50 Best Rock Songs About Diamonds

Best Rock Tracks on Diamonds

There’s something strange about diamond songs in rock. They aren’t smooth or polished in the way jewelers like to brag. They tend to sparkle in a rough, offbeat way, turning a symbol of wealth or forever into something restless, cracked, or loud. Some lean literal, flashing bright like a ring under harsh stage lights, while others bend the image into something messier, a shorthand for pressure or the edge of temptation. Even when the lyrics drift, the shine still cuts through.

The weird part is how the theme shows up across different genres. You can hear diamonds in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, each twisting the meaning into something that works for them. Rock tends to sharpen it into grit, tossing the glitter into a pit of distortion. Country turns it into longing, pop makes it sparkle in neon, R&B melts it down into slow-burn heat. Not every track literally fixates on the stone, but they hang around the idea enough to feel tied together, like a cracked mirror still throwing light in every direction.

These are the songs that pull diamonds out of display cases and drop them into messy human moments. They’re loud, flawed, maybe even reckless, but that’s what makes them cut deeper. Here are the best rock songs on diamonds to blast when you want the shine with some edge.

1. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' by Pink Floyd

2. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' by The Beatles

3. 'Diamonds & Rust' by Judas Priest

4. 'Dirty Diamonds' by Alice Cooper

5. 'Diamond Dogs' by David Bowie

6. 'The Diamond Sea' by Sonic Youth

7. 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' by Paul Simon

8. 'This Diamond Ring' by Gary Lewis & The Playboys

9. 'Diamonds Made From Rain' by The Brian Jonestown Massacre

10. 'She Loved Like Diamond' by Spandau Ballet

11. 'Cursed Diamond' by The Cure

12. 'Diamond' by The Smashing Pumpkins

13. 'Diamond Heart' by Lady Gaga

14. 'Diamond Bollocks' by The Dandy Warhols

15. 'Diamond Meadows' by Dan Fogelberg

16. 'He'd Be a Diamond' by The Bevis Frond

17. 'Diamond Girl' by Seals & Crofts

18. 'Diamond Mine' by Arlo Guthrie

19. 'Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)' by Shinedown

20. 'Diamonds Are Forever' by Shirley Bassey

21. 'Diamond Field' by Peter Frampton

22. 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' by Marilyn Monroe

23. 'Diamond in the Back' by Curtis Mayfield

24. 'White Diamond' by The Moody Blues

25. 'A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond' by The Dead Milkmen

26. 'Diamond Dust' by Vicious Rumors

27. 'Diamonds on a Chain' by The Black Keys

28. 'Diamond Girl' by Nic Jones

29. 'Diamonds' by Farewell to Fear

30. 'Shallow Diamonds' by The Damned

31. 'The Diamond Ring' by Robert Plant

32. 'Diamonds' by Sunrise Avenue

33. 'Diamonds' by All Time Low

34. 'Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All' by Father John Misty

35. 'I Dug Up a Diamond' by Emmylou Harris

36. 'Diamond Studded Bumble Bee' by Guttermouth

37. 'Diamond Ring' by Sheryl Crow

38. 'Diamonds and Guns' by The Transplants

39. 'Diamond in Your Mind' by Tom Waits

40. 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' by Emmylou Harris

41. 'Diamond' by A-ha

42. 'Diamonds' by Herb Alpert

43. 'Diamond and a Stone' by The White Stripes

44. 'Diamond Ring' by Jet

45. 'Diamond' by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan

46. 'Blue Diamond' by The Misfits

47. 'Diamond in the Rough' by The Bouncing Souls

48. 'The Diamond' by The Kinks

49. 'Diamond Girl' by The Moody Blues

50. 'Diamonds and Pearls' by Prince