Not necessarily in any kind of order:

#10 - Nimrod's Son by The Pixies
There's a this awesome chugga chugga beat and chaotic acoustic guitar that suites the imagery of the lyrics perfectly. Frank's singing about driving insanely fast on his motorcycle and finding out that his parents were mother and son. It's just like... chaos. It rocks.

#9 - Tell All the People by The Doors
This probably isn't my favorite Doors song really... but it's up there, and it's highly recommended. There's this Pied Piper of Hamlin vibe to it. Jim sounds very... haunted... in it. Not even in his usual pretentious "tortured artist" sort of way. It's almost like he KNOWS that he's not going anywhere but down, and he's going drag everyone that ever cared about him down with him. My actual favorite Doors song is "Not to Touch the Earth," but this is the one that's been stuck in my head for the last week or so.

#8 - Mother by Pink Floyd
This is actually my all time favorite song ever. To me, this song sums up The Wall entirely. Just like... "I'm totally fucked up, and you're the reason why."  The last line "Mother did it need to be so high?" is the part that gets me the most. It's like, he's going through the song basically doggin on his mom and portraying her in this terrible way, and then at the end, he's just... defeated. He's just sitting there saying "jesus... did you really have to take things THIS far?"

#7 - Taxi by Harry Chapin
I friggin LOVE this song. I love a song that tells a story. I guess I subscribe more to the lyrical side of songs rather than the musical side. The song is about a guy driving a cab and he picks up his old girlfriend who's now a famous actress. They'd split up a long time ago to pursue their respective dreams (he wanted to be a pilot) and she became successful and he didn't. It's totally fucked and awesome. There's this one part where he talks about how he's got all this crazy energy in him, ready to explode into something big and what he wants to be, but he's too afraid to let it out.

#6 - Killer Queen by Queen
Easily my favorite Queen song. For one thing, it's just a totally fun little song. Freddy sounds like he's having a good time singing it and it just makes me happy. It wasn't until like, a few year ago that I ever actually realized what the song's about. I'm kinda slow like that sometime.

#7 - Legend of a Mind by The Moody Blues
When I'm in the right mood, I can totally rock to the Moody Blues. Sure they're kind of like, hippie music and like, kind of fruity, but so what. I dig this song because it's totally mellow and trippy, and then in the middle of the song it goes into this insane flute solo that's totally chaotic and nutty and then it goes back to the main part of the song, but it's much more intense and threatening. There's not much to it lyrically (it's about Timothy Leary) but the tone of it is bad ass.

#6 - Rats by Pearl Jam
For some reason, this song seems to get overlooked a lot by Pearl Jam fans. I don't see why, I think it's rad. It's pretty simple, but it's fun. I dig the drums in it and the bass. Plus, at the end of it Eddie starts singing the opening line to another one of my all time favorite songs,"Ben" by Michael Jackson.

#5 - Ben by Michael Jackson
this one's from when Michael was still a little kid. It came from the movie "Ben," which was the sequel to "Willard". It's a love song sung to a rat. It's really beautiful actually. In fact, it was Sandra and my wedding song.

#4 - The Logical Song by Supertramp
I was driving one day and this song was playing on the radio. I'd heard it a million times, but I'd never really listened to the lyrics. I started listening to what the guy was singing about and I actually had to pull over because I got all emotional. It was like it summed up everything I felt about my own life. Like here I was, trying to just be Joe, and I had people trying to make me into something i wasn't. It was fucked up.

#3 - the melody at the end of Abby Road by The Beatles
I know it's supposed to be single songs, but the whole run of songs at the end of the album just rock as a whole. Separating them is kind of like trying to play "Another Brick in the Wall part 2" without "The Happiest Days of our Lives at the beginning." The whole shebang is like, nine or ten minutes long I think all together, but the whole thing is simply perfect. "Golden Slumbers," "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window," "Polythene Pam," "Mean Mr Mustard"... it's all perfect. The Beatles at their best.

#2 - In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
The atmosphere is bad ass. Phil was there and he saw what he did. Saw it with his own two eyes. So wipe of that grin, he knows where you've been. It's all been a pack of lies. Fucking sweet. This song always reminds me of "Lord of the Flies" for some reason.

#1 - You're All I've Got Tonight by The Cars
only just SLIGHTLY better than "Just What I Needed." It's got the same kind of ass kicking beat and guitar riff, but the added dysfunctional theme of "I'll only fucking you because you're here, not because I like you" is enough to earn this song a place on the list.

So I guess that's it for now. Obviously this is hardly a perfect list. It's what I could think of at one thirty in the morning. The absence of "Ziggy Stardust" by David Bowie and "Refuge" by Tom Petty and "Levon" by Elton John and "Two out of Three Ain't Bad" by Meatloaf says something about my focus, but whatever.

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