Top 1000 Songs #900-#891

#900 - "Take It Easy" - The Eagles - The Eagles - The first of four Eagles songs in the top 1000, "Take It Easy" was the band's first big hit and possibly the greatest country rock song of all-time.

#899 - "Don't Go Back To Rockville" - R.E.M. - Eponymous - The second of twelve R.E.M. songs on the list, "Rockville" is one of many great songs that came around before the band had it's major breakthrough.

#898 - "Colossal" - Wolfmother - Wolfmother - The second of three songs from Wolfmother's outstanding Zeppelin-esque debut album, "Colossal" also featured heavy doses of influence from the band's other huge forefather, Black Sabbath.

#897 - "Wise Up" - Aimee Mann - Magnolia Soundtrack - The third of eight Mann songs to make the countdown, "Wise Up" was many of her great songs that appeared on her breakthrough performances on the Magnolia Soundtrack.

#896 - "Bodies" - The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols - The first of four Pistols songs off of their only album, "Bodies" is the band at it's crudest. The song is also possibly the angriest, most vicious song ever recorded.

#895 - "Proud Mary" - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Rollin' On The River - The first of five songs for CCR, "Proud Mary" is far more famous for it's cover by Ike and Tina Turner, but I prefer the original version with it's twangy working class sound.

#894 - "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon - Double Fantasy - The first of five Lennon songs on the countdown, "Starting Over" has a great early rock n roll vibe to it and has the usual outstanding lyrics from the greatest Beatle.

#893 - "Kiss Me On The Bus" - The Replacements - Tim - The second of four Replacements songs on the list, "Kiss Me On The Bus" is a fantastic alt country song with a style that is wedged right between their slow songs and their fast ones.

#892 - "Last Chapter" - Big Timber - Lean Down - The first of four Big Timber songs to make the list, "Last Chapter" was one of the first songs that the band played in Pierre, where I first heard them. They are, by the way, the best band I've ever seen play in Pierre.

#891 - "Death Valley Blues" - Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum - The first and only song by Lanegan on the countdown is easily my favorite thing he's done outside of the Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age. It's not that I don't like Mark's music, but for the most part it's very down-tempo and that's not usually the type of song that stands out, though "Death Valley Blues" is like the anti-Lanegan tune, hence it's inclusion on the countdown.