#390 - "Burning Down The House" - The Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues - #4/10 - The most popular Talking Heads song (it was featured prominently in "Revenge Of The Nerds"), "Burning" is a bouncy new wave song with great lyrics and an outstanding chorus that propels the song from start to finish.
#389 - "Superman's Dead" - Our Lady Peace - Clumsy - #2/2 - Our Lady Peace's most popular and best song, "Superman's Dead" is a sharply-written modern rock classic the pulses throughout and has a great chorus.
#388 - "Riders On The Storm" - The Doors - L.A. Woman - #7/10 - One of the last great songs the band released before Jim Morrison's death, "Riders On The Storm" stands near the pinnacle of the classic rock genre with it's dark verses and musical accompaniment.
#387 - "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam - Ten - #16/25 - Pearl Jam's most widely-regarded song (though not their biggest hit), "Jeremy" is best known for it's bleak lyrics and pitch-black and haunting video. The song also features a great guitar solo.
#386 - "Enter Sandman" - Metallica - Metallica (The Black Album) - #1/5 - Metallica's best-known song represents the peak of the band's popularity and also the point when the band began to realize they didn't have to try so hard to be successful, leading to future albums of diminishing quality.
#385 - "Truckin'" - The Grateful Dead - American Beauty - #2/3 - The best Dead song of the 70's, "Truckin'" features the band's best lyrics and a great travelogue type story from the band's mid-career tours. This is also the song that provided one of rock's most famous lyrics: "What a long, strange trip it's been".
#384 - "The One I Love" - R.E.M. - Document - #9/12 - "The One I Love" is not a love song. In fact, it's quite the opposite. What it is, however, is the song that broke R.E.M. through to the mainstream, signaling a turning point in a grim period of time for rock n roll, the 1980's.
#383 - "Houses Of The Holy" - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - #13/24 - Yet another new style for Zeppelin in this mid-career hit, as the band starts to mess around with heavier sounds again, but doesn't quite commit the way that they do on the remainder of their masterpiece Physical Graffiti.
#382 - "Middle Of The Road" - The Pretenders - Learning To Crawl - #5/5 - The best song the Pretenders have to offer, "Middle Of The Road" features the band's best lyrics and was the closest thing the band ever came to a straight-up punk song.
#381 - "Whatever Happened To My Rock N Roll (Punk Song)" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - #3/3 - One of the best rock bands that almost no one has ever heard of, BRMC are the best advocates of shoegaze-infused rock n roll since The Jesus And Mary Chain and this is their best song to date.
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