The results of the poll are ready to be revealed. First up, the Irish songs of the year as voted by readers and commenters of this blog. A staggering 215 different songs were voted for overall from about 150 voters in total and the resulting top 30 sees multiple appearances from some of the following: David Kitt, Villagers, And So I Watch You From Afar, Hunter-Gatherer, Patrick Kelleher and Super Extra Bonus Party. I’ll post the Google Doc showing the number of votes for each song tomorrow along with the album results as well as hopefully contacting the winners of the prizes. Here is how it stacked up from the number one position which was a clear winner by six votes:
- Super Extra Bonus Party feat. Heathers – Comets
- Villagers – The Meaning of the Ritual
- David Kitt – Move it On
- Hunter-Gatherer – Recovery Friend
- Adrian Crowley – The Wishing Seat
- David Kitt – Alone like that [Listen in this podcast]
- Delorentos – S.E.C.R.E.T.
- Patrick Kelleher – Wonder
- 202s – Ease My Mind
- ASIWYFA – Set Guitars To Kill
- Julie Feeney – Impossibly Beautiful
- Super Extra Bonus Party & Cadence Weapon – Radar
- Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
- Valerie Francis – Punches
- Villagers – Down Under the Sea
- The Ambience Affair – Vacant Hearts
- David Kitt – Learning How to Say Goodbye
- Patrick Kelleher – Coat to Wear
- Sleep Thieves – City Lights
- Villagers – Pieces
- Angkorwat– Kids Gloves
- ASIWYFA – A Little Solidarity Goes A Long Way
- Band on an Island – Back Disco
- Dark Room Notes – Let’s Light Fires
- David Turpin – The Bone Dance
- Duckworth Lewis Method – Age of Revolution
- Hunter-Gatherer – Cloud
- Hunter-Gatherer – I Dreamed I Was a Footstep on the Trail of a Murderer
- Nakatomi Towers – Cut Me Out
- O Emperor – Po
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
glad seb and especailly villagers are up top :)asiwyfa and pat kelleher deffinatley deserved to be in there too. decent list all in all i think 🙂
Man, this list really shows me I need to get in touch with Irish music! I’d heard of about 3 of them. The Julie Feeney song and video are amazing.
go forth and listen my friend 🙂
Well that’s a chart that kicks this years Fab Fifty well and truly into touch. Look forward to checking out a few of those I’m not familiar with as well as those I know. Shame there’s no play all button on that page;-)
The Yahoo player in the bottom left will play all the Mp3s on the page as a playlist.
Digging that 2 door cinema club song, but road don’t have it (online at least). Where to get it?
I saw it on vinyl in Tower a few weeks ago.
Love that David Turpin song. Should be up higher in the list.
Sleep thieves and 202’s yeah!
no son green? that’s a shame..