50 Best Rock Songs About Seasons
Best Rock Tracks That Capture the Feeling of Changing Seasons
There’s a strange pulse that comes when the weather shifts. Not the obvious kind, like sunshine after rain, but the quiet unease when the air smells different and you can’t tell if it’s hope or fatigue creeping in. You start to notice how certain riffs sound colder, how lyrics hit harder when the sky turns gray. Some of these tracks lean into that mood on purpose. Others stumble into it by accident. Either way, they hang in the space between endings and something that might look like a start. The kind of feeling that makes you reach for headphones instead of small talk.
No one glides through seasonal change looking cinematic. It’s messy in the way fall mornings are when you’re running late and summer songs still loop in your head. It’s standing outside a venue in the first bite of winter air or driving with windows cracked because spring feels too heavy indoors. The best pop, rock, country, and R&B songs carry that restless shift in their bones. Some tracks might not even mention the seasons at all, yet somehow they sound like they were made for them. They wrap around the in-between moments when everything feels slightly off but kind of right too.
These are songs for the long drives when leaves stick to the windshield, for humid nights that stretch out too far, for the quiet snap of frost that reminds you time moves even when you don’t. They’re not clean or tidy, but that’s the point. These are the best rock songs for changing seasons.
Top 10 Seasons-Themed Rock Songs
1. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles
2. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses
3. 'Winter' by The Rolling Stones
4. 'The Boys of Summer' by Don Henley
5. 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams
6. 'Hazy Shade of Winter' by The Bangles
7. 'California Dreamin'' by The Mamas & the Papas
8. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
9. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
10. 'Time of the Season' by The Zombies
Essential Rock Tracks With Seasonal Imagery #11 to 20
11. 'In the Summertime' by Mungo Jerry
12. 'Wintertime Love' by The Doors
13. 'Summer Breeze' by Seals and Crofts
14. 'Summer in the City' by The Lovin' Spoonful
15. 'Summer Soft' by Stevie Wonder
16. 'Harvest Moon' by Neil Young
17. 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by Bob Dylan
18. 'Only Happy When It Rains' by Garbage
19. 'White Winter Hymnal' by Fleet Foxes
20. 'Four Seasons in One Day' by Crowded House
Memorable Rock Hits About Summer and Winter #21 to 30
21. 'Dry Lightning' by Bruce Springsteen
22. 'Autumn Almanac' by The Kinks
23. 'Suddenly Last Summer' by The Motels
24. 'Seasons (Waiting on You)' by Future Islands
25. 'Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin
26. 'Wild is the Wind' by Nina Simone
27. 'This Ain't the Summer of Love' by Blue öyster Cult
28. 'Leaves That Are Green' by Simon & Garfunkel
29. 'Blister in the Sun' by Violent Femmes
30. 'End of the Season' by The Kinks
Popular Rock Songs Capturing the Feeling of Seasons #31 to 40
31. 'Cold Day in the Sun' by Foo Fighters
32. 'Summersong' by The Decemberists
33. 'September Gurls' by Big Star
34. 'April Come She Will' by Simon & Garfunkel
35. 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' by The Byrds
36. 'Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy' by Fall Out Boy
37. 'September Morn' by Neil Diamond
38. 'Winterlong' by Neil Young
39. 'School's Out' by Alice Cooper
40. 'Summer Moved On' by a-ha
Great Seasonal Rock Songs and Close Variations #41 to 50
41. 'Daydream' by The Lovin' Spoonful
42. 'Hot Fun in the Summertime' by Sly & the Family Stone
43. 'Golden Summer' by The Cult
44. 'Winter Song' by The Head and the Heart
45. 'Sowing Season' by Brand New
46. 'Shelter from the Storm' by Bob Dylan
47. 'Island in the Sun' by Weezer
48. 'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath
49. 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' by a-ha
50. 'Summertime Sadness' by Lana Del Rey
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