50 Best Rock Songs About New Love
Rock Tracks That Capture the Rush of New Love
There’s a strange kind of electricity that comes with something new starting. Not the calm kind, the jittery kind that messes with your sleep and makes everything feel louder than it should. You’re half-smiling at your phone, replaying messages, pretending you’re not overanalyzing everything. Then a song hits and it feels like someone cracked open your chest and spilled the noise inside it. These tracks live in that moment. The restless kind of falling that doesn’t make sense yet but already feels like too much.
No one really nails it clean. Some of these songs were written in heartbreak’s shadow, others in total chaos. Still, they catch that first spark before things get complicated. There’s that rush in the guitars, the flutter hiding in the vocals, the kind of beat that makes a room tilt for a second. Not every track here spells it out, but it fits the headspace—the way love sneaks up, slips into your bloodstream, and rewires everything you thought you knew.
This mix doesn’t care if it started as pop, rock, country, and R&B songs. What matters is how they hit when everything feels slightly unsteady, slightly impossible, and way too real to ignore. Some tracks might not literally speak on new love, but they ride the same pulse. Here are the best rock songs for that wild, early stretch when it all feels like a movie scene waiting to break.
Top 10 New Relationship Rock Songs
1. 'First Day of My Life' by Bright Eyes
2. 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure
3. 'She's Mine' by Lauren Alaina
4. 'This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)' by Talking Heads
5. 'I Believe in a Thing Called Love' by The Darkness
6. 'Crushcrushcrush' by Paramore
7. 'I Wanna Be Yours' by Arctic Monkeys
8. 'You're the One' by Greta Van Fleet
9. 'Maps' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. 'The Only Exception' by Paramore
Essential Rock Songs About Falling in Love #11 to 20
11. 'Everlong' by Foo Fighters
12. 'Home' by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
13. 'I Will Follow You into the Dark' by Death Cab for Cutie
14. 'Your Love' by The Outfield
15. 'Sweet Disposition' by The Temper Trap
16. 'The Great Escape' by Boys Like Girls
17. 'You Make My Dreams (Come True)' by Hall & Oates
18. 'Cherry Bomb' by The Runaways
19. 'Electric Feel' by MGMT
20. 'Here's To Us' by Halestorm
Greatest Rock Songs Exploring a Fresh Romance #21 to 30
21. 'You and Me' by Lifehouse
22. 'Take Me Out' by Franz Ferdinand
23. 'The Luckiest' by Ben Folds
24. 'All the Small Things' by blink-182
25. 'My Best Friend' by Weezer
26. 'I'll Be There For You' by Bon Jovi
27. 'Come Away With Me' by Norah Jones
28. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' by Queen
29. 'I Want You To Want Me' by Cheap Trick
30. 'Thank You' by Led Zeppelin
Ultimate Rock Songs for the Start of a Relationship #31 to 40
31. 'You've Got the Love' by Florence + The Machine
32. 'Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus
33. 'I Got a Feelin' in My Body' by Elvis Presley
34. 'The Way You Make Me Feel' by Michael Jackson
35. 'God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys
36. 'Love Song' by The Cure
37. 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton
38. 'Love Me Do' by The Beatles
39. 'You Are the Best Thing' by Ray LaMontagne
40. 'I Do' by The Beach Boys
Top-Rated Rock Songs Celebrating the Initial Thrill #41 to 50
41. 'You're My Best Friend' by Queen
42. 'Something' by The Beatles
43. 'Friday I'm in Love' by The Cure
44. 'Take My Breath Away' by Berlin
45. 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith
46. 'I Wanna Be With You' by Mandy Moore
47. 'Wonderwall' by Oasis
48. 'Kiss Me' by Sixpence None The Richer
49. 'Sweet Child o' Mine' by Guns N' Roses
50. 'I Melt With You' by Modern English
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