31. Down By Law - "1944"
Anyone familiar with the California scene knows what they are talking about and who they are talking about and where they there were talking about. l had a personal feeling for this song. Always trying your best and always hitting the end of some critic's crap. Being disliked by some critic? That critic disliking you so much when he's never felt the sweat drip on to your bass while you're playing until you can't see straight? Playing until you are dizzy? Bagging on me? Fuck him. It's easy to sit and create words on a page, but when you look down on the floor and see people having fun together, it's different. It stops being about divisions. It starts being about having fun and wasn't this what it was about? Having fun? Not what others thought because we gave all that shit up along time ago. Just having fun. -T download

32. The Jam - "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
The first time I heard this song - about a guy trying to get home from work to his wife but gets jacked by some thugs in the a subway station, was the first time I fell in love with The Jam. It was Weller's ability to tell a complete, chilling story here, combined with the perfect pace of the song; rise and fall, slow and frenzied, giving the whole thing an air of drama that made see this band for everything they were. The build up as the guy is laying there, beaten and describing his what he sees as he's on the floor dying, (The last thing that I saw As I lay there on the floor Was Jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter) and then the lines "I glanced back on my life and thought about my wife cause they took the keys - and she'll think its me." That stayed with me. Haunted me. I still to this day - over 20 years later - get that same gut-punch feeling when I listen to this. That, kids, is what turns a good song into a great song. - M download

33. Refused - "New Noise"
The first time I heard this song, I was watching (what the hell was the name of that metal show on the old Much Music?) TV late at night and they showed this video. Some dorks in suits come out on a stage. Oh, what the fuck is this shit they're playing now? And then the opening riff and I thought, hmmm...sounds promising. Then the drums kick in, then the bass kicks in and then it slows down....yea, I'm digging this but where's this going, and then.........CAN I SCREAM? Whoa, dude. Whoa. The rest of the song kicked my ass. I had been half asleep when it started and by the time the dude was screaming We're not....leading, I was off the couch, adrenaline kicked in, and on the computer looking up shit about this band. Swedish hardcore punk? Right on. They may look like rejects from an Ed Sullivan repeat, but they fucking kicked my ass. Shape of Punk to Come is one of my favorite albums ever. - M download