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Our Top 10 UFO Songs list takes a look at a band first formed in the late 1960s in the city of London. As the band has lasted for 50 years, they currently rank among the longest-running bands in classic rock history. As a group that has continued to release new music over that fifty-year period, they are by no means an oldies act. Many fans, critics, and journalists feel that the band UFO stands as one of the most prolific and at the same time, underrated bands in classic rock history. Their early material was clearly inspired by blues and the British Progressive Rock movement. However, their sound since the 1970s has always bordered on metal and heavy rock with a reasonable amount of beautiful rock and roll ballads.
Phil Mogg’s vocals continue to showcase his talents as one of rock and roll’s greatest singers. Michael Schenker’s on-and-off role in the band over the years has resulted in a catalog of brilliant guitar work showcased on many UFO songs and albums. Andy Parker, Pete Way, Vinnie Moore, and Paul Raymond are other key members who have contributed to the UFO legacy over the years. The band has gone through many personal changes over the years.
UFO’s first album was released in 1970. Since their debut album in 1970, the band has released 22 albums. The band’s most recent album was released in 2017, entitled The Salentino Cuts
. Our top 10 UFO Songs list is just a subjective list of our favorite UFO songs. It’s difficult to pick only ten, but that’s the name of the game.
# 10 – Love To Love
We open our top 10 UFO Songs list with a track from what we believe is one of the band’s strongest albums. The song “Love To Love” was released on the Lights Out
album in 1977. The song “Love to Love” was the album’s closing track. The cover art to the album was designed by the graphic art company Hipgnosis who were also responsible for designing so many of the classic Pink Floyd album covers.
# 9 – Lonely Heart
The UFO song “Lonely Heart” was released on the The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent 
album. The album was released in 1981. “Lonely Heart” was released as the second single from the album.
# 8 – Silver Bird
The great Progressive Rock style track “Silver Bird” was released on the band’s sophomore album. The band sounded very different on their first two albums. Our top 10 songs list always attempts to define different periods in a band’s history. We think it’s important to identify UFO’s sound during their early stages. It’s also a pretty good song.
# 7 – Shake It About
Continuing with the band’s early years, we turn to their debut album in 1968. The song “Shake It About” defines one of the group’s earliest influences. Like so many other rock and roll bands that came out of the 60s, such as The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, it was the blues that laid the early foundation for the band’s sound.
# 6 – Year Of The Gun
This great track is the most recent UFO song to appear on our top 10 UFO Songs list. “Year of the Gun” was released on the album Seven Deadly.
The album was released in 2012. This one has a bit of a heavy, almost southern rock sound to the arrangement. Even the lyrics lend themself to the southern rock styles of bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, and Molly Hatchet.
# 5 – Can You Roll Her
Released on No Heavy Petting 
in 1976. The song “Can You Roll Her” was issued as the first single from the album. It was a single released only in Japan. This is classic UFO and sounds very different from the last song on our UFO songs list. We love the sound of the keyboards banging against the guitar licks on this legendary song.
# 4 – Doctor Doctor
One of the band’s most popular songs. “Doctor Doctor” was issued on the band’s third album, entitled Phenomenon
. The album was released in 1974. It was the first album on which virtuous guitarist Michael Schenker appeared. This one has a bit of 1960s progressive rock feel at the intro, but then explodes into that dynamic 70s classic rock sound.
# 3 – Let It Roll
Released on the album Force It
in 1975. It was the album’s opening track. “Let It Roll” was also the B-side to the single “High Flyer.” Love that feedback on the song’s opening note. The album cover for Force It was banned in many countries.
# 2 – Rock Bottom
The great track “Rock Bottom” appeared on the Phenomenon
album in 1974. It was the third single released from the album. This one starts with a killer guitar riff by Michael Schenker, bathed in blues-meets-metal. The song closed out side one of the lp. The album featured Phil Mogg on vocals, Andy Parker on drums, Pete Way on bass ,and Michael Schenker on guitar.
# 1 – Lights Out
We close out our Top 10 UFO songs list with the title track from the fabulous Lights Out 
album. Four singles were released from the Lights Out 
album. “Lights Out” was not one of them. It doesn’t matter; it’s still our favorite UFO song. The song was written by Phil Mogg, Michael Schenker, Pete Way, and Andy Parker.
By Frank Schwichtenberg [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
Updated January 14, 2026
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LOVE your diverse top 10 list !
Of course needs to include Love To Love – I Love how you included a song from Seven Deadly – the Vinnie Moore era – my fav UFO album !!!
I have seen over 30 UFO concerts and cannot express how hard this band ROCKS !
Phil was ahead of his time – along with Michael , Vinnie , Pete , Paul Chapman and Paul Raymond have written the greatest songs in rock and there is so much beyond SITN !!!
Always impossible to develop any list which will please fans.
Agree with lights out, great to see a seven deadly song on there but burn your house down from that album has become a staple of the live show and is a modern classic.
Surprised but interested to see some early UFO in the list and I will check those out.
Thanks
UFO was a great band and it’s a shame they didn’t have the audience in the middle part of the US to help them break through big time. The larger cities like Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, the Twin Cities, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio and Memphis and New Orleans drew their share of great music but my city was always at least a two hour drive, and we never knew when anybody was touring because there was no internet and the local “rock” station didn’t want to “help” competition, even those stations were out of signal range.
It was because of college and a friend from Chicago that I discovered a lot of music, and then Fayetteville, AR., finally started to wake up with a punk/hardcore scene and more obscure bands were finally in the stores.
I would have picked something off the equally impressive “Obsession” album myself. “Pack It Up And Go” and “One More For The Rodeo” are great rockers.