50 Best Rock Songs About Gasoline
Best Rock Tracks That Burn With Gasoline Energy
There’s something hypnotic about the smell of gasoline. It’s dirty and electric, the kind of thing that makes you think of headlights cutting through a highway at midnight or an engine that refuses to quit. That same charge runs through certain songs. The riffs crackle, the drums hit like pistons, and there’s that streak of recklessness that never sounds rehearsed. These aren’t clean, tidy tracks. They stumble forward, sparks flying, caught between danger and freedom. Some tracks lean literal, others only carry the fumes, but they all feel soaked in the same fuel.
It’s the kind of sound that belongs to cracked leather seats, old amps, and late-night drives that end nowhere. You can feel it in your chest before you recognize the melody. Rock thrives on that tension between control and chaos, and gasoline lives right there in the middle. The mix of adrenaline and exhaustion makes sense when you think of all the pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that chase that same high. They might not talk about engines or matches, but the pulse says enough.
These songs hit that space between movement and meltdown. They hum like engines running too hot and fade like headlights disappearing into the dark. Some won’t even mention gasoline outright, but they echo the same heat, the same restlessness. Here are the best rock songs about gasoline.
Top 10 Gasoline and Fuel Rock Songs
1. 'Fuel' by Metallica
2. 'Gasoline' by Seether
3. 'Heavy Fuel' by Dire Straits
4. 'Gasoline' by I Prevail
5. 'I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)' by Howlin' Wolf
6. 'Gasoline' by Audioslave
7. 'Vasoline' by Stone Temple Pilots
8. 'Black Masks & Gasoline' by Rise Against
9. 'Gasoline' by Moist
10. 'Fight Fire With Fire' by Metallica
Road and Speed Rock Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple
12. 'Born to be Wild' by Steppenwolf
13. 'Radar Love' by Golden Earring
14. 'Kickstart My Heart' by Mötley Crüe
15. 'I Can't Drive 55' by Sammy Hagar
16. 'Fast Cars' by The Buzzcocks
17. 'Hot Rod Lincoln' by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
18. 'Running Down a Dream' by Tom Petty
19. 'Roadhouse Blues' by The Doors
20. 'Driving in My Car' by Madness
Songs About Fire and Combustion #21 to 30
21. 'Light My Fire' by The Doors
22. 'Fire Woman' by The Cult
23. 'Burnin' for You' by Blue Öyster Cult
24. 'Fire' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
25. 'On Fire' by Van Halen
26. 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' by David Bowie
27. 'The Fire Down Below' by Bob Seger
28. 'Burn' by Deep Purple
29. 'I'm On Fire' by Bruce Springsteen
30. 'Play With Fire' by The Rolling Stones
Car and Driving Rock Music Selections #31 to 40
31. 'Panama' by Van Halen
32. 'Highway to Hell' by AC/DC
33. 'Born to Run' by Bruce Springsteen
34. 'Drive My Car' by The Beatles
35. 'Detroit Rock City' by Kiss
36. 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen
37. 'Rockin' Down the Highway' by The Doobie Brothers
38. 'The Motor City Is Burning' by John Lee Hooker
39. 'White-Hot Blonde' by The Hives
40. 'Under My Wheels' by Alice Cooper
Destruction and Burning Rock Songs #41 to 50
41. 'Sugar in Your Gas Tank' by Less Than Jake
42. 'Goodbye in Gasoline' by Less Than Jake
43. 'Burn It To The Ground' by Nickelback
44. 'Burn Down The Mission' by Elton John
45. 'Burning Down the House' by Talking Heads
46. 'Burn Baby Burn' by Ash
47. 'We Threw Gasoline On The Fire' by NOFX
48. 'We Didn't Start the Fire' by Billy Joel
49. 'Kerosene' by Big Black
50. 'Firestarter' by The Prodigy
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