50 Best Rock Songs About Making Love

Rock Tracks That Pulse With Heat and Connection

There’s a certain kind of electricity that hums through the best rock tracks that circle around making love. Not the soft candlelight kind, but the sweat, static, messy heartbeat kind that crashes through speakers and sticks in your skin. It’s the sound of guitars breathing heavy, of drums hitting like pulse points, of voices half-breaking between want and surrender. Some of these tracks aren’t even literally tied to the act itself, but they catch that same slow-burn tension that comes right before everything catches fire.

The thing with these songs is how they move—how they crawl under your skin before you even realize it. They can be smooth and low, or wild enough to shake the walls. There’s something raw in that space where desire meets noise, where words start to blur and feeling takes over. It’s in the rasp of a vocal that doesn’t need to explain itself, or the riff that lingers longer than it should. These songs might sound like chaos to some people, but for others, they’re the sound of everything finally clicking.

This kind of energy cuts across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, the kind that don’t apologize for being too much or too close. They live in that middle space between motion and meaning, never clean or tidy, always human. The kind of tracks that make you smirk mid-drive or pull someone closer without thinking. Some hit slow, some hit fast, but they all stay with you. Here are the best rock songs for when connection turns up loud and stays there.

1. 'Whole Lotta Love' by Led Zeppelin

2. 'Let's Get It On' by Marvin Gaye

3. 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' by The Beatles

4. 'Love To Love You Baby' by Donna Summer

5. 'Feels Like the First Time' by Foreigner

6. 'Is This Love' by Whitesnake

7. 'Addicted to Love' by Robert Palmer

8. 'Touch Me' by The Doors

9. 'Sex on Fire' by Kings of Leon

10. 'Angel' by Aerosmith

11. 'You Shook Me All Night Long' by AC/DC

12. 'High Enough' by Damn Yankees

13. 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams

14. 'In Your Room' by The Bangles

15. 'Need You Tonight' by INXS

16. 'The Great Pretender' by The Platters

17. 'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails

18. 'Private Dancer' by Tina Turner

19. 'Wild Thing' by The Troggs

20. 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?' by Rod Stewart

21. 'Slow Ride' by Foghat

22. 'Cherry Pie' by Warrant

23. 'Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)' by Rod Stewart

24. 'All Night Long' by Lionel Richie

25. 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' by Def Leppard

26. 'I Touch Myself' by Divinyls

27. 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure

28. 'Wicked Game' by Chris Isaak

29. 'Keep on Loving You' by REO Speedwagon

30. 'Beth' by Kiss

31. 'Hot Blooded' by Foreigner

32. 'Black Magic Woman' by Santana

33. 'Still Loving You' by Scorpions

34. 'The Man's Too Strong' by Dire Straits

35. 'Heaven' by Warrant

36. 'Inside' by Staind

37. 'Fade Into You' by Mazzy Star

38. 'Love Bites' by Def Leppard

39. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' by Queen

40. 'I'll Stand by You' by The Pretenders

41. 'Wonderful World' by Sam Cooke

42. 'Can't Help Falling in Love' by Elvis Presley

43. 'Bed of Roses' by Bon Jovi

44. 'Lady' by Styx

45. 'She's Gone' by Steelheart

46. 'I Wanna Know What Love Is' by Foreigner

47. 'When a Man Loves a Woman' by Percy Sledge

48. 'Faithfully' by Journey

49. 'Love Hurts' by Nazareth

50. 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police