My 100 favourite songs of the year with links to places you can hear them along with Youtube & Spotify playlists.
100. Kavinsky – Nightcall
99. Fucked Up – Year of the Ox
98. Blackbird Blackbird – Fade to White
97. Rubberbandits – Horse Outside
96. Jay-Z – On To The Next One
95. Groove Armada & Bryan Ferry – Shameless
94. Joanna Newsom – 81
93. Caribou – Sun
92. Magic Kids – Hey Boy
91. The Knocks – Dancing With the DJ
90. Crystal Fighters – In The Summer
89. Toro y Moi – Low Shoulders
88. Gayngs – The Gaudy Side of Town
87. Baths – Lovely Bloodflow
86. Wild Nothing – Chinatown
85. Tennis – Marathon
84. Civil Civic – Fuck Youth
83. Zola Jesus – Sea Talk
82. Young Montana – Hot Heathrr
81. Rihanna – Rude Boy
80. Wildbirds and Peacedrums – Fight For Me
79. Erykah Badu — Jump Up In The Air ft Lil Wayne
78. Letherette – Blad
77. Flying Lotus – Nose Art
76. Zinja Hlungwani – N’wagezani My Love
75. Starslinger – Mornin
74. Tieranniesaur – Sketch!
73. Theophilus London – Flying Overseas
72. The Sandwitches – Back to the Sea
71. Beat Connection – In The Water
70. Factory Floor – A Wooden Box
69. Joy Orbison – So Derobe
68. Mount Kimbie – Before I Move Off
67. Glasser – Home
66. James Blake – Limit To Your Love
65. Cults – Go Outside
64. Foals – Spanish Sahara
63. Squarehead – Fake Blood
62. Big Boi – General Patton
61. Best Coast – Crazy for You
60. Mountain Man – Animal Tracks
59. Cee Lo Green – Fuck You
58. Computer Magic – Science Channel 9
57. Gold Panda – Same Dream China
56. Blakroc – Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) feat. Jim Jones & Mos Def
55. James Vincent McMorrow – Red Dust
54. Museum Of Bellas Artes – Who Do You Love
53. Feed the Bears – Compete & Wrestle
52. The Count & Sinden feat. Mystery Jets – After Dark
51. Robyn – Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do
50. The Redneck Manifesto – Black Apple
49. The National – Afraid Of Everyone
48. Sun Airway – Waitin’ On You
47. Halves – Growing & Glow
46. Sleigh Bells – Tell Em
45. Not Squares – Asylum
44. iamamiwhoami – T
43. Beach House – Zebra
42. Adebisi Shank – (-_-)
41. Chromeo – Hot Mess
40. Delorean – Stay Close
39. Kele – Tenderoni
38. Warpaint – Undertow
37. Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
36. The Morning Benders – Excuses
35. Solar Bears – Dolls
34. The Cast of Cheers – Auricom
33. PVT – Window
32. Lite – Image Game
31. Summer Camp – Ghost Train
30. Shit Robot – Take Em Up
29. R.S.A.G. – The Roamer
28. Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact (Vocal version)
27. Glasser – Apply
26. Gorillaz – Stylo
25. Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
24. Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
23. James Blake – CMYK
22. Twin Sister – All Around And Away We Go
21. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
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.
Once again: Bravo. Great job.
Great list. Surprised you have Foals so low. Thought you were a bigger fan. Never heard of number two and neglected number one pretty much throughout the year.But All of the lights is amazing!!! Everytime I hear it it just sounds immense and defining
Foals is a good example of an album which charts high on my albums of the year but only one song appears here. I tried to only have one song from each artist unless they have two songs which are totally amazing as with Glasser, Kanye, James Blake and Gorillaz.
How can us laypeople of Ireland get access to spotify?
Amazing blogging over the past year, I look forward to 2011!
Great list and spot on with your number 1, I gave Tanlines number 3 but on another day they’d get top spot, such an infectious song that never fails to get me singing/dancing along. I’m so surprised I haven’t seen it in more of these end of year lists.
All of the Lights has probably become my fav track of MBDTF too, its a dancefloor anthem. Onra is another who has been widely overlooked, High Hopes is a fantastic tune.
Now I just gotta make my way through ALL the songs I don’t recognise here.
Great list! Good to see morning benders get a mention, i loved that record so much, but it doesn’t seem to have made any lasting impressions with some publications!
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Thank you!! Great effort
Great list for Christmas, thanks for this and a great website, my best find this year, Happy New Year
Great, eclectic list. A bit of over lap with our top 100, check it out at http://bawley.blogspot.com/2011/01/bawley-100-new-years-eve-20102011.html
Also appreciate the soundcloud/youtube streams for the few tracks I had not heard before
May I just say what a comfort to uncover somebody that actually knows what they’re talking about on the net. You actually understand how to bring a problem to light and make it important. More people ought to look at this and understand this side of the story. It’s surprising you are not more popular because you surely possess the gift.
this is one of the best list which I found recently. Great work
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