NME Reporter Selects Best 50 Tracks Of The Year

Someone had to be the first.

Do you agree with his choices?

Read Mark Beaumont's explanations here.

1. ‘Destroyer’ - The Stills
2. ‘He’s Gone’ – Glasvegas
3. ‘Cha Cha Cha’ – The Little Ones
4. ‘(Antichrist Television Blues)’ – Arcade Fire
5. ‘Be Safe’ – The Cribs
6. ‘Paper Planes’ – MIA
7. ‘Slideshow’ – Rufus Wainwright
8. ‘It’s Getting Boring...’ – Blood Red Shoes
9. ‘Elephant Gun’ - Beirut
10. ‘Television’ – Hard-Fi
11. ‘That’s Not My Name’ – The Ting Tings
12. ‘I Must Belong Somewhere’ – Bright Eyes
13. ‘Happy Faces’ – The Maccabees
14. 'You Dress Up For Armageddon' - The Hives
15. ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’ – Arctic Monkeys
16. ‘Knots’ – Pete And The Pirates
17. ‘Just A Song About Ping Pong’ – Operator, Please
18. ‘Charmer’ – Kings Of Leon
19. ‘We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives’ – Los Campesinos!
20. ‘It’s About Destruction’ – Pull Tiger Tail (demo)
21. ‘Starlett Johanson’ – The Teenagers
22. ‘Lost In The Post’ – The Wombats
23. ‘Nosebleed’ – Maximo Park
24. ‘Me Plus One’ – Kasabian
25. ‘Strange Hands’ – The Films
26. ‘Chillout Tent’ – The Hold Steady
27. ‘7 Stars’ – Apples In Stereo
28. ‘Runaway’ – Super Furry Animals
29. ‘Turn On Me’ – The Shins
30. ‘Golden Skans’ - Klaxons
31. ‘Drop The Phone’ – Shy Child
32. ‘Accident & Emergency’ – Patrick Wolf
33. ‘Away From Here’ – The Enemy
34. ‘Flux’ – Bloc Party
35. ‘Take Me To The Riot’ – Stars
36. ‘Escape The Nest’ - Editors
37. ‘She’s Got You High’ – Mumm-Ra
38. ‘Is There A Ghost’ – Band Of Horses
39. ‘Little Superstitions’ – The Rakes
40. ‘Let’s Make Out’ – Does It Offend You, Yeah?
41. 'Unbilotitled' - Babyshambles
42. ‘I’m Not Sorry’ – Pigeon Detectives
43. ‘That Boy, That Girl’ – Hadouken!
44. ‘Retirement’ – Kaiser Chiefs
45. ‘Casualty’ – Look See Proof
46. ‘Kingdom Of Doom’ – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
47. ‘North American Scum’ – LCD Soundsystem
48. Lucio Stars Fires’ – Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
49. ‘Push The Ghosts' - The Twang
50. ‘Nightmare’ – The Ghost Frequency

Stills photo courtesy of Maison Neuve.

MP3s: The Stills - Still In Love Song & Babyshambles - Gang Of Gin