50 Best Rock Songs About Stars
Rock Songs That Capture the Feeling of Looking Up at the Stars
There’s something strange that happens when you look up too long. The sky starts to feel alive in a way that makes everything else small. The quiet hum of a night drive, headlights flicking past, and the stereo bleeding something that feels bigger than you. Some songs land there. Not in the science of it, but in that vague, stretched-out feeling between loneliness and awe. The kind of track that sounds like a conversation you can’t finish. These are the ones that turn stargazing into something heavier, something that hums under your skin until the chorus hits.
It’s not always cosmic or literal. Sometimes the stars are people, or fame, or some version of light you can’t reach. A few of these tracks never even mention the sky, yet they still catch that floating sense of distance. You can hear it in how the guitars hang, or in the way a singer strains like they’re trying to touch something they can’t name. It shows up across genres too, hiding inside pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that pull at that same thread of wonder and escape. The sound of someone staring at the night and trying to translate what they feel into a riff or a line that almost makes sense.
There’s no single way to hold that feeling down. It’s flickering and restless, slipping between slow burners and big anthems that light up like cities from above. Some feel dreamy, others loud and cracked open, but they all circle the same orbit. The sky as a mirror, a warning, a distraction, a promise. The kind of thing that keeps people awake longer than they planned. Here are the best rock songs about stars.
Top 10 Star Rock Songs
1. 'Starman' by David Bowie
2. 'Starlight' by Muse
3. 'Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)' by Elton John
4. 'Across the Universe' by The Beatles
5. 'Black Star' by Radiohead
6. 'Ziggy Stardust' by David Bowie
7. 'Dark Star' by Grateful Dead
8. 'Shooting Star' by Bad Company
9. 'Starseed' by Our Lady Peace
10. '2000 Light Years from Home' by The Rolling Stones
Rock and Roll Star Power Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Stars' by Hum
12. 'Interstellar Overdrive' by Pink Floyd
13. 'A Sky Full of Stars' by Coldplay
14. 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)' by David Bowie
15. 'Satellite of Love' by Lou Reed
16. 'Cosmic Love' by Florence + The Machine
17. 'Under the Milky Way' by The Church
18. 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie
19. 'Southern Cross' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
20. 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple
Best Classic Rock Star-Themed Tracks #21 to 30
21. 'Planet Caravan' by Black Sabbath
22. 'Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft' by Klaatu
23. 'Life on Mars?' by David Bowie
24. 'Space Truckin'' by Deep Purple
25. 'Starless' by King Crimson
26. 'Moonage Daydream' by David Bowie
27. 'Cygnus X-1' by Rush
28. 'A Saucerful of Secrets' by Pink Floyd
29. 'All Star' by Smash Mouth
30. 'Shining Star' by Earth, Wind & Fire
Notable Space Rock Songs and Cosmic Jams #31 to 40
31. 'Here to Mars' by Coheed and Cambria
32. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
33. 'Third Stone From The Sun' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
34. 'The Last Star' by Motion City Soundtrack
35. 'Supermassive Black Hole' by Muse
36. 'Space-Age Love Song' by A Flock of Seagulls
37. 'Hallowed Star' by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
38. 'We Are All Made Of Stars' by Moby
39. 'Stars and Stripes Forever' by John Philip Sousa
40. 'Astronomy Domine' by Pink Floyd
Essential Rock Songs with Star Imagery #41 to 50
41. 'Star' by The Cult
42. 'The Galaxy' by Metric
43. 'Starstorm' by UFO
44. 'Spaceman' by Babylon Zoo
45. 'Star Roving' by Slowdive
46. 'Jupiter' by The Smashing Pumpkins
47. 'Star, Star' by The Rolling Stones
48. 'Into the Great Wide Open' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
49. 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space' by Spiritualized
50. 'Cosmic Girl' by Jamiroquai
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