Top 1000 Songs #100-#91

#100 - "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - #6/6 - The Cure's all-time hit, "Just Like Heaven" is one of the best alt-rock songs of the 80's and further proof that the Cure were far from the gloom and doom rockers people who saw them on MTV think that they are. The song is one of the sweetest and most moving love songs ever made.

#99 - "What It's Like" - Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings The Blues - #1/1 - What started out as a novelty act (white rapper...) with House of Pain remarkably became one of the darkest most politically relevant songs of the 90's when lead singer Everlast went out on his own with this song that called out the glass house stone throwers on all their biggest and most obvious hypocracies.

#98 - "Life Wasted" - Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam - #22/25 - Pearl Jam disappeared from the modern rock spotlight for a few years as they explored different artistic avenues (while still creating great music) but came roaring back to the mainstream with "World Wide Suicide" and this song, which is even better. The song is highlighted by a monster guitar riff to open the song and a blistering vocal performance from frontman Eddie Vedder.

#97 - "Get Off Of My Cloud" - The Rolling Stones - December's Children (And Everybody's) - #15/20 - At the intersection of the blues and rock n roll stand the Rolling Stones. The attitude displayed in this song with it's shout-out chorus and layered structure was at least a decade before it's time.

#96 - "Man In The Box" - Alice In Chains - Facelift - #8/8 - Alice In Chains was never really a grunge band, but they were from Seattle and got lumped in with the Nirvana-Pearl Jam crowd. This song, their best, actually pre-dates "Smells Like Teen Spirit" though and proves that the band would have been huge even if they didn't get lumped into the best trend in the history of rock n roll.

#95 - "One" - U2 - Achtung Baby - #14/16 - U2's best song since The Joshua Tree is a sweeping rock ballad that served as the glue that held the band's second-best album together and announced the band's second decade at the top of the rock heap.

#94 - "Breed" - Nirvana - Nevermind - #14/15 - Nirvana's most straight-forward punk song features a raging guitar riff and a blistering solo, making it one of the most intense adrenaline songs of all-time. Cobain plays his usual lyrical tricks, mixing up what otherwise could have become something of a meathead anthem.

#93 - "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - #2/2 - Motown's pop sound got a social conscience with this all-time classic from Marvin Gaye. The song served as an anthem for a generation during a time of turmoil and showed that Gaye's skills as a songwriter could be used to create political songs as well as pop songs.

#92 - "Jumpin' Jack Flash" - The Rolling Stones - Flashpoint - #16/20 - Another great guitar riff drives yet another all-time classic song from the Stones in the 60's. No band was better at blending the blues and R&B into an entirely new genre.

#91 - "Another Brick In The Wall" - Pink Floyd - The Wall - #8/14 - I'm doing a bit of radio re-editing on this track as I'm counting all three "Brick"'s as one epic song with all the small pieces in between as well. The songs belong together even if they didn't appear that way on the album. The songs tell a story about alienation, the ways we seperate ourselves from others and what conditions are necessary to make us so fucked up in the first place.