If you want your guests to unite on the dance floor, arm in arm, belting out lyrics, you’re going to want to play some indie songs at your wedding reception. From Oasis to Kasabian and The Strokes to Vampire Weekend, the pure joy of indie music will create an atmosphere like no other.
To help you find ideas for your evening playlist we’ve put together a list of 300 indie wedding songs that everyone will love!
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20th Century Boy – T. Rex
5 Years Time – Noah and The Whale
A Dustland Fairytale – The Killers
A Girl Like You – Edwyn Collins
A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
Acquiesce – Oasis
Ain’t it Fun – Paramore
Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked – Cage the Elephant
All Day And All Of The Night – The Kinks
Alright – Supergrass
Always Like This – Bombay Bicycle Club
Always Where I Need To Be – The Kooks
America – Razorlight
Animal – Neon Trees
Anyone Else But You – Moldy Peaches
Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet
Baby I’m Yours – Arctic Monkeys
Bang Bang You’re Dead – Dirty Pretty Things
Banquet – Bloc Party
Basket Case – Green Day
Beautiful Ones – Suede
Beetlebum – Blur
Before I Fall To Pieces – Razorlight
Best Day Of My Life – American Authors
Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
Bloom – The Paper Kites
Bohemian Like You – The Dandy Warhols
Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure
Breakfast At Tiffany’s – Deep Blue Something
Brianstorm – Arctic Monkeys
Brimful Of Asha – Cornershop
Buck Rogers – Feeder
Buddy Holly – Weezer
Burning Down The House – Talking Heads
By The Way – Red Hot Chili Peppers
California – Phantom Planet
California Daze – Peace
California Waiting – Kings Of Leon
Can’t Help Falling In Love – Ingrid Micahelson
Can’t Stand Me Now – The Libertines
Champagne Supernova – Oasis
Charlemagne – Blossoms
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Chelsea Dagger – The Fratellis
Chocolate – The 1975
Cigarettes And Alcohol – Oasis
Close To Me – The Cure
Club Foot – Kasabian
Coffee and TV – Blur
Come Home – OneRepublic
Common People – Pulp
Connection – Elastica
Cool Kids – Echosmith
Cosmic Love – Florence And The Machine
Country Girl – Primal Scream
Country House – Blur
Creep – Radiohead
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House – LCD Soundsystem
Dakota – Stereophonics
Dancing In The Moonlight – Toploader
Dancing Shoes – Arctic Monkeys
DARE – Gorillaz
Diane Young – Vampire Weekend
Disco 2000 – Pulp
Disco Down – Shed Seven
Do I Wanna Know? – Arctic Monkeys
Do You Realize? – The Flaming Lips
Do You Want To – Franz Ferdinand
Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Don’t Look Back Into the Sun – The Libertines
Don’t Delete The Kisses – Wolf Alice
Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Dreaming Of You – The Coral
Electric Feel – MGMT
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) – The Buzzcocks
Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall – Coldplay
Everybody Talks – Neon Trees
Everyday I Love You Less and Less – Kaiser Chiefs
Everything Now – Arcade Fire
Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova
Farewell To The Fairground – White Lies
Feel Good Inc – Gorrilaz
Fell In Love With a Girl – The White Stripes
Fever – The Black Keys
Figure It Out – Royal Blood
Fire – Kasabian
First Day Of My Life – Bright Eyes
Flightless Bird, American Mouth – Iron & Wine
Float On – Modest Mouse
Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
Fluroescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
Fools Gold – The Stone Roses
Friday I’m In Love – The Cure
Gay Bar – Electric Six
Girl From Mars – Ash
Girls – The 1975
Girls and Boys – Blur
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Golden Skans – Klaxons
Golden Touch – Razorlight
Good Enough – Dodgy
Grounds For Divorce – Elbow
Grow Old With Me – Tom Odell
Happy Together – The Turtles
Hard To Beat – Hard-Fi
Hate To Say I Told You So – The Hives
Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Heartbeats – José González
Heavy Cross – Gossip
Helicopter – Bloc Party
Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
Heroes – David Bowie
Ho Hey – The Lumineers
Home – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
How Bizarre – OMC
Howlin’ For You – The Black Keys
Human – Killers
Hundred Mile City – Ocean Colour Scene
Hush – Kula Shaker
Hymn For The Weekend – Coldplay
I Always Knew – The Vaccines
I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys
I Found Out – The Pigeon Detectives
I Predict a Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
I Sat By The Ocean – Queens Of the Stone Age
I Wanna Be Yours – Arctic Monkeys
I Would Do Anything For You – Foster The People
I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance – Black Kids
I’ll Be There For You – The Rembrandts
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next – Manic Street Preachers
If You Wanna – The Vaccines
Ill Ray – Kasabian
In The Morning – Razorlight
Island In The Sun – Weezer
It’s Not Over Yet – Klaxons
It’s Time – Imagine Dragons
January Wedding – The Avett Brothers
Jerk It Out – Caesar’s Palace
Jump In The Pool – Friendly Fires
Just A Day – Feeder
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Karma Police – Radiohead
Kathleen – Catfish and The Bottlemen
Kids – MGMT
L.S.F – Kasabian
Last Nite – The Strokes
Let’s Dance To Joy Division – The Wombats
Let’s Go Surfing – The Drums
Lightning Bolt – Jake Bugg
Lisztomania – Phoenix
Little By Little – Oasis
Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
Live Forever – Oasis
Living For The Weekend – Hard-Fi
Loaded – Primal Scream
London Calling – The Clash
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
Love in Mine – Big Thief
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
Love You ‘Till the End – The Pogues
Lucky Man – The Verve
Lucky You – The Lightning Seeds
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mardy Bum – Arctic Monkeys
Men’s Needs – The Cribs
Midnight City – M83
Movin’ On Up – Primal Scream
Moving To New York – The Wombats
Mr Brightside – The Killers
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
Mrs Robinson – Lemonheads
Munich – Editors
My Number – Foals
My Sharona – The Knack
Naïve – The Kooks
New Shoes – Paolo Nutini
No One Knows – Queens Of the Stone Age
No One’s Gonna Love You – Band of Horses
No Tomorrow – Orson
No You Girls – Franz Ferdinand
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt – We Are Scientists
Norgaard – The Vaccines
Not Nineteen Forever – The Courteeners
Oh My God – Kaiser Chiefs
On Top Of the World – Imagine Dragons
Once in A Lifetime – Talking Heads
One Day Like This – Elbow
One Way Or Another – Blondie
One Week – Barenaked Ladies
Only Love – Ben Howard
Ooh La – The Kooks
Over and Over – Hot Chip
Paradise – George Ezra
Parklife – Blur
Pencil Full Of Lead – Paolo Nutini
People – The 1975
Personal Jesus – Depeche Mode
Place Your Hands – Reef
Play God – Sam Fender
Pompeii – Bastille
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People
R U Mine? – Arctic Monkeys
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
Reptilia – The Strokes
Riptide – Vance Joy
Riverboat Song – Ocean Colour Scene
Rock The Casbah – The Clash
Rocks – Primal Scream
Roll With It – Oasis
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
Run – Snow Patrol
Same Jeans – The View
Sea Of Love – Cat Power
Semi-Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes
Sex On Fire – Kings Of Leon
She Moves In Her Own Way – The Kooks
She’s Electric – Oasis
She’s Got Me Dancing – Tommy Sparks
She’s So Lovely – Scouting For Girls
Shut Up And Dance – Walk The Moon
Shut Up and Let Me Go – The Ting Tings
Sing – Travis
Sit Down – James
Skeleton Boy – Friendly Fires
Sleepwalkin’ (Couples Only Dance Prom Night) – Modest Mouse
Slide Away – Oasis
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Smile – The Supernaturals
Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors – Editors
Somebody Told Me – The Killers
Someday – The Strokes
Something Changed – Pulp
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Song 2 – Blur
Songbird – Oasis
Stand By Me – Oasis
Stay Too Long – Plan B
Steady, As She Goes – The Raconteurs
Steal My Sunshine – LEN
Step On – Happy Mondays
Sticks and Stones – Jamie T
Still Into You – Paramore
Still Together – Mac DeMarco
Stop Crying Your Heart Out – Oasis
Stuck In The Middle With You – Stealer’s Wheel
Supersonic – Oasis
Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
Take Over The World – The Courteeners
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
That Kiss – The Courteeners
The Bartender and The Thief – Sterophonics
The Bucket – Kings Of Leon
The Day We Caught The Train – Ocean Colour Scene
The Man – The Killers
The One – Kodaline
The Only Exeption – Paramore
The Only One I Know – The Charlatans
The Reason – Hoobastank
The Rockafeller Skank – Fatboy Slim
The Universal – Blur
There She Goes – The La’s
There’s a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
There’s No Other Way – Blur
This Charming Man – The Smiths
Thunder – Imagine Dragons
Time To Pretend – MGMT
To Be Alone With You – Sufjan Stevens
Tongue Tied – Grouplove
Toothpaste Kisses – The Maccabees
Town Called Malice – The Jam
Turning Page – Sleeping At Last
Two Doors Down – Mystery Jets
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
Under The Cover Of Darkness – The Strokes
Underdog – Kasabian
Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
Valerie – The Zutons
Video Games – Lana Del Rey
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
Wake Me Up – Foals
Wake Up Boo! – The Boo Radleys
Walkaway – Cast
Walkin’ On The Sun – Smash Mouth
Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun
Waterfall – The Stone Roses
We Are Young – Fun
We Found Each Other In The Dark – City and Colour
What You Know – Two Door Cinema Club
When The Sun Goes Down – Arctic Monkeys
When We Were Young – The Killers
Where’s My Mind – Pixies
Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? – Arctic Monkeys
With A Girl Like You – The Troggs
Wolf Like Me – TV On The Radio
Wonderwall – Oasis
Worried About Ray – The Hoosiers
XO – John Mayer
Yellow – Coldplay
You and I – Ingrid Michaelson
You And Me – Dave Matthews Band
You And Me Song – The Wannadies
You Get What You Give – New Radicals
You Only Live Once – The Strokes
You Really Got A Hold On Me – She and Him
You’re In Love With A Psycho – Kasabian
You’ve Got The Love – Florence And The Machine
Young And Beautiful – Lana Del Rey
Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
If you’re inspired, why not check out the best indie and Britpop wedding bands available for hire in the UK? These songs will sound even better played live! Or why not take a look at these 300 rock wedding songs for some more wedding reception inspiration!
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