Top 1000 Bands #950-#941

#950 - "Maps" - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell - The first and only YYYs song to make the charts, "Maps" is a fairly uncharacteristic song for the band, as it's a power balled reminiscient of The Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You". This song is so good that Kelly Clarkson ripped it off and had a #1 hit.

#949 - "No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature" - American Woman - The first of two Guess Who songs to make the charts, "No Sugar Tonight" is a driving, straight-forward 70's rocker with a fantastic chorus. "New Mother Nature" is a bit weaker than the first half, but it's still a great song.

#948 - "I'm The Man Who Loves You" - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - The only Wilco song to make the list, "I'm The Man" is the most up-tempo of all Wilco's songs, which are usually slower and more country-tinged.

#947 - "Money (That's What I Want") - The Beatles - With The Beatles - The first of twenty-two Beatles songs to make the countdown, "Money" is a reminder that the Beatles spent the first few years of their career as a band that covered 50s-era R&B songs.

#946 - "Solid" - The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia - The first of two Dandy Warhols songs in the top 1000, "Solid" served as the theme song for one of the greatest shows of all-time "Undeclared" (another of their songs that didn't make the cut, "We Used To Be Friends" was also the theme song for the similarly excellent Veronica Mars) and yet another great Warhols song whose lyrics can't keep up with the outstanding beat.

#945 - "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies - The first of two Alice Cooper songs to make the list, "Nice Guy" is one of the most straight-forward songs of Alice's career and by far his best-written song.

#944 - "Think I'm In Love" - Beck - The best song off of Beck's last album (and first of nine on the list), "Think I'm In Love" is sort of a mix of the usually hyperactive Beck and the slower, more insightful Beck that shows up every couple of years.

#943 - "Dancing With Myself" - Billy Idol - Kiss Me Deadly - The first of two Billy Idol songs to make the list, "Dancing" is a sharp and well-written song from the early days of punk rock that Billy was in from the start.

#942 - "The Funeral" - Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time - The only Band Of Horses song to make the list, this is the best Arcade Fire song that wasn't written by The Arcade Fire. Great lyrics, great backing tune and a fantastic build to the song make for a promising start for the band.

#941 - "See No Evil" - Television - Marquee Moon - The first of three songs on the chart for Television, one of the most influential bands to come out of the New York art rock scene of the 70's, "See No Evil" is the most accessible of the major hits that the band would have while bridging the gap between The Velvet Underground and The Talking Heads.