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Top 10 Best Rock Songs to Dance To. “Dancing in the Dark”— Bruce Springsteen. “You Shook Me All Night Long”—AC/DC. “Proud Mary”—Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Brown Eyed Girl”—Van Morrison. “I Got My Mind Set on You”— George Harrison. “Sweet Child O’ Mine”—Guns N’ Roses. “Listen to the Music”—The Doobie Brothers. “Rebellion”—Arcade Fire.
Dance-rock is a dance-infused genre of rock music. It is a post-disco genre connected with pop rock and post-punk with fewer rhythm and blues influences. It originated in the early 1980s, following the decline in popularity of both punk and disco.
- Late 1970s – early 1980s
- You Shook Me All Night Long – AC/DC. AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (Official Video) What really makes a good rock dance song is an energizing guitar riff and an uptempo pace.
- My Sharona – The Knack. The Knack - My Sharona (Official Music Video) This debut single from The Knack was the fastest single to reach gold status since The Beatles released I Want To Hold Your Hand.
- Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (Official Music Video) The intro guitar in Sweet Child O’ Mine is absolutely electric and almost mimics a siren.
- Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop [Official Music Video] The Red Hot Chili Peppers brand of funk-rock is never more on display than it is in the hit single, Can’t Stop.
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Dance-Rock. Dozens of major rock acts dabbled in dance during the '80s and '90s, influenced indirectly by the times and the technology or directly by the funk, Philly soul, and disco that had ruled the R&B roost during the '70s. The genesis for dance-rock was the mid-'70s, when the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, and Queen all flirted ...
- Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" It's hard to believe that this track came out in 1999 as it so perfectly defined the 2000s. A part of the reason we might feel it came out later is because we loved the DFA remix that came out a few years later.
- LCD Soundsystem - "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" This was the jam that really solidified the bridge that was being built between rock and dance music in the 2000s.
- The Rapture - "House Of Jealous Lovers" "House of Jealous Lovers" was one of our favorite tracks in this area of dance music. While The Rapture has kept plugging away at making music they've never been able to recapture the raw energy of this no frills, relentlessly catchy track.
- Death From Above 1979 - "Romantic Rights" Toronto's Death From Above is a gold standard for the fusion of dance and rock, more specifically punk and dance.
The Sound of Dance Rock · Playlist · 149 songs · 2.2K likes.
The Best Dance Rock Songs Ever. Includes Remixes, Remasterings & Model-Enhanced Videos of Dance Rock Classics of hits from Starship, B-52s & Queen.
