Synth-lover Tycho makes the list with “Hours.”
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

An interoffice e-mail hit our inboxes one morning: “Have any favorite songs for 2011?”

The responses, unsurprisingly, piled in. Before lunch was fully digested it was born: the Wired Top 100 Songs of 2011 playlist. The vetting process had simple criteria:

1) Be submitted by a Wired staffer.
2) Be verified as from 2011.
3) Be a killer track.
4) Be available on Spotify.

Favorites ran the gamut. At any point in the office, you could overhear Beyoncé at one desk with Revocation rocking next door. There are predictable inclusions on several fronts — Bon Iver (have to keep up with the music blog Joneses), Tycho (fellow San Franciscan), Miracles of Modern Science (c’mon, name alone).

Several artists had multiple songs submitted — Merrill Garbus’ visit to our office apparently influenced the masses — but in the end we kept it to one song per album. If you happened to work on multiple projects in 2011 (looking at you, Frank Ocean), additional ones were eligible.

The playlist is available on Spotify as a 100-song collection. If you want to keep your ears from any jarring transitions, you can also listen by genre: Uptempo, Midtempo, Downtempo, Aggressive and Groove sub-playlists are available.

Find out which list includes Mastodon by browsing them all, but see the full list of 100 tracks for your Tumblr-pasting pleasure below.

A$AP Rocky — “Peso — Radio Edit”
Adele — “Rolling in the Deep”
Atlas Sound — “Angel Is Broken”
Battles — “Wall Street”
Beirut — “Santa Fe”
Beyonce — “Countdown”
Big Black Delta “IFUCKINGLOVEYOU”
Black Cobra — “Avalanche”
The Black Keys — “Lonely Boy”
Bon Iver — “Holocene”
Bon Iver, James Blake — “Fall Creek Boys Choir”
Cass McCombs — “County Line”
Chad Valley — “Now That I’m Real (How Does It Feel?)”
Chase & Status, Liam Bailey — “Blind Faith”
College, Electric Youth — “A Real Hero”
Cults — “Never Saw the Point”
Danger Mouse, Danielle Luppi — “Two Against One (feat. Jack White)”
Das Racist — “Michael Jackson”
Destroyer — “Downtown”
DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Drake, Lil Wayne — “I’m on One”
Drake — “Headlines”
Duck Sauce — “Big Bad Wolf”
Dum Dum Girls — “Wrong Feels Right”
The Donkeys — “Oxblood”
Florence + The Machine — “No Light, No Light”
Foster the People — “Miss You”
Frank Ocean — “Novacane”
Fucked Up — “Queen of Hearts”
Future Islands — “The Great Fire”
Girls — “Vomit”
Gold Panda — “Fifth Ave.”
Holy Ghost! — “Wait and See”
James Apollo — “Grandad’s Morpine & Wine”
James Blake — “The Wilhelm Scream”
Jay Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean — “No Church in the Wild”
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – “Hushed By Devotion”
John Maus — “Believer”
Justice — “Civilization”
Allen Stone — “Satisfaction”
Keep Shelly in Athens — “DIY”
Kendrick Lamar — “Hol’ Up”
Lana Del Rey — “Video Games”
Laura Marling — “Sophia”
Leftover Cuties — “Places to Go”
Little Dragon — “Little Man”
Lykke Li — “Get Some (Remix by Beck)”
M83 — “Midnight City”
Major Lazer, The Partysquad — “Original Don”
Mastodon — “Black Tongue”
Mayer Hawthorne — “The Walk”
Miracles of Modern Science — “Eating Me Alive”
Mogwai — “Rano Pano”
Neon Indian – “Polish Girl”
Nero — “Promises”
Nicholas Jaar — “Keep Me There”
Onoeohtrix Point Never — “Sleep Dealer”
Phantogram — “16 Years”
PJ Harvey — “The World That Maketh Murder”
Radiohead — “Feral”
Raphael Saadiq — “Radio”
Real Estate — “It’s Real”
Hanni El Khatib — “Dead Wrong”
Revocation — “Cretin”
The Roots, Phonte, Dice Raw — “One Time”
Sandro Perri — “Changes”
SBTRKT — “Never Never (feat. Sampha)”
Shabazz Palaces — “Swerve … the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)”
Siriusmo — “Einmal In De Woche Schreien”
Skrillex — “First of the Year — Equinox”
Slow Club — “Two Cousins”
Starfucker — “Reptilians”
The Stepkids — “Legend in My Own Mind”
Telekinesis — “Please Ask for Help”
The Antlers — “No Widows”
The Naked and Famous — “Young Blood”
The Raveonettes — “Recharge & Revolt”
Theophilus London — “Stop It”
Thievery Corporation — “Where It All Starts”
Thurston Moore — “Benediction”
Tim Hecker — “Sketch 9?
Toro Y Moi — “New Beat”
tune-yards — “Gangsta”
TV on the Radio — “Repetition”
Tycho — “Hours”
Tyler, the Creator — “Yonkers”
Van Dyke Parks — “Farther Along”
VHS or Beta — “I Found a Reason”
Vivian Girls — “I Heard You Say”
Washed Out — “Within and Without”
White Hills — “Upon Arrival”
Wicked Knee — “I’m Blue”
Wilco — “One Sunday Morning”
Wild Beats — “End Come Too Soon”
Wild Flag — “Romance”
Wooden Ships — “Flight”
Yelle — “S’eteient Le Soleil”
Young Magic — “You With Air”
Yuck — “Rubber”
Zola Jesus — “Vessel”