Top 1000 Songs #140-#131

#140 - "My Generation" - The Who - The Who Sings My Generation - #5/9 - The song that kicked off the entire punk genre and did so more than a decade before the genre took off, "My Generation" was unique when it came out for it's attitude and the shock value of the generational shift that the song represented.

#139 - "Debaser" - The Pixies - Doolittle - #8/8 - The Pixies best song, "Debaser" is a shifting and fast alternative punk song with crazy lyrics and a killer chorus that signified the band's place at the top of the alt-rock mountain.

#138 - "Crazy Train" - Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz - #3/3 - The critics had written Ozzy's career off after he left Black Sabbath, but he proved them wrong a thousand times over, starting right from the beginning of this, his first post-Sabbath hit, which takes off with a crazy "All Aboard" opening followed by Randy Rhodes' insane guitar shredding on one of the most memorable riffs in all of rock n roll. The lyrics are deceptive as they seem tame at first but on further listening reveal Ozzy's most political song since "War Pigs".

#137 - "About A Girl (Unplugged)" - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York - #13/15 - Nirvana's first great song got a new round of appreciation when it was featured during the band's set on MTV Unplugged. By slowing the song down the lyrical brilliance of the song was highlighted and the song finally became the hit it deserved to be.

#136 - "God Only Knows" - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - #3/4 - One of the prettiest ballads ever written, "God" is one of the last great songs to come out of the 60's and a pinnacle of Brian Wilson's genius with it's sharp lyrics and harmony.

#135 - "The Weight" - The Band - Greatest Hits - #2/2 - One of the signature songs of the 1960's, "The Weight" is easily the Band's greatest song and one of the best written songs of all-time.

#134 - "Good Vibrations" - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - #4/4 - One of the craziest and most brilliant songs of the early classic rock era, "Good Vibrations" was a departure from most of the Beach Boys earlier surf-rock songs and an expansion into rock n roll excess that would inspire Sgt. Pepper's and an entire era of excessive self-indulgent rock.

#133 - "Break On Through (To The Other Side)" - The Doors - Strange Days - #10/10 - The greatest Doors song is also one of their shortest, proving that artistic indulgence can't always trump raw power. The song is also the band's most exciting and essentially their only fast-pace rocker.

#132 - "The Bitch Is Back" - Elton John - Caribou - #8/8 - Elton's best rock song is a fast-paced rager from the start with great lyrics and a particularly spectacular chorus.

#131 - "Thunder Road" - Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run - #10/11 - The "other" great song on Springsteen's classic Born To Run LP, "Thunder Road" is one of the great epic songs of classic rock as the Boss paints a vivid picture of life growing up in New Jersey and establishes himself as the heir apparent to Bob Dylan.