Songs will be updated shortly after the episode. The main song link goes to Amazon but I try to leave an iTunes link as well. They are also listed on the How I Met Your Mother Episode Recap each week so check there and join the episode discussions! If you’ve found this page useful, then help us out by taking a second to bookmark or share us!
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Series Theme: Hey Beautiful by the Solids 
Season 5:
- Oxford Comma by Vampire Weekend
(opening song)
- Raiders March by John Williams
(Ted runs across campus)
- Rewind by Goldspot
(rewrite of if the date had went well) –Tune isn’t for sale at present but you can watch it on youtube or get the CD on Amazon.
Episode 5.04: The Sexless Innkeeper
- a mock tribute to Eric Carmen’s All By Myself, All by Ourselves, cover produced for the show by Hayley Taylor and Keith Slettedahl of the 88– plays as Robin and Barney long for a couple to hang with.
- The Best Night Ever – by Marshall featuring Nuno Bettencourt
Episode 5.05: Duel Citizenship
- I’m Gonna Be 500 Miles by the Proclaimers (played during flashbacks and while Ted and Marshall are driving together)
- Explosion by Potent – heavy metal that captures the mood of Barney and Robin’s fight
- Murder Train by the Foreskins (it was composed for the show but I’m begging them to release it!) – plays during Lily’s planned fight of Barney & Robin
- the Peter Gun Theme by Henry Mancini – Barney walks into the bar as all the women eye him and proclaims, “Daddy’s home”
- I also noticed a short instrumental while the plotter watch B&R from the station wagon. Getting more info!
- Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart (the sequences from Barney’s Playbook)
- Nino Rota’s What Is A Youth from the 1968 film version of Romeo & Juliet (Barney finally succeeds with “The He’s Not Coming” play)
- Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (find it on Amazon or ), plays near the end as Ted tells the second greatest love story he has ever heard
- Informer by Snow plays for 15 year old Marshall as he write the note to 30 year old Marshall (Amazon or )
Episode 5.11: Last Cigarette Ever
- Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk by Rufus Wainwright (the perfect time for the “last cigarette ever”
Episode 5.12 (Episode 100): Girls vs Suits
- Cherry Pie by Warrant (Robin tends bar to prove her circumstantial hotness theory)
- Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit by the HIMYM Cast
- sounds like Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber but it’s actually a composition by John Swihart (plays when Ted’s student tell him they have to drink because it’s the gameand the re-return)
- Kaboom by Ursula 1000 (Marshall puttin’ nothing but wood in the 50 hole at skeeball, or just another night for big fudge)
Episode 5.14: The Perfect Week
- Pennant Fever from the Major League Soundtrack (Ted helps Barney check the scouting report. Thanks Skip)
- Baseball Charge (night 5 intro and a beer for Ted)
- Turkey in the Straw – (the ringtone on Barney’s phone.) I’ve managed to round up the mp3 and iPhone ringtone for it so enjoy!
–mp3 version
–m4r ringtone - Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn – (plays while Robin cleans & tells Ted to go meet his “future wife”)
- Someday by Haroula Rose – (Ted and Robin drink together on the couch at closing)
- I Just Want You To Be Mine (Wish You Were Mine) by Light FM – (Marshall waits in the snow to tell Lisa how he feels in song)
- The Bang Bang Song by Marshall (reprised at the end by Robin)
- Super Date by Ted Evelyn Mosby (the heart touching ballad sung to sell the “Super Date”) get the mp3
- Briques by Les Cautionneurs (French rap song that plays during the plane fight and France Trip)
- Monkey Man by The Rolling Stones (You’ll never believe what happened..the monkey gets loose)
- Our House by Stills, Nash, and Young Crosby (plays as everyone destroys the wall in Teds recently purchased home)
- Night Moves by Bob Seger (plays as Barney is in the car with Ted’s mom)
- Clint’s Song (sung at Wedding my Clint, no recording but here the lyrics)
- Hook Line Sinker by Jon Brion (Episode Closing)
Episode 5.22: Robots vs. Wrestlers
- Tell Me Why by From (first bar scene)
- One Spring Away by From (plays during Ted’s picture of Marissa Heller)
- Constance Fry (or Aura Lee) preformed by the Ted Mosby Quartet
- We All Belong by Dr. Dog (closing Bar Scene)
Episode 5.23: The Wedding Bride
- Play by Chop Chop (plays for show intro and closing)
- Portuguese Love Theme by Craig Armstrong (as many have noted, from the Movie Love Actually. Play during moments from the Wedding Bride)
- PM’s Love Theme by Craig Armstrong (again, from the Movie Love Actually. Plays when Ted goes after Royce and in the Wedding Bride Ending)
- Lifesize by A Fine Frenzy (Closing Song…sometimes you see what you want to see)
