Top 100 rock songs

Rock music is one of the most popular genres of music and finds its fans all over the world. This kind of music has something from all forms which has contributed for it being so immensely popular. Rock music uses many instruments to create the magic with electric guitar being the most dominant instrument used.

There have been many artists who have given rock music an altogether new direction and have helped it evolve into what is known as hard rock music. The X generation just loves what the rock artists do and in many ways treat them like the god of music. Summing up just some of the favorites just not mean that you can easily select the best as there is much more besides this list that can be truly appreciated.

1. Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple

2. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 – Pink Floyd

3. Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin

4. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

5. Nothing Else Mathers – Metallica

6. Highway To Hell – AC/DC

7. Back In Black – AC/DC

8. Paradise City – Guns N Roses

9. Child In Time – Deep Purple

10. Sweet Child O`Mine – Guns N`Roses

11. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake

12. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana

13. Hotel California – Eagles

14. Money For Nothing – Dire Straits

15. Highway Star – Deep Purple

16. One – Metallica

17. Splitter Pine – DumDum Boys

18. Born To Be wild – Steppenwolf

19. You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC

20. Run to the Hills – Iron Maiden

21. The Unforgiven – Metallica

22. Fireball – Deep Purple

23. Lazy – Deep Purple

24. Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen

25. Poison – Alice Cooper

26. Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones

27. Sultans Of Swing – Dire Straits

28. Thunderstruck – AC/DC

29. Money – Pink Floyd

30. Living On A Prayer – Bon Jovi

31. Eye Of The Tiger – Survivour

32. Perfect Stranger – Deep Purple

33. Paranoid – Black Sabbath

34. Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd

35. Numer of the beast – Iron Maiden

36. Ace Of Spades – Motörhead

37. Knocking At Your Backdoor – Deep Purple

38. Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix

39. Knockin On Heavens Door – Bob Dyland

40. I was Mad For Loving You – Kiss

41. Can`t Let You Go – Rainbow

42. Anuones Daughter – Deep Purple

43. House Of The Rising Sun – The Animals

44. Stargazer – Rainbow

45. Holy Diver – Dio

46. Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin

47. Rockin`In The Free World – Neil Young

48. Imagine – John Lennon

49. Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley

50. Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash

51. Killing in the name of – Rage against the machine

52. Were Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister

53. All Along The Watchctower – Jimi Hendrix

54. I Love Rock`N Roll – Joan Jett

55. 10 000 Lovers – TNT

56. The Ballroom Blitz – The Sweet

57. Whiskey In The Jar – Thin Lizzi

58. The Final Countdown – Europe

59. Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan

60. The Trooper – Iron Maiden

61. With Or Whitout You – U2

62. Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits

63. We Will Rock You – Queen

64. Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix

65. Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie

66. Pride (In The Name Of Love) – U2

67. Jump – Van Halen

68. The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy

69. Welcome To The Jungle – Guns n`Roses

70. I Wanna Rock – Twisted Sisters

71. God Save The Queen – The Sex Pistols

72. Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd

73. White Wedding – Billy Idol

74. Sympathy For The Devil – The Rolling Stones

75. You Really Got Me – The Kinks

76. Angie – The Rolling Stones

77. Can I Play With Madness – Iron Maiden

78. Bark At The Moon – Ozzy Osbourne

79. Paint It Black – the Rolling Stones

80. Every Breath You Take – Police

81. Hound Dog – Elvis Presley

82. Jumpin’ Jack Flash – The Rolling Stones

83. Rock And Roll All Night – Kiss

84. Johnny B Goode – Chuck Berry

85. Honky Tonk Women – The Rolling Stones

86. Dreamer – Ozzy Osbourne

87. Great Balls Of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis

88. Wonderwall – Oasis

89. Whiplash – Metallica

90. Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil

91. Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard

92. Yesterday – Paul McCartney

93. Helter Skelter – The Beatles

94. Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley

95. My Generation – The Who

96. Litium – Nirvana

97. Heavens On Fire – Kiss

98. Rock & Roll – Led Zeppelin

99. Space Oddity – David Bowie

100. Rape Me – Nirvana

No matter what you like you just cannot ignore the beats of rock music that can move even the stiffest souls.