Top 1000 Songs #870-#861

#870 - "Big Exit" - P.J. Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - The first of four Harvey songs in the top 1000, "Big Exit" is one of the darkest blues rock songs to come out of the 90s and announced Polly Jean as a unique voice in indie rock.

#869 - "Maggie's Farm" - Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home - The second of fifteen Dylan songs on the countdown, "Maggie's Farm" was one of Dylan's last great pre-electric songs and paints a vivid picture of brutal life on a workfarm.

#868 - "China Girl" - David Bowie - Let's Dance - The second of ten Bowie songs on the list, "China Girl" is Bowie's cover of the Iggy Pop original and one of his last great hits in the 80's.

#867 - "Sunshine Superman" - Donovan - Sunshine Superman - The first and only Donovan song on the countdown, "Sunshine" is one of the best folk-pop crossover songs of the 1960's and while Donovan never quite did figure out what he wanted to do with his career, he did manage to leave this mark on music in the years after Dylan went electric.

#866 - "Ladder" - Joan Osborne - Relish - The first of two Joan Osborne songs on the countdown, "Ladder" never became the massive hit that "One Of Us" did, but it's nearly on the same level as that legendary song. Sadly, Joan never quite got to the level of Relish again, but she's still in the business to this day.

#865 - "Levon" - Elton John - Madman Across The Water - The second of eight Elton John songs in the top 1000, "Levon" is a classic ballad that's a bit difficult to follow, but doesn't stoop to sappy sentimentality.

#864 - "Megalomaniac" - Incubus - A Crow Left Of The Murder - The second and highest charting Incubus song on the countdown, "Megalomaniac" is the band's most exciting and up-tempo song and also one of the band's rare ventures into politics, as it isn't too difficult to figure out who the song is addressed to.

#863 - "War" - Edwin Starr - War - The first and only Starr song on the list (and his only major hit), "War" is one of the great protest songs of the Vietnam era, if not ever.

#862 - "Secondhand News" - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - The second of seven Fleetwood Mac songs on the countdown, "Secondhand News" is one of the many brilliant songs on Rumours, one of the best albums of the 1970's. The song is particularly notable for it's poppy chorus.

#861 - "Swing Life Away" - Rise Against - Siren Song Of The Counter Culture - "Swing Life Away" is one of the finest examples of what sometimes happens when a band that's well known for hardcore songs mellows out a bit and gets a huge hit (another example would be "(Good Riddance) Time Of Your Life" by Green Day). Of course "Swing" is the only major hit that Rise Against has had so far (and their only song on this list), but they've had a few minor hits in their native genre of political punk that give hope that a bright future is in the waiting.