1 |
The Warning |
"MARTIRIO" |
MARTIRIO +2 |
I like singing more than I like the absence of singing, |
2 |
Madame Mayhem |
"I Am More" |
single |
and I probably don't literally prefer that it be done in languages I can't easily follow, |
3 |
RedHook |
"Sentimental Surgery" |
single |
but I never hear a song that isn't in English and think "I wish this were in English". |
4 |
Memoremains |
"Sympathy" |
single |
Whereas with songs in English, which is the only language where I can often tell what singers are saying, |
5 |
Aryem |
"Forbidden Love" |
Forbidden Love +2 |
I often think "I wish this had better lyrics". |
6 |
Dream Ocean |
"Dark Miracles" |
The Missing Stone |
I do sometimes look up translations of songs in other languages, |
7 |
Sertraline |
"Vivid" |
single |
and am sometimes disappointed, |
8 |
Machinae Supremacy |
"Pendulum" |
single |
but I just shrug and forget, |
9 |
NEO JAPONISM |
"Buster Buster" |
single |
and go back to singing along phonetically and affirmationally. |
10 |
*Luna |
"アナクロニズム" |
single |
Singing is not a rhetorical |
11 |
名古屋CLEAR'S |
"ノイズオーケストラ" |
ノイズオーケストラ +1 |
or explicational form, |
12 |
ASP |
"the MAN CALLiNG" |
the MAN CALLiNG +1 |
but a medium for demonstrating the implications of feelings for air. |
13 |
tricot |
"Dogs and Ducks" |
single |
We feel good things for a chaos of good and bad reasons, |
14 |
Mashiro Ayano |
"Reason Flies" |
white chronicles |
and our songs extract both the feelings and the chaos |
15 |
LOCAL CONNECT |
"DayLight Blue" |
DayLight Blue +1 |
from the endless mundane |
16 |
PornoGraffitti |
"REUNION" |
テーマソング 3 |
and take us back to the moment when they were thrilling, |
17 |
Dream Theater |
"Invisible Monster" |
single |
or construct this moment |
18 |
Rivers of Nihil |
"Maybe One Day" |
The Work |
and set it free. |
19 |
Teramaze |
"And the Beauty They Perceive" |
single |
We can learn to speak the truth, |
20 |
ShadowStrike |
"Fables and Folklore" |
Fables & Folklore |
but we can choose to lie. |
21 |
Volbeat |
"Shotgun Blues" |
Shotgun Blues +2 |
Songs pass serenely through both our abilities and our weaknesses, |
22 |
World Without |
"Divided" |
Light 4 |
and suggest that so could we. |
23 |
As the Sun Falls |
"Last Days of Light" |
Last Days of Light |
The underrated corrolary to humanism's acceptance of others, |
24 |
Cosmophobe |
"Delusions of Grandeur" |
The Tragedy of Being |
and the reason I prefer not to imagine transcendence as an ascetic reduction, |
25 |
Omnium Gatherum |
"Reckoning" |
single |
is that your past and potential selves are also equal. |
26 |
Swallow The Sun |
"Woven into Sorrow" |
Woven into Sorrow +1 |
We are creatures of potential, |
27 |
Surturs Lohe |
"Mimes Reigen" |
Wielandstahl |
not in the way that arctic wolves are creatures of the snow, |
28 |
Succumb |
"Maenad" |
XXI |
but in the way that angels are creatures of vengeance, |
29 |
Skepticism |
"Passage" |
Companion |
visible only in transit between motivation and dispensation. |
30 |
Doedsvangr |
"Black Dragon Phoenix" |
single |
You can end a song; |
31 |
LLNN |
"Imperial" |
Unmaker |
it can just start again. |
32 |
Ereb Altor |
"Vargtimman" |
single |
There is no destructive version of hearing. |
33 |
Guadaña |
"Guerreros de la Tempestad" |
single |
If you want to avoid hearing your enemy, you have to learn to sing their song |
34 |
Heldom |
"Hávamál" |
Vaknan |
exactly as well, and phase-inverted. |
35 |
forfedre |
"Raiding Season" |
single |
Violence is peace plus control, |
36 |
BACK-ON |
"SKY WALKER" |
single |
and thus all conflict is self-sustaining and needless. |
37 |
CVLTE |
"kuromi. (feat. 4s4ki, sacha online)" |
kuromi. (feat. 4s4ki, sacha online) +1 |
There is actual darkness, but nowhere you have time to reach, |
38 |
Chippoke Ohashi |
"23" |
single |
and likewise ancient evil, |
39 |
Clarence Clarity |
"SU฿LORD" |
VANISHING ACT I: NO NOUNS 5 |
but at no age or divinity you will attain. |
40 |
Big Zuu |
"Navigate" |
single |
I don't want to tell you my mood |
41 |
Filthy Gears |
"Take It Away, Vol. 2" |
Take It Away 4 |
by fixing its position. |
42 |
Wstdyth |
"Vampire World" |
single |
Every list we make is an enumeration of what we didn't know yet, |
43 |
Siouxxie |
"darkwave sabbat" |
witchpop |
myopia overrun by complacency, |
44 |
James Colt |
"River Shore" |
single |
abusively titled: |
45 |
Leo IV |
"give me time" |
single |
We Will Not Be Swallowed by the Void, |
46 |
Smrtdeath |
"Everything's Fucked" |
single |
but we are native to its entrails; |
47 |
biteki |
"let me rest" |
single |
We Are Chosen, |
48 |
juno |
"nauseous" |
single |
but we are all chosen and discarded; |
49 |
Hyd |
"Skin 2 Skin" |
Skin 2 Skin +1 |
We Know Your Secrets, |
50 |
Ca$hrina |
"never replace me" |
single |
but only because we have shared them all along. |
51 |
Ayşe Betül |
"Aptal" |
single |
The courage to invent a new language |
52 |
NINA |
"Gold Heart" |
single |
is also a procrastination tactic. |
53 |
Natalie Imbruglia |
"Nothing Missing" |
Firebird |
We had ways to say all of that already, |
54 |
Marion Ravn |
"Hold meg i hånda" |
single |
and too much impatient certainty that it mattered, |
55 |
Zupermaria |
"Fruen fra havet" |
single |
and too much fear of saying things we had said before. |
56 |
Miss Li |
"Tidsmaskin" |
Underbart i all misär |
And thus these songs we can't follow |
57 |
Lightning Bug |
"WingsofDesire" |
AColoroftheSky 2 |
can be all of those things, |
58 |
Weakened Friends |
"Quitter" |
single |
and the joy of realizing that you don't have to be different to matter, |
59 |
Bartees Strange |
"Weights" |
single |
don't have to be cured of yourself. |
60 |
JAGUWAR |
"Battles" |
Battles +1 |
All battles are lost. |
61 |
Soft Kill |
"Cicero" |
Cicero +2 |
Qualities and quantities are different measurements of the same notes. |
62 |
Fire-Toolz |
"Thick_flowy_glowy_sparkly_stingy_pain.mpeg" |
single |
I don't want to name my mood, as if delusions are singular, |
63 |
COLLAPSE |
"GARDEN" |
single |
any more than I want to cultivate by diffidence. |
64 |
Poppy |
"Lessen The Damage" |
Flux |
All physical and emotional efforts are forms of pain and dance: |
65 |
Carla Lourdes |
"Plan de Altar" |
single |
altars and stages, interchangeable or anyway convertible. |
66 |
Biffy Clyro |
"A Hunger In Your Haunt" |
A Hunger In Your Haunt +1 |
You can collect them, but only by finding them on the ground, |
67 |
The Connells |
"Fading In (Hardy)" |
Steadman's Wake |
quickly, before anybody notices the loss. |
68 |
Clemency |
"Brave" |
single |
Giving them back is a merely ceremonial mercy, |
69 |
Kondi Band |
"The Sweetness Is Gone" |
We Famous |
and thus should be done in reverent costume. |
70 |
Benny Mayengani |
"Mahinyahinya" |
Tiko Raka Hina (Page 11) |
But that's what clothes are. |
71 |
Amon Tobin |
"How Do You Live" |
How Do You Live |
You choose, when you temporarily give up nakedness, some ritual for which you are notionally or aspirationally prepared. |
72 |
Lyra Pramuk |
"Offering" |
Delta |
You choose this when you sing, too, and when you listen, |
73 |
Colin Stetson |
"Never Letting Go" |
single |
and when you keep vibrating, and when you stop: |
74 |
First to Eleven |
"Joker And The Thief" |
single |
not in the way that the wolves choose rabbits, |
75 |
Soulspell |
"Into the Unknown" |
single |
but in the way that cartoon wolves fall in love with cartoon rabbits, |
76 |
Anneke Van Giersbergen |
"Endless Road" |
Beste Zangers 2021 (Anneke Van Giersbergen) 4 |
and all of us are flat pictures of ourselves |
77 |
Zak Vortex |
"Go Your Own Way" |
single |
in the backgrounds of other people's discomposed self-portraits. |
78 |
Alex Goot |
"When You Were Young" |
single |
There are songs we can't not understand, but they end and we can re-sing them, |
79 |
Halocene |
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" |
single |
as many times as it takes to make them mean that we are not complete or sure of our doom. |