Top 1000 Bands #960-#951

#960 - Wayne County And The Back Street Boys - No, not THOSE Back Street Boys, this one was an influential 77 NYC Punk band whose only major claim to fame is "Max's Kansas City".

#959 - Ben Kweller - Indie folk singer Ben Kweller only has a handful of songs to his name, but he's already made an impact on my collection.

#958 - Harvey Danger - Ska band Harvey Danger only had one hit, but it was a hell of a hit, as "Flagpole Sitta" is one of the best one-hit wonder songs ever made.

#957 - The Ventures - Surf-rock instrumentalists The Ventures created some of the most memorable guitar solos of early rock n roll.

#956 - NOFX - The most juvenile of all 90s punk bands, I enjoyed listening to NOFX in college, but by this point I only listen to a few of their songs, though those few songs are still pretty good.

#955 - Todd Rundgren - While more influential as a producer than as a musician, Rundgren still managed to create many of the best pop songs of the 70s.

#954 - La Rocca - One of the most recent bands I discovered, La Rocca is a long way from a breakthrough, but their music, which I first heard on a sampler disc in Paste magazine, is light years ahead of most bands that have achieved fame these days.

#953 - Perry Farrell - The lead singer of about 10 million bands, but most famously Jane's Addiction, Farrell has produced a couple solo albums that have been above average and better than anything he's done outside of Addiction or Porno For Pyros.

#952 - William Shatner - Shatner has recorded two albums worth of the most hilarious cover songs this side of Richard Cheese. His second album is the funnier of the two because he was playing along, but the first one is still unintentionally awesome.

#951 - Waylon Jennings - One of the great country singers of the 20th century, Jennings created some of the finest Outlaw Country this side of Johnny and Willie.