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“The Reeling” by Passion Pit
From the album Manners (2009)
“The Reeling” by Passion Pit appears on 15 radio countdowns from 13 stations between 2009 and 2024. It was first released in 2009 on the album Manners. Its best result is #2 on the Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #73 alternative song of 2009.
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"The Reeling" was Passion Pit's first single from their debut album Manners, released in May 2009, and it's Michael Angelakos' electronic pop at its most giddy. Chris Zane produced it, horns come from Eric Biondo and Stuart Bogie, and the background vocals belong to Sofia Degli Alessandri and the PS22 Chorus, whose voices lift the whole thing off the ground.
Critics mostly liked it, and it made the Billboard Alternative Songs chart that September. Britain took longer to come round: it scraped in at 137, then did a little better on a January 2010 reissue, enough for the label to put "Sleepyhead" back out too. It later soundtracked Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.
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 | 30 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 34 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2009 | 101 |
| 2009 | 46 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 23 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009 | 100 |
| 2009 | 27 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 2 | Impact 89FM Lansing, MI | Impact 89FM Top 89 of 2009 | 89 |
| 2009 | 39 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2009 | 103 |
| 2009 | 50 | FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI | FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2009 | 50 |
| 2009 | 22 | WBRU Providence, RI | WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2009 | 96 |
| 2010 | 76 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2010 | 91 |
| 2010 | 39 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2010 | 101 |
| 2010 | 79 | Channel 92.3 San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area, CA | Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010 | 92 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 662 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2022 | 312 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2024 | 446 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
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