My Top 1000 Songs #83: Where Is My Mind

During my time at the college radio station in the mid-80s, there were a few new arrivals that led the station to a collective "holy shit!" Something new and unexpected that everyone immediately noticed as both significant and endlessly re-playable, the sort of song or album every DJ felt obligated to spin on every show for the next three months.

The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" (along with the rest of 1985's Psychocandy) was one of those moments. And Pixies' "Where Is My Mind" was an...