50 Best Rock Songs About Turning 17
Best Rock Tracks for Turning 17
There’s a strange electricity that hits when you’re seventeen. It’s freedom with training wheels, all edges and noise, the kind of age where the world looks too big and too small at the same time. You’re half-grown, still pretending to have a plan, looping songs that sound like late-night drives and restless boredom. The guitars feel sharper, the drums crash harder, every lyric feels like someone accidentally read your mind. That mix of wanting out and not knowing where to go next runs through these tracks like static in the background.
Seventeen lives in that space between wide-eyed and worn out. You’re breaking curfews, learning the taste of small mistakes, still figuring out who you’re supposed to be when no one’s watching. Some of these tracks are from bands trying to hold onto youth before it slips away, others come from voices who remember what it felt like when everything started to crack open. Not every song literally hits the seventeen mark, but they carry the same restless heartbeat. They pull from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle the same mood—part thrill, part ache, and a little confusion that somehow feels good.
There’s something oddly grounding in hearing it back through blown-out speakers. A reminder that being seventeen never sounds clean, it’s always a little too loud and too messy to explain. These are the tracks that catch that uneven pulse and play it like it’s a countdown to whatever comes next. Here are the best rock songs for turning 17.
Top 10 Seventeen Rock Songs
1. 'Edge of Seventeen' by Stevie Nicks
2. 'Seventeen Going Under' by Sam Fender
3. 'I Saw Her Standing There' by The Beatles
4. '(She's) Sexy & 17' by The Stray Cats
5. 'Seventeen' by Winger
6. 'Seventeen' by Jet
7. 'Seventeen' by Sharon Van Etten
8. 'Coming Clean' by Green Day
9. 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' by Meat Loaf
10. 'The Rock Show' by Blink-182
Rock and Roll Coming of Age Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Seventeen' by Peach Pit
12. 'Seventeen' by Kings of Leon
13. 'I'm Eighteen' by Alice Cooper
14. 'Seventeen' by Ladytron
15. 'Summer of '69' by Bryan Adams
16. 'Young Turks' by Rod Stewart
17. 'Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl' by Broken Social Scene
18. 'Cigarette Daydreams' by Cage the Elephant
19. 'Seventeen' by The Sex Pistols
20. '17 Again' by Eurythmics
Reflective Rock Songs About Being a Teenager #21 to 30
21. 'Teenage Kicks' by The Undertones
22. 'Seventeen Forever' by Metro Station
23. 'Teenagers' by My Chemical Romance
24. '1980s Horror Film' by Wallows
25. 'Teenage Wasteland' by The Who
26. 'I Don't Want to Grow Up' by Ramones
27. 'Seventeen Days' by Prince
28. 'All the Young Dudes' by Mott the Hoople
29. 'Jack & Diane' by John Mellencamp
30. 'When You Were Young' by The Killers
Alternative Rock Songs Referencing 17 #31 to 40
31. 'Seventeen' by Sir Chloe
32. 'Seventeen' by The Midnight
33. '17 Crimes' by AFI
34. 'Evening Sun' by The Strokes
35. 'The Middle' by Jimmy Eat World
36. 'Lost at 17' by Emily's Army
37. 'Bored to Death' by Blink-182
38. 'Seventeen' by JAWZ
39. 'Just a Kid' by Simple Plan
40. 'Seventeen Years' by Ratatat
More Rock Songs About Youthful Experience #41 to 50
41. 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen
42. 'The Boys of Summer' by Don Henley
43. 'When You're Young' by The Jam
44. 'Young' by Hollywood Undead
45. 'Forever Young' by Alphaville
46. 'Rebel Yell' by Billy Idol
47. 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana
48. 'We Are Young' by Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
49. 'My Generation' by The Who
50. 'I'm Seventeen' by Tommy Conwell And The Young Rumblers
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