50 Best Rock Songs About Dust

Best Rock Tracks on Dust and Decay

There’s a strange feeling that comes with songs built around dust. It’s not clean or shiny, it’s the residue of time, the thing left behind when everything else fades. Rock bands love leaning into that grit, using dust as shorthand for endings, loneliness, or the kind of silence that creeps in after chaos dies down. Some of these tracks hit literal, calling out dirt and ground. Others lean figurative, coating heartbreak or memory in the same dry haze. Either way, it’s less about polish and more about that raw leftover texture you can’t scrub out.

Dust in rock songs doesn’t sparkle, it hangs in the air heavy and stubborn, like the sound of distortion dragging out a final note. It’s the backdrop for wandering roads, forgotten towns, and voices cracking through the mix. Playlists mixing pop, rock, country, and R&B songs have flirted with this imagery for years, proving it’s not a niche thing at all. Dust can be weight, or emptiness, or the mark of passing through a place you never stayed long enough to claim. That’s why even the tracks that never mention it outright still live in the same atmosphere.

Not every band tackles it with the same tone. Some lean into bleakness, some twist it into resilience, others bury it under riffs that feel half-celebration, half-warning. There’s something stubborn in these songs, as if they’re less concerned with resolution and more interested in sitting inside that cloud. A few aren’t literally centered on the topic, but they carry the same grit in spirit. Here are the best rock songs on dust.

1. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas

2. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen

3. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by The Pussycat Dolls

4. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

5. 'Dust My Broom' by Robert Johnson

6. 'Dust My Broom' by Elmore James

7. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

8. 'Gotta Get It Right' by The Go-Go's

9. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

10. 'Dust on My Boots' by Jon Pardi

11. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Weird Al Yankovic

12. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by The Pussycat Dolls

13. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Weird Al Yankovic

14. 'Dust My Broom' by Robert Johnson

15. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

16. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

17. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

18. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

19. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

20. 'This Dust Makes That Mud' by The Go-Go's

21. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by The Pussycat Dolls

22. 'Dust My Broom' by Elmore James

23. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

24. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

25. 'This Dust Makes That Mud' by The Go-Go's

26. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Weird Al Yankovic

27. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

28. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

29. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen

30. 'I Believe I'll Dust My Broom' by Robert Johnson

31. 'Dust My Broom' by Robert Johnson

32. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

33. 'Dust My Broom' by Elmore James

34. 'This Dust Makes That Mud' by The Go-Go's

35. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

36. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

37. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Weird Al Yankovic

38. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by The Pussycat Dolls

39. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

40. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

41. 'Dust My Broom' by Robert Johnson

42. 'Dust My Blues' by Fleetwood Mac

43. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen

44. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by The Pussycat Dolls

45. 'Dust My Broom' by Elmore James

46. 'Cities in Dust' by Siouxsie and the Banshees

47. 'Dust My Broom' by ZZ Top

48. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Weird Al Yankovic

49. 'This Dust Makes That Mud' by The Go-Go's

50. 'Another One Bites the Dust' by Queen