50 Best Rock Songs About Neighbors
Rock Tracks That Capture Life Next Door
There’s something strange about the way proximity works. You can share a wall with someone for years and never know what they’re like outside their parking spot or the sound of their TV bleeding through the drywall. Rock has always had a way of leaning into that tension. The messy overlap between private noise and public life. Some tracks lean into the humor of it, some edge toward paranoia, and a few turn it into something oddly tender. It’s that feeling of living side by side but still orbiting in your own little world.
The thing is, not every song here literally talks about the person next door. Some pull from the same mood instead—the nosy curiosity, the quiet resentment, the unexpected connection that comes from thin walls and shared air. It’s the same energy that runs through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs when they circle around proximity, envy, or sudden bursts of empathy. A few tracks sound like arguments muffled through a wall. Others feel like a friendly nod in the driveway that turns into a story you keep replaying later.
You can tell when a song gets it right. There’s a pulse that feels close enough to your own heartbeat to make you glance toward the window. These tracks catch that uneasy mix of distance and closeness that comes with living side by side and pretending not to listen. Here are the best rock songs about neighbors.
Top 10 Neighbor Conflict Rock Songs
1. 'Neighbors' by The Rolling Stones
2. 'Neighborhood' by Arcade Fire
3. 'The Neighbor' by The Raconteurs
4. 'Next Door Neighbor' by Cheap Trick
5. 'Neighbors' by The Band
6. 'My Neighbors' by Frank Zappa
7. 'Neighbor, Neighbor' by ZZ Top
8. 'The Boy With the Thorn in His Side' by The Smiths
9. 'Welcome to the Neighborhood' by Meat Loaf
10. 'Dead End Street' by The Kinks
Songs About Community Living #11 to 20
11. 'Our House' by Madness
12. 'The Kids Aren't Alright' by The Offspring
13. 'Subdivisions' by Rush
14. 'Street Fighting Man' by The Rolling Stones
15. 'Town Called Malice' by The Jam
16. 'Roxanne' by The Police
17. 'Life in the Fast Lane' by Eagles
18. 'Welcome to the Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance
19. 'Next Door' by The Dandy Warhols
20. 'Rush Across the Road' by Joe Jackson
Rock Songs with Neighborhood Themes #21 to 30
21. 'Summer in the City' by The Lovin' Spoonful
22. 'New York, New York' by Ryan Adams
23. 'London Calling' by The Clash
24. 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' by The Beatles
25. 'Hollywood Nights' by Bob Seger
26. 'L.A. Woman' by The Doors
27. 'Welcome to Paradise' by Green Day
28. 'Paradise City' by Guns N' Roses
29. 'The Only Living Boy in New York' by Simon & Garfunkel
30. 'Living Next Door to Alice' by Smokie
Songs About Local Community and Location #31 to 40
31. 'The Last House on the Left' by The Dead Kennedys
32. 'No Man's Land' by Bruce Springsteen
33. 'Running Down a Dream' by Tom Petty
34. 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' by Rage Against the Machine
35. 'Longview' by Green Day
36. 'The End of the Street' by Richard Hawley
37. 'Block Rockin' Beats' by The Chemical Brothers
38. 'The House of the Rising Sun' by The Animals
39. 'The Village Green Preservation Society' by The Kinks
40. 'Neighborhood Threat' by Iggy Pop
Songs Dealing with Adjacent Houses and Local Issues #41 to 50
41. 'Home' by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
42. 'Suburbia' by Pet Shop Boys
43. 'Going Home' by Ten Years After
44. 'Small Town' by John Cougar Mellencamp
45. 'King of the World' by Weezer
46. 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Bruce Springsteen
47. 'Where the Streets Have No Name' by U2
48. 'Brick House' by Commodores
49. 'The Town I Loved So Well' by Phil Coulter
50. 'Dirty Old Town' by The Pogues
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