Top 100 Rock Songs
Rock music is one of the most popular genres in music with thousands of very popular songs and bands. It has its roots from other music styles of the 1940s and 1950s, such as rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and country music as well as inspired by variety of other genre such as folk, jazz and classical music. It really starter to enter the mainstream in North Americas and Europe in the 60’s and 60’s and often includes an electric guitar, a bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as a the piano and synthesizers. The following is the all time top 100 Rock Songs which include hits from very well known artists and bands such as the Beatles, Queen, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys. The number one Rock song on our list is the Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven followed by Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode.
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- Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
- Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
- Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
- Respect – Aretha Franklin
- I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Rolling Stones
- Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
- A Day In The Life – Beatles
- Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
- Good Vibrations – Beach Boys
- What’d I Say – Ray Charles
- Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag – James Brown
- Won’t Get Fooled Again – Who
- All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
- (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding
- Imagine – John Lennon
- Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
- Layla – Derek & the Dominos
- Light My Fire – Doors
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye
- Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewis
- When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge
- Hey Jude – Beatles
- Hotel California – Eagles
- Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley & His Comets
- You Really Got Me – Kinks
- American Pie – Don McLean
- Tutti Frutti – Little Richard
- Baba O’Riley – The Who
- Sympathy For The Devil – Rolling Stones
- Superstition – Stevie Wonder
- Louie Louie – The Kingsmen
- Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
- Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
- Yesterday – The Beatles
- My Generation – The Who
- Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
- Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Presley
- Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
- Shake, Rattle & Roll – Big Joe Turner
- Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
- Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran
- In The Midnight Hour – Wilson Pickett
- Time – Pink Floyd
- Oh Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
- Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream
- Walk This Way – Aerosmith
- Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
- A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
- What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
- Tears in Heaven – Eric Clapton
- Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
- Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
- You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC
- Good Golly, Miss Molly – Little Richard
- Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
- Roundabout – Yes
- Bye Bye Love – The Everly Brothers
- Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
- Sixty Minute Man – The Dominoes
- Voodoo Child (slight return) – Jimi Hendrix
- November Rain – Guns N’ Roses
- One Nation Under A Groove – Funkadelic
- The House Of The Rising Sun – Animals
- Mr. Tambourine Man – Byrds
- Let’s Go Crazy – Prince
- Please, Please, Please – James Brown
- Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
- Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
- Dust In The Wind – Kansas
- Slow Ride – Foghat
- Crossroads – Cream
- Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins
- With Or Without You – U2
- More Than A Feeling – Boston
- We Will Rock You – Queen
- Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
- 21st Century Schizoid Man – King Crimson
- 7Mystery Train – Elvis Presley
- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills and Nash
- Show Me The Way – Peter Frampton
- Where Did Our Love Go – Supremes
- My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) – Neil Young
- Money – Pink Floyd
- Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
- Master of Puppets – Metallica
- Stand! – Sly & The Family Stone
- Sultans Of Swing – Dire Straits
- That’ll Be The Day – Buddy Holly & The Crickets
- Dream On – Aerosmith
- Maybellene – Chuck Berry
- Every Breath You Take – Police
- Jesus Christ Pose – Soundgarden
- For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
- All Day And All Of The Night – Kinks
- Tom Sawyer – Rush
- Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
- Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
- Kashmir – Led Zeppelin
- All Right Now – Free