| 1 | Pohgoh | "Now I Know" | Du Und Ich | I've never watched Pohgoh play. |
| 2 | Courtney Swain | "I Forget" | For Once | I've never seen most of the people I listen to play, even the ones I know personally. |
| 3 | First Aid Kit | "Palomino" | Palomino | Some of them I can probably imagine. |
| 4 | Dakota Rhodes | "Almost" | single | They make music that sounds of rooms, |
| 5 | Hailey Beavis | "Shot at the Coconut" | I'll Put You Where the Trombone Slides | that offers obvious explanations of its mechanisms, |
| 6 | Leia Destruye | "Por Los Dos" | Leia Destruye | that moves volumes of air with mallets and wires and other simple and complicated levers. |
| 7 | shego | "LUCKY" | single | I have seen songs like this before. |
| 8 | White Lung | "If You’re Gone" | If You're Gone 3 | All of our particular and individual experiences become our archetypes, |
| 9 | Softcult | "Drain" | single | because how else could they? |
| 10 | NOVACUB | "Close To You" | Close To You +3 | I listen to the London spiky-pop quartet NOVACUB, who I've never seen, |
| 11 | Carlie Hanson | "Illusion" | single | and I think about watching the London electro-R&B trio Juce at South by Southwest in Austin. |
| 12 | Lauren Weintraub | "Over Her Over Here" | This Is Your Brain On Love 6 | I've never seen Lauren Weintraub play, although she's from five towns away from me and has been famous on video, |
| 13 | Eliza Grace | "Love Letter" | single | and I mentally transpose her onto Amy Grant and then I have to think hard to remember if I've really seen Amy Grant, |
| 14 | Alke | "Touching Me Now" | single | or I'm just thinking about listening to Beth Nielsen Chapman songs |
| 15 | Cassyette | "Sunlight On Your Skin" | single | and remembering watching Nanci Griffith. |
| 16 | Miranda! | "Don" | single | I grew up reading books and playing records, |
| 17 | Ela Taubert | "¿Cómo Es Que Tú?" | single | and even before streaming I always knew it as normal |
| 18 | Paula Mattheus | "Cuando Te Olvides De Mí" | Mi Concierto En El Balcón | that music comes from more places than you have time to go, |
| 19 | Edurne | "Mil Motivos - con Yarea" | Mil motivos 2 | and flies through the air in every direction necessary to find you where you are. |
| 20 | T'Pau | "World On Fire" | single | I think about my visceral sense of connection with T'Pau, and can almost picture the particular details of their performance |
| 21 | АУРА | "Тепло другого тела" | single | before I remember that my T'Pau bonding event wasn't a concert, it was finding a copy of their second album, |
| 22 | Nehl Aelin | "Eternity" | single | which at the time wasn't available in the US, at a CD store in Amsterdam on my first international work trip. |
| 23 | Issa | "Lights of Japan" | single | We don't have that any more. We don't need it. We never needed it. My bond with this Issa song comes from listening to it, again and again, and then again now. |
| 24 | YUKI | "タイムカプセル" | Bump & Grind 3 | I've been to Japan once. I wouldn't know YUKI if I stopped them to ask, in my halting and weirdly teenage-girl-inflected Japanese, if this is the train to Mitaka. |
| 25 | 結束バンド | "カラカラ" | single | You become human by learning to love things that you can't possibly mistake for possessions. |
| 26 | Kaneyorimasaru | "Game Over" | single | That's how the game begins. |
| 27 | THE BOYS&GIRLS | "BOY" | single | That's why our historical binary illusions stunt us. |
| 28 | TsuShiMaMiRe | "Look Back in Anger" | single | The spectrum of our beliefs is not a wingspan that holds us up, |
| 29 | TORICAGO | "TORAUMA" | YUUREI MITAIDESU 3 | it is a diaspora out of caves, away from fear. |
| 30 | sphere | "phantasien" | A Fusion Of Two Hemispheres | People who mock the idea of chosen pronouns |
| 31 | Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai | "Reincarnation" | single | are right to fear that once we allow anyone to choose freely among limited alternatives, |
| 32 | ЯeaL | "re:call" | single | it will lead to chaos. |
| 33 | JIEMEI | "AUTOPHILIA" | NA? 4 | Right to think that, wrong to fear it. |
| 34 | ELLEGARDEN | "Strawberry Margarita" | single | Entropy is the dissolution of identity. The chaos we're trying to unchain is not about infinite isolation, |
| 35 | Re:NO | "Realize" | single | but an elemental freedom to reassemble. |
| 36 | Free As Birds | "Strike Masses" | single | Bring all the world's music together doesn't make it indistinguishable, |
| 37 | BabyKingdom | "dakuramento" | dakuramento +3 | it just makes it free. |
| 38 | OMNI666 | "Jigoku-Matsuri" | single | You can go to Japan, but songs are faster. |
| 39 | JAMBINAI | "from the place been erased" | single | I've never seen JAMBINAI, but I first started paying attention to them because my friend Erich saw them at WOMAD and had to tell somebody. |
| 40 | Xandria | "Ghosts" | Ghosts +2 | Be the person that your friends think of when they see something wonderful that they don't understand. |
| 41 | Carpathia | "Everstone" | The Mooring | When I discover a particularly good gothic symphonic metal band, I tell my friend Paul, |
| 42 | Crimson Sun | "My Revolution" | single | and then later we know how to cross-check any work things designed to measure what two listeners have in common, |
| 43 | Unleash The Archers | "Acoustipex" | Acoustipex +1 | and how to commiserate about projects that treat us as if we exist in sealed vats, |
| 44 | Deathless Legacy | "Absolution" | single | fed by tubes, |
| 45 | Stoned Statues | "Until Falling" | single | and can only be explained to each other by intermediation and coincidence. |
| 46 | Halocene | "Hold Me, Help Me" | Hold Me, Help Me 5 | I hear the new Halocene, and remember a thread John started about Lacuna Coil and time. |
| 47 | The Nearly Deads | "Relentless" | single | Context isn't a sticker-backing we peel songs off of, |
| 48 | Molllust | "Sun - Journey of Icarus" | Sun - Journey of Icarus +3 | it's a world we make by allowing music into everything else we do, |
| 49 | Loz Campbell | "Beautiful Liar" | single | or by tolerating everything other than music as accompaniment |
| 50 | Cassidy Paris | "Danger" | single | or a tractably limited distraction from listening and singing. |
| 51 | About Us | "Our Fairyland" | single | I bet you don't think this song is about you, |
| 52 | Under Threat | "Impermanence" | Impermanence | and you're right, but you've asked a backwards question. |
| 53 | Disillusion | "From the Embers" | Ayam | Songs are born, embodying potential, |
| 54 | Silent Cry | "Pactum Earth" | Terra | and then they lead lives among us. |
| 55 | Devin Townsend | "Celestial Signals" | Lightwork | I saw Mimi Parker play, |
| 56 | Earthside | "We Who Lament" | single | and it made Low my favorite band for a while, |
| 57 | Indigo Storm | "Duplicity" | single | and now they don't remain, |
| 58 | Sisters of Suffocation | "Pay My Dues" | Pay My Dues +1 | except they do. |
| 59 | Mob Rules | "Ghost Town" | single | The songs she gave us are ours to keep, unconditionally, |
| 60 | Insomnium | "Lilian" | single | or maybe not quite without conditions, really, but the conditions |
| 61 | Amorphis | "The Well" | single | are not rules that march ahead, they are contexts that pursue, |
| 62 | Mandragora Thuringia | "Ausbruch" | Rex Silvarum | or circle overhead in drones, |
| 63 | Tyrmfar | "Supreme Justice" | Dialectic of Ego and the Unconscious | or buzz in your ears like a physical memory of drones |
| 64 | Equilibrium Falls | "Fractured Reality" | Fractured Reality +1 | or an overdriven intimation of death. |
| 65 | Second To Sun | "North Metal Legion" | Nocturnal Philosophy | I saw Juliana Hatfield play with the Blake Babies in my college dining hall. |
| 66 | Karg | "Generation ohne Abschied" | single | I saw Jewel do an in-store at Newbury Comics, backed up against the New Release rack with just an acoustic guitar. |
| 67 | Jours Pâles | "Jour de pluie, jour de fête" | single | I saw Big Country play on a barge in the fake lagoon behind the CambridgeSide Galleria. |
| 68 | Harakiri for the Sky | "02:19 AM, Psychosis" | single | These moments of presence don't just linger, |
| 69 | Iffernet | "Waiting" | Silences | they expand. |
| 70 | Aethyrien | "Sunbringer" | Óðr | Having seen Low play, |
| 71 | Helisir | "Heyr Himna Smiður" | Folketoner | I can now listen to their recordings and feel constantly retransformed, |
| 72 | VV | "The Foreverlost" | single | but having seen Low play I can now listen to other bands recordings and feel transported by analogy. |
| 73 | Audio-Activ | "Was bleibt" | single | Songs do not compete or compartmentalize, |
| 74 | Stellarleap | "Fall apart" | single | or withhold their love behind gamified unlocking. |
| 75 | El Verbo Odiado | "Más que uno cien" | El último homenaje | If you had not seen Mimi play live yet, that is a thing you cannot now do, |
| 76 | Marsella | "Histeria de lo nuestro - Versión Retro" | single | and this is a brutally tragic loss, |
| 77 | New Arcades | "Edge of Oblivion" | Edge of Oblivion +1 | but it is a loss that belongs only to the past. |
| 78 | JE T’AIME | "Out of Sight" | Aggressive | Songs don't outlive their singers for only the benefit of the listeners |
| 79 | False Figure | "Plexus" | Castigations | who have heard them already. |
| 80 | The Sade | "End of Time" | single | "Outlive" is wrong. |
| 81 | Plague Vendor | "Run" | single | Art is not a race between artist and work and copyright law. |
| 82 | boyband | "MR. DREAMER" | MR. DREAMER +1 | Two of these things soar on their own arcs and one of them crawls desultorily below. |
| 83 | Shamir | "Breathe" | single | I assume Mimi and I would disagree about where she is now. |
| 84 | I'm Geist | "i will never be happy with u" | single | Songs are not propositions to be accepted or refused. |
| 85 | nothing,nowhere. | "CYAN1DE (feat. Pete Wentz)" | CYAN1DE (feat. Pete Wentz) +2 | The songs you hear become part of you |
| 86 | Ryan Oakes | "HEAVYWEIGHT" | single | through absorption and adaptation, |
| 87 | ghosthands | "nobody can tell" | single | but the ghosts of the songs themselves escape, |
| 88 | Safety Trance | "Save Me" | single | almost unaltered. |
| 89 | Alffa | "Closer to Me" | single | Your life with the living songs of dead people can still begin now. |
| 90 | bis | "Stress" | single | You could spend an entire life listening to songs that were orphaned before you even existed, |
| 91 | Ballboy | "Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue" | Donald In The Bushes With A Bag Of Glue / Leave The Earth Behind You And Take A Walk Into The Sunshine 2 | even if you restrict yourself to artists dead enough to seemingly preclude reunions. |
| 92 | Sherbit | "We started something" | single | That would be fine. |
| 93 | SGABISO | "MR HIT AFTER HIT" | IQINISO ELIY'MFIHLO | The infinite is not somehow directional. |
| 94 | Mjolisi | "Dear Nkulunkulu" | Dear Nkulunkulu | You should see somebody play, you should know how sounds are produced from personal experience, |
| 95 | Maredi | "Samsokolo" | Samsokolo 5 | but you don't have to be invited to a wedding in Lesotho |
| 96 | Nobuhle | "Imini" | Indlela | to want to know how to dance to this |
| 97 | Kelly Khumalo | "Bazokhuluma" | single | so badly that you make up your own answer. |
| 98 | Methuli Mlungwana | "Namhla mina ngithelile" | Namhla mina 2 | You become human long before you become self-conscious enough for that to be hard. |
| 99 | Manqonqo | "Utshwala Bami" | single | Songs go from never inevitable to always immortal |
| 100 | Dash Berlin | "All I Want" | All I Want +1 | in a single first breath. |
| 101 | Ylvis | "Ferjao" | single | Tiny paws up the hill, and suddenly you're standing still, |
| 102 | Danny Gokey | "Live Up To Your Name" | Danny Gokey: Stories of Wonders 5 | listening to questions begging for your love: |
| 103 | P!nk | "Never Gonna Not Dance Again" | single | Is there another Trolls movie already? |
| 104 | Etienne Pelosoff | "Trve Brutal Black Jazz (Hell Edition)" | single | Is it still jazz if I can stand hearing it more than once? |
| 105 | caroline | "peak chroma" | single | Is there a plane in between silence and oblivion |
| 106 | More Eaze | "perfume" | perfume / sad 2 | filled only by the spirits of Mark Hollis and Mimi Parker |
| 107 | Hollie Kenniff | "Shifting Winds" | single | and enough space for their echoes to last forever? |
| 108 | The Bolide | "City Of The Caesars" | City Of The Caesars | You become human by accepting these as gifts, |
| 109 | Carpathia | "Telepathy" | The Mooring | and in return you discover your superpowers. |
| 110 | Palace | "Kyrie" | single | When I was young I thought my heart was a vessel |
| 111 | Glass Tides | "Unholy" | single | to be filled |
| 112 | Our Last Night | "Unholy" | single | and then measured, |
| 113 | The Animal In Me | "Unholy" | single | but you assert humanity by allowing joy to flow into and throughout you and then away again, |
| 114 | The Wombats | "Running Up That Hill - triple j Like a Version" | single | not in desperation but in release. |