50 Best Rock Songs About Old Houses
Rock Tracks That Capture the Haunting Energy of Old Houses
There’s a strange comfort that creeps in when you walk through an old house. The air feels heavier, the walls remember things, and every creak in the floor sounds like a half-forgotten story. It’s not nostalgia exactly. It’s that in-between space where time folds over itself, and you can almost hear the past trying to hum along. The right song can make that feeling hit harder, the kind that vibrates through chipped paint and fading wallpaper. Some of these tracks come from literal stories of houses falling apart, others from the ghosts that live inside people instead. They share that quiet hum of something left behind but still lingering.
There’s a mood that runs through them, sometimes eerie, sometimes tender in a way that feels unsafe. Guitars that sound like doors closing slowly. Voices that carry dust and memory. These aren’t clean or neatly resolved songs—they wander like someone pacing through empty rooms at midnight. A few may come from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that were never actually written with houses in mind, yet somehow they fit. They pull the feeling of space, decay, and memory into sound, like a photograph slightly out of focus but still perfect in its own way.
Old houses don’t hum with ghosts because they want to scare anyone. They hum because they’ve been waiting too long to be heard. These songs lean into that mood, into the hum and ache of something that used to be home but now only pretends to be. They’re cracked but alive, quiet but heavy. Here are the best rock songs about old houses.
Top 10 Old House Rock Songs
1. 'Our House' by Madness
2. 'The House of the Rising Sun' by The Animals
3. 'A House Is Not a Home' by Luther Vandross
4. 'Pink Houses' by John Mellencamp
5. 'House of Blue Light' by Deep Purple
6. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
7. 'Old Apartment' by Barenaked Ladies
8. 'House of the Rising Sun' by Bob Dylan
9. 'Our House' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
10. 'Long, Long Way From Home' by Foreigner
Best Rock Tracks About Home and Buildings #11 to 20
11. 'House of Broken Love' by Soundgarden
12. 'Ghost Town' by The Specials
13. 'The House Is Rockin'' by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
14. 'Home' by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
15. 'House of Glass' by The Lemon Twigs
16. 'Haunted House' by The Cramps
17. 'My Home' by The Wailers
18. 'Red House' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
19. 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica
20. 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Essential Rock Songs About Living Spaces #21 to 30
21. 'The Old Man's Back Again' by Scott Walker
22. 'House of the Rising Sun' by Lead Belly
23. 'The Great Escape' by Weezer
24. 'Home Sweet Home' by Mötley Crüe
25. 'This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)' by Talking Heads
26. 'Down in a Hole' by Alice in Chains
27. 'Home Again' by Carole King
28. 'Homeward Bound' by Simon & Garfunkel
29. 'Hometown' by twenty one pilots
30. 'House Where Nobody Lives' by Tom Waits
Top Rock Songs About Old Places and Hometowns #31 to 40
31. 'My Town' by The Tragically Hip
32. 'House of Cards' by Radiohead
33. 'Hole in the World' by The Eagles
34. 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' by Bruce Springsteen
35. 'The Old Triangle' by The Dubliners
36. 'Lost in My Hometown' by Genesis
37. 'New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down' by LCD Soundsystem
38. 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum
39. 'Mr. Tambourine Man' by The Byrds
40. 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie
Rock Songs About Coming Back Home #41 to 50
41. 'House Carpenter' by Joan Baez
42. 'The Shelter of Your Arms' by Frankie Laine
43. 'Going Home' by Ten Years After
44. 'Small Town' by John Mellencamp
45. 'Lost House' by Guided by Voices
46. 'Haunted' by Evanescence
47. 'Our House' by People!
48. 'The House Song' by Peter, Paul and Mary
49. 'I'm Going Home' by Alvin Lee & Company
50. 'Coming Home' by New Found Glory
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