1 |
Biznaga |
"Domingo Especialmente Triste" |
single |
Our problem is not the people who have forgotten history, |
2 |
Cariño |
"no me convengo" |
single |
it's the ones who want to go back to it. |
3 |
Skorn3896 |
"She's The Blade That Sliced Through My Heart" |
She's the Reason the Sun Still Shines 2 |
The process of equalizing all humans' potential for joy |
4 |
sly cat girl |
"My Answer" |
2nd DEMO 3 |
is inevitably also a process of equalizing individual potential for evil. |
5 |
Eliza & The Delusionals |
"Give You Everything" |
Give You Everything +3 |
Democracy is ostensibly an expression of faith in individual responsibility, |
6 |
Ingebjørg Bratland |
"Løvenskioldsgate 5" |
single |
but also a grim assessment of corruptibility. |
7 |
Star Cassette |
"Kom tillbaks" |
single |
This is why the structure of every particular government matters |
8 |
Red Mecca |
"Tu Sueño No Es Mio" |
single |
as much as its nominal form or political alignment. |
9 |
Ainoa Buitrago |
"A LO LEJOS" |
single |
Putin's dementia is his own personal problem; |
10 |
Dvicio |
"TE PIENSO A CADA HORA" |
single |
the fact that he has the logistical ability to express it in missiles fired across borders is Russia's institutional problem; |
11 |
Mimi Webb |
"House On Fire" |
single |
the fact that humanity still has missiles and borders is a human problem. |
12 |
LAU |
"Broken Hearts" |
Circumstance |
This is how you can distinguish between partisan initiatives and progressive ones: |
13 |
Neon Capital |
"Young" |
Young 5 |
partisanship seeks control over consolidated power, |
14 |
Roxi Drive |
"Make me Scream" |
single |
progress seeks to distribute or dilute that power. |
15 |
The Great Discord |
"Wildfire" |
Deam Morte |
Dictatorial paranoia is thus inevitable and definitionally correct: |
16 |
The Birthday Massacre |
"Fascination" |
Fascination |
the course of history seeks to run through walls. |
17 |
Victorian Death Photos |
"The Crown" |
single |
There is no existential threat to a peaceful Russia, |
18 |
The Neptune Power Federation |
"Weeping on the Morn" |
Le Demon de L'amour |
but that isn't the nation under current command. |
19 |
Glasya |
"Way to Victory" |
Attarghan |
We say that power corrupts, |
20 |
Crusade Of Bards |
"Vento Aureo" |
Tales Of The Seven Seas |
but this is dangerously misleading, because it implies that power tends to corrupt, |
21 |
The Great Discord |
"No Light" |
Deam Morte |
and thus that this tendency can be resisted, |
22 |
Walk in Darkness |
"Walk Close to Me" |
single |
and admits exceptions. |
23 |
Synlakross |
"Last [Tour] Requiem" |
single |
But the unequal distribution of power isn't a risk factor for corruption, |
24 |
Empire of Giants |
"Heat" |
Heat +1 |
it's the manifestation and result of it. |
25 |
Semblant |
"Purified" |
single |
I trust Joe Biden a little more than I trusted Donald Trump, |
26 |
Memoira |
"Phantom Insomnium" |
single |
but once you're collectively forced to "trust" an individual guy or two, |
27 |
South Haven |
"Delirious" |
single |
you're fucked. |
28 |
Glasya |
"A New Era Has Come" |
Attarghan |
Same for nine guys on the Supreme Court, whether one of them is a Black woman or not. |
29 |
Mimi Barks |
"RAD" |
single |
Same for the Senate, with or without the filibuster. |
30 |
umru |
"all i need" |
single |
Same for companies public or private, |
31 |
Alice Glass |
"PREY" |
PREY//IV |
or people holding loaded guns |
32 |
cookii |
"so young" |
single |
or driving cars |
33 |
mysticphonk |
"voices" |
single |
or wearing their masks beneath their noses. |
34 |
James Gorczyca |
"TUNNEL VISION" |
single |
States' rights, |
35 |
Leo IV |
"6teen" |
single |
at every level or definition of statehood, |
36 |
Esprit D'Air |
"Ocean's Call" |
Oceans |
are a program of exceptionalism |
37 |
BiS |
"DA DA DA DANCE SONG" |
single |
for the benefit of an inherently unexceptional chosen. |
38 |
tricot |
"エンドロールに間に合うように" |
single |
Any amount of power-imbalance |
39 |
≠ME |
"君はスパークル" |
チョコレートメランコリー 4 |
produces game-theoretic outcomes based on wielding it because it can be wielded. |
40 |
Eir Aoi |
"Discord" |
PHOENIX PRAYER -special edition 5 |
Ethics is the minimization of repercussions in an amoral system. |
41 |
Harmonic Reflection |
"Amore" |
Guidance of the Fingertips 3 |
An actual moral system needs no ethics. |
42 |
Heidra |
"Wolfborn Rising" |
single |
Demilitarization is, of course, an excellent imperative, |
43 |
Veonity |
"Beyond the Realm of Reality" |
Elements of Power |
but as should be obvious beyond the realm of imaginary debate, |
44 |
Boguslaw Balcerak's Crylord |
"It's just a wind" |
Human Heredity |
it can't be accomplished with tanks. |
45 |
Opera Magna |
"In Nomine" |
single |
It's true in a practical sense that the current abject absues in Ukraine |
46 |
Medjay |
"Return of the Medjay" |
single |
are partly the result of merely containing the same unresolved conceptual errors in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea, |
47 |
Ten |
"Chapter and Psalm" |
Here Be Monsters |
but this is also true about Palestine, Taiwan, Western Sahara, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, |
48 |
The Neptune Power Federation |
"Stay with Thee" |
Le Demon de L'amour |
and mostly true about pretty much everywhere else that pretends at uncontentious existence, too. |
49 |
BIGMAMA |
"Let it beat" |
single |
It is patently hypocritical for the USA, as a current and historical national power, to decry military intervention in the affairs of other countries, |
50 |
SUPER BEAVER |
"スペシャル" |
single |
but it is hyper critical for the American people, and the Russian people, |
51 |
kobore |
"ジェリーフィッシュ" |
single |
and all the people who are people underneath their colorful flags, |
52 |
MAGIC OF LiFE |
"運命のポルタ" |
single |
to temporarily and repeatedly imagine a post-national future in which flags are only colors |
53 |
Castaway |
"New World" |
With Future Behind |
until imagination becomes anticipation. |
54 |
JUNNA |
"fractal" |
Kazenootosae kikoenai 3 |
Stop the tank. |
55 |
Nite |
"Edge of the Night" |
single |
Get out. Stand back. |
56 |
Kampfar |
"Lausdans under stjernene" |
single |
Maybe farther; it may spark a little as it melts. |
57 |
Immolation |
"The Age Of No Light" |
Acts Of God |
The next age will be an age of shared and abundant light, |
58 |
Foscor |
"Traces Mòrbides" |
single |
in which we are all entitled to die in only our own self-contained ways, |
59 |
Bâ'a |
"Urbi et Orbi Clamant" |
single |
and also to live at no other soul's expense. |
60 |
Faun |
"Neun Welten" |
single |
Good historians make bad autocrats, but excellent bureaucrats, |
61 |
Glasya |
"Battle for Trust" |
Attarghan |
and good bureaucrats are formal stewards of order. |
62 |
NND International |
"UNOMFUNDO" |
INQOLA YASE BOXER |
We have never needed tanks. We have always needed order. |
63 |
Amabunjwa |
"Adoption" |
USGEDLEMBA |
We are complicated bodies in chaotic orbits, |
64 |
Dj Obza |
"Sthandwa'sam" |
Uthando Lwami |
mistaking careening trajectory for plangent nostalgia. |
65 |
Paige |
"Bekumnand' Izolo" |
single |
We fear a world without war songs, |
66 |
Nobuhle |
"Sibonga Wena" |
single |
but nothing can take away from us |
67 |
Citizen Deep |
"Ilizwi (feat. Bukeka)" |
Ilizwi (feat. Bukeka) +1 |
the wars in which we have already died, |
68 |
Echo Deep |
"Maye" |
single |
and the songs in which we imagine unfighting them. |
69 |
Drega |
"Vela (feat. Maline Aura)" |
Vela (feat. Maline Aura) +1 |
These songs are not louder than bombs, |
70 |
Amabunjwa |
"Ngikhumbule" |
USGEDLEMBA |
but they keep going, and keep existing. |
71 |
NND International |
"LIBOMVU ICALA" |
INQOLA YASE BOXER |
They distribute the power of love |
72 |
Baiuca |
"Solstício" |
single |
like bombs concentrate the power of hate. |
73 |
Shogun |
"Siks Fingers" |
single |
They consecrate the power of connection |
74 |
SWVN |
"Back and Forth" |
single |
like bombs misattribute the possibility of release. |
75 |
The Wedding Present |
"I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You" |
I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You +1 |
The lines you draw around people do not move them, |
76 |
Animals As Leaders |
"Gordian Naught" |
Gordian Naught +2 |
they move you. |
77 |
Andromida |
"You See Big Girl / T:T" |
single |
The melting tanks will make rivers of metal, |
78 |
Acadence |
"Internal Exile" |
single |
racing towards forgiving shores. |
79 |
Gregorio Franco |
"Born to Expire" |
Lamentations |
Ukraine and Belarus and Russia are names we have stipulated |
80 |
Blanck Mass |
"Montana (Main Theme)" |
single |
for illusions of something other than human communities on a wandering planet. |
81 |
Julien-K |
"DESPERATION DAY" |
DESPERATION DAY +1 |
Sometimes it wanders into despair, |
82 |
Lauren Babic |
"Bad Romance" |
single |
or the nihilistic desire for revenge. |
83 |
First to Eleven |
"Your Love" |
single |
Nihilism and despair live inside of us, too, |
84 |
Natalie Imbruglia |
"Story of My Life" |
single |
but sublimate out of open hearts, and are replaced by love. |
85 |
Violet Orlandi |
"How You Remind Me" |
single |
All of these songs are just trying to remind us of who we can be, one day, |
86 |
K Enagonio |
"Light Switch - Metal Version" |
single |
who we can stop being at any moment, |
87 |
Dialith |
"Hair" |
single |
and how eagerly those days and moments await us. |