The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
This was the Pixies' biggest hit, being played all over college radio stations in 1990. The kings (and queen!) of cool, they never tried to promote the track as a hit single.
This has been rumored to be about a drug deal, but in an interview with New Musical Express, Frank Black said the song was about hobos traveling by train and dying in a big earthquake in California. He started writing it when he was about 15 and was inspired by small earthquakes experienced growing up in California.