100 Best Rock Songs 1990-2008 (53-6)

53. Trains (2002) – Porcupine Tree
52. City Hall (2001) – Tenacious D
51. Sad and Lonely (2004) – Secret Machines
50. Wake Me Up When September Ends (2004) – Green Day
49. I’m Not Okay (I Promise) (2005) – My Chemical Romance
48. Sky Blue Sky (2007) - Wilco
47. Styrofoam Plates – Death Cab For Cutie
46. The Dope Show – Marilyn Manson
45. The Widow (2005) – The Mars Volta
44. Redemption (2007) – Shadows Fall
43. What’s A Girl to Do (2006) – Bat for Lashes
42. We Are Rockstars (2008) – Does it Offend You, Yeah?
41. Sugar, We’re Going Down (2005) – Fall Out Boy
40. Ashes (2007) – Five Finger Death Punch
39. Pyramid Song (2001) - Radiohead
38. Now You’ve Got Something to Die For (2005) – Lamb of God
37. Electric Feel (2007) - MGMT
36. Stacy’s Mom (2003) – Fountains of Wayne
35. Whatever (1998) - Godsmack
34. St. James Infirmary Blues (1999) – The White Stripes
33. Spacegrass (1995) - Clutch
32. Rape Me (1994) - Nirvana
31. Gone Away – The Offspring
30. Youth of the Nation - P.O.D.
29. No One Knows (2002) – Queens of the Stone Age
28. Lua (2005) – Bright Eyes
27. You Me and the Bourgeoisie (2008) – The Submarines
26. Chop Suey! (2001) – System of a Down
25. Headstrong - Trapt
24. It’s Been Awhile - Staind
23. Wake Pig (2005) - 3
22. 3rd Planet (2001) – Modest Mouse
21. Hurt (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
20. Highly Suspicious (2008) – My Morning Jacket
19. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (2008) – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
18. Rose of Sharyn (2004) – Killswitch Engage
17. Voices (2006) - Saosin
16. Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991) - Nirvana
15. Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
14. 3 AM – Matchbox Twenty
13. Black Bubblegum (2007) – The Dillinger Escape Plan
12. The Modern Leper (2008) – Frightened Rabbit
11. All These Things I’ve Done (2005) – The Killers
10. Blindfolds Aside (2006) – Protest the Hero
9. Cumbersome – Seven Mary Three
8. One Week – Barenaked Ladies
7. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
6. Welcome Home (2005) – Coheed & Cambria

Best Rock Songs 1990-2008 (100-54)

100 Best Rock Songs 1990-2008

100. Lamb on the Lam (In the City) (2006) – Band of Horses
99. Float On (2004) – Modest Mouse
98. In Bloom (1991) – Nirvana
97. Take Me Out (2004) – Franz Ferdinand
96. Creep (1993) – Radiohead
95. Wicked Garden – Stone Temple Pilots
94. Man in the Box – Alice in Chains
93. Down With the Sickness (2000) – Disturbed
92. Killing in the Name (1992) – Rage Against the Machine
91. Wish (1992) – Nine Inch Nails
90. Loser (1994) – Beck
89. Lazy Eye (2006) – Silversun Pickups
88. What It’s Like (1998) – Everlast
86. Wait & Bleed (1999) – Slipknot
85. Losing My Religion – R.E.M.
84. Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
83. Black Hole Sun – Sound Garden
82. The Enemy Guns (2004) – DeVotchKa
81. Strange (2001) – Built to Spill
80. Teardrop (1998) – Massive Attack
79. Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
78. Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
77. Undone – The Sweater Song (1994) - Weezer
76. Freak on a Leash - Korn
75. Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground
74. Two Silver Trees - Calexico
73. E-Pro (2005) – Beck
72. World So Cold (2002) - Mudvayne
71. Forty Six & Two (1996) - Tool
70. Sober (1993) - Tool
69. Violet Hill (2007) - Coldplay
68. Sex on Fire (2008) – Kings of Leon
67. Jeremy – Pearl Jam
66. Buddy Holly (1994) - Weezer
65. What I Got (1996) - Sublime
64. I Alone - Live
63. 1997 (1996) – The Smashing Pumpkins
62. Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson Cover) – Alien Ant Farm
61. Black Wave/Bad Vibrations – Arcade Fire
60. F*cking Boyfriend - The Bird and The Bee
59. What’s My Age Again? – blink 182
58. Fire Water Burn – Bloodhound Gang
57. Knights of Cydonia - Muse
56. Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) – The Offspring
55. Young Folks (2006) – Peter Bjorn & John
54. Alive with the Glory of Love (2004) – Say Anyting

I am compiling a list of my most favorite songs since I was born. Of course, I'll probably forget some and kick myself for having to leave a few off. But there you go! I think this will make a pretty amazing mp3 list for anyone reading this who might want to LEGALLY (jk) download some tunes.

I Couldn't Wait For The Summer At The Warped Tour...

Clover

Resting on a soft bed of clover
Nestled in fanciful notions by the cliffs of Dover
With propensity to leave the shores of reality
I dreamed that all my troubles were over

Behemoth

Upon the shores of a forgotten lake
The ground my maiden and I did feel shake
From the depths rose the arcane behemoth
Thus, we ran for our own sake

The Dryads

With the oak, a nymph did rest
To lie in repose, and catch it’s breath
‘Twas the dryad Napea
Cloaked from a stalking death

Gawain

The courteous turned to vindicate
The loss of Gareth of late
By the slaying of Lancelot
Though he suffered his brother’s fate

Midgard

Once the world was encircled by a great serpent
In Midgard where the mortals came and went
Between the abode of Heaven and Hell
That is where we used to dwell

-© Brett Holden

Slumdog Millionaire? Really?

Can we build bunk beds?

Acheron

Drifting timid along the stream of woe
A cold journey into the midst of Hell
To the rancor shores where the dead souls swell
Charon showed me the cursed torment below
Dreadful aversion, thus, began to grow
The terrors I witnessed I shall not tell
How wondrous I rose from where I had fell
Returning with my long lost soul in tow
Across the black river I commandeered
The ferry from its infernal captain
To return to the blue world once more
Escaping from all that I had once feared
Where our fellows burn in their hollow sin
In the words that line our forgotten lore

-© Brett Holden

That's what Mythology class will do to you. I'm preparing to write a paper in ENG 210 about post-traumatic stress disorder. I'm afraid I my be in love with tragedy. I suppose that's only human.

Come on, Pappy...aren't ya gonna do a little paul-a-tickin'?

Bleak Breath

An artist in us paints the sky black
To fuel the fire that burns our charade
Inundate our fears with the relentless attack
As we cut a path in a ravaging parade

Laying amongst the sands of delusion
After the sacrifice divine
Without mercy, feed the dubious confusion
We may yet drown in the swindled brine

Trace the forgotten thoughts of apathy
As the world draws the last bleak breath
Still trapped underneath the debris
In a moment worthy of Macbeth

-© Brett Holden

I'm researching so that I can pick a major at MSU. I'm so lost.

Nix

Beneath the shimmering cascade
A haunting song came where the children played
Following the guidance that it bade
Away from the shallows where they once prayed

So came the strange semblance of a reclusive sprite
Her hair was of a silvery white
With a song that drew the serene invite
For the children to play in the depths all night

Amphix continued to call her refrain
Receiving the unsaved innocents into the drain
‘Til their existence began to slowly wane
Yet, soon returned the widow Elaine

At this arrival came a malignant mist
Which the enchanted widow was unable to resist
Thus, a dreadful grasp gripped her wrist
A hold that would never desist

On her violin Amphix continued to strum
To the moment in which the mortals reached the bottom
Still no one as missed them this past autumn
The unfortunate lost to the fatal hum

© Brett Holden

Count me in...

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.