| 1 | IKINÄ | "Tulisilla hiilillä" | Millenniaalin itsehoito-opas epävarmaan aikuisuuteen | I grew up knowing mostly the things I could hear on the radio in Dallas, which meant the things everybody knew or a few things that George Gimarc would bring back from somewhere and play late on Sunday nights. |
| 2 | Merta | "Ei enää" | single | Thus I grew up believing that Other music was also sung in English and mainly came from the UK. Gimarc didn't go to Finland, so I didn't know any Finnish music. |
| 3 | Kirkkovene | "Kertakäyttöunelmat" | single | My parents had a Finnish friend, and she brought us big flat crackers. It never occurred to me to ask her about music. |
| 4 | Elli Noise | "Artífice" | single | Mexico was close, in all senses, and obviously the source of the best food, but I don't remember ever thinking of it as a potential source of music. |
| 5 | Kamikazee | "Cahaya" | Alab 5 | Canada, on the other hand, was far away and I didn't find out about poutine until way later, but they had Rush and Triumph. |
| 6 | UNMASK aLIVE | "Focus" | single | It's OK, it works, you don't have to swallow the whole world at once. |
| 7 | BBHF | "Simple" | single | My daughter knows these other places exist much better than I did at her age, but she still wants to listen to the same Alessia Cara album over and over. |
| 8 | The Mirraz | "#Boooooooooots" | Saturation.Now | You are formed in some way, by the factors available and your own initially limited ability to integrate them. |
| 9 | ラク×ガキ | "神様の創り方" | カミサマノツクリカタ 6 | I subject her to my random endless Japanese crushes sometimes, when I feel like I've heard the Alessia Cara albums enough for one day. |
| 10 | codomodragon | "anonymous" | anonymous +2 | This is obviously for my sake, not hers. |
| 11 | All Good Soldiers | "LIBERTY" | single | I do feel like it ought to have some tiny cultural value, some trace element of global awareness that might, |
| 12 | The Floor | "ノンフィクション" | ウェザー | later in her life, |
| 13 | Halo at Yojohan | "花飾りのうた" | single | help her become more curious about the rest of the world more readily than I did. |
| 14 | Kiyoshi | "Reset" | Kiyoshi4 | I can imagine that the line about 808s in "Wild Things" will get her interested in drum-machines like hearing Primus made Kiyoshi buy a bass, |
| 15 | Tales Of Evening | "Torn Apart" | A New Dawn Awaits | but only really if I pretend that it's me, not her. |
| 16 | Sin7sins | "Prayer For Night Eternal" | single | Drum machines are not why she likes Alessia. |
| 17 | Sōlborn | "Lunar Fantasy" | single | They're not what I appreciate about Alessia, either, I just like knowing what she's talking about, |
| 18 | Derange | "Zero" | Senses, Pt. 1 5 | and wait for my opportunity to offhandedly explain the reference. |
| 19 | Sanguine | "5 Seconds to Midnight" | single | But I never had an 808. I had an Alesis HR16. |
| 20 | Eleine | "Mein Herz brennt" | Mein Herz brennt +1 | The 808 inspired a revolution and a documentary. |
| 21 | Tales Of Evening | "Halls of Peace" | A New Dawn Awaits | The HR16 helped proto-twee indie kids who never learned to drum make songs that sounded like they were made by kids with cheap drum machines who never learned how to drum. |
| 22 | Symphony Of Tragedy | "Rise Again" | single | You can't be a role model in retrospect. If I had had Spotify when I was 12, I would definitely have used it to listen to all the Black Sabbath and Judas Priest and Iron Maiden albums, |
| 23 | Pretty Maids | "Undress Your Madness" | single | rather than just the few I could afford to buy. |
| 24 | Apocalyptica | "Rise" | single | My daughter doesn't have to decide whether to spend a limited allowance on an Alessia Cara EP, or a collaboration single with Bastille. |
| 25 | Faun | "Aschenbrödel" | single | But this, like everything else about 2019 that would seem transformational or terrifying if I sent it back in time to 1979, |
| 26 | Leah | "Light of the World" | single | is just how her world is to her, no more or less extraordinary than my world of D&D and Mattel Electronics Football would have been to my father in 1949. |
| 27 | Voyager | "Entropy" | Colours in the Sun | We start with whatever exists, |
| 28 | Wilderun | "Far from Where Dreams Unfurl" | Veil of Imagination | and then our own legends begin. |
| 29 | Schammasch | "A Paradigm of Beauty" | single | Racists misunderstand globalism as a form of nihilism, |
| 30 | King | "Star" | single | because racism is nihilism flavored with narcissism, |
| 31 | Massemord | "Alas! The Lord is Dead" | Gravkammer 2 | and globalism is a threat to the smugness that is narcissism's only comforting mode. |
| 32 | Litterbox Massacre | "Red Dot Mystery" | single | Self-aware nihilism is a profoundly comic existential reaction. |
| 33 | 7xvn | "D!rt Ant!que" | single | Globalism is extrapolated self-awareness, |
| 34 | Ptwiggs | "Worth It" | single | in the same way that atheism is essentialized self-awareness. |
| 35 | Easter | "Better" | single | Other people do not exist in competition with you, |
| 36 | Digitalism | "Wish I Was There" | single | neither individually nor collectively. |
| 37 | Rothko | "The Day After Your Death" | Refuge for Abandoned Souls | They do not die that you might live longer, |
| 38 | Cuva | "Close" | single | or subsist that you might thrive. |
| 39 | Clock Opera | "Carousel" | single | That is how no orbiting mechanism operates. |
| 40 | Sudan Archives | "Limitless" | Athena | My daughter is watching YouTube bullet-journal layout tips from some girl in Norway. She has infinities |
| 41 | Loote | "All the Fucking Time" | single | that I did not, and they exempt her from basically nothing. |
| 42 | Caveboy | "I Wonder" | single | The world has been drawn together with wires and wavelengths, |
| 43 | Charly Bliss | "Feed" | Supermoon 5 | and this ought to be better than when it was bound with ships and waves, |
| 44 | Potty Mouth | "Favorite Food" | single | but I'm confident that it's better a lot less often than I am confident that it's more. |
| 45 | Empty Country | "Marian" | single | I like more, of course, but this is circularity. |
| 46 | ANDREAH | "Be My Light" | single | The point of songs you haven't heard yet is not that they're better. |
| 47 | Hannah | "Mala Hierba" | single | The point of borders is to allow you to assume different modes by moving through physical space. |
| 48 | Madison Kozak | "Click" | single | My daughter grows up knowing, I hope, that walls obstruct this only briefly, |
| 49 | Jaclyn Kenyon | "Mama Said" | single | like the way she has to wait for me to remember which password to use to say that it's OK for her to see a site |
| 50 | NateWantsToBattle | "Polaris" | single | with tips about how to make a bathroom in Minecraft. |
| 51 | Dima Lancaster | "&Z" | single | She has, maybe, a different idea of her relationship with everything else. |
| 52 | IKINÄ | "Paljaana" | Millenniaalin itsehoito-opas epävarmaan aikuisuuteen | By her age, I had eaten Finnish crackers. She has been to Finland. |
| 53 | Sofie Svensson & Dom Där | "Eld" | single | We were there for only a few hours, just long enough to eat some of the best strawberries I've ever had and some of the worst pizza, |
| 54 | Vita Insomne | "Fábulas" | Fábulas 6 | and then we got back onto a small floating shopping mall and sailed away again. |
| 55 | Despistaos | "En tus manos (con David Otero)" | single | What is it worth, ten minutes in the Chapel of Silence, or another week of other people's 8:08s |
| 56 | Blutengel | "Another Dream" | Damokles | or 5:05s, out-of-context apologies for other people's unease? |
| 57 | True Moon | "They Call My Name" | II | I bring her these songs from everywhere, which of course she doesn't need, |
| 58 | Maria McKee | "Effigy of Salt" | single | so I get to keep them. |
| 59 | Craig Cardiff | "Bryant Park" | single | She doesn't start with what we give her, she starts with everything. |
| 60 | Oceans | "Scars to Your Beautiful (feat. Anna Murphy)" | Cover Me in Darkness 4 | She should know, as should you, that there's a hope waiting for you in the dark, |
| 61 | Parry Gripp | "Gyoza Bat" | single | trying with tiny wings to move a small amount of joy from one place in the world to another. |