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 22 of 22 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.

   1.6beers16 ratings
2. 2
   

   Praise You

   Fatboy Slim

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

   2.0beers18 ratings
3. 3
   

   Firestarter

   The Prodigy

   Keith Flint in a tunnel. Genuinely frightening in 1996.

   2.2beers19 ratings
4. 4
   

   Block Rockin' Beats

   The Chemical Brothers

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

   2.4beers15 ratings
5. 5
   

   Autobahn

   Kraftwerk

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

   2.5beers19 ratings
6. 6
   

   Windowlicker

   Aphex Twin

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

   3.1beers18 ratings
7. 7
   

   Born Slippy

   Underworld

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

   3.2beers16 ratings
8. 8
   

   Natural Blues

   Moby

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

   3.3beers12 ratings
9. 9
   

   Busy Child

   The Crystal Method

   Big beat at its most swaggering.

   3.8beers10 ratings
10. 10
    

    Ghosts 'n' Stuff

    Deadmau5

    The moment progressive house went properly mainstream.

    4.2beers14 ratings
11. 11
    

    Wake Me Up

    Avicii

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

    5.1beers21 ratings
12. 12
    

    Bangarang

    Skrillex

    The sound of 2011 dubstep, unrepentant and very loud.

    5.2beers15 ratings
13. 13
    

    Faded

    Alan Walker

    The sound of every 2015 gaming montage.

    5.6beers10 ratings
14. 14
    

    Xpander

    Sasha

    Long, patient, and not one wasted second.

    5.6beers14 ratings
15. 15
    

    Don't You Worry Child

    Swedish House Mafia

    Designed to make eighty thousand people cry at once.

    5.6beers17 ratings
16. 16
    

    Feel So Close

    Calvin Harris

    Harris singing it himself, before he stopped bothering.

    6.0beers21 ratings
17. 17
    

    Levels

    Avicii

    That Etta James sample turned a festival into a religion.

    6.2beers10 ratings
18. 18
    

    Titanium

    David Guetta

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

    6.5beers22 ratings
19. 19
    

    Ready Steady Go

    Paul Oakenfold

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

    6.8beers15 ratings
20. 20
    

    Better Off Alone

    Alice Deejay

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

    7.1beers13 ratings
21. 21
    

    Closer

    The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey

    The most 2016 song that has ever existed.

    7.3beers27 ratings
22. 22
    

    Phat Planet

    Leftfield

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

    7.4beers12 ratings