The Best Electronic Songs

Electronic tracks ranked by how few beers they need. Festival anthems sit alongside the records that built dance music in the first place, which makes for some unlikely neighbours.

Top 25 of 26 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by average beer score on a 0 to 11 scale.

1. 1
   

   One More Time

   Daft Punk

   The auto-tune everyone forgave instantly. Celebrate.

   1.8beers17 ratings
2. 2
   

   Firestarter

   The Prodigy

   Keith Flint in a tunnel. Genuinely frightening in 1996.

   2.0beers23 ratings
3. 3
   

   Praise You

   Fatboy Slim

   Spike Jonze ambushed a cinema queue with a dance troupe. It won awards.

   2.5beers22 ratings
4. 4
   

   Autobahn

   Kraftwerk

   Twenty-two minutes about a motorway. They invented the future.

   2.5beers20 ratings
5. 5
   

   Born Slippy

   Underworld

   Lager lager lager. The most on-theme song on this entire site.

   2.8beers18 ratings
6. 6
   

   Block Rockin' Beats

   The Chemical Brothers

   Back with another one of those block rockin' beats. Correct.

   2.9beers16 ratings
7. 7
   

   Windowlicker

   Aphex Twin

   Do not watch the video sober. Do not watch it drunk either.

   3.4beers20 ratings
8. 8
   

   Busy Child

   The Crystal Method

   Big beat at its most swaggering.

   3.5beers11 ratings
9. 9
   

   Natural Blues

   Moby

   A field recording from 1937, turned into a hit. Odd and lovely.

   3.6beers15 ratings
10. 10
    

    Ghosts 'n' Stuff

    Deadmau5

    The moment progressive house went properly mainstream.

    4.1beers14 ratings
11. 11
    

    Halcyon

    Orbital

    Named after their mum's tranquillisers. Sounds exactly like that.

    5.1beers10 ratings
12. 12
    

    Bangarang

    Skrillex

    The sound of 2011 dubstep, unrepentant and very loud.

    5.2beers18 ratings
13. 13
    

    Animals

    Martin Garrix

    The drop that defined festival EDM, for better and for worse.

    5.3beers10 ratings
14. 14
    

    Wake Me Up

    Avicii

    Folk guitar meets four-to-the-floor. Should not work, did.

    5.3beers25 ratings
15. 15
    

    Levels

    Avicii

    That Etta James sample turned a festival into a religion.

    5.3beers12 ratings
16. 16
    

    Faded

    Alan Walker

    The sound of every 2015 gaming montage.

    5.5beers11 ratings
17. 17
    

    Xpander

    Sasha

    Long, patient, and not one wasted second.

    5.7beers14 ratings
18. 18
    

    Feel So Close

    Calvin Harris

    Harris singing it himself, before he stopped bothering.

    5.8beers22 ratings
19. 19
    

    Don't You Worry Child

    Swedish House Mafia

    Designed to make eighty thousand people cry at once.

    5.9beers21 ratings
20. 20
    

    Titanium

    David Guetta

    Sia's vocal does all the work and Guetta knows it.

    6.0beers25 ratings
21. 21
    

    Ready Steady Go

    Paul Oakenfold

    You've heard it in a car chase. Probably several.

    7.0beers16 ratings
22. 22
    

    Closer

    The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey

    The most 2016 song that has ever existed.

    7.0beers31 ratings
23. 23
    

    Better Off Alone

    Alice Deejay

    Do you think you're better off alone? At beer six, yes.

    7.4beers14 ratings
24. 24
    

    Phat Planet

    Leftfield

    You know it from the Guinness horses advert. Fitting, that.

    7.5beers13 ratings
25. 25
    

    Flaming June

    BT

    Trance from back when it was still allowed to be beautiful.

    8.4beers11 ratings