#70 - "Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - #6/7 - The most unique song by the Pumpkins, "Tonight" uses classical instruments mixed with contemporary guitar and drums to create an interesting atmosphere that Corgan's strange lyrics blends with perfectly.
#69 - "Someone's In The Wolf" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze - #16/16 - It was never released as a single but the largely instrumental "Wolf" is my favorite Queens song because of it's swirling guitars and pulsing beat.
#68 - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The Beatles - The White Album - #21/22 - Eric Clapton guest-starred on this George Harrison-led classic which features many of my favorite Beatles lyrics and some of the best guitar work of the Beatles catalog.
#67 - "Piece Of My Heart" - Janis Joplin - Love, Janis - #3/3 - Very few vocals have every been as passionate as Janis' on this 60's classic which combined classic rock style with blues rock sentiment. The lyrics and performance are among the most intense ever recorded.
#66 - "The Times They Are A-Changin'" - Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' - #13/15 - An iconic song of the 60's that can be looked back in retrospect as being an entirely accurate worldview that spoke not only to what had happened but also to what would happen down the line. Among the greatest protest songs ever written.
#65 - "Dream On" - Aerosmith - Aerosmith - #5/7 - Aerosmith's breakthrough song is a classic rock anthem highlighted by one of the greatest choruses of all-time. Not quite Aerosmith's best but it was definitely a sign of great things to come.
#64 - "Runnin' Down A Dream" - Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever - #15/17 - Some of Petty's best lyrics blends perfectly with the band's greatest guitar riff to create the ultimate top-down driving song of the classic rock era.
#63 - "Walk This Way" - Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic - #6/7 - One of the first rock songs to incorporate rap style verses along with the song's top-5 all-time guitar riffs to create one of the most creative songs of the 70's. The lyrics are pure smut, but that wasn't uncommon for the era.
#62 - "Us And Them" - Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - #9/14 - Pink Floyd's war song is one of the most poignant and haunting war protest songs ever written. Like every other song on Dark Side, the music is sweeping and entrancing.
#61 - "Career Opportunities" - The Clash - Sandinista - #16/18 - Not one of the band's hits but one of the best punk songs anyway, "Career" is an intense rant about the miserable job market in England during the 70's. The song is, as always, dripping with sarcasm and sharp wit.
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