Top 1000 Bands #860-#851

860 - Spacehog - A 90's-era modern rock band that managed to put one good song per album.

859 - The Boomtown Rats - Although the band is more well-known for lead singer Bob Geldorf's charity work, the band did have one huge hit with "I Don't Like Mondays" and several smaller hits along the way.

858 - !!! - A dance rock band that had a few hits per album.

857 - Tone Loc - One of the biggest names in pop rap in the late 80s, Loc had two major hits before the bottom fell out, "Funky Cold Medina" and "Wild Thing".

856 - Matthew Sweet - An indie rock songwriter who had a series of hits in the 90s and still pops up from time to time.

855 - Independent Progress - A punk band from Minneapolis that I first saw at a concert in Pierre. Good stuff, political, but not so hardcore that you can't understand them.

854 - The Plain White T's - An emo band that had a huge hit in 2007 with "Hey There, Delilah". The rest of their album is decent, but we'll see if they ever hit it big again.

853 - Mudvayne - A 21st-century math-metal outfit that manages to create a decent song every once in awhile, though a lot of their hits are rather poor.

852 - The Wrens - An indie band that's put together a series of decent albums but never had a breakthrough hit.

851 - James - The brit-pop band that produced that "Laid" song that's been covered 5000 times in 10 years. They had other hits too, but nothing terribly notable.