Enter Shikari Top of the Pops
Man, I love me some Shikari. List is so fluid it changed a few times whilst writing up. The top three are completely interchangeable too. |
1 | | Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
The Last Garrison
"This could be the end" he said, "The end my child"
So I made good use of my face and I smiled. |
2 | | Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Marionettes (I & II)
Our minds are firewood
And now we spark the match we set ourselves alight |
3 | | Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Sorry You're Not A Winner
Insert your coin. Please try again |
4 | | Enter Shikari Rat Race
Rat Race
Let's get disqualified |
5 | | Enter Shikari The Spark
Shinrin-Yoku
We are the dust on the stained glass window
Trying to comprehend the cathedral |
6 | | Enter Shikari Tribalism
We Can Breathe In Space
Greetings, we are an infant species
Crawling into our own premature decline |
7 | | Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Zzzonked
It's just distance that separates us, or are we really all ethnocentrically inclined
Mate, what the fuck are you on about? |
8 | | Enter Shikari The Spark
Ode To Lost Jigsaw Pieces
I awoke with a face like a crumpled plastic bag in a puddle
When everyone in this town has a bag for life |
9 | | Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Myopia
Surrounded by ostriches with mouths full of sand |
10 | | Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
...Meltdown
Countries are just lines drawn in the sand with a stick |
11 | | Enter Shikari Slipshod
Slipshod
This is a shambles, your cook is a heathen
Your carpet is ugly and your veg ain’t in season. |
12 | | Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
T.I.N.A.
F-16's flying overhead
The present is the past that we cannot shed |
13 | | Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Anaesthetist
Illness is not an indulgence which you should pay for
Nor is it a crime for which you should be punished
For this conviction I would endanger my health |
14 | | Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour
We've had this date from the beginning |
15 | | Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
There's A Price On Your Head
We must have structure, Mr Reynolds |
16 | | Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Hectic
We'll convene at mine 3pm to play
Sega MegaDrive, Golden Axe and Sonic all day |
17 | | Enter Shikari Rat Race
Radiate
It will flourish, It will thrive
It will nourish A spring cleaning of the mind |
18 | | Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
satellites**
And we orbit fast, but I wish we could collide
I'm sick of concealing, I'm sick of the feeling
I no longer want to hide |
19 | | Enter Shikari Hoodwinker
Hoodwinker
Cheeky Fucker |
20 | | Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Wall
You can have skirting board shoes and plug sockets on your knees
I'll hang a painting on your lip and put tinsel round it at Christmas |
21 | | Enter Shikari The Spark
Rabble Rouser
People climbing over bodies like spiders
I'm on stage with a face like a sack of screwdrivers |
22 | | Enter Shikari Common Dreads
Gap In The Fence
And it seems mad that we're born on the doorstep of squalor and of pedestals |
23 | | Enter Shikari The Spark
Undercover Agents
I am currently under construction
Thank you for your patience |
24 | | Enter Shikari The Mindsweep
Torn Apart
There's more variation within populations
Than between populations |
25 | | Enter Shikari Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
the pressure's on.
I throw myself into the day
But I just seem to ricochet |
26 | | Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Labyrinth
Stand up, take a bow you have
No reason to celebrate |
27 | | Enter Shikari Common Dreads
No Sleep Tonight
We'll embark on our great voyage to the sun
And we'll be 90 million miles from anything or anyone. |
28 | | Enter Shikari Take to the Skies
Today Won't Go Down In History
I can hide as I lead my army into certain death |
29 | | Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
Gandhi Mate, Gandhi
See if we keep them silent, then they'll resort to violence
And that's how you criminalise change |
30 | | Enter Shikari Tribalism
Thumper
We will never be sane
In an unsane system |
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