Top 1000 Songs - #1000 - #991

#1000 - The Cure - "Mint Car" - Greatest Hits - The first of 7 Cure songs to make the list, "Mint Car" was one of many Cure songs I discovered in college, since the Cure never got much airplay in South Dakota beyond "Friday, I'm In Love".

#999 - "Gin & Juice" - Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle - Snoop's only solo song to make the list, I first heard this song when my dad found a copy of the album that someone at work had thrown away. I was 14 at the time. lol

#998 - "Head Creeps" - Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains - The first of 9 Alice In Chains songs to make the list, "Head Creeps" was a definite change in style for the band, as was much of their self-titled and, sadly, final studio album.

#997 - "N.I.B." - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - I actually first heard this song (the first of four Sabbath songs) when Primus did a cover with Ozzy on vocals. The original is a little bit better, though, which is why it's on this list.

#996 - "Air" - Sparta - Wiretap Scars - From the ashes of At The Drive-In arose The Mars Volta and Sparta, whose first single (and the first of three songs on the countdown) appears here at #996. "Air" got a small amount of airplay on the Sioux Falls rock station KRRO, but I really got into the band when I caught their concert in Sioux Falls later that year. It was one of the greatest live shows I've ever seen and the band just keeps getting bigger and better.

#995 - "It's So Easy" - Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction - The first of nine GNR songs in the top 1000, "Easy" is most well-known for the abnormal vocals Axl Rose uses on the song. Appetite was one of the first cassettes that I ever received after a friend of the family gave me his copy when he was done with it. Guns N Roses was the first truly great band that I ever got interested in and it all started with this album, if not necessarily this song.

#994 - "Regular John" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age - One of the oldest Queens songs to make the list (and first of sixteen on the list), "Regular John" first came to my attention after I bought "Songs For The Deaf" at a Target store literally because it was cheap and I had heard Dave Grohl was involved with the band. That was the starting point about 5 years ago. They've since become one of my favorite bands.

#993 - "Do You Want To" - Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better - The first single, but not the best song, from Franz Ferdinand's excellent follow-up to their brilliant debut album, "Do You Want To" (the first of six songs on the countdown) was the signal that the band wasn't just another indie rock flash in the pan.

#992 - "Wake Up Time" - Tom Petty - Wildflowers - A little-known but outstanding album track from Petty's second solo album, "Wake Up Time" (the first of Petty's seventeen songs here) was a song I found tucked away with all of the hits on that album when I bought all of the most recent Petty albums used at Last Stop in Sioux Falls back when I worked at Citibank.

#991 - "Here Comes A Regular" - The Replacements - Tim - The first of four songs by the Mats to make the list, "Here Comes A Regular" is one of the big hits off of the dreaded "sell-out" album from the legendary alternative rock band. I first discovered the Replacements in college, because, as usual, they don't get any airtime in South Dakota outside of the college towns.