Best Songs Used in How I Met Your Mother

This is not a list for songs sung by the characters in the show (i.e. Let's Go To The Mall, etc.), but songs that are played to add to the mood (non-diegetic).
The Top Ten
1 Let Your Heart Hold Fast - Fort Atlantic

"Let your heart hold fast, for this soon shall pass. There's another hill ahead."

2 Boys Don't Cry - Grant Lee Phillips

"I try to laugh about it, hiding the tears from my eyes. Cause boys don't cry."

3 Inside of Love - Nada Surf

"I know the last page so well; I can't read the first. So I just don't start."

4 Eternal Flame - The Bangles

"Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an eternal flame? "

5 Heaven - The Walkmen

"Don't leave me, oh, you're my best friend."

6 Simple Song - The Shins

"I know things can really get rough when you go it alone."

7 The Funeral - Band of Horses
8 Downtown Train - Everything But The Girl

"Will I see you tonight, on a downtown train? "

9 You're All Alone - John Swihart

(Instrumental)

10 Prophets - AC Newman

"One by one by one by one! "

The Contenders
11 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers

"I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more..."

12 I Do I Do - Charlie Mars
13 Shake It Out - Florence and the Machine

Incredible scene

14 This Modern Love - Bloc Party
15 La Vie En Rose - Édith Piaf
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