2023-11-10 | 134 | First to Eleven | "Run to the Hills" | single | They'll have their own songs, which you'll love, and vice versa. |
2023-09-22 | 90 | First to Eleven | "Wannabe" | Covers Vol. 16 | are exactly because we are constantly singing even when we clearly cannot. |
2023-08-18 | 93 | First to Eleven | "Where Is My Mind" | single | or, having mastered the game's obvious existing rules, starting to dream of how new ones can become also obvious through shared belief and shared play. |
2023-07-21 | 105 | First to Eleven | "Dance The Night" | single | The mermaid's version is very different: |
2023-07-14 | 103 | First to Eleven | "Don't Call Me Angel" | single | but that doesn't mean it won't be fun, and necessary, |
2023-07-07 | 78 | First to Eleven | "Enchanted" | single | You become the person who loves the person you were, |
2023-06-30 | 115 | First to Eleven | "A Thousand Miles" | single | - (chorus) |
2023-06-23 | 107 | First to Eleven | "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" | single | I am not afraid of us. Let's see how we do it. |
2023-06-02 | 146 | First to Eleven | "Wendy Clear" | single | Fast cars, fast boats: we don't have to always be trying to get away. |
2023-05-26 | 126 | First to Eleven | "Every Breath You Take" | single | Our homes are not circumscribed by what we control, |
2023-04-21 | 103 | First to Eleven | "Higher" | single | hiding in the naive hopes of effortless deliverance. |
2023-02-17 | 121 | First to Eleven | "Vacation" | single | we do it because we need to move our hands |
2023-01-06 | 60 | First to Eleven | "White Wedding" | single | A song can start again from where you are, every time you play it, differently or the same. |
2022-12-23 | 104 | First to Eleven | "Born This Way" | single | We begin with definitions we think we know and own, but then we start looking them up, and they get away, and we chase them before we even realize that this is how we become. |
2022-12-16 | 3 | First to Eleven | "Where Are You Christmas" | A Very First to Eleven Christmas 22 5 | When in doubt, move forward. |
2022-11-25 | 75 | First to Eleven | "Tom Sawyer" | single | into invaded spaces that may again be witnessed, |
2022-11-11 | 5 | First to Eleven | "Anti-Hero" | single | always rooting for the anti-hero". |
2022-09-09 | 101 | First to Eleven | "Chasing Cars" | single | The names you give things don't stay were you left them. |
2022-07-29 | 91 | First to Eleven | "Fat Lip" | single | ready to waste your time. |
2022-07-22 | 72 | First to Eleven | "Call Me Maybe" | single | There are no gods from which to negotiate a conditional release or an altered incline, |
2022-06-24 | 107 | First to Eleven | "Barracuda" | single | Kisses for everyone; |
2022-05-20 | 132 | First to Eleven | "The Great Escape" | single | These songs are not prayers |
2022-03-18 | 96 | First to Eleven | "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" | single | It isn't that the things you've been warned against aren't real, |
2022-02-25 | 103 | First to Eleven | "Still Don't Know My Name" | single | if there's an after this, |
2022-02-18 | 83 | First to Eleven | "Your Love" | single | Nihilism and despair live inside of us, too, |
2022-01-21 | 102 | First to Eleven | "Call Me" | single | You don't have to listen to people you've already judged, talking about things you already hate or believe. |
2022-01-07 | 41 | First to Eleven | "Sunglasses At Night" | single | "Until you know how to close your eyes, and then open them, and not be surprised at how much and how little has changed." |
2021-12-31 | 53 | First to Eleven | "Immigrant Song" | single | for rebuilding cryptic and relentless ruins until we realize that they have always been our homes. |
2021-12-24 | 97 | First to Eleven | "Hail to the King" | single | in the genuflections you implicitly catalog. |
2021-12-17 | 10 | First to Eleven | "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" | First To Eleven Christmas EP 2021 5 | you tend to inevitably strengthen it. |
2021-12-03 | 4 | First to Eleven | "Bad Romance" | single | the next layer of regret heedlessly discarded, |
2021-11-19 | 96 | First to Eleven | "Iris" | single | We give up safety to find each other. |
2021-10-01 | 84 | First to Eleven | "I'm with You" | single | over the complicated faces you're trying to find. |
2021-09-24 | 74 | First to Eleven | "Joker And The Thief" | single | not in the way that the wolves choose rabbits, |
2021-07-30 | 86 | First to Eleven | "good 4 u" | single | Our task is not to adjudicate uncertainty, but to return to its source and see that a different future has now been opened to us. |
2021-06-04 | 85 | First to Eleven | "Genie In a Bottle" | single | once you realize that safety is an imitation of yourself you never were. |
2021-05-28 | 85 | First to Eleven | "Genie In a Bottle" | single | |
2021-05-21 | 76 | First to Eleven | "All The Things She Said" | single | to explain everything. |
2021-04-16 | 85 | First to Eleven | "Locked out of Heaven" | single | "Practice", Kant says, from the corner of your screen. "Yes. That's how you find out what a person is." |
2021-04-09 | 78 | First to Eleven | "My Friends Over You" | single | carried on numeric wavelengths |
2021-03-26 | 103 | First to Eleven | "Enter Sandman" | single | we sleep with open eyes, |
2021-02-19 | 16 | First to Eleven | "drivers license" | single | All our roads go past all the places we've been. |
2021-02-05 | 78 | First to Eleven | "Welcome to the Black Parade" | single | Anthems are not prescriptive, and not even strictly redemptive, but we don't need instructions or saving, we just need five more minutes, and then again, and then again. |
2020-12-18 | 25 | First to Eleven | "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" | A Very First to Eleven Christmas EP 2020 6 | You will be offered meager temporary rewards for great ongoing sacrifices |
2020-12-04 | 99 | First to Eleven | "Disturbia" | single | We have a vaccine for the disease that grabs onto spike proteins, but not the ones that grab onto minds. |
2020-10-23 | 62 | First to Eleven | "A Whole New World" | single | not at war with its own heart. |
2020-10-16 | 73 | First to Eleven | "Kings & Queens" | single | All songs are songs of hope, but some of them are also wise. |
2020-10-02 | 89 | First to Eleven | "The Mother We Share" | single | But of course we did not. |
2020-08-28 | 28 | First to Eleven | "Fire" | single | but as a building code for the living |
2020-08-07 | 76 | First to Eleven | "Killing in the Name" | single | But when they show up to ask you what you are going to do with that rock, and you're standing there with a crowbar in your hand, you better have an answer. |
2020-07-31 | 74 | First to Eleven | "Fade to Black" | single | which is why nothing that happens between us matters only to us, |
2020-07-17 | 88 | First to Eleven | "Welcome Home" | single | Some of these arpeggios of revelation are encoded messages from the future; |
2020-07-10 | 94 | First to Eleven | "Take on Me" | single | You can't stay safe by refusing to be sorry. |
2020-06-26 | 94 | First to Eleven | "Girlfriend" | single | We believe in stories defined by their convenient myopia, |
2020-06-05 | 93 | First to Eleven | "Intentions" | single | because death begins at their skin, and whirls like omen into their mouth. |
2020-05-22 | 77 | First to Eleven | "Dirty Little Secret" | single | as long as it's you or nobody. |
2020-05-15 | 98 | First to Eleven | "The Middle" | single | and self-portraits painted with self-awareness and then given away with love. |
2020-05-08 | 10 | First to Eleven | "Blinding Lights" | single | or over the edges of our masks, |
2020-04-03 | 85 | First to Eleven | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | single | or judgment, |
2020-03-20 | 92 | First to Eleven | "Face Down" | single | One of these suns will rise, and we will reclaim our refusal to drown. |
2020-03-13 | 79 | First to Eleven | "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" | single | Today, of course, you all need each other to stay the fuck home. Read a book. Listen to some music. If you feel a swell of ignorance, cough it into your sleeve and go wash your hands again. |
2020-03-06 | 92 | First to Eleven | "Falling" | single | chords of our responsibilities, |
2020-02-21 | 63 | First to Eleven | "Numb" | single | A wall is not a strategy. A song is a strategy. Singing your enemy's song is a strategy. Replacing enemies with songs is how we cure this. This is what it feels like when you touch a wall and it lets you in. |
2020-02-14 | 3 | First to Eleven | "Dance Monkey" | Covers, Vol. 5 | by how our voices could make any story enact any moral, |
2020-02-14 | 79 | First to Eleven | "You Oughta Know" | single | We will be given essential repeated lessons, |
2020-02-07 | 80 | First to Eleven | "Adore You" | single | but correction is not opposition. Moral forces move in more than one direction. |
2020-01-17 | 105 | First to Eleven | "Beautiful People" | single | but pretty good at denial, and if we refuse to be our worst selves enough times, eventually we become nearly perfect. |
2020-01-03 | 41 | First to Eleven | "Graveyard" | single | their lives are ways you would have lived if they had met you when you were younger; |
2019-12-27 | 9 | First to Eleven | "Adam's Song" | single | It doesn't feel like we're dying, |
2019-12-20 | 2 | First to Eleven | "Last Christmas" | A Very First to Eleven Christmas | You have to fight everything with joy. |
2019-12-20 | 20 | First to Eleven | "All I Want for Christmas Is You" | A Very First to Eleven Christmas | and everything to be brighter and faster, |
2019-12-13 | 49 | First to Eleven | "Ocean Avenue" | single | Nothing we can't make again. |
2019-11-29 | 77 | First to Eleven | "Bring Me to Life" | single | and hopelessness from both silence and roar. |
2019-11-22 | 3 | First to Eleven | "Lose You to Love Me" | single | We live in a world where any fable can be transposed into any moral, |
2019-11-15 | 2 | First to Eleven | "Never Really Over" | Covers, Vol. 4 | It's superficially the reverse of this First to Eleven cover of Katy Perry, which recasts a pop song for which I felt nothing into a surging pop-punk anthem for which I am transfixedly target-marketed. |
2019-10-11 | 74 | First to Eleven | "Mr. Brightside" | single | It starts with a kiss |
2019-09-06 | 80 | First to Eleven | "Lover" | single | freer in citation than improvisation, |
2019-08-23 | 70 | First to Eleven | "Royals" | single | Out of this love, we have memorized each other's anthems of indifference. |
2019-07-26 | 98 | First to Eleven | "Helena" | single | today you will stop singing other people's songs. Or start. |
2019-06-14 | 72 | First to Eleven | "Poker Face" | Covers, Vol. 3 | and this nature was a gift to them |
2019-05-17 | 3 | First to Eleven | "ME!" | single | But maybe we're in the era of no bad songs, only bad versions. |
2019-04-19 | 19 | First to Eleven | "E.T." | single | It'll be interesting to look back at, eventually. |
2019-04-12 | 5 | First to Eleven | "Sweet but Psycho" | single | judgments reached faster but released more readily; |
2019-02-22 | 23 | First to Eleven | "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" | single | instead. |
2019-02-15 | 39 | First to Eleven | "Close to Me" | single | Each grimace is a new disguise, |
2019-01-11 | 45 | First to Eleven | "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" | single | melt on insulated shelves in pale winter sun, |
2018-12-14 | 22 | First to Eleven | "Feliz Navidad" | single | or the appropriated regalia of arbitrarily borrowed othermasses. |
2018-11-30 | 66 | First to Eleven | "Ruin My Life" | single | I miss all these people I barely knew, |
2018-11-23 | 37 | First to Eleven | "Thank You, Next" | single | We are only at the beginning of the native streaming era, only beginning to figure out all the new forms it enables, |
2018-11-16 | 58 | First to Eleven | "Without Me" | Covers, Vol. 2 | Sisyphus' boulder has a cap saying "Make Rocks Low Again", |
2018-10-26 | 67 | First to Eleven | "Head Above Water" | single | for joyous profusions of conjecture from every fact, |
2018-09-21 | 83 | First to Eleven | "Happier" | single | But here's the thing: you get to start again now. |
2018-07-27 | 39 | First to Eleven | "Thrill" | single | which, yes, is always as much about your capacity to recognize and experience joy |
2018-05-18 | 34 | First to Eleven | "No Tears Left to Cry" | single | eventually. |
2018-03-23 | 50 | First to Eleven | "Want You Back" | single | and shouted hatred at a generation that speaks love. |
2017-08-04 | 64 | First to Eleven | "Shape of You" | single | and desire is a glass wall we stand on either side of, |
2017-07-21 | 52 | First to Eleven | "Dead to Me" | Dead to Me 5 | Not that strange. |