Rock Songs

Rock rests on electric guitars, a drum kit hit hard, and songs meant to be played loud. The selection here leans on the classic era — The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles — alongside the arena rock of Journey, Boston and Bon Jovi and the hard-edged riffs of AC/DC, Deep Purple and Guns N' Roses.

It doesn't stop in the seventies. Nirvana and Pearl Jam represent the grunge years, Oasis brings Britpop, and Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, The Killers and Green Day carry the guitar band into the 2000s. That spread means “rock” covers everything from the slow build of “Stairway to Heaven” to the punk speed of “American Idiot.” Find the song closest to what you're after and open it; you'll get tracks that share its actual sound, not just its genre tag.