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“Little Secrets” by Passion Pit
From the album Manners (2009)
“Little Secrets” by Passion Pit appears on 18 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2009 and 2025. It was first released in 2009 on the album Manners. Its best result is #8 on the Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #117 alternative song of 2010 and #5,727 alternative song of all time.
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"Little Secrets" was the third single from Manners, Passion Pit's 2009 debut, and it's electropop with the brakes cut. Michael Angelakos wrote it alone, and Chris Zane's production crams it full: fizzing synths, Seth Jabour's guitar, a horn section from Eric Biondo and Stuart Bogie, and the kids of the PS22 Chorus hollering behind the choruses like a school assembly that got out of hand.
The song got two videos. Francesco Meneghini's, from November 2009, reworks the Stargate sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey as an abstract light show, and Timothy Saccenti's, from February 2010, shows the band playing to a crowd in paper bags painted with faces that dissolve into confetti. Pitcher Dan Haren even used it as his run-out music.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 62 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 24 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
| 2009 | 8 | Impact 89FM Lansing, MI | Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 37 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 38 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009 | 100 |
| 2010 | 29 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 41 | Channel 92.3 San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010 | 92 |
| 2010 | 44 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 38 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010 | 103 |
| 2010 | 61 | 90.5 WERG Erie, PA | WERG Top 90 of 2010 | 90 |
| 2010 | 43 | FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI | FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2010 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1928 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1779 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1768 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2013 | 649 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2014 | 1790 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2025 | 734 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 385 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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