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“Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit
From the album Manners (2009)
“Sleepyhead” by Passion Pit appears on 15 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2009 and 2026. It was first released in 2009 on the album Manners. Its best result is #12 on the WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #99 alternative song of 2009 and #7,070 alternative song of all time.
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Passion Pit's first single, "Sleepyhead", came out in 2008 on the Chunk of Change EP and carried over onto the band's debut album, Manners, in 2009. Michael Angelakos wrote it, and it's a pure sugar rush: a helium vocal, synths fizzing like shaken soda, and a chopped-up sample of Mary O'Hara singing "Óró Mo Bháidín" flickering through the mix, with a fragment of Jack Kerouac's "San Francisco Scene (The Beat Generation)" tucked in too.
Chris Zane produced it and mixed it alongside Alex Aldi, who recorded the track, and they keep it bright and giddy from start to finish. The video matched the mood, stringing together images of clapping hands, instruments and Angelakos singing so that the whole thing spins like a zoetrope.
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 | 12 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 39 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
| 2009 | 20 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2009 | 100 |
| 2009 | 13 | WBRU Providence, RI | WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2009 | 96 |
| 2010 | 60 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 28 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
| 2010 | 41 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010 | 103 |
| 2010 | 87 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2010 | 97 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 447 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2022 | 490 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 451 | 101X | 101X 500 (2022) | 498 |
| 2024 | 706 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 500 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 738 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2026 | 500 | 101X | 101X 500 (2026) | 500 |
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