apeiron | You ask if we are evil, and we say "No, no, 'eeviel'. Totally different. We changed it to make this clear." |
| 69 | Dread Sovereign | "Nature is the Devil's Church" | single | You would be confused if you had to live here, too. |
| 70 | Varde | "Skuld" | Fedraminne | It's hard to believe that virtue derives from will |
| 71 | Ondskapt | "Semita Sinistram" | Grimoire Ordo Devus | when will is so helpless against so many external forces, |
| 72 | Ablaze My Sorrow | "My Sorrow" | single | hard to grant authority to our hearts |
| 73 | Panychida | "Abele" | Gabreta Aeterna | when we spend half of every second wondering if they will beat again as supposedly scheduled. |
| 74 | Corrupt Moral Altar | "Cathedral of Porn" | Patiently Waiting for Wonderful Things 5 | You would suffer a teleology exactly as bizarre as ours |
| 75 | Suffering Hour | "Strongholds of Awakening" | single | if you had to assemble it while spinning at these speeds and angles. |
| 76 | Imha Tarikat | "Klimax Downpour" | single | How do you think we ended up with all these mythologies |
| 77 | Mork | "Pesta" | Pesta +3 | flexed in collaborationist opposition to the void? |
| 78 | Serpents Oath | "Malediction" | single | All our anthems reduce to "I will follow you into the dark", |
| 79 | Paysage D'Hiver | "Schnee (I)" | Schnee | and "my love is this candle and you are this cold wind". |
| 80 | Kaunis Kuolematon | "Syttyköön toinen aurinko" | Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko | And you sit nestled in your lush enclaves of karst, |
| 81 | Marras | "Mustavalkoista" | Henkilökohtainen Helvetti 4 | listening to us on receptors suspended securely from towers, |
| 82 | Erik Ekholm | "Alpha Devil" | Alpha Devil +1 | measuring the precise intervals between our snares, |
| 83 | In Extremo | "Ewig sein" | single | imagining yourselves immune to whatever chews through our critical cables, |
| 84 | Oliver | "Hiekkatie" | Onni on vaikea vieras 6 | learning what we mean in all of these languages. |
| 85 | Saurom | "La Danza De Los Mundos" | single | But, of course, our fragility is exactly how our languages operate. |
| 86 | Mansur | "Memento Mori" | single | We sing the way we do because our capacities for understanding |
| 87 | Dotzd | "Destello" | single | are suspended from thin wires above fortuitous declivities |
| 88 | Erland Cooper | "Cairn V." | Landform | until the inevitable and tragic days they fall. |
| 89 | Max Cooper | "Surge" | Earth 4 | You cry out at home as the instrument platform falls through the gossamer surface of the dish, a thin layer of science between air and jungle, |
| 90 | Balam Acab | "PRINCESS ASCENSION" | single | as if a radio telescope were as much a character as the humans who shared its island, |
| 91 | Harry Shotta | "Remain Undefeated" | Remain Undefeated 5 | dreaming of statehood or other contacts, and of course from anywhere else in the universe, it was. |
| 92 | Sho Madjozi | "January (feat. DJ Mfundhisi)" | What A Life | We will start the next year, the next repetitive orbit, with one less telescope but one more Sho Madjozi record. |
| 93 | Mduduzi | "Istimela" | Istimela | They look structurally dissimilar from space, |
| 94 | Umdumazi | "Ngizolala Ngiduma" | single | but both are part of the story of how we learn to process difference, |
| 95 | Umzukulu Ka Nyathela | "Amabili" | single | and thus how we hear and see |
| 96 | UNJOKO | "UMlaba" | single | meaningfully. |
| 97 | Abangani Bakhe | "Uyenyanyisa" | Inkunzi Umashundula | The alien tourists, when they get here, will queue for package tours of Mt. Holyoke and Limpopo, |
| 98 | Nahawa Doumbia | "Foliwilen" | single | knowing effortlessly, as we had to realize through centuries of effort, |
| 99 | Ndlovu Youth Choir | "Square Root of Possible - South African Remix" | single | that the distances between any two points on this planet are minuscule, |
| 100 | Bombino | "Imajghane - Live" | Live in Amsterdam | bound by wire and vibration as surely as gravity, |
| 101 | Batushka | "TRETIJ CZAS" | BLACK LITURGY | and by reverently surging devotion to everything we claim to resist. |
| 102 | Kite | "Hills - Live at the Royal Opera" | Kite at the Royal Opera | We say this implicitly every time we repeat our plangently contrary claims, |
| 103 | Berlin | "Masquerade - Orchestral Version" | Strings Attached | involuntarily explaining who we are even as we attempt variant caricatures. |
| 104 | UMC | "Sweet but Psycho (Metal Version)" | CHAPTER 2 | This is what our entry says in the new edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide: "Poison but tasty*." |
| 105 | Caleb Hyles | "A Million Dreams" | single | And "*Surprisingly bright colors |
| 106 | Blinding Sunrise | "Spark Again" | single | for a world so dimly designed." |
| 107 | Pangolin | "Any Way You Want It" | Good Songs Played Poorly 5 | We're so bad at so many things we desperately need to be better at, |
| 108 | Firstborne | "Separate Ways (Words Apart)" | single | but from worlds apart, of course that doesn't matter. |
| 109 | Ocean Hills | "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" | Santa Monica | So little sunlight reaches us, but it's all we know, and thus enough. |
| 110 | Roxette | "Quisiera Volar - Wish I Could Fly 1999" | Bag Of Trix Vol. 3 | You think you're safe, but we will reach you eventually. |
| 111 | Roxette | "Goodbye To You - Montezuma Demo July 25-26, 1986" | Bag Of Trix Vol. 3 | You think you are sad for our losses, and how we hide in the dark, but can you hear the sound of our angels? This is how we are dancing. This is how we have already won. For Arecibo, 1963-2020 |