| 1 | Uada | "The Dark (Winter)" | The Dark (Winter) +1 | We make beauty out of pain, |
| 2 | Violet Cold | "Ein Langer Weg - Extended Version" | single | or out of joy, |
| 3 | An Autumn for Crippled Children | "The Feels Like Dying" | single | and maybe sometimes the only thing we mean by "beauty" |
| 4 | Explosions In The Sky | "Ten Billion People" | single | is the tension between the two. |
| 5 | City of the Lost | "War Thunder" | Wasteland Guide IV | We don't always alleviate misery by simply confronting it, |
| 6 | Blut Aus Nord | "Queen of the Dead Dimension" | single | but that's still usually the way to begin. |
| 7 | Agriculture | "Look, Pt. 3" | Agriculture | Always? I don't know. |
| 8 | Teeth Of The Sea | "Megafragma" | single | Did Sinéad have other viable choices she could have made? |
| 9 | Night Verses | "Arrival" | single | I don't know. |
| 10 | Horrendous | "Preterition Hymn" | Preterition Hymn +2 | We were the same age until a few days ago. |
| 11 | Humanity's Last Breath | "Passage" | single | "The night is long, but the day will come", she sang in what is still my very favorite of her songs, |
| 12 | Strega Nona | "Blinded, Bound" | Walk In Beauty | but the track on her Best album with the fewest streams. |
| 13 | A Curtain Of Mist | "As" | AS I AM | The day only comes for you if you let it, |
| 14 | Talking to Shadows | "Lost" | Lost +3 | if you refuse to allow yourself to be lost. |
| 15 | Mystfall | "Endless" | Celestial Vision | Each day poses this same challenge again, |
| 16 | ILLUMISHADE | "ENEMY" | single | and if you make it to 56 you will have had 20,440 chances to fail it, |
| 17 | Carmilla | "Life" | single | and survived. |
| 18 | Cinnamon Babe | "The Man" | single | I want to assume that Sinéad chose to stop, |
| 19 | As December Falls | "Leave" | Join The Club | but part of what she accomplished by insisting on being herself in public, |
| 20 | Meet Me @ The Altar | "Give It Up" | Give It Up | was demonstrating that choices are tenuous and complex. |
| 21 | Crashing Atlas | "A Violent Affair" | single | "Everyone can see what's going on", she said. |
| 22 | The Almas | "Crowns" | single | "They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable, not because what I said was wrong." |
| 23 | Living Dead Girl | "Dysfunctional" | single | "The Emperor's New Clothes" survives her as a moral and an epitaph, |
| 24 | Satellite Citi | "Anxious Hearts" | single | maybe most of all because she wrote it before the things in her life it would end up best describing. |
| 25 | Death Dealer Union | "The Vow of Silence" | single | She knew she was not going to choose silence |
| 26 | Snow White In The Dark | "Don´t Cry" | single | or its attendant pity. |
| 27 | RAVDINA | "За закрытой дверью" | single | "You asked for the truth and I told you." |
| 28 | Arshenic | "Red" | single | We can hope for easier paths, |
| 29 | Moran Magal | "Mouth Of History" | single | but not really for stronger purpose in walking them. |
| 30 | Primal Fear | "Deep In The Night" | Deep In The Night +1 | "I will sleep with a clear conscience / I will sleep in peace." |
| 31 | Sacred Outcry | "The City Of Stone" | Towers of Gold | One of these is a declaration, one a hope. |
| 32 | Feuerschwanz | "Uruk-Hai" | Fegefeuer | The gap between the two is not the way to measure yourself. |
| 33 | Skálmöld | "Verðandi" | Verðandi +1 | The argument for courage is not a promise of reward |
| 34 | Fortíð | "Uppskera" | single | but precisely the realization that you cannot base moral actions on speculative outcomes. |
| 35 | Skar | "Pump House" | single | Moral reasoning is not retroactive. |
| 36 | Sarayasign | "When All Lights Go Out" | single | In the modern retelling of the picture-tearing fable, she holds up a green rectangle. |
| 37 | GUNGIRE | "Summer Lover" | single | We can comp in different images for each audience cohort, |
| 38 | peanut butters | "Girl Is a Hard Rocker" | single | and see which ones maximize retention from the ads before the song to after. |
| 39 | PIGGS | "ワイルドサイドを歩け" | YOU KNOW ME 2 | With only a little CGI effort we can probably dub in other songs, too. |
| 40 | Rhythmic Toy World | "CHAMPION ROAD" | single | Once she raises the rectangle in front of her face we don't even have to adjust the video. |
| 41 | nano.RIPE | "光のない街" | single | But Sinéad wasn't trying to sell us anything, |
| 42 | Momoiro Clover Z | "Re:volution" | single | not even a fantasy of herself. |
| 43 | CHiCO | "光のありか" | single | "Fight the real enemy", she said. |
| 44 | *Luna | "NPC" | single | The real enemy isn't the Pope, |
| 45 | Minnnano Kodomochan | "しきみ" | しきみ +1 | and the fight against abusive power wasn't won when the church apologized. |
| 46 | シバノソウ | "夏で待ってて part.2" | 夏で待ってて part.2 +1 | "She was right all along", start the most empathetic of the epitaphs other people have quickly written for her, |
| 47 | umitachi | "Ima Wo Ikiru Kimie" | single | but this is as obvious as pointing out that she was a good singer and Irish and often shaven-headed. |
| 48 | Little Glee Monster | "今この瞬間を" | single | The real enemy is doubting your own truth. |
| 49 | The Otals | "ティーンエイジはきみのもの" | 夏のルール3 | Sinéad's gift and curse and mission was not correctness, or even consistency. |
| 50 | GANG PARADE | "Träumerei" | OUR PARADE | She bore up unevenly under wildly varying stresses, |
| 51 | UVERworld | "ビタースウィート" | ENIGMASIS | no less affected than humanly inevitable. |
| 52 | KNOCK OUT MONKEY | "DAY DREAM BELIEVER" | single | "You asked if I'm scared / and I said so." |
| 53 | かたこと | "夏風、恋する君と私" | single | She wasn't an icon, and if she did anything heroically, it was refusing to be reduced to the iconic or heroic. |
| 54 | PLATFORM | "Oniyanma" | single | If there was a moment of terror, I suspect, it came at the beginning, |
| 55 | Poppy | "Knockoff" | Knockoff +1 | her beginning, before we knew, when she understood that she had a talent and a chance to use it, |
| 56 | Harmony | "Shoplifting From Nike" | Shoplifting From Nike +1 | but no knack or tolerance for compliance. |
| 57 | Deidré Barnard | "BLOND IS" | single | The shaved head was a fuck-you for a more easily fucked time, |
| 58 | RAAF | "Oos Wes Tuis Bes" | single | the 1987 equivalent of a 2023 Instagram filter that disables the Off button and then refuses to filter anything. |
| 59 | Carma | "Blom in Sy Wese" | single | She shouldn't have had to explain that she didn't want what she didn't have, |
| 60 | Sandra Groove | "Lento" | single | that was clear. |
| 61 | October Project | "Lost - From the Ghost of Childhood" | single | But the other part, less clear and far less obvious, |
| 62 | Laur Elle | "Easy Way Out" | Easy Way Out +2 | is that all of this was never a gospel of simplicity or a prescriptive manual of rebellion. |
| 63 | HUNNY | "solo" | solo +2 | "The Emperor's New Clothes" is only trenchant for a few lines towards the end of the lyrics. |
| 64 | Sedona | "Touch & Go" | single | The first two-thirds of the text are storytelling and clarity, |
| 65 | RIELL | "Happy For You" | Happy For You 5 | moments from an undecided life, |
| 66 | Cassadee Pope | "Almost There" | Almost There +2 | and the glorious final minute and a half of the song are wordless, |
| 67 | Carantoña | "「OP.2」El Olvido" | Entraña 5 | a regally unhurried coda that lets the words and resistances and frailties all go. |
| 68 | Zia Victoria | "'05 Baby" | 05 BABY | After everything, during everything, she kept both singing and letting go. |
| 69 | Baby Queen | "We Can Be Anything" | We Can Be Anything +1 | Even after she changed her own name to something else, she kept her voice as Sinéad, |
| 70 | FIZZ | "Close One" | Close One +2 | not as a character to play, but as a piece of herself she had allowed to become inextricable. |
| 71 | Tycho Jones | "Missing in Action" | Negative Space 3 | We try to make beauty out of pain, |
| 72 | Polo Nandez | "Quién Me Diría" | single | but in doing so, whether we succeed or not, we also immortalize that pain. |
| 73 | Gwilym | "da/drwg" | rhan dau 6 | Tearing the picture of the Pope shuffled Sinéad's timelines after that point in many ways, |
| 74 | Forgetting69 | "Lunod" | single | some predictable and some not, |
| 75 | CG5 | "THX" | single | but the one thing all subsequent eventualities shared was that the picture could not be untorn. |
| 76 | Wilbur Music | "Please Never Fall in Love Again" | single | Bravery isn't about risk or reward, it's the acceptance of the irreversibility of time. |
| 77 | Geographer | "The Burning Handle" | The Burning Handle +3 | It is the willingness to commit an action. |
| 78 | death's dynamic shroud | "The Bleeding Of The Sun" | single | Brave music need not be controversial or confessional, |
| 79 | The Catalina | "Safe to Say" | Safe to Say +1 | it only has to be indelible. The danger is saying anything. |
| 80 | The Menzingers | "There's No Place In This World For Me" | single | Your peril is not anonymity or misplacement, |
| 81 | The Mountain Goats | "Clean Slate" | single | it is that you may not be forgotten. |
| 82 | Noah Kahan | "Dial Drunk (with Post Malone)" | single | "Through their own words they will be exposed." |
| 83 | Scarlxrd | "Shadxws." | Made In Hell | That them is us, is only ever us. |
| 84 | Knosis | "神喰" | single | But "Through your own words you will be exposed" is not a threat, |
| 85 | Frontières | "Nightmares" | single | it's just a confirmation prompt offered as a cautionary reminder. |
| 86 | Devlin | "No Safety" | No Safety +1 | Maybe it sounds mean, but I really don't think so. |
| 87 | Kozzie | "Not the Guy" | Koz the Kid 3 6 | Singing is dangerous. |
| 88 | Bob Vylan | "Dream Big" | single | Dreaming is dangerous, riding mopeds is dangerous. |
| 89 | Zulu Mkhathini | "SHAYIMOTO" | single | All of your years, 27 or 56 or 100, are made up of days. |
| 90 | Remote control | "Maphodisa(MRSA & KAIVA)" | single | Some days we manage to make small amounts of beauty out of slightly larger amounts of pain, |
| 91 | Hitler SA Massive Production | "Tshokolo (Mogamaphiri x Hitler SA)" | single | and some days we just hurt, to no apparent end. |
| 92 | Oska Minda Ka Borena Music | "Maatla o loba" | single | Some tranquil days we spend on the beach collecting what seem to us like glittering shards of joy, uncomplicated by association or expectation, |
| 93 | Alaska Mafia Family | "Pelo" | single | and some storm days we're stuck inside reading about the shipwrecks from which those shards must have come. |
| 94 | Son of Africa | "Mveliso (Mpumelelo)" | single | "There's been days like this before, you know", Sinéad said in "Jump in the River", an honest song about doubt and conviction. |
| 95 | abafana baka mgqumeni | "Kusho Abobaby" | Kusho Abobaby +1 | Maybe she finally made this irreversible decision, but all of our choices are irreversible for ourselves. |
| 96 | Bobomfanawepiki | "Load shedding" | single | It was not her job to lead us. |
| 97 | JAIVA ZIMNIKE | "NTABA EZIKUDE" | INSAMBATHEKA | The days continue, without her except as we carry her with us. |
| 98 | OMACEKECEKE ABASHAA | "Sobulwa yizo insizwa - Radio Edit" | single | Each day poses this challenge again, for us and all the songs we have ever heard, |
| 99 | Murlo | "Pearl" | single | ours now regardless of their singers' regrets or fates, |
| 100 | julek ploski | "Calypso" | single | shards of beauty and pain and joy that might yet be reassembled |
| 101 | B.Michaael | "They Melted" | single | into some new shape they never saw in themselves. |
| 102 | Natalie Gioia | "Till The Sun Is Up High" | Till The Sun Is Up High +1 | The day starts again if you let it, |
| 103 | Emma Hewitt | "CHILDREN - Extended Solarstone Pure Mix" | CHILDREN 2 | everything wild and new before it gets spun into any familiar ordeal. |
| 104 | Juliana Hatfield | "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" | single | You see a mermaid for a second on a wave, and maybe it changes your life, but only if you have nothing else fleeting to fall in love with. |
| 105 | First to Eleven | "Dance The Night" | single | The mermaid's version is very different: |
| 106 | Our Last Night | "Iris" | single | she gave up forever to touch the air, and then a second later finds herself back underwater, |
| 107 | Sierra Annie | "Red - Sierra's Version" | single | listening to other mermaids tell her how to retell her story. |
| 108 | ChuggaBoom | "Barbie Girl" | single | But of course she knew they would. |
| 109 | Sinéad O'Connor | "Jump in the River - 2009 Remaster" | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | One day they will say that she was right all along, probably, maybe. |
| 110 | Sinéad O'Connor | "The Emperor's New Clothes - 2009 Remaster" | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | For now she smiles at them, and swims away. |
| 111 | The Edge | "Heroine" | So Far: The Best of Sinéad O'Connor | Up. |