Alternative songs at 87 BPM
Tempo Tunes has 532 alternative songs with a verified tempo of 87 BPM: left-of-center rock and pop. Here are some of the best known.
87 BPM is the head-nod zone: boom bap, R&B grooves, and mid-tempo rock. It works for warmups, brisk walks, and steady strength work.
Popular 87 BPM alternative songs
Church on Sunday
Green Day (2021)
Days Lie Dormant
twenty one pilots (2025)
From the Ritz to the Rubble
Arctic Monkeys (2005)
Undertow
R.E.M. (1996)
The Kintsugi Kid
Fall Out Boy (2023)
Daffodil Lament
The Cranberries (2002)
Goodnite, Dr. Death
My Chemical Romance (2010)
Whir
The Smashing Pumpkins (1993)
Free
Florence + the Machine (2022)
Complete Control
The Clash
In a Week
Hozier
Fresh Deadly Roses
Soundgarden (1989)
It's Not Me
3 Doors Down (2007)
Tslamp
MGMT (2018)
Neither of Us Can See
Incubus (2009)
I'll Tell You Everything
Mumford & Sons (2026)
Pictures of Yourself
Noir Désir (1991)
Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Deftones (2003)
Epic
Faith No More (1993)
Meatplow
Stone Temple Pilots (1994)
Kleier Lambaol
Yann Tiersen (2018)
I'll Change for You
Mitski
A Time to Be So Small
Interpol (2012)
Autopilot
Kodaline (2015)
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