50 Best Rock Songs About Fog
Best Rock Songs With Fog in the Lyrics or Atmosphere
There’s something off-kilter about fog that makes it stick in your head. It creeps in like background static, muffling the edges of everything, and rock tracks have a way of leaning into that haze. It can feel like confusion, or a strange kind of calm, or a curtain that hides what’s coming next. A few of these songs are literally wrapped up in fog, others only circle the feeling, but the overlap lands in the same space. Like plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, the imagery doesn’t always need to be taken at face value to feel right.
Picture a night drive where the beams of the headlights barely reach a few feet ahead. Or walking streets where the outlines of people fade in and out. Fog leaves you stuck in that blur, and rock music knows how to soundtrack that. Some tracks stretch it into mystery, some turn it into dread, and others treat it like a strange beauty. Even the ones not directly tied to the weather pull from that mood, the half-lost, half-dreaming state that makes sense only while you’re in it.
The best thing is that the mood holds no rules. You get heavy riffs buried in reverb, steady beats that plod through the murk, or voices that sound like they’re singing through smoke. Sometimes the fog is real, other times it’s the excuse for feeling stuck. These are the best rock songs with fog that catch that strange atmosphere and set the stage for the playlist.
Top 10 Fog Rock Songs
1. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
2. 'A Forest' by The Cure
3. 'No Quarter' by Led Zeppelin
4. 'Into the Mystic' by Van Morrison
5. 'The Fog' by Hogjaw
6. 'Fade Into You' by Mazzy Star
7. 'Foggy Dew' by The Wolfe Tones
8. 'Foggy Notion' by The Velvet Underground
9. 'Smoke on the Water' by Deep Purple
10. 'Long Misty Days' by Robin Trower
Songs for Foggy Rock Playlist #11 to 20
11. 'House of the Rising Sun' by The Animals
12. 'Crimson and Clover' by Tommy James and the Shondells
13. 'Pale Blue Eyes' by The Velvet Underground
14. 'Dazed and Confused' by Led Zeppelin
15. 'One' by U2
16. 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' by Pink Floyd
17. 'The Crystal Ship' by The Doors
18. 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath
19. 'Magic Carpet Ride' by Steppenwolf
20. 'Behind the Wall of Sleep' by Black Sabbath
Essential Rock Music for a Foggy Day #21 to 30
21. 'Summer in the City' by The Lovin' Spoonful
22. 'The Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin
23. 'Strange Days' by The Doors
24. 'All Cats Are Grey' by The Cure
25. 'Ghost in the Circuit' by Velvet Acid Christ
26. 'Grey Sky Morning' by Vertical Horizon
27. 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane
28. 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' by Iron Butterfly
29. 'Cortez the Killer' by Neil Young
30. 'The End' by The Doors
Top Rock Songs with Foggy Atmosphere #31 to 40
31. 'I'm Only Sleeping' by The Beatles
32. 'When the Levee Breaks' by Led Zeppelin
33. 'Maggot Brain' by Funkadelic
34. 'All Along the Watchtower' by Jimi Hendrix
35. 'Hey You' by Pink Floyd
36. 'Heartbreaker' by Led Zeppelin
37. 'People Are Strange' by The Doors
38. 'Something in the Way' by Nirvana
39. 'The Wind Cries Mary' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
40. 'Hells Bells' by AC/DC
Best Rock Songs for a Misty Vibe #41 to 50
41. 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by Blue Öyster Cult
42. 'Silent Lucidity' by Queensrÿche
43. 'Going to California' by Led Zeppelin
44. 'Wicked World' by Black Sabbath
45. 'Since I've Been Loving You' by Led Zeppelin
46. 'I Walk on Guilded Splinters' by Dr. John
47. 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkel
48. 'The Ripper' by Judas Priest
49. 'L'America' by The Doors
50. 'No Surprises' by Radiohead
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