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“Fitzpleasure” by Alt J
From the album An Awesome Wave (2012)
“Fitzpleasure” by Alt J appears on 12 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2012 and 2025. It was first released in 2012 on the album An Awesome Wave. Its best result is #18 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #100 alternative song of 2012.
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"Fitzpleasure" comes from An Awesome Wave, Alt-J's 2012 debut, written by all four of them, Joe Newman, Gwil Sainsbury, Thom Green and Gus Unger-Hamilton, and produced by Charlie Andrew. It's the British band at its twitchiest and strangest, a stop-start jolt of a song that lurches from murmured near-silence into sudden, heavy bursts, like a jigsaw assembled in the dark.
Its afterlife took some unlikely turns. My Morning Jacket's Jim James caught the band live, came away comparing it to seeing a great band in its infancy, and remixed the song for the album's deluxe edition. Miley Cyrus used it on her Bangerz Tour, and the band returned the favor by sampling her "4x4" on "Hunger of the Pine", the lead single from 2014's This Is All Yours.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 98 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2012 | 99 |
| 2012 | 18 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2012 | 89 |
| 2012 | 50.5 | ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA | Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2012 | 51 |
| 2012 | 107 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012 | 200 |
| 2012 | 23 | 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City, MO-KS | 96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012 | 96 |
| 2012 | 36 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2012 | 103 |
| 2013 | 85 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2013 | 99 |
| 2013 | 81 | 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL | 97X Top 97 of 2013 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 734 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2019 | 165 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2025 | 143 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 379 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
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