1 | The HU | "Mother Nature (feat. LP)" | Rumble of Thunder | A NEW PARTICLES REWRITE |
2 | Eclipse | "Hearts Collide" | single | OF THE LYRICS FOR A COVER |
3 | SinHeresY | "Castaways" | single | OF THE BILLY JOEL SONG "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
4 | Amaranthe | "Damnation Flame" | single | COVERING NEWSWORTHY ITEMS FROM 1989-2026 |
5 | Dogma | "My First Peak" | single | WITH SOME AWKWARD CADENCES |
6 | Dress the Dead | "Sinking in Ether" | Æther – EP 5 | AND MORE EXPOSITION AND ALLUSION |
7 | Altersight | "Астарот" | single | THAN SIMPLE NAME-DROPPING |
8 | Serenity | "Ritter Tod und Teufel (Knightfall)" | single | BUT AT LEAST ONE LINE PER YEAR |
9 | Arendel | "Junto a Mí" | Sin Aliento | IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER |
10 | Saurom | "Ojos Verdes" | El Pájaro Fantasma | AND ALSO WITHOUT LEAVING OUT THE LAST TWO VERSES |
11 | Virgin Steele | "To Bind & Kill a God" | The Passion of Dionysus | - |
12 | Bloodred Hourglass | "The End We Start From" | The End We Start From +2 | (1989) '89, new times, Berlin Wall falls |
13 | Arshenic | "Extraterrestrial" | E.T. 4 | (1990) Nelson free, Web forms, yankees in a desert storm |
14 | Spurv | "Urdråpene" | Urdråpene +1 | (1991) USS-ex-R, LA cannot get along |
15 | Eldrvak | "Before the Storm" | single | (1992) Europeans unifying, SNL pope-defiling |
16 | None | "Never Came Home" | Inevitable | - |
17 | CELESTE | "Il se vide lentement" | single | (1993) President saxophone, you can't hide in a dome |
18 | Hooray For Earth | "throughtheceiling" | single | (1994) Gump runs, Kurt dies, Northridge quakes, Channel links |
19 | death's dynamic shroud | "You Don't Care" | After Angel | (1995) A million march on DC, OJ somehow goes free |
20 | Rivilin | "Tired" | single | (1996) Sheep cloned, Unabomber, planes falling, Macarena |
21 | Puppet | "The Answer Is Nowhere" | single | - |
22 | glaive | "the car" | single | (chorus) |
23 | Mixed Matches | "darkage" | darkage/innocence 2 | - |
24 | The Cards I Play | "IN CIRCLES" | single | (1997) Harry Potter hardcover, doomed ship on a big screen |
25 | Charli XCX | "Speed Drive (From Barbie The Album)" | single | (1998) Google is our MTV? depends on what "is" means |
26 | SINI YASEMIN | "Heittämäl Jatkoille" | single | (1999) Columbine massacre, six billion live on Earth |
27 | MUPP | "Oblivious" | single | (2000) Y2K OK, former future president |
28 | 4s4ki | "CODE GE4SS" | CODE GE4SS | - |
29 | HVDES | "Granite" | single | (2001) 8 months we don't remember, one day in September |
30 | Dream State | "Chin Up Princess" | single | (2002) Swiss join the UN, Brady in the first of 10 |
31 | Concrete Castles | "Disappear (Like Magic)" | single | (2003) Terminator wins the vote, Sally Ride's dream in smoke |
32 | YONAKA | "Give Me My Halo" | Give Me My Halo +2 | (2004) Same-sex wedding bells, Facebook is our new hell |
33 | Speedy Ortiz | "Plus One" | Plus One +2 | - |
34 | Sincere Engineer | "California King" | California King +1 | (chorus) |
35 | Ratboys | "The Window" | single | - |
36 | Pool Kids | "No Stranger" | Pool Kids // POOL 6 | (2005) Katrina drowns a whole coast, you can't draw the Prophet's ghost |
37 | Shakira | "Copa Vacía" | single | (2006) Shakira's hips don't lie, Pluto torn from the sky, |
38 | shakeitmila | "Miénteme" | Soy una Idiota 4 | (2007) Subprime shit deep, a woman takes the Speaker seat |
39 | BENEE | "DO IT AGAIN - Official Song of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™" | single | (2008) Stock market accident, our least white president |
40 | Belén Aguilera | "LICÁNTROPO" | METANOIA | - |
41 | Safree | "Yoko" | single | (2009) Swine flu, Sully flew, pills kill the King of Thrill |
42 | Dulce María | "Regálame Todo Tu Amor" | single | (2010) Greece broke, volcano smoke, Gulf oil, Haiti rubble |
43 | Blender | "Marilyn Monroe" | single | (2011) Fukushima meltdown, protest tents downtown |
44 | Abyss X | "Banyana" | single | (2012) Climate change uncool, children are not safe in school |
45 | Ekaterina Shelehova | "Crescendo va" | single | - |
46 | Cocco | "Fantasy" | single | (chorus) |
47 | RAISE A SUILEN | "-N-E-M-E-S-I-S-" | -N-E-M-E-S-I-S- +2 | - |
48 | sui sui | "Blue Sky After Melancholy" | single | (2013) Marathon time bomb, white guy thrifts, pope just quits |
49 | BiS | "E-R-T-H-C-Na-H-Q-ka-H-K-M-B-Ne-Z-Om" | single | (2014) Ferry down, plane just gone, ebola fever, steal Crimea |
50 | My Criminal Lovers' | "MATENROU" | single | (2015) Maybe Mars once had water, Paris burns, planet hotter |
51 | PLEVAIL | "Revelation" | Revelation +2 | (2016) UK fuck off EU, the Eevee got away from you |
52 | KANA-BOON | "見たくないもの" | KANA-BOONが人間をつくります。 | (2017) MeToo precedent, rapist President |
53 | situasion | "さよなら21世紀" | single | (2018) Yellow vests, Camp fire, former student opens fire |
54 | Starmarie | "ONE" | single | - |
55 | RAY | "this is not a love song" | single | (chorus) |
56 | BOY MEETS HARU | "i love you" | single | - |
57 | Kuhakugokko | "Fuzzy" | single | (2019) Notre Dame burns down, horse to the old town |
58 | yumegiwa last girl | "idea planet" | single | (2020) Covid masks, knees on throats, billionaires, fake votes |
59 | クレナズム | "Natsumekuru" | single | (2021) Congress breached, Trump impeached*, trouble in the Suez** |
60 | The Otals | "波ちゃんとバク - UMBG" | U MUST BELIEVE IN GIRLFRIEND | (2022) Sovreign nation invaded, civil rights court-negated |
61 | Sundae May Club | "晴れるな" | single | - |
62 | My Best Friend | "lier - Rinka solo" | single | (2023) Working from home, muted, RSS reconstituted |
63 | Tani Yuuki | "械物" | single | (2024) AI war, Independence Day (Taylor's Version) |
64 | HelloNewWorld | "バッテリー" | ゼロからキミと/バッテリー 2 | (2025) Cancer cured, carbon captured, final TV preacher raptured |
65 | Lenny code fiction | "幸せとは" | single | (2026) Timeline only slightly wrong, this is how you cover-song |
66 | GLIM SPANKY | "Odd Dancer" | single | - |
67 | アルコサイト | "スーパームーン" | single | (chorus x4) |
68 | FLOW | "CLOSER" | single | - |
69 | The Floor | "UNDER THE MOON" | single | *Intentionally listed in the wrong year in homage to Joel's dubious placement of Reagan. |
70 | Fridge | "Hinto" | single | **Doesn't rhyme, but the recurrence is worth it. |
71 | Lindenwood | "It's So Hard To Pay Attention" | single | - |
72 | ST. WOLF | "Tatsulok" | single | I always liked this song, and I like the new Fall Out Boy version fine musically, |
73 | December Avenue | "Wala Nang Iba" | single | but throwing references together in no particular order sadly misses the point. |
74 | Malmö 040 | "Lo Que Hay Dentro de Mí" | single | The above rewrite arguably misses the charm of the original, too, |
75 | Our Last Night | "My Collapse" | single | by overthinking the exercise instead of referring to more things with less explanation, |
76 | The Bottom Line | "R.I.P" | single | but I like puzzles more than I like indexes, |
77 | Vrede | "Hart & Goud" | single | and the only real point I set out to make was that writing a version in order isn't that hard. |
78 | Odds | "Walk Among the Stars" | single | I did that from Wikipedia and memory and the occasional Billboard chart in a couple hours. |
79 | Skids | "Open Your Eyes" | Destination Düsseldorf | It's singable, I think, although you may need to practice a few times to get the hang of |
80 | Simple Minds | "Solstice Kiss - Edit" | Solstice Kiss 2 | squeezing the first syllable-and-a-half of "Independence" into the first half of that line |
81 | Gyllene Tider | "Gammal kärlek rostar aldrig" | Hux Flux | so the second half will line up. |
82 | Markéta Irglová | "The Answer Is Yes" | single | Reviewing historical headlines is not an especially cheerful exercise. |
83 | The Clientele | "Claire's Not Real" | Claire's Not Real +2 | A lot of airplanes crashed in the course of 38 years. |
84 | Tinderbox Orchestra | "Tribes" | single | On the other hand, there are at least four bands here with new songs this week |
85 | N-Dubz | "The Ick" | single | that have been playing since before Joel's song originally came out. |
86 | P Money | "Still" | Money Over Everyone 4 | The fires keep burning, many more than the two I included in my version, |
87 | Izzie Gibbs | "The Man" | single | but so far without completely consuming us as fuel. |
88 | Tinchy Stryder | "Have A Go" | single | Will this still be true by time to write the next installment of this in 2064? |
89 | Mr Traumatik | "Dragon skin obsidian" | single | I would be 97, so I'll going to hope the answer is yes, |
90 | Dan Bull | "The False God" | The False God +1 | and people are still living above-ground and writing goofy rap songs, |
91 | Mthandazo Gatya | "Umona (Jealousy)" | single | and there's some thing I've just become obsessed with despite knowing almost nothing about, |
92 | Inkabi Zezwe | "Sase Bergville" | single | and we can still link back to what we thought in 2023 |
93 | Naleboy Young King | "A go robalege" | single | and know that our hopes were more justified than we knew. |
94 | Ezrah | "Gae ba re emetse" | single | We didn't bake the planet clean, |
95 | Bad Company (SA) | "Bare boncha mehlolo" | Why o dula Le mathata 3 | we weren't vaporized in our sleep by proactively self-preservative AI, |
96 | Shandesh | "Security" | single | we didn't fuck off to Mars. |
97 | Empire Group | "Impilo Econo (Medallion x Pholo x HappzahBeat)" | Explosive | We came from Africa, and were distracted for a while by empires |
98 | Hitler SA Massive Production | "Sekoloto Trumpet Vision _Hitler SA" | single | and externalized self-loathing, |
99 | Andile Cele | "iNatesa Le" | single | but returned in time to joy. |
100 | INKAZIMULO YABANGCWELE INDUMEZULU GOSPEL GROUP | "Hamba kahle" | WETHEMBEKILE BABA | We learned how to make planes that crash less, |
101 | uMjabulisi | "Vuma" | single | or some other way of moving our bodies to each other, |
102 | Mabhlukwe | "usangithanda na?" | single | and stopped asking our questions about hope |
103 | Osaziwayo | "Angingene Lapho (feat. Dr Khangelani)" | single | in the presence of oracles of fear. |
104 | uZondi | "Kungcono Ngishiye" | single | We never finished categorizing our optimism, |
105 | SMR LVE | "Until Then" | single | because that's kind of the whole thing about it. |
106 | BiSH | "二人なら" | BiSH THE BEST | We can run out of oil or passenger pigeons or tolerance for the intolerant, |
107 | Psychocide | "Toxic" | single | but not songs. |
108 | Deaf Havana | "If I Could Turn Back Time" | single | If I listen to music at the same rate, for the next 38 years, that I have for the last 10, |
109 | Colm R. McGuinness | "I'll Make a Man Out of You" | single | I could just barely hear a million more songs. |
110 | Cheekface | "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" | single | Only if I almost never play them more than once, though. |
111 | Fall Out Boy | "We Didn’t Start The Fire" | We Didn’t Start The Fire +2 | I can't do that. I had to play the Fall About Boy version three times just to figure out that they got the six-line bridge right but left out the two final verses after it. |
112 | Anahata | "Sonne - Cover" | single | I keep playing the same songs in other people's voices, |
113 | Lyric Noel | "King For A Day" | single | saying the same exhortational things in slightly different formulations, |
114 | Lauren Babic | "Ashes" | single | looking for ways to explain immolation and rebirth as a stable alternating current. |
115 | First to Eleven | "A Thousand Miles" | single | - (chorus) |