Rock On the debut film as a singer and actor of Farhan Akhtar has music composed by the Ace Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and lyrics by Javed Akhtar.

The first soundtrack of the album is "Socha Hai". It begins with the zany electronic and rhythm guitar strumming followed by rigorous drum-beating sets the tempo for a typical 'hard-rock' concert stylized number. Farhan Akhtar takes the mike and the vocals make a great impact. Javed saab’s lyrics are striking and makes this a wonderful number.

The next track is "Pichle Saat Dino Mein". Here again you will get to hear electronic guitar. Farhan is been heard solo yet again in this soundrack, which is been repeated towards the end of the album as a LIVE performance. It is a blazing rock song with quizzical wordings ('Mera Laundry Ka Ek Bill…') about things lost in 7 days. The second version is 'feel-good' concert number where vocalist energizes the crowd to sing with him. It picks up well with 'Na Na Na' sounds with slower tempo that gets aggravated and finally culminates into a typical rock concert number.

Farhan Akhtar is wonderful in the next piece which is the best in the album. His voice is finely matched with electric guitars, bass guitars, drums and keyboards in youthfully energized title track 'Rock On'. S-E-L certainly deliver a gem of hard-rock number that has the firing thrust of setting the concert floors on fire. Expect this to climb the charts.

The next song is "Yeh Tumhari Meri Baatein" is a "Hinglish" song. This song gives soft rock feel. The lyrics and tune are quite simple and there's nothing great about it. The song is a quite lazily written song but the composition is top mark, moody and sad but not overemotional. Dominique sings quite well.

'Hard-metal' rock music makes its impulsive and animated maneuvers through Suraj Jagan's ferociously vocals, distorted loud guitar, dense bass and drum sounds and bizarre lyrical works in 'Zehreeely'. The continuous rigorous beat-patterns are ear-splitting where the voice screeches and yells to deliver a venomous feel of the protagonist. It's extra-vociferous and thunderous rendition is more akin to the situational needs.

The next song is "Tum Ho Toh", which is in the middle of the album after a heavy metal head-banging . Even though a slow, soft sad song, it has a rock feel in it. An average soundtrack, which has no great tune and lyric. Farhan is going not bad, he comes to mike along with Raman Mahadevan and together they try to make something unconventional.

The fairy tales of 'Sindbad the sailor' used as a theme as 'Sindbad' is idolized in snazzy sounding rock number 'Sindbad the Sailor'. Farhan finds the company of talented Raman Mahadevan as their voices complements and amalgamates well in tandem with rigorously punched 'hard-rock' musical arrangements to deliver another worth-hearing number.

After the enchanting 'Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein', impressive sounding Caralisa Monteiro's subtle vocals make mood mushier by ushering out emotions of dreams and hope in the magnificently rendered 'Phir Dekhiye'. S-E-L makes delectable use of rhythmical guitar and piano works that gel perfectly with silken feminine vocal moves. It's another delightfully gleaming soft number that will be adding dollops of sentimental delights in tender moments and surely will be making the singer proud of her remarkable rendition.

S-E-L have succeeded in creating a fine rock album. Expect it to rise in the musical charts.

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