50 Best Rock Songs About Floods
Rock Songs That Describe Floods
There’s a strange kind of pull that comes with flood songs. Not the neat disaster movie version, but the kind that leaves a damp heaviness in your chest, like you’re standing barefoot in water that keeps rising whether you’re ready or not. Rock tracks dig into that headspace in different ways, sometimes blunt, sometimes tangled with metaphor. You can hear it in the feedback, in the way a chorus crashes instead of resolves. Some of these picks lean literal, others spiral around the theme and only nod to it, yet they all tap the same restless undercurrent.
It’s not the clean storm-and-rebuild story that some pop, rock, country, and R&B songs tend to chase. Floods in rock carry a different charge, something heavier and off-balance. The imagery can feel biblical one minute, personal the next. Bands stretch it out until the water feels like grief, rage, or survival pressed into the strings. Not every lyric spells it out, but the tone leaves no doubt you’re standing in the thick of it, waiting to see what gets washed away and what clings on.
Some tracks soak in chaos, others carve out space to breathe, but none of them shrug the feeling off. It’s music that floods the room, messy and unstoppable, demanding you sit with it until the sound ebbs out. These are the best rock songs on floods that carry that weight and fit the mood.
Top 10 Flood Rock Songs
1. 'When the Levee Breaks' by Led Zeppelin
2. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. 'Louisiana 1927' by Randy Newman
4. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
5. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
6. 'Here Comes the Flood' by Peter Gabriel
7. 'Smoke on the Water' by Deep Purple
8. 'The Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin
9. 'Fool in the Rain' by Led Zeppelin
10. 'The River' by Bruce Springsteen
Top Rock Songs About Water Disasters #11 to 20
11. 'Fire and the Flood' by Vance Joy
12. 'After the Flood' by Mogwai
13. 'The Flood' by Pantera
14. 'Drowned' by The Who
15. 'Texas Flood' by Stevie Ray Vaughan
16. 'Floods' by Fightstar
17. 'Ocean Rain' by Echo & the Bunnymen
18. 'Aqualung' by Jethro Tull
19. 'Water' by The Who
20. 'Washing of the Water' by Peter Gabriel
Top Rock Songs About Rainstorms #21 to 30
21. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses
22. 'Rain' by The Beatles
23. 'I Wish It Would Rain' by The Temptations
24. 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC
25. 'Rain When I Die' by Alice in Chains
26. 'I Can't Stand the Rain' by Eruption
27. 'Crying in the Rain' by Whitesnake
28. 'Raining Blood' by Slayer
29. 'Set Fire to the Rain' by Adele
30. 'Only Happy When It Rains' by Garbage
Best Rock Songs About Water #31 to 40
31. 'Bridge over Troubled Water' by Simon & Garfunkel
32. 'The Same Deep Water as You' by The Cure
33. 'Five Feet High and Rising' by Johnny Cash
34. 'The Ocean' by Led Zeppelin
35. 'Sail On, Sailor' by The Beach Boys
36. 'Take Me to the River' by Talking Heads
37. 'Water' by The Tragically Hip
38. 'The Water's Edge' by The Black Keys
39. 'Muddy Water' by Johnny Cash
40. 'Flood Waters' by Mac Powell
Essential Rock Songs About Rising Tides #41 to 50
41. 'Flood' by Jars of Clay
42. 'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping' by Grouper
43. 'Down by the Water' by PJ Harvey
44. 'Cool, Cool Water' by The Beach Boys
45. 'Aqueous Transmission' by Incubus
46. 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan
47. 'Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones
48. 'Here Comes the Rain Again' by Eurythmics
49. 'London Calling' by The Clash
50. 'I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)' by Grand Funk Railroad
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