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“Trip Switch” by Nothing But Thieves
From the album Nothing But Thieves (2015)
“Trip Switch” by Nothing But Thieves appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2015 and 2022. It was first released in 2015 on the album Nothing But Thieves. Its best result is #2 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #30 alternative song of 2016, #7,391 alternative song of all time and #402 of the '10s.
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"Trip Switch" came off Nothing But Thieves' self-titled debut in 2015, a tightly coiled piece of English alt-rock with Conor Mason's big, keening voice riding over the guitars of Dominic Craik and Joe Langridge-Brown, Phil Blake's bass and James Price's drums. Julian Emery produced it, with extra production from Larry Hibbitt and Jim Irvin, and Adam Noble mixed; five of them, Mason, Craik, Langridge-Brown, Emery and Irvin, share the writing credit.
Langridge-Brown has said the lyric is about how hooked the modern world is on digital contact, and how lost everybody would be if the Wi-Fi or the power went out. The song also sparked the idea for the album's cover art. It turned up on the FIFA 16 soundtrack and, in 2016, went all the way to the top of Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2015 | 91 |
| 2015 | 77 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2015 | 99 |
| 2016 | 38 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2016 | 91 |
| 2016 | 24 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2016 | 103 |
| 2016 | 2 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2016 | 99 |
| 2016 | 13 | X96 Salt Lake City, UT | X96 Top 50 Songs of 2016 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 90 | 103.3 The Edge | 103.3 The Edge Top 103.3 Songs of the Decade | 103 |
| 2020 | 88 | The Buzz | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of the Decade | 99 |
| 2022 | 475 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
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