My 100 favourite songs of the year with links to places you can hear them along with Youtube & Spotify playlists.
20. Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. – Bang Bang feat. Q-Tip & MNDR
19. Onra – High Hopes
18. Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
17. Washed Out – Hold Out
16. Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand
15. The Knife – Colouring of Pigeon
14. Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood
13. Kanye West – Monster feat. Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Bon Iver & Rick Ross
12. Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land
11. Fever Ray – Mercy Street
10. Four Tet – Love Cry
9. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
8. Chilly Gonzales – Never Stop (Rap mix)
7. Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
6. Penguin Prison – Something I’m Not
5. Janelle Monae – Tightrope feat. Big Boi
4. Kanye West – All Of The Lights
3. Gorillaz – White Flag
2. Kendal Johansson – Blue Moon
1. Tanlines – Real Life
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
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this is one of the best list which I found recently. Great work
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