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. |
2021-05-21 |
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. |