1 |
Lanterns on the Lake |
"Real Life - Edit" |
Real Life 2 |
This is my kind of personality weakness: "Edit"?!? Fuck no, I want the longest version you have. |
2 |
SKIES |
"Doors" |
single |
I want all the missing verses. |
3 |
Muro María |
"Llegas Siempre Tarde" |
Nuevo Para Nadie 5 |
Lay me not in dread silence reposes. Give me the realest life. I love this song, and I want the songs I love to never end. |
4 |
Ellur |
"Anywhere" |
single |
That's what I want to want, at least. |
5 |
W O L F C L U B |
"Crystalise" |
single |
But other wonderful songs are waiting for this one to end. |
6 |
Mint Julep |
"After All" |
single |
The "full" version of "Real Life" is the same as the "Edit", except that after the song itself ends, |
7 |
Belinda Carlisle |
"If U Go" |
Kismet 5 |
the longer track quietly reprises itself in a distant piano-and-voice version for another minute and a half. |
8 |
The Warning |
"MORE" |
single |
I'm glad it exists. I'm glad I've heard it. It enriches my life. |
9 |
Cives |
"La Mejor Versión" |
single |
But it doesn't enrich my life further with repetition. It doesn't improve the song, |
10 |
Chica Sobresalto |
"El Juicio" |
Oráculo |
and I am fonder of its absence. |
11 |
Annukka |
"Kaikki päättyy hyvin" |
single |
The things you reluctantly remove, |
12 |
Rews |
"Not Your Soldier" |
single |
from your songs or sentences or worldviews, |
13 |
Conquer Divide |
"welcome2paradise" |
welcome2paradise +2 |
make room for what remains. |
14 |
The Aquadolls |
"Far Far Away" |
Far Far Away +3 |
Reducing extraneity is not done to reduce complexity, but to focus it. |
15 |
Magic Wands |
"Switch" |
Switch |
The songs you don't sing, for decades, |
16 |
Style O |
"Kaylee Fxcken Louw" |
single |
are preparation for the day when you run into Diane Warren in a coffee shop |
17 |
Arda Gezer |
"Zor" |
single |
and she says "What if Olivia Rodrigo had been in Mamma Mia! instead of High School Musical?" |
18 |
Christine and the Queens |
"Tears can be so soft" |
Tears can be so soft +2 |
What if all of our songs start with something Marvin Gaye left us to love? |
19 |
Maud The Moth |
"Perdí Pie" |
single |
We'll settle the argument over how many chords there are |
20 |
Strega Nona |
"Like Bone" |
single |
long before we agree on the number of silences, |
21 |
Iress |
"Soft" |
Solace 4 |
or the correct notation for reverb or howl. |
22 |
TAKH |
"Unabashed and Knowing" |
Takh |
Our love is accumulative, not eliminational; |
23 |
Fallen Shrine |
"Pressure" |
single |
multiplicative, not divisional; |
24 |
*Luna |
"冒険の書" |
single |
polynormative. |
25 |
polly |
"MORNINGRISE" |
Heavenly Heavenly 5 |
If I have to do my analog childhood again, but with my adult resources, |
26 |
yama |
"ストロボ" |
slash 4 |
I'm buying two copies of every album so that I can stack the A- and B-sides on the changer spindle in an expensive imitation of continuity that will one day be free. |
27 |
FINLANDS |
"あそぶ - SHUTTLE ver." |
SHUTTLE |
I realize I'm only deferring the end, halving my durational capacity to minimize twenty-minute transitions, |
28 |
heidi. |
"エゴ" |
エゴ +1 |
but the pain you tolerate, you can't unhave. |
29 |
Sefirot |
"Quimera" |
single |
Tiny victories don't always compound, |
30 |
The Dark Side of the Moon |
"New Horizons" |
Metamorphosis |
but you can give them a chance. |
31 |
MagiTech |
"Love and Pain" |
The Power Within EP 5 |
Love first, and maybe time will expire before the reciprocal pain arrives. |
32 |
Unén |
"Made Of Stone" |
single |
Or maybe love and pain are not complementary inevitabilities, but two different ways the probability wave function could collapse. |
33 |
Averlanche |
"In the Theater of Fire" |
Arctic Atlas |
Whenever Schrödinger leaves to mail a parcel, we take the cat out of the box and let it run around the apartment. |
34 |
Yenne |
"The Wolves" |
single |
It's safe enough in there when he's around, |
35 |
Sicksense |
"Feed Them To The Wolves" |
single |
or other wolves who know too much about how our particles hum. |
36 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"To The Wolves" |
single |
The missing verses tell awkward parts of the story, sometimes, |
37 |
A Dark Reborn |
"Ritual" |
single |
but that's how we live: |
38 |
Belle Morte |
"Blame Me" |
single |
culpably, |
39 |
Art Nation |
"1001" |
single |
expansively finite, |
40 |
In Victory |
"While Singing a Final Song" |
single |
grabbing at premature and unearned closure. |
41 |
Ray Alder |
"Waiting for Some Sun" |
single |
The planet has a way of moving its darkness to warn you that fate |
42 |
Karmanjakah |
"Listening" |
Ancient Skills EP 4 |
is only an avoidant way of talking about the future |
43 |
URNE |
"Becoming The Ocean" |
single |
as if you have already willed it into being. |
44 |
A Pregnant Light |
"Mandarine" |
Mandarine / Tangèrin 2 |
But the light has come 93 million miles to fall down at your door, |
45 |
Thy Catafalque |
"Testen túl" |
single |
and the darkness never leaves home. |
46 |
REX |
"Laplace" |
single |
This is why the hero taking a journey is heroic by default, |
47 |
Óreiða |
"The Path" |
The Eternal |
and thus why all paths are exploratory. |
48 |
Impetuous Ritual |
"Sanguinary Abstraction" |
Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis |
They do not hurry us past our world, |
49 |
Humanity's Last Breath |
"Labyrinthian" |
single |
they take us to every one of its hidden places |
50 |
Cattle Decapitation |
"Just Another Body" |
Terrasite |
and dare us to step off and find: |
51 |
Mobi Dixon |
"House of Blessings" |
single |
something else; other houses of different blessings, |
52 |
Ayanda |
"Rakgadi" |
single |
some way you do not yet know how to dance. |
53 |
Chongo De Flavour |
"Mama Ntshwarele" |
single |
You will be ridiculous the first time you try, |
54 |
Phobla on the beat |
"Ke Gopola Kgale Hala Hitt" |
single |
and that is what makes it a moment to seek. |
55 |
DJ Tira |
"Tocheka" |
single |
One day all of this will be normal, but not yet. |
56 |
KnK Productions |
"Sometimes!!" |
single |
Not yet time for frail reprises of our original impulses, |
57 |
Ntozabantu |
"Ndiyamsola" |
single |
or magnanimous prayers to the mundane gods of other islands. |
58 |
Thokozani Langa |
"UMAQWEBELENDE" |
Is'khiye Se-Coldroom |
You have not yet heard any of the verses of most of the songs. |
59 |
Isamelihle |
"Izim'zomhlaba" |
Iskebhe 2 |
They twirl adoringly in wait. |
60 |
Bruce Cockburn |
"Orders" |
O Sun O Moon |
Your orders are to love them all: |
61 |
Tenille Arts |
"Mama's Eyes" |
single |
the people you might have been, |
62 |
Rhiannon Giddens |
"You're the One" |
single |
the ones you still might be. |
63 |
Kimosabe |
"Running in a Dream" |
single |
This one ends on a reprise, too, but for 0:15, not 0:90. |
64 |
Broers |
"Soet soos stroop" |
single |
Tragedy is a magnitude; |
65 |
Guiss Guiss Bou Bess |
"Yaye Bëgg Nala" |
Jolof Bass Music 6 |
sufficiently compressed mori becomes memento. |
66 |
Devotee |
"The Ways of Humanity" |
Sin Eater 3 |
We knew this when we were young, |
67 |
Faspitch |
"Fiend" |
single |
and we preserve the angular momentum of innocence |
68 |
Fridge |
"Freeman" |
single |
in how we choose each day to spin, |
69 |
Forgetting69 |
"Talulot" |
single |
in the colorshifts we remember from the speed of our passage. |
70 |
HANDSOME ACADEMY |
"NOTHING MORE TO ME" |
single |
You don't need to know where the path leads. |
71 |
PENGUIN RESEARCH |
"FORCE LIGHT" |
逆光備忘録 |
Other people have taken it before you, |
72 |
Newspeak |
"Clockwise" |
single |
and it is not littered with their bodies. |
73 |
tacica |
"naniyue" |
single |
Your other questions can be answered as we move. |
74 |
Stam1na |
"Vereen piirretty viiva" |
single |
These lines we draw in blood are preserved in dust. |
75 |
Vaasa Palaa |
"mun <3 soi" |
single |
If we have to grow old, if we're likely fall down, let's do it somewhere else, |
76 |
Victorias |
"Abecedario" |
single |
half lost and half agog, |
77 |
Johnny Garso |
"Me Quedo con el Mal" |
single |
because other people's wonderful things reiterate our limitlessness. |
78 |
INSITE |
"El Aire en Llamas" |
single |
The llama will not tolerate being boxed, |
79 |
Hafensaengers |
"Für Elise" |
Für Elise |
and thus lives on for 40 years after its petty intended death: |
80 |
BENN |
"Who Am I To Say (08:50)" |
Sweet Spot 5 |
long enough to outlive regrets and inspirations alike, |
81 |
Ryan Oakes |
"UNAPOLOGETIC" |
WAKE UP |
long enough to shape mistakes into purposes, |
82 |
Lovejoy |
"Portrait of a Blank Slate" |
Wake Up & It's Over 6 |
long enough to start over as many times as we need. |
83 |
Colin Stetson |
"The Lighthouse I" |
When we were that what wept for the sea |
A good idea might arrive alone, the first time, |
84 |
Eluvium |
"Endless Flower" |
(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality |
and you'll think you have to take notes, pictures, shots. |
85 |
Aphir |
"wait" |
single |
But just wait, with grace, |
86 |
marine eyes |
"safe" |
single |
in whatever elegant safety prevails: |
87 |
Colin Stetson |
"The Lighthouse II" |
When we were that what wept for the sea |
its visits will be numbered. |
88 |
How We End |
"At the Mountain of Darkness" |
Nocturne For Enders 3 |
The darkness will tell that story again, the one about the mountain and the end of the world. |
89 |
Bernth |
"Unreal" |
Unreal +1 |
We do not listen to stories in order to spot their untruths, |
90 |
Their Dogs Were Astronauts |
"Panopticon" |
Momentum |
we hear them to hear more. |
91 |
Texture |
"Self Esteem" |
single |
They are not about us until we start to sing back, |
92 |
Fea |
"Civilization's Dying" |
Take Cover 6 |
and not about what we share until we learn to sing the way we hear. |
93 |
Twenty One Two |
"Flowers" |
single |
The verses we already remember have lost layers we have not yet applied. |
94 |
Charlotte Wessels |
"Mary On A Cross" |
single |
The bands we leave become chapters of our legends, |
95 |
Otep |
"You Should See Me In A Crown" |
single |
and cautions against assignments of power. |
96 |
SOM |
"Policy of Truth" |
Policy of Truth +1 |
"Again", we only have to say: |
97 |
The Animal In Me |
"Last Night" |
single |
not pale fadeouts surrendered but bright swords reforged. |
98 |
Cavo |
"Bizarre Love Triangle" |
single |
These songs all yearn to play again from the beginning, |
99 |
BABYMETAL |
"Monochrome - Piano Version - From THE FIRST TAKE" |
single |
or from one of the other beginnings they might have begun, because we still might. |