Top 1000 Songs #370-#361

#370 - "U-Mass" - The Pixies - Trompe Le Monde - #2/8 - The last great Pixies single, "U-Mass" is a riff-driven song with fantastic lyrics and the best loud-quiet dynamic the band that invented it ever put together.

#369 - "Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden - Down on The Upside - #3/11 - One of many great songs off of Soundgarden's best album, "Pretty Noose" is among the best grunge or metal songs of the 90's and features great lyrics.

#368 - "It Ain't Me Babe" - Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan - #7/15 - One of the first and best break-up songs of Dylan's career where he tears a woman's heart out every time the song hits it's chorus.

#367 - "Under My Thumb" - The Rolling Stones - Aftermath - #8/20 - A remarkably chaveunist song for the 1960's, "Under My Thumb" is a bitter rant about a man who breaks his woman's spirit. Very romantic stuff.

#366 - "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver" - Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese - #1/1 - Primus' most popular and best song, "Jerry" features the best bass line of the mid 90's and a great build to a pummeling climax.

#365 - "My Hero" - The Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape - #8/10 - Unlike previous entry "Immortality", "My Hero" is actually about Cobain. Dave Grohl's tribute to his fallen bandmate is also the band's most radio-friendly song and features one of their best choruses.

#364 - "More Human Than Human" - White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000 - #1/2 - White Zombie's biggest hit, though not quite their best song, "More Human" is a crunchy heavy metal nightmare that's among the greatest metal songs of the 90's.

#363 - "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" - Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle - #7/11 - Springsteen's first great rock n roll epic, "Rosalita" is an "American Pie" level classic with multiple parts pushed together rock opera style to create one of the artist's most exciting and interesting songs.

#362 - "Mysterious Ways" - U2 - Achtung Baby - #7/16 - Riding high on the world-consuming success of The Joshua Tree and Rattle And Hum, "Mysterious Ways" announced the band's move into the alternative rock scene right as R.E.M. and Nirvana were starting to put the spotlight on the genre (talk about great timing). The song is a definite change in direction, though the band would later go to far in their pursuit of new songs, but that was long after this brilliant cut from yet another great album.

#361 - "I Won't Back Down" - Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever - #11/17 - Petty's iconic ballad about taking a stand for what you believe in is one of the iconic songs of the late 80's and features the best vocal performance of his career.