50 Best Rock Songs About Money

Rock Tracks That Chase the Price of It All

There’s a certain pulse that comes with songs that tangle with money. Not the Wall Street kind, but the late-night kind, when rent’s due and someone’s Venmoing for gas. The kind that turns a riff into a confession and a paycheck into a punchline. You can hear it in the scratch of guitar strings that sound worn down from counting bills. Some of these tracks sound like triumph, some like frustration, some like they were written in the space between both. They hit that nerve where ambition starts to blur with exhaustion.

Money in rock songs tends to carry its own mythology. It’s the dream, the chase, the crash that follows after. Some of these songs talk in literal currency, others stretch it into something else entirely—status, greed, hunger, that hollow rush of wanting something you can’t quite name. The stories shift between pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that all pull from the same feeling of trying to hold it together while the world keeps a tab. Not every track spells it out, but they all live in the same noise of wanting and working and wondering if it’s worth it.

There’s grit in these tracks, something raw that keeps them from sounding too neat. You can almost smell the cheap beer and sweat in the lyrics, feel the tension behind every hook. Some songs might not be literally tied to cash, yet they still fit the mess—the push and pull of chasing something shiny that never lasts long. These are the best rock songs on money that crank that restless pulse up loud enough to rattle through your feed.

1. 'Money' by Pink Floyd

2. 'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits

3. 'Moneytalks' by AC/DC

4. 'Taxman' by The Beatles

5. 'Take the Money and Run' by Steve Miller Band

6. 'Can't Buy Me Love' by The Beatles

7. 'Fortunate Son' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

8. 'Head Like a Hole' by Nine Inch Nails

9. 'Money Changes Everything' by Cyndi Lauper

10. 'Easy Money' by King Crimson

11. 'The Big Money' by Rush

12. 'Free Money' by Patti Smith

13. 'It's Money That Matters' by Randy Newman

14. 'Opportunities Let's Make Lots of Money' by Pet Shop Boys

15. 'Millionaire' by Queens of the Stone Age

16. 'Rich Girl' by Hall & Oates

17. 'Keep Your Eye On The Money' by Motley Crue

18. 'Dirty Work' by Steely Dan

19. 'Lawyers Guns and Money' by Warren Zevon

20. 'Baby You're a Rich Man' by The Beatles

21. 'You Never Give Me Your Money' by The Beatles

22. 'Man With Money' by The Who

23. 'Money' by The Flying Lizards

24. 'She Works Hard for the Money' by Donna Summer

25. 'Billion Dollar Babies' by Alice Cooper

26. 'Broke' by Limp Bizkit

27. 'Every Day I Think of Money' by Stereophonics

28. 'Sell Out' by Reel Big Fish

29. 'I Wanna Be Rich' by Calloway

30. 'Doing it for the Money' by Foster the People

31. 'Money Money' by The Grateful Dead

32. 'Danger Money' by U.K.

33. 'Mummy Dust' by Ghost

34. 'The Money Will Roll Right In' by Nirvana

35. 'The Money' by The Drums

36. 'Money Power Fame' by Don Broco

37. 'Busted' by Ray Charles

38. 'Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back' by Meat Loaf

39. 'Money' by The Beaches

40. 'What Do You Do For Money Honey' by AC/DC

41. 'Money Honey' by Elvis Presley

42. 'Mercedes Benz' by Janis Joplin

43. 'If I Had $1000000' by Barenaked Ladies

44. 'Money's Too Tight To Mention' by Simply Red

45. 'Money' by Space

46. '32 Pennies' by Warrant

47. 'Made Of Money' by Adam Ant

48. 'Goddamn Money' by The Sheepdogs

49. 'Love Your Money' by Daisy Chainsaw

50. 'I Get Money' by 50 Cent