My Top 1000 Songs #380: Not Too Soon

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Hot on the heels of the Jam's "Smithers-Jones," here's another example of a band's non-frontman (or, here, frontwoman) stepping to the fore and absolutely crushing it. While Kristin Hersh was generally Throwing Muses' visionary, guitarist Tanya Donelly occasionally took a spot at the mic. And "Not Too Soon," off 1991's The Real Ramona, is a true tour de for...