1 |
VUKOVI |
"I EXIST" |
I EXIST 6 |
When they remake The Fifth Element, Leeloo will get songs, too, and they will sound like this when she's still angrily understanding what kind of universe she's been ejected into, |
2 |
Phoebe Green |
"Just A Game" |
Just A Game +3 |
and then this when she has grasped what hope means in that context. |
3 |
Pale Waves |
"The Hard Way" |
single |
All our songs are stories of somebody adjusting to something, |
4 |
Beach Bunny |
"Deadweight" |
Emotional Creature |
and only sometimes are those people us, |
5 |
BLÜ EYES |
"wish we never happened" |
wish we never happened +1 |
or only sometimes we realize. |
6 |
Caroline Kole |
"red flags" |
single |
I feel this as a sharper pain when my kid is away |
7 |
Daisy Grenade |
"Already Dead" |
single |
and the kids in these songs are becoming unkids |
8 |
Lauran Hibberd |
"That Was A Joke" |
That Was A Joke +3 |
or fighting it |
9 |
Julien Baker |
"Vanishing Point" |
B-Sides 3 |
or remembering what it was like to fight against things that were always part of you. |
10 |
Malaika |
"(You)seless" |
single |
I want to have advice to give about how to live unpainfully, |
11 |
Lucie,Too |
"二人のストーリー" |
The story of two of us 2 |
so badly that I forget that I never tried to find that way. |
12 |
帰りの会 |
"朔日" |
single |
Caring is not a methodology for invulnerability. |
13 |
B.O.L.T |
"BY MY SIDE" |
single |
The armorer sells you metal skin as an apology to themselves, |
14 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"kassai" |
single |
as a recurrent purgative shedding. |
15 |
Atomic Skipper |
"ブルー・シー・ブルー" |
single |
You put it on as a kindness. |
16 |
JORMUNGAND |
"Arise" |
Vivid Chaos |
It gleams more than it fits, |
17 |
sui sui |
"No complex" |
single |
but you need to gleam more than you need to fight, |
18 |
SIPP |
"Lies" |
Bun! Bun! Boom!! 5 |
and you don't need a different skin to gleam. |
19 |
ASCA |
"サウイウモノニ" |
single |
I drive home from camp dropoff with these songs blasting, |
20 |
H△G |
"カラフル - Best Album Version" |
single |
getting off at any exit where the signs promise every iconic amenity |
21 |
Eri Kitamura |
"D!zzy ... &" |
IRiDESCENT%V!SION |
and driving into whatever town it is until the GPS switches from |
22 |
Shiina Natsukawa |
"ササクレ" |
single |
telling me to turn back |
23 |
Unknöwn Kun |
"Extraordinary Storyteller" |
single |
to telling me to go forward. |
24 |
Street Story |
"年老いた小説のその中で" |
single |
If our machines achieve sentience, |
25 |
AA= |
"Chapter 6_BORDER" |
story of Suite #19 |
it will happen long before realize, |
26 |
XANVALA |
"DAYS" |
single |
but long after we imagine. |
27 |
Oceans of Slumber |
"Just a Day" |
Starlight And Ash |
It's not really us who is waiting for them, |
28 |
Oknos |
"Haven of Tranquility" |
From Ashes |
imaginary angels of virtualized purity, |
29 |
Edge Of Paradise |
"Go Higher" |
single |
but our diaphanous notion of our own souls |
30 |
Empress |
"Eventide" |
single |
that has to be discretized before we can |
31 |
ELYSATIUM |
"My Nothingness" |
single |
measure anything else in its units: |
32 |
Crystal Gates |
"Moonshine & Sorrow" |
single |
grief coiled around pride; |
33 |
Onyria |
"Price Of Souls" |
Feed The Monster |
allowing our dreams for others to become |
34 |
Powerwolf |
"Call of the Wild" |
single |
practices for ourselves; |
35 |
Megadeth |
"Night Stalkers" |
Night Stalkers / We’ll Be Back 2 |
the abuses we intend to condone |
36 |
Ozzy Osbourne |
"Degradation Rules (feat. Tony Iommi)" |
Degradation Rules (feat. Tony Iommi) +1 |
only provisionally and purposefully, |
37 |
Valborg |
"Hektor" |
single |
but end up bargaining with |
38 |
Lamori |
"Valley of Great Dismay" |
single |
to ransom our sense of self; |
39 |
Violet Cold |
"Stellvr" |
single |
the emotional dimension of moments; |
40 |
A Pregnant Light |
"Hysterectomy" |
Hysterectomy / Too Pure 2 |
fear. |
41 |
Dressed In Streams |
"The Queen of Awadh Addresses Her Fighters from an Elephant on the Battlefield" |
लड़ाई का मैदान 2 |
A woman on an elephant berates us for ten minutes in a ravishing and unintelligible language. |
42 |
Breath Of Wind |
"The Place Where The Sun Rises" |
The Place Where The Sun Rises +1 |
We are not fighters. This isn't a battlefield, it's only a field, |
43 |
Wake |
"Mourning Dirge (Repose of the Dead)" |
Thought Form Descent |
and the blood we poor into it is as poor a solution for nitrogen fixing, |
44 |
Crippled Black Phoenix |
"Everything is Beautiful but Us" |
single |
as it is for fixing anything else. |
45 |
Imperial Triumphant |
"In the Pleasure of Their Company" |
Spirit Of Ecstasy |
My pronouns are a state-machine, |
46 |
Lonely Robot |
"The Island of Misfit Toys" |
single |
not a list, |
47 |
Brendan Peyper |
"Insomnia" |
Insomnia |
not a regimen I can retrospectively inject into history |
48 |
The Soft Moon |
"Become The Lies" |
Become The Lies +1 |
or a commitment you can take away with you. |
49 |
Dwell in Doom |
"Nevermore" |
Nevermore +2 |
The only boundary is the one between "we" and "they", |
50 |
Viva Suecia |
"El Rey Desnudo" |
single |
and that one is only visible from inaccessible distance. |
51 |
Radio Havanna |
"Randale und Liebe" |
single |
We were given a weapon shaped like a girl |
52 |
Abcd! |
"The Great Escape" |
single |
in a movie about how the future looks |
53 |
Ntozabantu |
"Phuma Kum" |
single |
because superficial obsessions are as navigationally effective at leading us to the truth |
54 |
Son of Africa |
"Mveliso(The finnest machine) [Umama]" |
single |
as sedentary reverences. |
55 |
Citizen Deep |
"Baba Mongameli (feat. ZaneeMusiq)" |
single |
We leave our encrypted secrets with monastic sects |
56 |
SANDHAUS |
"Zimbabwe" |
Zimbabwe +2 |
in the hopes that they will invent novel polyphonies |
57 |
Da Africa Deep |
"Stars" |
Stars +1 |
before we return to admit that we lost the code, |
58 |
Shatta Wale |
"What do you know about me" |
single |
or we used some ridiculous "strong" password we got from a passing angel we never saw again. |
59 |
Rico Nasty |
"Messy (feat. Teezo Touchdown & Bktherula)" |
Las Ruinas |
I want to have advice about how to live pristinely. |
60 |
Tanya Tagaq |
"Tongues - Backxwash Remix" |
Tongues North Star Remixes |
I don't want or try or suggest to live that way, |
61 |
Galya Bisengalieva |
"Prelude" |
Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive (Original Music from the Netflix Film) |
but I want to know what you have to believe for all this humane chaos to seem methodical. |
62 |
Caroline Shaw |
"Three Essays: First Essay (Nimrod)" |
single |
I want to know what it takes to look at everything complicated and self-contradictory about human civilization and think |
63 |
Lawrence English |
"Approach V - First Encounter" |
single |
"Oh, I bet somebody buried a distress beacon in the desert somewhere in case we ever needed to call for help." |
64 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Atrial 1.1" |
Agitas Al Sol |
That's not how we live through this. |
65 |
The Lovecraft Sextet |
"Miserere - Occulta - Opus I" |
single |
Our pronouns are not a imaginary trinity that will absolve us of mortality |
66 |
Kuggur |
"حصاد ضَوْءٌ النُّجُومِ" |
حصاد ضَوْءٌ النُّجُومِ |
or morality. |
67 |
Morbid Mechanics |
"Fear of the Unknown" |
Fear of the Unknown |
Half of our machines are tools, half are effigies. |
68 |
Nekonomicon |
"SCP-173" |
single |
Or maybe that's two ways of explaining the same half. |
69 |
Kontrollverlust |
"99 Luftballons" |
Discover the Classics |
The others are just different assemblies of analogy |
70 |
Lauren Babic |
"Have Faith In Me" |
single |
and ways to remember forgettable days |
71 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Titanium" |
single |
or let go of indelible ones. |
72 |
First to Eleven |
"Call Me Maybe" |
single |
There are no gods from which to negotiate a conditional release or an altered incline, |
73 |
RichaadEB |
"Running Up That Hill" |
single |
there are just numbers we give out, |
74 |
The Avalanche Diaries |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" |
single |
billowing confetti handfuls for each of us, poured down into the wind from however far up the hill we got, |
75 |
Lø Spirit |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
and then try to put back in an order |
76 |
Roless |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
we imagine their nature once supplied. |
77 |
Miree |
"Running Up That Hill - Cover Español" |
single |
It doesn't hurt to live, exactly, but you have to want to feel how it feels even when you aren't sure of that. |
78 |
SayWeCanFly |
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" |
single |
The moments feel stolen, at first. Some of them still feel stolen at last. But we give them back to those we love, and that's how we survive. |