1 |
Eliza Grace |
"Text Me When You Get Home (Daytripper)" |
Text Me When You Get Home / Tell Me When 2 |
It takes us so long to find out that the classics are elevated by our leverage, not their own levitation. |
2 |
Carissa Johnson |
"Merry Go Round" |
Blue Hour |
We could pick any song and declare a new universe around it; |
3 |
Kate Miller-Heidke |
"I Am My Own Panther Now" |
single |
scatter some trilobites on an empty beach and wait for them to become Singapore or Sydney |
4 |
Mitski |
"The Only Heartbreaker" |
The Only Heartbreaker +1 |
or any city with windows by which we can stand and watch for each other. |
5 |
Little Mix |
"Cut You Off" |
Between Us |
But somehow, instead of making each song into a worthy independent universe, |
6 |
Avril Lavigne |
"Bite Me" |
single |
we have packed all of them into only this one. |
7 |
Taylor Swift |
"State Of Grace (Taylor's Version)" |
Red (Taylor's Version) |
How do they all fit without overwriting each other? |
8 |
Peakes |
"Lately" |
single |
The same way we do: |
9 |
LØLØ |
"hurt less" |
overkill 6 |
in an intricate uncorreographed mosh |
10 |
Jessi Frey |
"Antifragile" |
single |
limned with fractal grace and new impervious alloys. |
11 |
NICOL |
"SPOTIFY" |
single |
Play and Next buttons glare at each other across a few black pixels, |
12 |
Lauren Sanderson |
"Everyone's Pretentious & I'm Bored" |
single |
contenders for your hand. |
13 |
Katelyn Tarver |
"Back To You" |
Subject To Change |
Wait long enough, and the song changes, but not the question: |
14 |
Anna Vaus |
"Night Changes" |
single |
can you find yourself and all of us in this one? |
15 |
Imogen Clark |
"When Can I Touch You Again" |
single |
What gift do you await, and will you recognize it if it arrives in its own colors, |
16 |
Dentist |
"Spilled Coffee" |
single |
hydroplaning to a stop on the trilobites' beach? |
17 |
Yumi Zouma |
"Mona Lisa" |
single |
We have mastered the art of complicating our simple needs. |
18 |
Ayşe Betül |
"Gol" |
single |
Maybe this is the only art, or the essential and universal thing we mean by "art". |
19 |
Gåte |
"Svik" |
Svik +1 |
It takes us so long to find out what we become, briefly and heroically, |
20 |
G Flip |
"Scream (feat. UPSAHL)" |
single |
in between bodies and dust. |
21 |
Georgina |
"Desde lejos" |
single |
So many people we scan past, peering into the distance, |
22 |
Munn |
"gone by the morning" |
single |
stipulating elusive frissons |
23 |
Shamir |
"Cisgender" |
single |
and then becoming obsessive scholars of their criteria. |
24 |
Geographer |
"Glowing Red" |
Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights |
We are performatively terrified of being allowed everything, all of the time, |
25 |
Drug Church |
"Million Miles of Fun" |
Million Miles of Fun +1 |
but this was always the secret and obvious truth, |
26 |
Loveless |
"meet me at our spot" |
single |
so the thing we hold between us, both of our hands on the metal and stone and air of it, |
27 |
Bliss Fields |
"Clementine" |
single |
is just the courage to shed our ornamental carapaces of fear. |
28 |
Justin Courtney Pierre |
"Steady As She Goes" |
Ghost World 5 |
We pretend to have more choices in the movies of ourselves |
29 |
Johnny Marr |
"Tenement Time" |
Tenement Time / Sensory Street 2 |
than in our worn and familiar homes, |
30 |
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
"Un Actor Mejicano" |
single |
but of course this could not be more gloriously backwards. |
31 |
Marathonmann |
"Erase/Rewind" |
Erase/Rewind +2 |
Our stories are immutable, no matter how frenetically we rewrite them; |
32 |
Antonio José |
"Nadie Como Yo" |
Fénix |
but their implications for who we are fluctate and transform even as we try to speak them aloud. |
33 |
Kyle Deutsch |
"READY" |
single |
We dance to draw different shapes with our spines |
34 |
Kabza De Small |
"Asibe Happy (feat. Ami Faku)" |
Asibe Happy (feat. Ami Faku) +1 |
than our skins. |
35 |
Ojikelele G |
"Suka Mfana" |
Uwena Owangalayo |
We sing to release potential energy |
36 |
Taylor Swift |
"Holy Ground (Taylor's Version)" |
Red (Taylor's Version) |
we cannot convert without exploding. |
37 |
Carissa Johnson |
"Tourist" |
Blue Hour |
We twitch to get outside of ourselves, |
38 |
We Are the Catalyst |
"More" |
single |
only to be daunted and embraced by our expanding auras. |
39 |
Daedric |
"Sepulchre" |
Sepulchre +3 |
In fables are we contained, |
40 |
The Murder of My Sweet |
"Kill Your Darlings" |
single |
but those characters live at our whim, |
41 |
Amaranthe |
"PvP" |
single |
infinities impersonated |
42 |
Aevum |
"Black Swan Theory" |
single |
and ultimately indistinguishable. |
43 |
Vengeant |
"Curse of the Sands" |
single |
We could pick a loss and grind a desert around it, |
44 |
Magica |
"Lună nebună" |
single |
as if there weren't enough dust-covered rocks waiting for us in the sky, |
45 |
Theatres Des Vampires |
"Christina" |
single |
entertaining each other by exchanging fanciful claims of divinity |
46 |
Damian Hamada's Creatures |
"謝肉祭" |
魔界美術館 |
while they await our decisive adoration. |
47 |
PassCode |
"FLAVOR OF BLUE" |
Freely / FLAVOR OF BLUE 4 |
Long ago they realized that we have our own gods, |
48 |
GRAND FINALE |
"Never Be Alone" |
single |
but knowledge is what distinguishes yearning from dehydration, |
49 |
KAQRIYOTERROR |
"Not Killed" |
Not Killed +1 |
and the dust merely covers more dust, |
50 |
燐舞曲 |
"[Re] termination" |
[Re] termination +1 |
clenched fretfully until it achieves a rueful solidity, |
51 |
#2i2 |
"ポチ" |
single |
because you don't need help to excel at loneliness. |
52 |
Kana Adachi |
"This is a Love Story" |
single |
Daddy said to stay away from Juriichi, |
53 |
LiSA |
"Wake Me Up!" |
single |
but all of these countries were so young |
54 |
SHOW-YA |
"HEAVY METAL FEMINITY" |
Showdown |
when they agreed to be defined by boundaries. |
55 |
戮-Riku- |
"鱗粉" |
鱗粉 +1 |
It takes so much energy to maintain such superficial distinctions, |
56 |
cali≠gari |
"Ah Gekiteki" |
Ah Gekiteki/Sakeme no Me 2 |
but we are released into the world in order to adapt to it differently |
57 |
BACK-ON |
"Stay Real" |
Still B/O |
and then show each other what we have become. |
58 |
Hiroto |
"daeremoga sobani" |
single |
We could each pick one of each other |
59 |
Masaki Suda |
"ラストシーン" |
single |
to be the end towards which all of this storytelling has brought us, |
60 |
PK shampoo |
"Hoshi" |
PK shampoo.wav |
and spend a year together contemplating a pile of our clothes and shoes. |
61 |
Loli in early 20s |
"kine so Mona" |
blood for evening |
Too late, you say, |
62 |
Aries |
"BOUNTY HUNTER" |
BELIEVE IN ME, WHO BELIEVES IN YOU |
and that quiet clicking sound is a trilobite laughing on a beach somewhere. |
63 |
Anthony Sidoti |
"I found what makes me think of you" |
single |
We have far too little time for fractions of it to matter. |
64 |
Ryan Oakes |
"BEST DAY OF MY LIFE" |
BEST DAY OF MY LIFE 5 |
We can pick any day to be the end of the world, |
65 |
Fear Of Tigers |
"Run for the Truth" |
Classic Fighter |
and then tomorrow we are set free: |
66 |
Saigon Blue Rain |
"Goodbye Horses" |
single |
of bounded decades and prescribed generations, |
67 |
Shrimpfield |
"Fix You" |
single |
of the conflation of darkness with flaws, |
68 |
Sunset Mission |
"The Willow" |
single |
of sentimental infrastructure and crumbling memory, |
69 |
Groundbreaker |
"Evermore" |
Soul to Soul |
of the responsibility for or reliance on magic. |
70 |
Edge Of Forever |
"Shift the Paradigm" |
single |
We jump in the idiot hope that the finite world will move away underneath us, |
71 |
Magnum |
"I Won't Let You Down" |
single |
and we will land somewhere exempt from gravity. |
72 |
Emigrate |
"RAGE" |
THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY |
Travel is flight, but so is standing still. |
73 |
Manntra |
"Nightcall" |
Nightcall +2 |
So is falling. |
74 |
NorthTale |
"Wings of Salvation" |
Eternal Flame |
So is standing up again. |
75 |
Dawn Of Solace |
"Event Horizon" |
Event Horizon +2 |
Our fantasies always seem to be draped alluringly over imaginary edges, |
76 |
Digimortal |
"Перемирие завершено" |
Создатель (альбомная версия) |
but we pick them up and something small and chitinous scuttles away across inevitably flat sand. |
77 |
The Halo Effect |
"Shadowminds" |
single |
We are the creatures writing cursory poems to our shadows |
78 |
Wolftopia |
"The Alpha" |
The Alpha +2 |
before turning around to feel the light on our faces |
79 |
A Tergo Lupi |
"Fade Under" |
single |
and our shadows' reproach on our heels. |
80 |
Cân Bardd |
"Echoes of the Moss" |
Devoured by the Oak |
Space is both dark and silent, |
81 |
Negură Bunget |
"Toacă Din Cer - Single Edit" |
single |
but filled with light and empty of songs. |
82 |
Wiegedood |
"Now Will Always Be" |
single |
Time is like a new kind of space made by creatures cursed to destroy what they encounter, |
83 |
Anomalie |
"Trance I: The Tree" |
single |
who have found a way to make their guilt into an inertia. |
84 |
Second To Sun |
"Veter" |
Veter +1 |
There didn't use to be this many planets, |
85 |
Funeral |
"Erindring I - Hovmod" |
single |
but be nice about it, we will outlive |
86 |
Otargos |
"Fleshborer Soulflayer" |
single |
and outdie them. |
87 |
Dauþuz |
"Der Bergschmied I - Mein Berg" |
Vom schwarzen Schmied |
Instead of putting a single bright forge at the origin, |
88 |
Sanguinum |
"A White Light Over The Forest" |
Manifestation Of The Essence |
we have spun dizzying glows into all our own myraid paths, |
89 |
Natura Aeternum |
"Creature of the Night" |
Nightcrawler |
and then stepped into them as if emerging from myth |
90 |
Maladie |
"My Soul, Old" |
single |
rather than, inherently and gravely, entering into it. |
91 |
Bala |
"Una Selva" |
Maleza |
We could reach into any wound and feel our hearts, |
92 |
Hadal Maw |
"Vile Veneration" |
single |
and afterwards drip the blood onto a new determinist altar, |
93 |
616 |
"Goddamn Liar" |
single |
or we could heal without forgetting that we are the tension between the centrifugal and centripetal forces of our circulation. |
94 |
Tangerine Dream |
"Raum - Single Edit" |
single |
All of our stories flow naturally in circles. |
95 |
Omnia |
"Fall Into You" |
Fall Into You +1 |
We know falling and returning, |
96 |
Geographer |
"Sweet Memory" |
Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights |
and maybe little else. |
97 |
Anahata |
"Amaranth - Cover" |
single |
It takes us so long to find out that these daily trips are the trajectories of both triumph and escape, |
98 |
Sarah Jezebel Deva |
"A Sign Of Sublime Redux" |
single |
and that they trace the insignia of us and our gods across the sky, |
99 |
Dani Martín |
"Volverá - 2021" |
No, No Vuelve |
but only if you stand exactly here looking exactly up. |
100 |
The Mountain Goats |
"In the Craters on the Moon - The Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 3" |
The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volumes 3 and 4 |
Seen from the dust on the moon, we are mostly reflections. Deflections. |
101 |
Taylor Swift |
"All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault)" |
Red (Taylor's Version) |
Defections. Reunions. Resurrections. |