Picture this - The lights go down and you're slipping off your jacket and you settle onto the couch. He heads to the stereo and puts on something to set the mood ... Hootie and the Blowfish?! Boom, your hormones come crashing back to earth.

A collection of the best music for seduction, romance, setting the mood and of course, making love.

In the early 1970s, rock music began to change. When it was blended with folk music it created folk rock, with blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included New Wave, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.

Defining the best rock love songs

Because rock music comes in a multitude of flavors and styles, it was necessary for us to divide the music into a number of categories to aid in finding the sound you are after.

More than just the best Rock Love Songs

We have also included sections such as songs about "Missing You" , "Break Up Songs" and so on. When you find a song you like, simply click the link to be taken to the song page where you will find further information about the band, lyrics, music videos and downloads. Please enjoy your stay and freely visit the other sections we have to offer. We at Top-LoveSongs.com are endeavoring to make this the best site for love songs of Rock we can.

The Swinging Sixties

With the sixties came a mood of change and from that arose the "Mersey-beat" which changed the story of rock music forever. British rockers at this time were copying Presley because mainstream Britain was not amused by the "rebellious" attitude of rock , did not enjoy their frenzy rhythm. Then the Mersey-beat struck. Some early bands of the sixties Bands were the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds and the Animals. The Rolling Stones became a sensation and went on to record the most successful singles of the era. The Yardbirds were the most experimental of them all, and gave us three of the greatest guitarists ever: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimi Page. From them, two blues bands were born, the Cream and Led Zeppelin who would revolutionize rock again.

The Sizzling Seventies

The unfortunate deaths of the Doors' Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix to mention but a few, had the effect of cooling down the booming phenomenon. After the wild excesses of the mid to late Sixties, a more peaceful way had been proposed by Bob Dylan and others when they tapped into country music. Country-rock became one of the fads of the Seventies, yielding successful bands such as the Eagles. Hard rock spawned heavy metal, that soon became a genre or class of its own (Blue Oyster Cult, Kiss, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Rush, Journey, Van Halen). As the seventies came to an end, the emergence of a new generation of singer songwriters had begun. Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Nico, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, and the most famous of all, Bruce Springsteen, established a musical persona that unites the classical composer and the folksinger.

Punk and New Wave of the Eighties

All sorts of neo-rock bands roamed New York in the eighties, notably the Band Of Susans. Boston gave two of the most influential acts, Dinosaur Jr and the Pixies. Seattle saw the revival of hard-rock and the boom of grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam). Chicago witnessed the birth of Steve Albini's evil genius with the Big Black. Minneapolis was the real catalyst: the Husker Du and the Replacements, and later the Soul Asylum, changed the whole notion of punk-rock and created the premises for a return to the rock song format with a new impetus.The Squirrel Bait started a dynasty of convoluted mainly instrumental punk-rock that would continue with the Slint and the Tortoise. In the meantime hip hop revolutionized the music scene. Bands such as Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy crossed over to the rock audience.

Britain followed a different course towards simpler and more commercial music. It all started with Ultravox, Wire and XTC. Then Japan and Simple Minds turned that sound into pompous pop songs. And finally Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark and others created synth-pop, that typically was pop played on electronic instruments and sung by a female or gay singer (with a few notable exceptions). Depeche Mode and the Pet Shop Boys were probably the most artistically successful of the many that climbed the charts. The Irish U2 and the Smiths turned sharply towards melody. And the rest is history....