Top 1000 Songs #60-#51

#60 - "Thunder Kiss '65" - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 - #2/2 - One of the best metal songs of the 90's, "Thunder Kiss" is driven by thundering drums and a great vocal from singer Rob Zombie, creating one of the best driving songs ever written.

#59 - "Sleep Now In The Fire" - Rage Against The Machine - The Battle Of Los Angeles - #11/12 - Rage's best guitar work is featured in this song which also has one of the band's most intense choruses. The band went out on quite a high note with this song and this album.

#58 - "Stinkfist" - Tool - Aenema - #9/9 - Tool's best song and one of their biggest hits has a crunchy guitar-driven beat and desperate-sounding verses that build in intensity from start to finish.

#57 - "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town" - Pearl Jam - Vs. - #24/25 - Grunge lyrics don't get much better than they got in this early classic by Pearl Jam about how easy it is to get stuck in a small town life.

#56 - "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" - R.E.M. - Document - #11/12 - The ultimate karaoke challenge is also one of the best songs by R.E.M., which it's rapid-fire lyrics and cathartic chorus. I may never figure out what this song is about, but every time I hear the drums that open the song I know I crank up the volume on the radio.

#55 - "White Room" - Cream - Wheels Of Fire - #5/5 - Psychedelic rock's high-water mark, "White Room" is one of the best songs of the 60's with it's swirling guitars and fantastic atmosphere.

#54 - "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love And Understanding" - Elvis Costello - Armed Forces - #10/11 - Elvis covered a song by Nick Lowe and changed it from a cynical rant to a pulsing call to arms with some of the greatest guitar solos of the new wave era. The build-up to the chorus and the chorus itself are among Elvis' best.

#53 - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - #7/7 - The grunge era never had a better take on existentialism than this song, a raging punk song that wavers from genre to genre every second and features some of the angriest vocals from any band that became popular.

#52 - "Rock And Roll" - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV - #22/24 - "Rock And Roll" features one of the greatest drum tracks of all-time and also features pulsing lyrics and an oustanding chorus and guitar work.

#51 - "Welcome To The Machine" - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - #10/14 - Another depressing but brilliant song from Pink Floyd's best era (the 70's), this song paints a bleak picture of life in modern society as another cog in the industrial machine.