| 1 | Ed Sheeran | "Magical - Live from Brantlie’s Living Room" | Autumn Variations | There are definitely weeks when I would listen in a vacuum if I could, |
| 2 | Dual Alter World | "Ｃｅｎｔｅｒ Ｏｆ Ｔｈｅ Ｗｏｒｌｄ" | WORLD DISTONATION | or whatever you call a space permeable only by human impulses that don't betray the horrific limitations of our capacities for empathy and decency, |
| 3 | ChouCho | "Never Say Goodbye" | Never Say Goodbye +3 | and this is one of those, but I can't, |
| 4 | yanaginagi | "豆粒タイムライン" | 命火 6 | and so I'm left to assume that I wouldn't be standing at a sleekly generic adjustable desk |
| 5 | Pimm's | "Never let you go" | single | in the mostly-empty and relentlessly efficient office where I work, |
| 6 | RAISE A SUILEN | "TWIN TALE" | single | crying helplessly at videos of an eternally scruffy Ed Sheeran standing at the doors of random unsuspecting fans, |
| 7 | PRSMIN | "Skyline" | single | knocking on them with the hand not carrying a guitar, |
| 8 | GARNiDELiA | "Future Wing" | single | and then walking into their disbelief to sit on their couch with them and play them a song |
| 9 | ZAQ | "Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet - From CrosSing" | Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet - From CrosSing +1 | while they hold a dog or their breath or time, |
| 10 | CHiCO | "エース" | single | if I weren't switching back and forth between this tiny spectacle of desperate joy |
| 11 | Risky Melody | "Risky Melody" | Reflection | and the news coverage of toxic hatred packed into metal cylinders |
| 12 | PaleNeØ | "Schizoid" | Schizoid +2 | and fired back and forth across invented and hopelessly inconclusive borders |
| 13 | MAD JAMIE | "FXXK YOU VERY MUCH" | FXXK YOU VERY MUCH +1 | dug into uncomprehending dirt by centuries of unapologetically incompatible belief. |
| 14 | Blood Stain Child | "2045" | 2045 +1 | My feelings for Ed range from ambient tolerance to sporadic enthusiasm, |
| 15 | Rave The Reqviem | "Zero Solace" | EX-EDEN | mostly circling in on admiration that he has gotten almost as famous as you can get for having written songs |
| 16 | Rave The Reqviem | "Exit Babylon" | EX-EDEN | without seeming to have become any less interested in writing more of them. |
| 17 | RAVDINA | "Измеряя шагами небо" | single | They're usually not complicated, but they're reliably decent, |
| 18 | Metalite | "New Generation" | New Generation 5 | both of which are the opposite of the prisals and reprisals bloodily yet again being exchanged between intransigencies |
| 19 | Alterium | "Bismarck" | Bismarck +1 | in a small corner of our beautiful planet we've discovered to have the perfect climate |
| 20 | We Are the Catalyst | "Daydreamers" | Daydreamers +1 | for the cultivation of invasive grudges. |
| 21 | ADHARMA | "Porcelain" | single | Ed has a new album, which is unpretentious and objectively fine on its own, I think, |
| 22 | DARLAH | "Trials" | Trials +3 | modernly produced but not post-modernly beaten lifeless, |
| 23 | Elegy Of Madness | "Hybrid Love" | single | but the second notional "disc" of the extra-double-bonus version |
| 24 | Night Crowned | "Flickan Som Försvann" | Flickan Som Försvann +1 | has living room versions of all 14 songs, one gifted to each of 14 fans, |
| 25 | Cirith Ungol | "Looking Glass" | single | and just listening to them I'm OK, functioning, not crying, |
| 26 | Eldritch | "Elegy Of Lust" | single | not hating human weakness unmanageably as I play them and debug complaints about the new Fans Also Like algorithm |
| 27 | Myrath | "Heroes" | single | that almost always turn out to stem from emotional indignance that faking your fans |
| 28 | Nik Nocturnal | "Tsunderella" | single | casts you into an unflattering association with other fakers exactly no worse than you. |
| 29 | TEMIC | "Mothallah" | Mothallah +2 | People will make music, one of the few things that deserves to be treated as holy, |
| 30 | Imperialist | "CALL OF THE VULCAIN" | single | and then fuck it up with greed and impatient jealousy, |
| 31 | Misertus | "only just unfolding" | single | so of course we also fuck up nationhood and coexistence and hopeless imbalances of power, |
| 32 | Heretoir | "Glacierheart - Nightsphere Part II" | Nightsphere | all of which are inherently mired in logistics and sediment from which a chorus cannot lift you out. |
| 33 | Sühnopfer | "Nous Sommes d'Hier" | Nous sommes d'Hier | Ed's songs are fine. Part of the reason this series of fan visitations works, |
| 34 | Svalbard | "Defiance" | The Weight Of The Mask | even though Ed is playing them new songs instead of the ones for which they became his fans, |
| 35 | Dominic Gebhardt | "Whispers Of Eldrathia" | Whispers Of Eldrathia +2 | is that all of his songs have the same basic qualities. |
| 36 | Nocturnal Abbey | "Funerals empty chairs" | The great blackened swan | You can find reasons to choose between them, |
| 37 | Myrkur | "Valkyriernes Sang" | Valkyriernes Sang +2 | but that will mostly be about you. Ed seems to very earnestly love them all. |
| 38 | TORRES | "Collect" | single | They do not turn on individual ingenuities, |
| 39 | KANGA | "Last Drive" | Under Glass | or compressions of yearning or identity the way Taylor's do, |
| 40 | HEALTH | "CHILDREN OF SORROW" | CHILDREN OF SORROW +2 | nor do they try to drop you into somebody else's obsessions or reconciliations the way Mountain Goats songs do, |
| 41 | House of Harm | "Roseglass" | single | but he's sitting there in people's living rooms, |
| 42 | rouri404 | "spit" | single | one better than a boombox |
| 43 | Hannah Diamond | "Want You To Know" | Perfect Picture | or bringing a team with him to reproduce "Ed's Version" of songs that were Ed's versions in any case, |
| 44 | Letting Up Despite Great Faults | "Cherry Splits" | single | just playing and singing them. |
| 45 | Turmalina | "A Sagrado" | single | It's only the videos, only really the beginnings of the videos, that tear me open: |
| 46 | Ashbury Heights | "Ghosts Electric" | single | people sitting on their couches, waiting for a listening session or whatever it is they've been told is going to happen |
| 47 | Dwell in Doom | "Ghost Child" | Gothic Mass | to explain why they're on camera; |
| 48 | Anders Manga | "Phantom" | single | Ed walking up the sidewalk, because somehow all of these winners live in apartments whose doors require awkward approaches; |
| 49 | Haunter | "UNTOUCHABLE" | single | the moment they see him, his sheepish hugs; |
| 50 | Messer | "Halfway" | single | the heroic simulation of calm as he starts to play. |
| 51 | Page | "Det här är mitt sätt" | En ny våg | This is the task we are given, are assigned by virtue of birth: |
| 52 | Jetstream Pony | "Sixes and Sevens" | Sixes and Sevens / Into the Sea 2 | to remain human in all our contexts. |
| 53 | Namasenda | "rosa" | Ambrosia 4 | Ed and Brantlie and John demonstrate this admirably, |
| 54 | Tkay Maidza | "Out of Luck" | Out of Luck +3 | in situations where little is ultimately at stake, but failure remains an enticing option. |
| 55 | Hannah Diamond | "Twisted" | Perfect Picture | This is what moved me intensely as I walked between Quarters in the Old City, |
| 56 | Dorian Electra | "Symphony" | Fanfare | always in the shadow of enmities I knew about in the abstract |
| 57 | PUTOCHINOMARICÓN | "soy un idiota" | single | but could not viscerally impose on the streets or shops or food or people. |
| 58 | TeZATalks | "STOPIT!!" | STOPIT!! +3 | The soldier guarding the approach to the Mount began on a series of probing questions about my origin and intentions, |
| 59 | Emma Blackery | "Everybody Lies" | Cannot Help Myself 5 | but after he asked about my religion and I said I had none, the remainder of the interrogation was abandoned. |
| 60 | LØLØ | "faceplant" | faceplant +2 | He understood, as a practical matter of doing his job if not a theoretical matter of explaining how that came to be a job anybody felt needed doing, |
| 61 | Anna Vaus | "Probably Shouldn't" | single | that profound existential disagreement is something you only enter into by voluntary irrational belief. |
| 62 | Lizzie No | "Lagunita" | single | Only by invoking invisible external forces can we fool ourselves into placing derivational mortal allegiances in opposition. |
| 63 | Joy Clark | "Guest" | single | You can't look through a containment fence at another human |
| 64 | Hafdís Huld | "Darkest Night" | single | without pretending the fence is a projection |
| 65 | Son Lux | "Lanterns Lit (Among The Living)" | single | of a superior boundary from a higher dimension. |
| 66 | Timeka Marshall | "A+" | single | It's possible to do this without explicit recourse to religion, |
| 67 | LONGMAN | "Festa" | 10/4 | as the continuing and undiminishedly inhumane Russian war on Ukraine abjectly reminds us, |
| 68 | 浦小雪 | "青と青" | single | but the ideological justifications there are plainly disingenuous and completely unconvincing in any rational evaluation. |
| 69 | BACK LIFT | "Breath" | single | The blame for that war may be straightforwardly assigned, and the proper resolution is hard to reach but easy to see. |
| 70 | Nulbarich | "Skyline" | single | Nothing about the situation in the narrow moral crucible between the sea of refugees and the sea of salt |
| 71 | Mr.FanTastiC | "Sweet sweet candy time" | single | is straightforward or obviously solvable without somebody, or everybody, |
| 72 | Good Grief | "July" | SAD STATION | letting go of beliefs to which they feel divinely entitled. |
| 73 | THE BACK HORN | "saigoni nokorumono" | saigoni nokorumono +1 | There is no way to accept rockets fired at homes as a moral act, |
| 74 | kanon | "Mermaid" | single | but there is also no way to accept the current map of occupations and segregations |
| 75 | MCDVLR | "Wasted Days" | single | as a serious proposal for a rocketless future. |
| 76 | Siloé | "Si Me Necesitas, Llámame" | single | It's tempting to blame Lord Balfour, and rarely too wrong to trace current conflicts |
| 77 | Tommaso Paradiso | "Via" | Sensazione Stupenda | back to centuries of imperialism, |
| 78 | Tommi Läntinen | "Elämän tarkoitus" | Maailma kääntyy kohti valoa | but once you pass the religion rapid-test and are thus allowed to walk up the enclosed stairs that rise above the Western Wall, |
| 79 | Broken Records | "Is There Still Light?" | The Dreamless Sleep Of The 1990s | you find yourself standing amongst busloads of evangelical Christian tour-groups |
| 80 | Gillian Baci | "call me crazy" | single | in front of the third-most-holy mosque in Islam, |
| 81 | True Love Mjoli | "Inkobongela" | Emataxini | which sits exactly where the third and final Temple is zoned to go in Judaism, |
| 82 | Ithwasa Lekhansela | "Kuyahlonishwa" | Impi | and this knot of spiritual fibers is not going to be untied by its current tighteners, |
| 83 | Unogwaja Omhlophe | "Ngadlani Kabani?" | Inyoka Isebhantshini | nor sliced liberatingly open by oblivious tourists like me |
| 84 | Maqhinga Hadebe | "Ugcina Icala" | iSoft Life | Station-spotting as if Greenaway also had a Carrying a Cross to Your Death By Numbers, |
| 85 | Ama Double SS | "Awekho" | Ibhola Lokujima | and genuinely not knowing whether the next street is going to be full of baklava or manti. |
| 86 | INKAZIMULO YABANGCWELE INDUMEZULU GOSPEL GROUP | "Sohlangana khona" | single | The fourth Quarter was the destination of the first Armenian diaspora, |
| 87 | Hitler SA Massive Production | "Athandweni Trumpet" | single | the latest of which, from Nagorno-Karabakh, was not even a month ago. |
| 88 | Ntozabantu | "Ngondisize" | single | We are displaced by intolerance, but there's never very far to go. |
| 89 | DJ Charme | "Awe" | Hartenjagen | The walls we build around cornered cities are painted on the inward-facing side with ineffective accusation, |
| 90 | Brandon Lake | "TEAR OFF THE ROOF" | TEAR OFF THE ROOF +3 | on the outward-facing side with unacknowledgeable myopia: |
| 91 | Matthew West | "You Changed My Name" | single | bright colors we'll appreciate once the slabs of it are taken down |
| 92 | Amy Grant | "Love Of Another Kind - Live" | Lead Me On Live 1989 | and shipped off to scattered museums and business schools for retrospectively rueful display. |
| 93 | Dea Norberg | "Stay yourself" | single | They left the wall around the Old City up, and now it's a sightseeing path. |
| 94 | James Arthur | "Just Us" | single | The day we were going to climb Masada, the year's one day of rain washed out the road south, |
| 95 | Rachel Nusbaumer | "Beyond Fragility" | single | stranding a busload of Ukrainian tourists by the Dead Sea a couple years before that would have seemed ironic. |
| 96 | Eolya | "Nausikaa" | Fundr | Those people opening their doors weren't expecting to be hugged by Ed Sheeran with a guitar, |
| 97 | Earlyguard | "Zeitschleife" | MMXXIII | but they also weren't expecting to be shot by invaders. |
| 98 | Ed Sheeran | "Midnight - Live from John’s Living Room" | Autumn Variations | A tiny moment of surprising kindness doesn't make you cry, |
| 99 | Superchunk | "In Between Days" | In Between Days +2 | it gives accumulated directionless grief somewhere to go next. |
| 100 | Social Repose | "Wrecking Ball" | single | Diaspora is a name for flight, if you look backwards toward your home, |
| 101 | Page | "High as I" | En ny våg | but when we leave our homes, we bring new love to somewhere else |
| 102 | Hannah Diamond | "Divisible By Two" | Perfect Picture | for as long as it takes until there's enough of it everywhere. |