1 |
W O L F C L U B |
"California Days" |
single |
Maybe our only enduring power is the ability to write wistful summer songs for looking out the window at sunshine, |
2 |
Giftshop |
"More Than That" |
More Than That +2 |
and then back to the case statistics on the monitors; |
3 |
Against The Current |
"jump" |
fever |
to be magnificent in defeat; |
4 |
You Over Me |
"Lion" |
single |
to be prematurely triumphant precisely because we know |
5 |
Sarah Barrios |
"Thank God You Introduced Me to Your Sister" |
single |
that may be our best chance for triumph. |
6 |
The Linda Lindas |
"Oh!" |
single |
We are capable of preventing preventable disease, |
7 |
VUKOVI |
"HURT" |
HURT +2 |
but even more capable of attaching preventability to a Pyrrhic culture war, |
8 |
The Joy Formidable |
"Interval" |
Interval +3 |
and thus losing the winnable war in order to sustain the pointless, nihilistic one. |
9 |
Calva Louise |
"The Odds" |
single |
I'm tired. |
10 |
SKIES |
"Give Up" |
Give Up +1 |
I'm tired of worrying about the world, |
11 |
Parallels |
"Stardust" |
single |
tired of hating other people for refusing to transcend their own inertial myopia, |
12 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Enough Is Enough" |
single |
or for just dropping trash on the sidewalk |
13 |
Anette Olzon |
"Sick of You" |
single |
with a trash can directly ahead of them in their path. |
14 |
VENUES |
"Whydah Gally" |
Whydah Gally 5 |
I'm tired of the assiduous reduction of meaning into meme, |
15 |
Ignea |
"Bosorkun" |
single |
and the cynical replacement of conscious stewardship with automated pandering, |
16 |
Maleficium Arungquilta |
"На краю" |
На краю 6 |
and the mordantly reasonable misconception that pandering is the only automatable impulse. |
17 |
Lutharo |
"Lost in a Soul" |
single |
I want an olympics of routine decency, |
18 |
Shereign |
"Hold On" |
single |
a decathlon of believing ten useful untrendy human truths |
19 |
ZOC |
"CUTTING EDGE" |
PvP |
or picking a single one in which to productively and extravagantly specialize for the collective edification and good. |
20 |
AFTER SQUALL |
"crazy" |
single |
I want qualitative metrics you can only evaluate by taking them into your heart |
21 |
ASCA |
"命ノ証" |
single |
and feeling whether your own blood accelerates. |
22 |
SWING |
"Start together" |
I AM ME |
I want these exact songs, |
23 |
Drinking Boys and Girls Choir |
"Limitless Night" |
Marriage License |
not one tiny haphazard note altered, |
24 |
燐舞曲 |
"Crinoid" |
Crinoid +1 |
made by strangers whose normal self-destructive flaws |
25 |
SPYAIR |
"All I Need" |
single |
I don't have to feel responsible to fix, |
26 |
BLUE ENCOUNT |
"囮囚" |
single |
and thus whose illusory grace |
27 |
RADWIMPS |
"TWILIGHT" |
single |
can inspire me to my own. |
28 |
Novelbright |
"ライフスコール" |
single |
I want corporatized munificence |
29 |
UNMASK aLIVE |
"Satellite" |
single |
and socialized sufficiency, |
30 |
NO BRIGHT GIRL |
"Sweat Coming" |
Scream ICE 4 |
instead of capitalist expedience |
31 |
DARRELL |
"THE CLOWDER" |
THE CLOWDER +3 |
and institutional disdain. |
32 |
Mayank |
"We Are One" |
single |
I want more-thoughtful adherence to better-devised rules |
33 |
Soen |
"EMDR" |
single |
to obviate the need for so many of them, |
34 |
Agrypnie |
"Am Ende der Welt - Teil 2" |
single |
and cauterize more of our oozing social exceptionalist wounds. |
35 |
Boris |
"Loveless" |
single |
I want to wear the parachute all the way to the ground, |
36 |
Erdve |
"Smala" |
Savigaila |
and then, standing in a field under clear skies, |
37 |
MØL |
"Photophobic" |
single |
take it off and fold it back up meticulously |
38 |
World's End Girlfriend |
"IN THE NAME OF LOVE" |
single |
as the movements of a spell to protect us from needing it again. |
39 |
MONO |
"Riptide" |
single |
I want to feel the same lack of compulsion to check the daily COVID stats for my town |
40 |
Mary Mortem |
"Only deeper" |
Apathetic passionate |
that I feel for checking whether 24 hours have gone by without anybody I pass on a short run |
41 |
Low |
"Disappearing" |
Disappearing +1 |
having contracted elephantitis or been eaten by polar bears wearing lacrosse helmets. |
42 |
GFOTY |
"KOOKS SONG" |
single |
We are capable of exuberantly joyful inanity |
43 |
You, Me, And Everyone We Know |
"Something Heavy" |
single |
and searingly infectious self-awareness |
44 |
Odonis Odonis |
"Shadow Play" |
single |
if we can hold our fucking breaths long enough to stop being infected. |
45 |
Elvis Blue |
"Goud In Die Vuur" |
single |
We have rowed across oceans, |
46 |
One Crown |
"Reddingstorie" |
Reddingstorie |
we can do this. |
47 |
Gerry Rafferty |
"Lost Highway" |
Lost Highway +1 |
But maybe not without acknowledging how hard it is, and how long it takes, |
48 |
Derya |
"Rich Black" |
Rich Black |
to recognize not only the ways in which we have bet too much on bad answers, |
49 |
Namasenda |
"Demonic (with La Zowi)" |
single |
but the more insidious ways in which we have invested too much in bad questions, |
50 |
Prima Nocta |
"Jacqmom" |
Flag of the Greenman |
and thus doomed ourselves to their return. |
51 |
The Sidh |
"Utopia" |
single |
Maybe our only reliable power is the rueful clarity to label our actions as mistakes |
52 |
Danheim |
"Einherjar" |
Domadagr |
after we have hurt ourselves with them, |
53 |
Osi And The Jupiter |
"Wights" |
single |
but no mistakes are as unique and unrepeatable |
54 |
HLE |
"Liyinqaba" |
single |
as they want to think themselves. |
55 |
Mopostola Tshenolo |
"Bapa Lenna" |
single |
We travel heedlessly through the past, |
56 |
Dan Bull |
"King of Avalon" |
King of Avalon +1 |
but arrive in the future improved by even our most failed and futile quests. |
57 |
Miura Jam |
"Sing My Pleasure (From "Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-") [Full Version]" |
single |
We see cartoons of ourselves in each other's eyes, |
58 |
Jon Pardi |
"Wherever I May Roam" |
single |
but not without having made eye contact first. |
59 |
Principe Valiente |
"The Night - 10 Years Alternative Version" |
Debut Album 5 |
Maybe the night is here again and still, but we don't have to belong to it, |
60 |
The Weather Station |
"Tried to Tell You - Piano Version" |
single |
and if we can stand behind this fragile idea, this can be yet another thing that the songs are for. |