50 Best Rock Songs About Coffee

Best Rock Coffee Songs to Play Loud in the Morning

There’s a strange pulse that comes with coffee and guitars tangled together. It’s not neat, not refined, but jittery in a way that makes sense when you’re clutching a mug at sunrise with your head still heavy from last night. Some tracks lean into the caffeine chaos, buzzing and restless like a shaky hand on the steering wheel. Others sip slower, more about that quiet ritual of filling a cup before the world fully turns on. Not every song in this lineup is literally about coffee, but the energy sticks to the theme like grounds at the bottom of the pot.

The best thing is how messy it can sound. Lyrics stumble into metaphors that don’t always land, but the vibe is right. A riff can hit like your third refill, sharp and sudden, while a low groove feels like the comfort of steam on your face before a long shift. Coffee is daily, unglamorous, and the songs that circle it carry the same grit. Sometimes they’re playful, sometimes they’re desperate, sometimes they’re tired enough to loop the same chord until it starts to feel like a heartbeat.

Across playlists, you’ll find caffeine-fueled tracks scattered through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, each one holding onto that strange tension between alertness and burnout. These aren’t smooth, polished anthems for lattes under soft lighting, they’re for mornings where your head still pounds and your hands shake while you press play. Some songs line up directly with the theme, some slide in sideways but still work, and all of them keep that wired mood alive. Here are the best rock coffee songs to spin when you need that kick.

1. 'Coffee and TV' by Blur

2. 'Coffee Mug' by Descendents

3. 'Black Coffee' by Humble Pie

4. 'Coffee Shop' by Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. 'One More Cup of Coffee' by Bob Dylan

6. 'Coffee Homeground' by Kate Bush

7. 'Cigarettes and Coffee' by Otis Redding

8. 'Black Coffee in Bed' by Squeeze

9. 'Java Jive' by The Ink Spots

10. 'Coffee' by Gnarwolves

11. 'Black Coffee' by Rival Sons

12. 'Coffee and Cigarettes' by Jimmy Eat World

13. 'Iodine In My Coffee' by Johnny Winters

14. 'The Coffee Song' by Cream

15. 'Black Coffee' by Black Flag

16. 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee' by The White Stripes

17. 'Coffee' by Copeland

18. 'Cup of Coffee' by Johnny Cash

19. 'Black Caffeine' by Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell

20. 'Coffee Cold' by Galt MacDermot

21. 'A Cup of Coffee' by Garbage

22. 'Coffee Blues' by Mississippi John Hurt

23. 'Coffee, God, and Cigarettes' by Mischief Brew

24. 'Caffeine' by Psychostick

25. 'Mr Coffee' by Lagwagon

26. 'How 'Bout Some Coffee' by Macabre

27. 'Coffee and Whiskey' by Goatsnake

28. 'Starfish and Coffee' by Prince

29. 'I'll Just Have A Cup Of Coffee (Then I'll Go)' by Claude Gray

30. 'The Coffee Song' by Frank Sinatra

31. 'Coffee Girl' by The Tragically Hip

32. 'Coffee' by Sylvan Esso

33. 'Instant Coffee Blues' by Guy Clark

34. 'The Coffee Cola Song' by Francis Bebey

35. 'The Coffee Song' by The Rolling Stones

36. 'No Sugar In My Coffee' by Caught a Ghost

37. 'Black Coffee' by Allman Brothers Band

38. 'Caffeine and Gasoline' by Elliot Randall

39. 'Five Cups of Coffee' by The Jayhawks

40. 'I'd Rather Take a Coffee Break' by The Ohio Players

41. 'Black Coffee Blues' by Mississippi John Hurt

42. 'Coffee Stain' by Sarah Harmer

43. 'Coffee In A Cardboard Cup' by Mandy Patinkin

44. 'Cold Coffee' by Blackbear

45. 'Coffee' by Aesop Rock

46. 'Cup of Coffee' by Garbage

47. 'Coffee' by Medasin

48. 'Coffee Baby' by Buddy Phillips

49. 'Morning Coffee' by Don Amero

50. 'Coffee With You' by Abbey Cone