Top 1000 Songs #340-#331

#340 - "Mother's Little Helper" - The Rolling Stones - Flowers - #9/20 - "Mother's Little Helper" is a song about the unsettling trend of tranquilizer use by stressed out women during the middle of the 20th century. It's presented with great lyrics and a fantastic chorus. An interesting song that sort of resembles what it would sound like if the Rolling Stones and the Kinks merged into one band.

#339 - "Golden Years" - David Bowie - Station To Station - #4/10 - The music of Bowie in the late 70's was in a state of transition, moving from the brilliant Ziggy Stardust era towards the blah tie-wearing Bowie of the 80's. "Golden Years" was one of Bowie's few truly great songs of this era of his career, mixing disco beats with fantastic verses and one of his best choruses.

#338 - "Safe European Home" - The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope - #8/18 - Joe Strummer's song about the reality of his idealized Jamaica displays his sarcastic wit and storytelling at it's finest as he writes about how disappointed he was to find that he had "went to a place where every white face is an invitation to robbery."

#337 - "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) "- Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - #8/15 - Dylan's contribution to Easy Rider, "It's Alright" is a rambling song with a lot of say but not a whole lot of cohesion to make it accessible to the average listener. Good, if you're not willing to pay attention, you deserve to think that Dylan is a mumbler who can't sing.

#336 - "Clint Eastwood" - The Gorillaz - Gorillaz - #1/2 - The first big hit for the "cartoon band" Gorillaz (actually a British supergroup), "Clint Eastwood" is highlighted by great verses performed by the lead singer of Blur and the raps in the middle, forming a distinct style that the Gorillaz would ride to two successful albums to date.

#335 - "Troubled Times" - The Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion - #6/6 - The best Screaming Trees song, "Troubled Times" has a great pulse to it throughout as it builds from verse to verse towards a brilliant climax of a chorus.

#334 - "Eulogy" - Tool - Aenema - #4/9 - False prophets is a common theme in the music of Maynard James Keenan and it's never been clearer than on this Tool classic about a preacher who was proclaiming himself to be MJK's salvation, even though he'd refuse to say he'd be willing to die for him.

#333 - "Pavlov's Bell" - Aimee Mann - Lost In Space - #8/8 - The highest-ranking Mann song on the list is also her most sweeping and radio-friendly song. "Pavlov's" features Mann's most powerful chorus and some of her best songwriting.

#332 - "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea" - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model - #6/11 - Another tune from the prime era of Elvis' career, "Chelsea" is a poppy New Wave song about yet another girl from Costello's past. This song is best highlighted by it's quick pulse and outstanding chorus.

#331 - "With Or Without You" - U2 - The Joshua Tree - #9/16 - Yet another song from one of the great albums of all-time by one of the best bands of all-time, "With" was one of a trilogy of songs from the album that rocketed U2 to the top of the rock scene in the late-80's.