Top 10 Most Romantic Rock Songs of All Time

Some love songs whisper sweet nothings. Rock love songs? They belt those nothings out from the edge of a cliff during a thunderstorm. They've got electric solos that somehow feel like heartbeats and choruses that practically demand slow motion rain kisses.

This list is your chance to give credit to the rock ballads that got it right. The ones that didn't need candlelight and violins to make you swoon.

Maybe it's that one epic love anthem that played during your high school slow dance. Or the track that turned a break-up into a breakthrough. Maybe it's just the one that makes you scream-sing every time the chorus hits, because somehow it gets what you're feeling better than your own words ever could. Whatever your picks are, they belong here, right alongside the classics and the curveballs.

The Top Ten

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith

This song makes me shiver with joy and always brings a smile to my face.

One of those heart-wrenching if I can't love you, I don't know what I'll do songs. I love it. Makes a fabulous movie track.

The way you feel when you're in love.
Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi

Can't listen without miming the words. Real rock and real romance. Baby, blind love is true. I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is. I want to lay you down in a bed of roses, for tonight I sleep on a bed of nails. Dreaming of movies they won't make of me when I'm dead.

Amazing melody and breathtaking lyrics. Jon Bon Jovi can ask me out anytime.

This song has powerful, emotional music. The sound tells a strong love story!
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

This is what I will be walking down the aisle to.

This song is nothing less than a masterpiece.

Are you guys new to rock? This is the number one track any day. Metallica rules! Hail Metallica, hail James Hetfield!
Still Loving You - Scorpions

I put this as my morning alarm for more than a year, and every day, I'd wake up to its amazing, powerful yet tender music, hugging my pillow and my head filled with dreams. It's so passionate it makes your heart shiver.

It talks about one betraying and asking for forgiveness in a way, and saying that a love as powerful as theirs shouldn't be thrown away. If you ask me, one of the most romantic melodies out there.

I love this song endlessly. It's just beautiful.
Always - Bon Jovi

Love at first sight is the real love.

Just my opinion, but one of Bon Jovi's best. I always choke up listening to this.
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Dear God - Avenged Sevenfold

When he hits that first high note, "Dear God!" it's like he puts all the heart he can into it. That's what makes a great song: the feeling the musicians put into it. There is more heart in this song than in a big bag of candy hearts you get on Valentine's Day.

I am a big fan of Avenged Sevenfold, and this song is one of my favorites. The music is great, the lyrics are powerful and hide some memories of the group. I wish I could feel this song for a girl.

A masterpiece that can never be beaten. Epic two-minute solo in the end. This is the king of all romantic rock songs, and only this deserves to be on top.
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
November Rain - Guns N' Roses

Tough choice between "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" and "November Rain," but the latter always takes my heart away. Each and every word is lovely.
"Never mind the darkness, we still can find a way. Nothing lasts forever, even bold November rain." Kudos to Guns N' Roses!

Awesome song. My wife and I were married over 20 years ago, and this is OUR song.

This deserves much higher. It's breathtaking and just so heartwarming.
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner

I don't know if this is the most romantic rock song, but I have to vote for it. It just deserves better!

The Newcomers

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Twin Flame - Machine Gun Kelly
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Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

The Contenders

The Reason - Hoobastank
Come Back to Me - Uriah Heep
I Don't Love You - My Chemical Romance

I don't love you like I did yesterday. I just love this song. It makes me so emotional.
Snuff - Slipknot

If you're heartbroken or in unrequited love, then listen to this song just once. Lyrically, this song is a masterpiece. Most gloomy lyrics ever in a song.

Perfection. When you're happy, when you're sad, when you're heartbroken or in love, it works anytime!

Awesome! As a nu-metal band, Slipknot created the world's most romantic song ever! It was in the album All Hope Is Gone. It's worth listening to when you break up with your girlfriend.
Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

This song gets me every time. Self-sacrifice can be the truest expression of love in all its different forms.

Every lyric of this song is so romantic. Sure!

I am from Mexico, and this song is really beautiful for the girl I like.
Love Conquers All - Deep Purple
No Matter What - Papa Roach

Amazingly beautiful. It gives me hope.
When Love and Hate Collide - Def Leppard

This song has such strong feelings behind it. I wish there were more songs like this these days.

I'm from Mexico, and here this song is really accepted as a love song. Good mood!

Just awesome! Legend's song from a legend's band.
Perpisahan Termanis - Lovarian
Layla - Eric Clapton

Just give this song a try and see how it blows your mind!

Layla should be number one. Dear god, really?

Derek and the Dominos and Eric Clapton are the best. This should be in the top ten.
Losing You - Dead by April

This is just about the most desperate love confession on record.
Yellow - Coldplay
Last Night On Earth - Green Day

So beautiful! Billie Joe's vocals are just awesome!
Something - The Beatles

This song is the definition of a love song. It has all the elements, and each Beatle pulls off each part perfectly.

The best ever! Must be in the top five at least!

How isn't "Something" in the top ten?
Lips of An Angel - Hinder

A song about first loves finding their way back to each other years later, but they've both moved on with other people. They still love each other and are having an emotional affair that is tempting their fidelity to their current significant others.

This song showcases the pain of not being able to be with the one you love. It's written like a one-sided conversation with a loved one over the telephone. Very beautifully sung.