Top 1000 Songs #960-#951

#960 - "Angels Of The Silences" - The Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites - The first and only Counting Crows song is their best off of their under-rated Recovering The Satellites CD. They didn't do much after this album, which is why the band is frequently and unfairly written off.

#959 - "What Would You Say" - The Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming - The first of three songs by the DMB, I first heard this and other songs by the band when I was in high school. If you can believe it, they used to get a lot of airtime on the KRRO before they became a hardcore/metal/crap station in the late 90s.

#958 - "Los Angeles" - X - Los Angeles - The only X song to make the list, "Los Angeles" is the underground punk band's crowning achievement (well, that or "4th Of July", which barely missed the cut). X is one of many indie bands that I first discovered in college after Napster became available.

#957 - "People Are Strange" - The Doors - Strange Days - The first of ten Doors songs to make the countdown, "People Are Strange" is the rare Doors song that is too short for it's own good. The song features Morrison's creepiest vocal that didn't involve him killing his father.

#956 - "Rise" - Public Image Ltd. - Compact Disc - The only song from PIL to make the list, "Rise" is a hell of a departure for Johnny Rotten after first making his mark with the Sex Pistols. One of the great post-punk songs of the 80s.

#955 - "Survivalism" - Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero - The first of seven songs on the top 1000 and the lesser of two incredible singles from Year Zero, "Survivalism" is Reznor's return to the industrial metal that first got him attention on Pretty Hate Machine.

#954 - "Say You Love Me" - Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac - The first of seven Fleetwood Mac songs and one of the few that's not on Rumours, "Say You Love Me" is an essential song in the history of 70's pop radio.

#953 - "Black Magic Woman" - Santana - Black Magic Woman - The only song Santana put in the top 1000 is actually a cover of an old Fleetwood Mac song, but no one remembers that because this is easily the definitive version of the song. I first heard this song on KYBB, the classic rock station in Sioux Falls, where it's a well-known staple of the genre.

#952 - "I Got You (I Feel Good)" - James Brown - Greatest Hits - The Godfather's only song in the top 1000, "I Feel Good" is one of the most well-known soul songs of the 60s and one of the key moments in the history of rock n roll.

#951 - "Slow Jam" - New Order - Get Ready - The first of two New Order songs on the list, "Slow Jam" is the most recently discovered song to make the top 1000, as I only found this song while reviewing a New Order discography I had located recently during a post-punk kick I was on.