1 |
Nebelhaus |
"Slawa Ukrajini" |
single |
The goal of a moral weapon is the elimination of weapons. |
2 |
Killing Joke |
"Total" |
Lord Of Chaos 4 |
A tank is an immoral weapon, |
3 |
VR SEX |
"Glutton For Love" |
Rough Dimension |
useful only for going into places where you are unwelcome |
4 |
softsurf |
"Blue Swirl (ver.2022)" |
Blue Swirl / Dawn of the Sun 2 |
for the purpose of killing the people who live there |
5 |
Young Prisms |
"Above Water" |
Drifter |
so that you yourself can never afterwards fully return home. |
6 |
Soul Glo |
"Coming Correct Is Cheaper" |
Diaspora Problems |
The moral response would be a tank liquifier: |
7 |
Deathspell Omega |
"Eadem, sed aliter" |
The Long Defeat |
some kind of molecular beam, let's say, that left the occupants of the former tank |
8 |
Septicflesh |
"Neuromancer" |
Neuromancer +1 |
sitting in a pool of undignified but nontoxic goo on the ground. |
9 |
Hyrgal |
"Fureur funeste" |
single |
An anti-tank missile is not quite the same, |
10 |
Gorod |
"Victory" |
single |
since it can be fired at nontanks, |
11 |
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard |
"Logic Bomb" |
The Harvest |
and even when fired at tanks |
12 |
Mares of Thrace |
"The Thread That Will Unravel You" |
The Exile |
tends to kill the people inside of them, |
13 |
Emma Ruth Rundle |
"Gilded Cage" |
Orpheus Looking Back 3 |
who are still people even if they made the immoral decision |
14 |
Cowboy Junkies |
"Marathon" |
Songs of the Recollection |
to get in a tank and drive it into somebody else's country. |
15 |
Shearwater |
"Xenarthran" |
single |
But anti-tank missiles are better than tanks, |
16 |
Zola Jesus |
"Lost" |
single |
and a commander asking for more anti-tank missiles |
17 |
Deathspell Omega |
"Sie sind gerichtet!" |
The Long Defeat |
is trying to stop a war, not wage it. |
18 |
Sebastien |
"Je to v nás" |
single |
Moral armament aspires to defense, |
19 |
Edenbridge |
"Somewhere Else But Here" |
single |
and all defenses aspire to the historical standard |
20 |
Floor Jansen |
"Fire" |
single |
of a moat filled with clean water and regal koi. |
21 |
Winter In Eden |
"Never Let Go" |
Social Fake |
Moats aspire to landscaping. |
22 |
Neperia |
"Like A Broken Toy" |
single |
Drawbridges aspire to their lifting mechanisms rusting into superfluity. |
23 |
Confidential |
"Release My Symphony" |
Devil Inside |
I don't know what koi aspire to. |
24 |
Semblant |
"Enrage" |
single |
I aspire to days spent thinking "I wonder what koi want", |
25 |
Krashkarma |
"Blind Faith" |
single |
not "How do you undo a war?" |
26 |
April Weeps |
"Fundamental Ingressions" |
single |
or "How do you end a pandemic?" |
27 |
Graveshadow |
"Soldier of 34" |
single |
or "How do you convince people to stop fearing each other |
28 |
Poison Garden |
"Tin Man" |
single |
so much that they can't even be united by shared existential threats?" |
29 |
Evergrey |
"Midwinter Calls" |
Midwinter Calls +1 |
I aspire to days that begin with a run in non-freezing rain |
30 |
Nite |
"Last Scorpion" |
Voices of the Kronian Moon |
and never seriously threaten to get any worse than that, |
31 |
Crematory |
"Inglorious Darkness" |
single |
to songs that remind me of good past days |
32 |
Powerwolf |
"Sainted by the Storm" |
Sainted by the Storm +2 |
that these new ones are better than, |
33 |
Trick or Treat |
"Escape from Reality" |
single |
to florid triumphs over nothing |
34 |
Lords of the Trident |
"Carry the Weight" |
single |
instead of grim resistance against pointless offense, |
35 |
Egor Lappo |
"Dawn Tracer" |
single |
to nobody having to answer for other people's delusions |
36 |
PreHistoric animals |
"We Harvest the Souls of the Brave" |
The Magical Mystery Machine (Chapter Two) |
or feel compelled to harvest their souls. |
37 |
Myth of I |
"Naiveté" |
single |
I seek a world that not only tolerates naiveté |
38 |
Runa Llena |
"Nunca Apagarán Tu Luz" |
single |
but cultivates it, |
39 |
Vacío |
"Poses" |
single |
nurtures it, |
40 |
Drakwald |
"Devouring the Living Sun" |
single |
allows for the grandiloquent disregard of cynical inertia. |
41 |
Thanateros |
"Burn" |
On Fragile Wings |
I want to talk about double kick-drum pedals, |
42 |
Bucium |
"Zimbrul Alb" |
single |
not the wives of "originalist" Justices campaigning for government overthrow |
43 |
Celtibeerian |
"Rise" |
single |
while their husbands ask no questions because they seek no new knowledge. |
44 |
Danheim |
"Hel" |
single |
I want time to stretch out so far, ahead and behind, |
45 |
Sowulo |
"Wyrd Webba" |
single |
that I might as well spend some of it learning to translate decorative runes. |
46 |
XTEEN |
"GLORIA" |
GLORIA +2 |
I want to go back to Japan and eat all of the ramen I missed, |
47 |
UNDEAD CORPORATION |
"Fake" |
Fake 5 |
and then come back home and retest all of the ramen here |
48 |
PLANCK STARS |
"Ochiomegarema" |
Ochiomegarema |
and conclude that there are no bad choices. |
49 |
miscast |
"WEREWOLF" |
WEREWOLF / LIMITBREAK 2 |
Maybe this is the only worthwhile mission statement |
50 |
8bitBRAIN |
"下弦に舞い散る夜桜は、あなたを想い永遠を唄ウ。" |
shout |
for any variety of mission: |
51 |
SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] |
"LilaS" |
single |
make there be no bad choices. |
52 |
Rosario Cross |
"Saisho ha good" |
Winning Run |
Our time is too short, |
53 |
FOMARE |
"かぼちゃ列車" |
single |
the variations of joy too infinite. |
54 |
АУРА |
"Окна" |
single |
We do not need enemies |
55 |
Mœnia |
"Maldito Duende" |
single |
in order to see our friends backwards in their reflections. |
56 |
Viva Suecia |
"No Hemos Aprendido Nada" |
single |
We do not need enemies. |
57 |
Menta |
"Lo que me falta" |
single |
We do not need to be distrustfully protected |
58 |
Conquer Divide |
"Atonement" |
single |
from our own hearts, |
59 |
Charli XCX |
"Sorry if I Hurt You" |
CRASH |
or committed to mistakes |
60 |
Elsa y Elmar |
"qué voy a hacer conmigo???" |
single |
we aren't allowed to regret or repair. |
61 |
Erin Kinsey |
"This Ain't Heaven" |
40 East 6 |
This isn't heaven, |
62 |
Gabbie Hanna |
"I Sold My Soul" |
single |
ethereally dour and dedicated to the most eternal consequences |
63 |
Catie Turner |
"Nothing" |
single |
for the most dubious faiths. |
64 |
Beren Olivia |
"So Emotional" |
single |
These songs are not disposable prototypes |
65 |
AJA |
"Love At First Song" |
single |
for a single final song to come. |
66 |
Taylor Acorn |
"In My Head" |
single |
Hope is not a backhanded condemnation of the things we have already tried, |
67 |
Twinnie |
"One Heart" |
One Heart +1 |
but a belief that we build, |
68 |
Kiesza |
"Vicious Circle" |
Tommy 4 |
that our paths are microcircular but macrolinear, |
69 |
Let's Eat Grandma |
"Levitation" |
single |
that the surface you dedicate to the ground allows the rest of your body to fly. |
70 |
The Warning |
"MONEY" |
single |
The goal of a moral currency |
71 |
Vazum |
"Thief" |
Thief +1 |
is not to capitalize interest, |
72 |
beabadoobee |
"Talk" |
single |
but to compound investment. |
73 |
Luby Sparks |
"Honey" |
single |
Engravings of autocrats are designed to depreciate, |
74 |
Zheani |
"Tarantulas" |
I Hate People On The Internet |
just as their autocracies are architected to bind inherent flaws |
75 |
Zheani |
"You Saw" |
I Hate People On The Internet |
with tenuous coercion and dependent sinecures. |
76 |
Nolay |
"Top Bitch" |
Top Bitch 5 |
Exchange rates are a nihilist fiction, |
77 |
Britizen Kane |
"TOP FORM" |
single |
fomenting arbitrages of distrust, |
78 |
Kilo Kish |
"DEATH FANTASY" |
AMERICAN GURL |
quantifying the exact extent to which "states' rights" |
79 |
umru |
"honest" |
comfort noise |
exist to preserve exactly the dysfunctions we have learned to collectively recognize. |
80 |
poptropicaslutz! |
"the last time i was scared was when you caught me trying to kill you" |
the last time i was scared was when you caught me trying to kill you +2 |
We scare each other with blank gazes |
81 |
reefuh |
"highway" |
single |
raked across each other's backs. |
82 |
Leo IV |
"i hope i make it to a tour bus" |
when i die please forgive me |
We write songs about what we want, |
83 |
yung van |
"I don't wanna be alone when I wake up" |
single |
not to get it, |
84 |
End Street |
"Bahala Ka" |
single |
but to remember what it felt like to feel each particular kind of emptiness. |
85 |
Chief |
"if i'm being honest" |
single |
After the last tank has been liquified, |
86 |
Colours Of One |
"Crater's Lip" |
single |
the beamgun can be taken apart, |
87 |
Del Amitri |
"Gone In a Second" |
Gone In a Second +1 |
and remade into a machine for turning the ferric goo the tanks became |
88 |
Darden Smith |
"Western Skies" |
Western Skies |
into guitar strings |
89 |
James Bay |
"Give Me The Reason" |
single |
and gleaming statues of ourselves. |
90 |
Maximo Park |
"Great Art" |
single |
Moral art aspires to power, |
91 |
The Killers |
"The Getting By II" |
Pressure Machine |
not as a monumental noun but as a transformational verb, |
92 |
Fleeting Joys |
"Everything You're Running To" |
single |
not as perpetuatable iconography but as restless current. |
93 |
Reën |
"Vasklou" |
Weer 6 |
We don't ask songs to end our wars, |
94 |
Makhadzi |
"Pain Ya Jealous" |
single |
or resurrect ancestors who didn't take ancient secrets away with them anyway. |
95 |
Killorbeezbeatz |
"Sengikhathele" |
single |
They didn't punitively retire to leave us floundering in the absence of withheld wisdom. |
96 |
Lili Refrain |
"Mami Wata" |
single |
They just got tired. |
97 |
Vieux Farka Touré |
"Gabou Ni Tie" |
single |
I feel their exhaustion as a hereditary gift, |
98 |
Martha |
"Dumplins" |
single |
pouring off me like the rain from the run. |
99 |
U137 |
"Andromeda" |
single |
The goal of effort is not the elimination of effort, |
100 |
Kcin |
"Your Tomorrow Has No Tomorrow" |
single |
of experimentation is not certainty, |
101 |
Colin Stetson |
"Among the Stars" |
Among the Stars |
of improvisation is not an illusion of premeditation. |
102 |
Mint Julep |
"It's My Life" |
Covers |
It's your life, |
103 |
Mint Julep |
"Horror Head" |
Covers |
but our spinning world; |
104 |
Rain Paris |
"Middle Of The Night" |
single |
your voice but our language. |
105 |
black midi |
"Love Story" |
Cavalcovers 3 |
We get tired of waiting, finally, and settle for things we've been told we're allowed to dream of: |
106 |
Fleesh |
"Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez Version" |
Versions III |
temporary formations and their eventual disintegrations. And our demons smile, thinly, because this is exactly how it went in their plans, except it was supposed to feel glorious afterwards. |
107 |
Shameless |
"Hiding From Love" |
single |
And they turn back to look at us again, because fear seeks misery against which to justify itself. And we're smiling. But we're smiling. And they look down, because the smile is terrifyingly unterrified, and it makes them want to hide from it in a tank. And that's when they notice that they're standing in goo. |