SiriusXMU’s Top 100 Indie Songs of All Time
From Arcade Fire to Bon Iver and Vampire Weekend to Death Cab for Cutie and beyond.
SiriusXM’s indie-music channel, SiriusXMU, teamed up with Pandora to come up with a list of the top indie songs of all time, taking into account over a decade of SiriusXMU airplay and “thumbs up” ratings from millions of Pandora listeners.
Here are SiriusXMU and Pandora’s official top 100 indie songs, in alphabetical order, featuring artists like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, and many more:
1. “16 Military Wives” – The Decemberists
2. “1901” – Phoenix
3. “A-Punk” – Vampire Weekend
4. “All My Friends” – LCD Soundsystem
5. “Autumn Sweater” – Yo La Tengo
6. “Avant Gardener” – Courtney Barnett
7. “Banquet” – Bloc Party
8. “Bloodbuzz Ohio” – The National
9. “Bohemian Like You” – The Dandy Warhols
10. “Boyfriend” – Best Coast
11. “Bull in the Heather” – Sonic Youth
12. “Cannonball” – The Breeders
13. “Carry the Zero” – Built to Spill
14. “Ceremony” – New Order
15. “Chamber of Reflection” – Mac DeMarco
16. “Chicago” – Sufjan Stevens
17. “Coffee” – Sylvan Esso
18. “Common People” – Pulp
19. “Cut Your Hair” – Pavement
20. “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” – LCD Soundsystem
21. “Dance Yrself Clean” – LCD Soundsystem
22. “Dig Me Out” – Sleater-Kinney
23. “Digital Witness” – St. Vincent
24. “Do I Wanna Know?” – Arctic Monkeys
25. “Do You Realize??” – The Flaming Lips
26. “Down by the Water” – PJ Harvey
27. “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” – Car Seat Headrest
28. “Elephant” – Tame Impala
29. “Evil” – Interpol
30. “Fake Empire” – The National
31. “Feel It All Around” – Washed Out
32. “Feel the Pain” – Dinosaur Jr.
33. “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” – Tame Impala
34. “Fell in Love with a Girl” – The White Stripes
35. “First Day of My Life” – Bright Eyes
36. “Float On” – Modest Mouse
37. “Good to Sea” – Pinback
38. “Heads Will Roll” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
39. “Heartbeats” – The Knife
40. “Heavy Metal Drummer” – Wilco
41. “I Turn My Camera On” – Spoon
42. “I Will Follow You into the Dark” – Death Cab for Cutie
43. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel
44. “Intro” – The xx
45. “It’s Real” – Real Estate
46. “Karma Police” – Radiohead
47. “Kids” – MGMT
48. “Lampshades on Fire” – Modest Mouse
49. “Last Nite” – The Strokes
50. “Liar” – Built to Spill
51. “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Joy Division
52. “Maps” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
53. “Midnight City” – M83
54. “Mr. November” – The National
55. “My Girls” – Animal Collective
56. “Mykonos” – Fleet Foxes
57. “Myth” – Beach House
58. “Needle in the Hay” – Elliott Smith
59. “New Slang” – The Shins
60. “Oblivion” – Grimes
61. “Ocean Breathes Salty” – Modest Mouse
62. “Only Shallow” – My Bloody Valentine
63. “Paranoid Android” – Radiohead
64. “Phantom Limb” – The Shins
65. “Range Life” – Pavement
66. “Ready to Start” – Arcade Fire
67. “Rebellion (Lies)” – Arcade Fire
68. “Red Eyes” – The War on Drugs
69. “Reptilia” – The Strokes
70. “Revival” – Deerhunter
71. “Seasons (Waiting on You)” – Future Islands
72. “Seven” – Sunny Day Real Estate
73. “Shut Up Kiss Me” – Angel Olsen
74. “Skinny Love” – Bon Iver
75. “Slow Hands” – Interpol
76. “Someone Great” – LCD Soundsystem
77. “Soul Meets Body” – Death Cab for Cutie
78. “Space Song” – Beach House
79. “Such Great Heights” – The Postal Service
80. “Take Me Out” – Franz Ferdinand
81. “Teenage Riot” – Sonic Youth
82. “The Boy with the Arab Strap” – Belle & Sebastian
83. “The Funeral” – Band of Horses
84. “The Less I Know the Better” – Tame Impala
85. “The Mother We Share” – CHVRCHES
86. “The Party Line” – Belle & Sebastian
87. “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire
88. “The Underdog” – Spoon
89. “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” – The Smiths
90. “Two Weeks” – Grizzly Bear
91. “Unbelievers” – Vampire Weekend
92. “Walking with a Ghost” – Tegan and Sara
93. “Wake Up” – Arcade Fire
94. “Wave of Mutilation” – Pixies
95. “Where Is My Mind?” – Pixies
96. “Wide Eyes” – Local Natives
97. “Wolf Like Me” – TV on the Radio
98. “Wraith Pinned to the Mist (And Other Games)” – of Montreal
99. “Young Folks” – Peter Bjorn and John
100. “Your Best American Girl” – Mitski
