Top 1000 Songs #270-#261

#270 - "Interstate Love Song" - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple - #6/6 - The pinnacle of STP's decade-long career, "Interstate" is a sweeping indie rock song with a brilliant chorus.

#269 - "Gimme Some Lovin'" - The Spencer Davis Group - Welcome To The Canteen - #1/1 - One of the greatest one-hit wonder songs of all-time, "Gimme" introduced the world to Steve Winwood, who was a teenager at the time of it's recording. The song ranks among the best songs of it's era and it's genre.

#268 - "Fade To Black" - Metallica - Ride The Lightning - #3/5 - One of the most depressing songs in Metallica's catalog, "Fade To Black" is a slow and prodding nightmare of a song that picks up dramatically towards the end.

#267 - "Feel Good Inc." - The Gorillaz - Demon Days - #2/2 - The best song of 2006, "Feel Good Inc" combines Brit-pop choruses courtesy of the Blur wing of the band and verses by rap group De La Soul.

#266 - "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - #1/1 - One of the angriest break-up songs ever written, "Oughta" is easily Alanis' best song and one of the top pop rock songs of the 90's.

#265 - "Song 2" - Blur - Blur - #3/3 - Blur's best and most popular song, "Song 2" is famous for it's Nirvana-esque fast-slow dynamic and it's explosive beginning.

#264 - "Don't Come Around Here No More" - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents - #14/17 - One of the best Petty songs of the early 80's, "Don't Come Around" is a good song at the start, but it improves dramatically towards the end when the tempo is cranked to a near Foo Fighters level and guitarist Mike Campbell's guitar solo explodes between Petty's most dramatic performance.

#263 - "Mr. Blue Sky" - Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue - #2/2 - Sounding like the Beatles gone disco, ELO's best song contains poppy verses and a solid chorus to combine for their most interesting song.

#262 - "Every Breath You Take" - The Police - Synchronicity - #5/5 - The Police's biggest hit and best song, "Every Breath" is frequently misinterpreted as a love song, when in actuality the song is one of the creepiest stalker songs ever written. The video is particularly disturbing as Sting seems to look straight through you when he raises his head at the end of the video to look at the camera.

#261 - "New Year's Day" - U2 - War - #11/16 - "New" is the song that announced U2 as the stadium-filling "greatest band in the world" with it's sweeping verses and sound that can only be described as "huge".