Top 1000 Songs #200-#191

#200 - "Common People" - Pulp - Different Class - #1/1 - The song is probably better-known in average circles because of the cover William Shatner did a few years back, but to music fans, it's widely regarded as one of the sharpest and most intelligent songs of the 90's. It kicks a lot of ass, too.

#199 - "Guerilla Radio" - Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles - #10/12 - Political punk doesn't get much better than this classic propelled by it's legendary opening guitar lick and Zach's bomb-throwing lyrics.

#198 - "Set Me Free" - Velvet Revolver - Contraband - #2/2 - Talk about hitting a home run in your first at-bat! VR never had another song as fun and exciting as the first glimpse we had of the band on this song, featured prominently in the soundtrack of the original Hulk film.

#197 - "Prison Sex" - Tool - Undertow - #6/9 - One of Tool's first big hits, "Prison Sex" is a crunchy prog nightmare with clever lyrics and frighteningly dark guitarwork.

#196 - "How Soon Is Now?" - The Smiths - Meat Is Murder - #2/2 - One of the classic alternative epics of the 80's, The Smiths were never better than they were on this landmark song.

#195 - "Tears In Heaven (Unplugged)" - Eric Clapton - Unplugged - #4/4 - The saddest and most moving song in Clapton's catalog is also his best and this version of the song is gutwrenchingly personal in a way the studio version could never be.

#194 - "For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield - #1/1 - Perhaps the best and most significant one-hit wonder song ever created, "For What It's Worth" is one of the defining songs of the 1960's and one of the best-written songs of all-time.

#193 - "Sunshine Of Your Love" - Cream - Disraeli Gears - #4/5 - Featuring one of the great guitar licks of the electric guitar's best era, "Sunshine Of Your Love" is a legendary classic rock song that defined the psychedelic rock genre.

#192 - "God Save The Queen" - The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - #3/4 - The song that made punk rock seem dangerous and scary, "God Save The Queen" was a brutal attack on the Queen of England, who at the time was still regarded as a significant figure in world events. The song got the band widely banned and gave them a reputation as the most avant garde band of the rock era.

#191 - "Rearviewmirror" - Pearl Jam - Vs. - #20/25 - If any song ever defined the concept of the slow build, it was "Rearviewmirror", a song that starts out slowly, but subtly accelerates until it reaches it's climax, when it's pulsing at a full-on pace that rivals the speed of PJ's "Spin The Black Circle". The song was never a big hit, but it's still regarded as a classic nonetheless.